Primordial chaos.
Xu Xuan stopped.
Even the Immortal Stele could only sense the location of Great Scarlet Heaven here, not enter it. Nor could it... distinguish which of the two histories ahead was true and which was false.
"Within False History... I set the Harmonious Union Dao Verification as a beacon representing the future..."
He tried to distinguish them through this layer of cause and effect, but both histories sent back the same sensation!
Neither the Harmonious Union Dao Verification nor the golden nature of altar thunder could help Xu Xuan distinguish true from false at this moment. He had tried almost every method available to him, yet none could tell them apart.
He no longer had any point of reference for distinguishing true from false.
"Taojue took off his own face and gave it to Without Absolution..."
Xu Xuan carefully deduced the present situation. The crucial reason he had been deceived was the possibility that the Fourth Demon... had reached some degree of cooperation with Chijue.
Without Absolution.
Even without confirmation beforehand, Xu Xuan had already suspected his essential nature as a puppet of fated destiny. The question was... where exactly had this Fourth Demon gone? What had driven him to cooperate with Taojue at any cost?
It was an older, truer history... and there was blood within it.
The past was true; the present was false.
A chill rose in Xu Xuan's heart.
If this Fourth Demon wanted to change the past and kill Qiyong, thereby completing the weaving of fated destiny upstream in the River of Time, then it seemed to make sense.
Perhaps it was not what he wanted, but [Fated Destiny] driving him to do so!
As for Taojue, his talk of borrowing truth to cultivate falsehood on a higher level... probably also relied on