"Cause and Effect" in this world was just that strange.
If Ying Zheng's letter had truly been an imperial command ordering Xu Fu to die, Xu Fu might not necessarily have taken his own life, but regardless, the story that followed would never have happened.
Yet when Ying Zheng wished for Xu Fu to live well, Xu Fu wanted to devote his entire life to forging a new legend for the First Emperor.
He slowly drew the scroll of the "Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula" from his robes, seemingly deep in thought.
Before Xu Fu could reach a conclusion, he suddenly sensed an intense blaze.
He looked up to find a strange man standing before him, his whole body engulfed in roaring flames.
The man had appeared without a sound, as though he had been standing there all along.
The flames on his body were exceedingly strange. Xu Fu had no idea what they were; they flowed and burned like liquid, yet blazed with light like the sun.
Du Yu looked troubled. With a light wave of his hand, the "Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula" floated out of Xu Fu's grasp and came to his side.
Now, as long as he burned these bamboo slips, everything should return to normal.
After all, the "time" he belonged to was "primordial time."
And among all the successive iterations of time, he was the only person capable of influencing actual history.
Now one "time" was stationed inside the cave, while another "time" altered history outside it. This would turn every tiny difference into actual history.
Seeing the man's extraordinary divine abilities, Xu Fu froze. "A-are you an Immortal?"
"No, I'm an evil demon," Du Yu answered coldly, then continued to hesitate over something.
He was now fighting his final internal battle.
Only after a long while did