Ye Fan felt as though his mind was about to come apart.
Given his current situation, he should not have had so many questions.
He had come here through the Great Dream Heart Sutra. This had to be a dream, without a doubt.
Yet everything felt wrong. His surroundings, his intuition, even his body's instincts all told him the same thing: this was a world, a real world.
That feeling was so strong it could override his memories. Whenever he considered anything, he instinctively treated this place as real!
His memories and those sensations clashed.
Ye Fan kept searching for things on his phone, but every search came back with a negative answer.
This world seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary technological society. Everyone connected to him was familiar, yet the world itself had changed.
"Why isn't Uncle Meng in my dream? How could there be a world without the Heavenly Emperor?"
Those were the two questions troubling Ye Fan most.
As he thought it over, a possibility occurred to him that gave him a start.
If the Heavenly Emperor had never appeared in my world, would Earth Star have looked like this in the era I lived in?
Without the Heavenly Emperor, the Dao Realm, or the Emperors, Earth Star would never have undergone those strange changes.
The Immortal Ascension Ground would still be absorbing Earth Star's fortune, keeping heaven and earth at a low ebb and making cultivation all but impossible for most people.
But the world would keep advancing. How? Through technology, of course!
Seen that way, was this what Earth Star would have become without the Heavenly Emperor?
Could this be a Dream Without the Heavenly Emperor? The thought surfaced in Ye Fan's mind, but it still made no sense. Why would the Heavenly