Knowledge of Past Lives (23)

"Divine Ability truly are an accelerator of civilization."

After glancing at the Maxims Talismans on the Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman, Li Boyang said with such certainty.

The existence of these Maxims Talismans was tantamount to an open-book exam for a nascent civilization.

As a truly high-dimensional script, the existence of Maxims Talismans may not be as significant as the legendary "Theory of Everything," "Unified Field Theory," and "Grand Unification Theory."

However, the various mathematical formulas and physical theorems contained within are the cornerstones that drive the continuous progress of basic disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

For any civilization, these are ultimate conclusions that would take countless years to deduce, little by little.

However, in this mythological era, a thousand years ago, Wu Yao had already glimpsed these answers through her [Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability].

Even more absurdly, due to the textual characteristics of Maxims Talismans...

While practitioners reverse-engineer these formulas and theorems, they are often able to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles and patterns.

Problems like those caused by language barriers that create a comprehension barrier simply do not exist in Maxims Talismans.

You've said that countless times; I'm sick of hearing it.

She decisively stopped practicing her fist techniques and Xiluo summoned a cloud to sit down.

"Speaking of which, what are your plans regarding that little girl who's been living with you all this time?"

"Your parents have long treated her like their own daughter..."

"If you decide to send her away, you'd better start preparing now."

Li Boyang raised an eyebrow slightly in surprise and asked in return, feigning astonishment.

Are you talking about Xiao Xi?

"She's so well-behaved and obedient, how could I possibly bear to send her away?"

Rolling her eyes in annoyance, Xiluo felt that she would be driven crazy by Li Boyang one day.

By now, Xiluo no longer expects to outlive Li Boyang and inherit those wondrous magical Law Treasure from him.

Xiluo's lifelong goal was to avoid being angered by the other party even once, and to live one more day.

"I hate your 'pretending to be stupid' personality."

"That girl may be obedient, but she's just as dangerous, not much less so than Lu Huaijin."

In Xiluo's mind, although Lu Huaijin was Li Boyang's apprentice, he was also a very dangerous guy.

This danger does not lie in Lu Huaijin's strength, but rather in the other party's abilities and personality traits.

As the other half of the Guhuo Bird, he also cultivated the extremely bizarre "Six Desires Heavenly Demon Chapter".

Xiluo wouldn't be surprised if Lu Huaijin suddenly went berserk and committed some act of murdering his master.

More importantly, as Lu Huaijin has grown up over the years and gradually become more independent,

Her reputation in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range has also begun to take a turn for the worse.

Labels like Evil Qi, cold-blooded, and obsessive have become a common understanding among the spirits and gods who are hostile to him.

The fact that Xiluo would compare the well-behaved Xiao Xi to Lu Huaijin shows how much she fears him.

"She's not like Lu Yatou."

Li Boyang saw through Xiluo's thoughts at a glance, but simply shook his head.

Xiao Xi is the mixed-race demigod that Deception Rabbit brought from Gao Village Town five years ago.

She was born with snake hair and a snake tail, and she had opened the Heavenly Eye between her eyebrows. She was once so weak that she almost died.

It was thanks to Li Boyang's costless feeding of elixirs and the meticulous care of Li Yu and Chen Yun that this demigod, a hybrid of human and divine blood, was able to grow up safely.

"Different? How are they different?"

"Is it that uncontrollable prophetic ability?"

Xiluo was telling the truth, compared to the naturally wicked Lu Huaijin.

Xiao Xi's danger lies entirely in the uncontrollable nature of her abilities.

It awakened the ability to petrify living beings shortly after birth.

In the years that followed, the half-human demigod repeatedly defied everyone's expectations, displaying all sorts of mysterious and unpredictable talents.

Until a year ago, Xiao Xi suddenly gained the ability to foresee the future.

If Li Boyang hadn't popularized divination methods long ago, making it a basic skill in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, it would have been different.

Xiao Xi's tendency to predict disasters and deaths from time to time is enough to instill fear and panic in most people.

Most uninformed people would rather believe that Xiao Xi was not making a prophecy, but Curse.

"So you know it's a prophetic ability?"

"If it's not Curse, what's there to worry about?"

Before Xiluo could refute him, Li Boyang went a step further.

"Xiao Xi's prophetic abilities did not come from her divine father, but from her mortal mother..."

"Or to be more precise, that 'Heavenly Eye' that can only see the future came from the Witch of the Huai River."

With a single sentence, Li Boyang shut Xiluo down, and seeing her speechless expression, he continued.

"Xiao Xi's father is a god of Curse, so she was born with an extraordinary talent for Curse."

"But prophecy is not Curse; rather, it is a means of directly discerning the future that is more effective than divination."

Divination is a form of prediction, a kind of big data fortune telling.

However, prophecy involves directly seeing the future and then recounting what one has seen.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and they complement each other.

After all, prophecies only show a fragment of a future moment, not the entire course of events.

If the details of cause and effect are not clearly understood, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that "the actions taken to avoid this outcome actually become the cause of this outcome."

"The profound wisdom that reveals one's destiny in past lives—that is, the ability to know one's Knowledge of Past Lives."

"In a sense, Xiao Xi's Knowledge of Past Lives is actually a simplified version of your sister's Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability."

After gazing intently at Xiluo for a long time, Li Boyang succinctly revealed the root cause of her dislike for Xiao Xi.

"She doesn't possess your sister's lingering soul, nor is she a substitute for your sister."

"She was a new life born by fortuitous opportunity, influenced by a piece of Soul Jade."

"All of this was caused by Xiao Xi's snake god father; it has nothing to do with her."

Xiluo repeatedly claimed that she was different from Heaven-Eroding Lord, and that she had completely accepted her sister's death.

But when the moment actually came, Xiluo couldn't suppress the regret and hope in her heart.

"Xiluo, I don't know when you discovered this."

"But I must tell you, you were absolutely right before, the Witch of the Huai River is already dead."

"This is the answer confirmed by the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron; she cannot come back to life."

Slowly standing up, Li Boyang walked to Xiluo's side and whispered.

"Let's go! Let's go see Heaven-Eroding Lord."

"My gut feeling tells me that if I don't go see him soon, he's probably going to cause some trouble again."

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