["Fellow Daoist Chen, why do you say that?]
[I am merely a thread of karma that does not even qualify as a remnant soul. Even the key to my continued existence, the [Battered Demon Realm], is in your grasp. Why would you need me?"]
["No, that is not the case. That is merely how things appear!"]
[At the time, you answered gravely:]
["I now suspect that every existence, and even certain experiences, are all part of a script deliberately woven for me to see by beings on a higher level..."]
["I have actually always possessed an ability that lets me simulate the future, and these simulations hold an extremely high priority over the future. Right now, we are inside a simulation!"]
[You directly exposed your trump card—your Golden Finger, the [Simulator].]
[That single statement stunned [Donghuang Taiyi] into a prolonged silence.]
[He seemed to be frantically deducing something.]
[Clearly, the information you had revealed nearly made this demon emperor of the [Primordial World] "crash" outright!]
[From [Donghuang Taiyi]'s perspective, this was simply inconceivable.]
[—Leaving aside whether such an unanswerable ability even existed, he could not understand why you would be so candid.]
[Shouldn't a heaven-defying trump card like this be buried as deeply as possible?!]
[But by then, you had already become aware of the schemes and designs of the Higher-Dimensional Existence.]
[All the Higher-Dimensional Existence behind the [Chat Group] already knew that your [Golden Finger] was the [Simulator],]
[so revealing it to [Donghuang Taiyi] as well would do no harm.]
["Fellow Daoist Chen, words alone are no proof. How can the truth of this claim be verified?"]
[Neither joy nor anger could be discerned in Donghuang Taiyi's voice. Immediately afterward, that vast pressure of heaven and earth drew closer:]
["Furthermore, even if what you say is true, I am