[Through "Number Two Other-Self"... no, through the memory scene, you looked toward the Supreme Existence who had just been repairing the [Human Realm], unable to believe your eyes.]
["What... method did he use?"]
[Without a doubt, the words he had just spoken were directed at you. It was utterly hair-raising.]
[He had known of your arrival long ago and had been scheming and laying plans all along. He had even detected this encounter.]
[You possessed the [Hollow Willow]'s "mindlessness" ability. With such an ability, even an existence from a higher dimension could not easily detect your presence.]
[Yet this one...]
[Just as you pondered what method he had used, the Supreme Existence in that memory scene from untold ages ago suddenly spoke again, the Great Dao's voice flickering through your sea of consciousness:]
["Fellow Daoist, the fact that you found this place means you are not a living being of this world, correct?"]
["I once established a rule—[Living beings not of this world may not explore this place or this scene in time. To see it is to perish; to touch it is certain death]."]
[Within the memory scene, he casually stirred the small amount of world origin still drifting around the Human Realm, as though merely making an idle remark.]
["And since you managed to find this place, that means my sealing measures have failed!"]
["Moreover, since you could find me this way, that means... my future self has probably already fallen!"]
["You do not belong to this world, yet you could come here. Clearly, you know me in the future. So... who are you?"]
[His gaze pierced the memory scene again, as though it were a tangible presence towering above all things, holding the birth and destruction of countless worlds within it, seemingly intent on seeing through your