But...
The moment Zhen Yuanzi revealed his ten-thousand-acre celebratory cloud...
The smile on Lin Tian's already composed, handsome face grew broader.
Earlier...
When Lin Tian's gaze had pierced layer upon layer of mist, passing through time, fate, space, and history to peer into Creation Palace...
Although he had been unable to see Creation Daoist's whereabouts...
Creation Daoist, who had never been a creature of the Primordial World in the first place, also seemed never to have appeared in the Primordial World at all.
Even all his divine sense in the past, present, and future had vanished without a trace.
Yet everything involving Creation Daoist's acquaintance and connection with Lin Tian had not disappeared from time and fate.
That proved one thing: Creation Daoist had unwittingly become embroiled in the struggle for chaos union with the Dao, and all the authority over chaos union with the Dao that originally belonged to him had been plundered.
The supreme Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal who had plundered all Creation Daoist's authority had laid countless restrictions within multidimensional fate and time.
If Lin Tian broke those restrictions to trace Creation Daoist's whereabouts, he might instead cause Creation Daoist to perish, his Dao extinguished.
That was why Lin Tian had asked Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot whether they had interacted with Creation Daoist over the years.
But now...
Lin Tian no longer needed to personally enter fate and the river of time to unravel and refine those restrictions.
He could trace Creation Daoist's whereabouts backward directly through the Creation Palace reenacted within Zhen Yuanzi's celebratory cloud.
At that moment...
The one hundred and thirty-two origin laws began revolving once more in the eyes of Clear-Handsome Daoist Lin Tian.
At the same time...
System notifications sounded in his mind:
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