[You gazed at the still-dim [Mission System] line on the [golden talent: The Only Player] panel—]
[Golden Timed Mission: Go to the East and uncover the truth]
[Still incomplete.]
[What Senior Lin Feng had told you was, in the end, only the tip of the iceberg. Something stirred in your heart, and you could not help asking:]
["May I ask, Senior, do you truly know nothing more about the Eastern Domain?"]
[You meant no disrespect. You simply could not believe that someone like him would know only this much.]
["You mean... I'm hiding something?"]
[He looked at you with a faint, ambiguous smile. His tone was light, yet as unruffled as an ancient well: "Do you know how this 'Buddha Ancestor' Incarnation of mine has survived in this [Dream Realm] until now?"]
["After all, you and I both know that this [Dream Realm] erased every trace of my existence long ago."]
["But do you know how it erased my existence?"]
[He paused, then spoke each word like thunder crashing in your ears:]
["Through [karma]."]
["It erased all [karma] connected to me, so..."]
["That reincarnated true spirit who was related to me, yet shared no [karma] with me whatsoever—the [Buddha Ancestor]—was born in answer to the times!"]
[Before you could respond, his voice began to rise, like a low Buddhist chant echoing through your sea of consciousness in overlapping waves:]
["During the Jiazi Demon-Suppression of old, the remnants of the Demon Raiders fled west. Living beings were plunged into misery, and Heaven and Earth erupted in wrath. Only then did the conditions arise for someone to be born in answer to Fortune."]
["And that being..."]
[He said slowly:]
["Was the [Buddha Ancestor]."]
["This was the 'fruit' I sought with every arrangement I made back then—to bring about the birth of the