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"Actually, it's just a coincidence."

"Or rather, I'm not the person behind the scenes you imagine."

After a not-too-long standoff, a faint voice finally emerged from the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow.

"I don't even know why I woke up in your era..."

"Those dreams you experienced Non-Self what I wanted, but rather part of my process of gradually recovering my memories."

"Most importantly, to my knowledge, I've never been to this Moon Palace before, so I'm very curious why you seem to know it so well."

Whether he believed it or not, Li Xuandu slightly raised his eyebrows, his expression exactly the same as Li Boyang's.

I've seen the first half of your life, and I've heard about the second half.

"What I'm more curious about now is your relationship with the moon goddess in this Moon Palace?"

I was pulled to the moon because of Dayi, and Lord Chui came up here because of me.

This is a fact that Li Xuandu can confirm.

This is also why he confronted the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow at this time.

If Dayi simply wanted to find a successor for himself, Li Xuandu would naturally not mind helping him fulfill some of his last wishes.

But now that the matter has involved Lord Chui, how can Li Xuandu continue to turn a blind eye to it?

Moreover, Li Xuandu also very curious about what had happened in this world during the year before his birth.

Furthermore, is my arrival in this era merely a coincidence?

If my familiarity with the Moon Palace didn't come from Dayi, then are there other secrets hidden within me?

Li Xuandu's intuition told him that if he hadn't come to this era, he might not have been able to truly be born into this world.

Li Xuandu could only think of those Great Heavenly Deity attempted to Dao Proving using such a method of reversing cause and effect.

"My wife... Heng'e is the goddess of the Moon Palace."

After a brief silence, Dayi's voice came again from the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow.

The encounter between Dayi and Heng'e is actually quite cliché; it's the standard template of a fallen hero and a beautiful woman who admires him.

At first, Dayi did not actually recognize Heng'e's identity.

Because Heng'e was a mortal at the time, and her face was covered in filth, she almost starved to death when Dayi met her.

Fortunately, Dayi had met Heng'e once before and knew that she was the daughter of the moon goddess Changxi.

Unfortunately, Dayi and Heng'e only met once.

For a long time after that, not only Heng'e, but even the moon Changxi rarely showed her face again.

Rumors circulated among the gods that this was because the twelve daughters of the Heavenly Emperor, including Heng'e, were plotted against and perished.

The Moon Goddess Changxi was left behind. Due to anger and sorrow, she quarreled with the Heavenly Emperor and has since lived in seclusion in the Moon Palace, never to be seen again.

However, after meeting Heng'e, Dayi realized that it must be a rumor.

If the moon goddess's twelve daughters are all dead, then who is Heng'e who appears before her?

At least, that's what Dayi always thought.

No matter how much Dayi pressed her for an explanation, Heng'e never revealed why she had become a mortal.

Only when Dayi finally decided to shoot down the suns did Heng'e decide to ascend back to the Moon Palace and personally forge the [Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow] for them.

"Perhaps it's because of treason?"

He murmured somewhat uncertainly, Dayi voice tinged with helplessness.

"The Heavenly Emperor wants to use the Ten Suns Destroy the World, but Heng'e will definitely not agree to that."

"A Heavenly Emperor in a fit of rage is capable of anything, even demoting his own daughter to a mortal."

Hearing Dayi's words, Li Xuandu merely rolled his eyes without making a sound.

Logically speaking, Dayi's explanation is indeed self-consistent.

But he had too many romanticized views of his wife, Heng'e, to the point that he even believed she would rebel against her father for the sake of a mortal.

If Heng'e were truly just an innocent young girl, Li Xuandu believed that the possibility was not zero.

But Heng'e is not a young girl; she is an Ancient God who has lived for countless years.

The fact that she suddenly became a mortal was suspicious in itself, but the infatuated Dayi was unwilling to investigate it further.

"I know what you're doubting, but Heng'e is different!"

The voice came again from the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow; this was clearly not the first time Dayi had faced such doubts.

"To help me shoot down the sun, she risked returning to the Great Yin Star, just to obtain the essence of the Moon Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow."

Sensing the key point in the words, Li Xuandu suddenly interrupted.

"Wait, is the moon's current state related to Heng'e?"

Looking down at the shattered moon beneath his feet, Li Xuandu's words made Dayi pause in surprise.

But he immediately refuted Li Xuandu's guess without hesitation and revealed an even more astonishing fact.

"That's impossible!"

"Although the Qi of Guanghan is the essence of Taiyin Qi, it is impossible for it to cause the entire Great Yin Star to collapse."

"The Great Yin Star we are currently on is not the Great Yin Star from the long history of the universe, but rather a possibility that has split off from it."

With a deep sigh, Dayi continued speaking.

"Did you see those twelve crystal coffins in the Palace of Vast Cold?"

"If I'm not mistaken, they should be the twelve Moon Palace goddesses from this timeline, Heng'e's sisters."

"On this timeline, the one banished to the mortal realm is Chang'e Heng'e's youngest sister; she herself is still lying in that crystal coffin."

Immediately recalling the intricate patterns on the twelve crystal coffins, Li Xuandu nodded thoughtfully.

Those shouldn't be patterns, but rather ancient script that circulated only among the Ancient God during the reign of the Heavenly Emperor.

As a human hero of that era, Dayi was a general personally chosen by the Heavenly Emperor and married Heng'e. It is not surprising that he could recognize those ancient characters.

"I see!"

"That's why you judged this timeline not to be the main timeline!"

The shattered moon and the empty coffin were the reasons why Dayi was so certain that this timeline was a branch.

However, after clarifying the ins and outs of the whole incident, a new question arose in Li Xuandu's mind.

"Our existence on this timeline must be due to a strong causal relationship between us and this timeline."

"Then here's the problem: both Lord Chui and I ended up here because of your influence."

"Then why do you have a strong causal relationship with this timeline?"

As the saying goes, a single word can awaken a dreamer; Li Xuandu's words once again silenced the atmosphere.

Even the observer, Lord Chui, could clearly see that the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow in Li Xuandu's hand was trembling uncontrollably.

"If I'm not mistaken, the eleven Moon Palace goddesses lying in the coffins all look exactly alike."

Did the Chang'e who emerged from the coffin look exactly like her sisters?

Upon hearing Li Xuandu's words, the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow trembled even more violently.

"Houyi, what do you mean by that?"

Gently tugging at Li Xuandu's sleeve, Lord Chui asked cautiously in a low voice.

She always felt that Li Xuandu's question was like a sharp arrow, hitting Dayi's weak point with great precision, making him not even dare to refute her.

"A very simple line of reasoning."

"It's just that some guy is burying his head in the sand like an ostrich and refuses to face the problem."

"Because she was pampered by her older sisters from a young age, she is naturally naive and cannot bear to see the suffering of others."

"If such Chang'e were to claim to be Heng'e in public, who but her close friends and family would be able to see through her disguise?"

Upon hearing Li Xuandu's cryptic words, the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow nearly flew from his grasp.

However, Li Xuandu did not let go of the idea of shooting Dayi. Instead, he gripped the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow tightly and asked the most fatal question.

"Dayi, how did you determine that you were marrying Heng'e, and not Chang'e?"

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