Meng Chuan stayed in the Heavens for a while, often discussing the Dao with Luo and visiting many places there.
Though Meng Chuan's realm and strength fell far short of Luo's, he still had plenty to discuss with him.
Meng Chuan could tell Luo about the Profound Principles of Peerless Other Shore Divine Arts and the essence of Hunyuan Lord Secret Arts.
At Luo's level, none of this could bring about a sudden enlightenment or a great leap in Dao Attainment.
But it could still catch his interest and spark new thoughts by analogy.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, how do you see the future?" Meng Chuan asked one day.
"In what sense?"
"From an Immortal Emperor's perspective, can living beings like us travel to the future and live there?"
"The future is boundless. As I observe it, your arrival alone has already given rise to countless new futures," Luo said.
"Who can know which future is real and which are illusions?"
Immortal Emperors could naturally observe Timelines. Past and present lay before them like patterns on their palms, clear down to the finest detail.
The future was unsettled, but Immortal Emperors could still gaze down many Timelines.
"You wish to travel to the future, but you're already there. How would you go there?"
"And if you aren't there, how would you go?"
"The moment you arrive in the future, it becomes the present, while the future remains ahead."
"We can change the future and the past. But if you truly traveled to the future and lived there, how could you be certain you were still in the future?"
"Immortal Emperors aren't omnipotent."
Luo said a great deal, but his meaning was roughly this: traveling to the future and living there...
It couldn't be done.
The past was fixed, laid out before