Of course, these were all merely possibilities.
Perhaps the Great Being had nothing to do with the Heavenly Venerable's experiment and had simply barged in on its own.
Although the Great Being possessed intelligence, it never communicated.
Unless the Heavenly Venerable came back to life, the truth of what had happened could only remain buried in the mists of history.
I still can't count on the Heavenly Venerable's resurrection...
In the end, I have to rely on myself.
Lin Yuan understood.
The Second Lord's story had certainly been fascinating, and it had revealed more secrets of the Primordial Era to Lin Yuan.
But it did nothing to help with the Endless Sea's current situation.
Humanity could not pin all its hopes on the idea that "the Heavenly Venerable is playing a long game."
Whether or not the Heavenly Venerable had a contingency plan, humanity and the Sanctum Founder had to proceed as though he did not.
That was the right way to face the final war.
Lin Yuan exhaled and brought his thoughts back to the present:
"Then what should we do now?"
The Second Lord glanced at Lin Yuan:
"That world tree in the Nether River is a nail the Great Being drove into the Endless Sea Universe. We must pull it out before the final war."
"That said, the Great Being is awakening further and further, and our window of opportunity is extremely limited."
"But the Nether River is very unusual. The closer the living get to its source, the more severely they are weakened. Even a Lord of the Crown is no exception."
"As for the dead, unless they're as strong as the three of us brothers, they can't retain their sanity at all."
"You're the only exception. Although you're alive, you're closely connected to the Nirvana