Among the endless futures the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable had observed,
the most numerous were those in which the Masters of the Six Paths of Reincarnation's Other Self came calling to ask about the Three Corpses Severing Method.
That meant it was the most likely possibility.
There were other futures, of course—ones where the Other Self of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation had simply dropped by with nothing better to do, or had come to invite the Heavenly Venerable for tea...
Though those were few and far between.
Rarer still were futures where Meng Chuan had been turned by another Other Shore Being and wanted to stab the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable in the back, making this visit a suicide attack.
No, it could hardly be called an attack. He would be spending his own life to set off a few fireworks for the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable's amusement.
Absurd as such a future was, when future Timelines were truly infinite, even the most absurd thing would happen on one of them.
Those on the Other Shore traced back through the past and sought to occupy as much of the future as possible.
Occupying the future did not mean merely peering into it. It meant shaping as much of it as possible in their own image.
Futures that favored them had to be unified, consolidated, and expanded until they colored still more futures.
Futures that worked against them had to be destroyed so they would never become the present.
Other Shore Beings could also hide future Timelines to accomplish things they wanted kept secret.
Such concealment was so masterful that obscuring the Heavenly Secrets looked feeble by comparison.
"If it's with the Ancient Buddha, do you think I still have a chance, Heavenly Venerable?" the Masters of the Six Paths