Chapter 574 Cause and Effect, Destiny

This place was mysterious in every direction. It didn't seem like a scene from the human world. However, upon closer inspection, one could sense that although it wasn't the human realm, it was within it, seemingly inside and outside at the same time, indescribably wondrous. Fuxi sat amidst the swirling clouds, showing no surprise at Wei Yuan's appearance.

The commotion earlier had been so great.

If he hadn't been able to sense it, he wouldn't have been worthy of his cultivation.

Fuxi said calmly, "You've come?"

Wei Yuan didn't stand on ceremony and sat down in front of him, looking at the tea being brewed by this handsome man. He smelled the fragrance of the tea and said, "Did you know I was coming? So you were waiting for me here?"

Fuxi said as a matter of course, "Haven't you already looked for me?"

"You couldn't find me, and I didn't die, so naturally, I hid. And if I hid, I would definitely discover you."

He paused and added, "Besides, if it weren't for Dijun and me concealing things, the Grand Master of the Turbid World would have noticed something was wrong with you coming back from seven years in the future so brazenly. However, when I made my move, I discovered that Dijun had also acted. The constellations and my Heavenly Secrets combined would delay the Grand Master of the Turbid World from noticing anything for at least a day."

"Given your personality, you definitely wouldn't be able to endure that day."

"You would definitely attack directly."

Wei Yuan wasn't surprised by this. The Grand Master of the Turbid World was also a top-tier existence, and the fact that he was surprised by Wei Yuan's appearance undoubtedly meant that the Grand Master's perception and Heavenly Secrets were being obscured. Moreover, the Heavenly Secrets and Kaiming of the Turbid World had already fallen. The Grand Master of the Turbid World had evolved many Daoguo (Fruits of the Way), but it seemed there were limitations, and he couldn't have all the Daoguo exist simultaneously.

Otherwise, there would be no way to fight.

The other side would immediately notice Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan watched Fuxi pour out the tea, thoughtfully saying, "You were specifically waiting for me here."

"If you weren't willing, it seems I wouldn't have been able to find you."

Fuxi smiled and said, "That's natural. Before, you were still restless, and when you looked for me, you were full of anger, smiling on the surface but hiding a sword inside. You were definitely coming to fight me, so of course, I had to hide. Now, you seem calm, with your inner and outer self in harmony. Since you've truly reached this point, you can be called a Heavenly Venerate."

"A dignified True Man is naturally different from before."

"Not prone to hitting people."

Fuxi casually added this last sentence as he picked up his tea, as if he didn't care at all.

"Besides, you've already sent your Gongti (cultivation body) away."

Obviously, that was the most crucial reason!

Fuxi looked at Wei Yuan and sighed, "Transferring your Gongti directly means you actively eliminated this anchor point of the future and returned to your true self. However, you still need to do more, or this future won't change."

Wei Yuan replied, "I'm not too worried about that."

The white-haired Daoist picked up his tea and laughed freely.

"Because now, it's not just me who doesn't want this era to become real, but also the Grand Master."

"Right now, he's the one who's anxious."

A sword cuts off the future.

Making all your future possibilities vanish!

If he didn't want to die cleanly seven years from now, then the Grand Master of the Turbid World had to avoid anchoring that future.

Fuxi was speechless. Even he couldn't help but sigh after a moment of silent thought, "I have to say, 'Cause and Effect' and 'Destiny' really should be killed. If you can't kill them, you have to suppress and seal them, so they can never be reincarnated. Those two Daoguo that can anchor the future are too outrageous."

Wei Yuan couldn't help but say, "Isn't it just that after 'Cause and Effect' and 'Destiny' are sealed, only your Heavenly Secrets remain?"

"If you want to say you're powerful, just say it directly. Don't pretend to be worried about the country and the people. Tsk."

The handsome man's expression froze slightly.

He could only drink tea to calm his nerves.

Wei Yuan raised an eyebrow and took a sip of tea after seeing Fuxi drink as well.

"So, you came to see me just to talk one last time?"

Fuxi chuckled dryly and said seriously, "Of course, that's right... Okay, I'm kidding." He saw the white-haired Daoist across from him glance at him and couldn't keep up the act, sighing, "Of course, it's because I have some things to tell you, and because this is a crucial node in the past, you must change these nodes."

Wei Yuan accepted and said, "Don't worry, I'll look at the parts that don't involve Nuwa."

"As for the parts that involve Nuwa, and those that indirectly involve Nuwa and you..."

"I will also carefully discern them."

Fuxi's face stiffened.

In the end, he shook his head with a wry smile, his face full of sincerity and a headache. "I'm not that kind of person. At such a crucial moment, do you really think I would use the stakes of the future world to satisfy my own selfish desires?"

Wei Yuan nodded affirmatively, "You would."

Fuxi was helpless, unsure whether he was more frustrated that his intentions had been seen through, or that he shouldn't have guided this brat in the first place and sent him back. In the end, he stubbornly said, "Forget it, believe it or not. However, I do hope you will do one thing."

His expression was solemn and complex. "After returning to the past, you must stop me."

Wei Yuan paused in his tea drinking, hearing the seriousness in Fuxi's words. "Stop you? What are you planning to do in the past?" However, he didn't expect Fuxi to also smile bitterly, saying, "To be honest, I don't even know what I'm planning to do in the past."

"Because for me, there is actually no distinction between past and future."

Fuxi stretched out his hand, and the tea in the teapot flowed out, wrapping around his fingers. It stretched horizontally in the void, like a surging river. Fuxi said, "Heavenly Secrets, without hiding or revealing, without birth or death, without going or coming; not present, not future, not past; not caused by cause, not born by fate, and without cause or effect."

"Simultaneously transcending the ages, ordinary people can reverse-engineer the past from the future."

"But for me, to some extent, here and there are overlapping, and the past, present, and future are also overlapping. They are happening 'together'. Since time no longer has a before and after, then the current me naturally doesn't know what the me at that time is planning, but I faintly sense something is not right. I hope you can stop him."

Wei Yuan could hear the sincerity in Fuxi's words and also sensed the realm contained within them.

He paused in his tea drinking, gazing at Fuxi and saying, "How far are you from the Hun Tian (Primal Chaos) realm?"

Fuxi thought for a moment and said helplessly, "Half a step."

"But this half a step is also the most difficult hurdle to overcome. It is me, not me; he, not him. I am not me, he is not him. Although I am an anchor point of the future, I am also him. Although he is the main body, he is like my past anchor point. Time has no meaning, and destiny is just a river that can be crossed with one foot. And every drop of water in this river can reflect a me."

"There are countless streams of water in a river, and each drop of water reflects a me, but they are all 'one'."

"Everyone's path is different."

"The Hun Tian body merges with the Great Dao, chaotic and natural. What it needs is to open the seven orifices to observe all things."

"And I, as long as I walk out of these countless years, I can be considered transcendent."

"But this step is almost impossible to take."

Fuxi's expression was complex, seemingly full of regret, and Wei Yuan also sensed that these words were true. The two were speechless for a moment, finishing a pot of tea in an instant. Fuxi said, "The most crucial thing is that you should restore the Gongti of Buzhou Mountain to him as soon as possible, at least to a certain extent. That Hun Tian body was created and achieved by the Grand Master, so naturally, it is also restrained by the Grand Master. If you want to turn him against the Grand Master, giving him only direction is definitely not enough."

"You also need to find a way to break the Grand Master's hold on his Gongti."

"As for the last thing, your sword array, it barely has three swords now, and it's still missing one, so don't worry."

"The Mandate of Heaven, it began to change when the Golden Mother of the Primordial Beginning returned, or rather, when you unleashed a sword seven years ago when you died. You don't need to worry. This sword will naturally come. You just need to wait quietly."

"And what you need to do is to truly set foot on the Gongti that a Floating Li Jade Void Primordial Heavenly Venerate should have."

"Having attained the Dao, you still need to prove it."

It was rare for Fuxi to say such pleasant and appropriate words.

Then neither of them spoke again. Finally, Fuxi finished his tea and waved his hand, saying, "Go ahead. You've stayed at this future anchor point long enough. After fighting such a big battle and causing such a ruckus, it's time to go back and change all of this. I won't keep you. Go, go."

Wei Yuan nodded. From the Fuxi in front of him, he could actually see a sense of frustration and regret. As he put down his teacup,

The white-haired Daoist had already disappeared.

Only Fuxi was left here, pouring and drinking tea by himself. The surrounding clouds rolled and stretched freely. Fuxi's handsome appearance and the way he raised his cup to drink tea couldn't help but be described as carefree and otherworldly. Then, his movements paused, and his eyes quickly scanned left and right. After discovering that that guy was indeed gone, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Then, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and directly pressed it on his abdomen.

A change in Qi occurred.

He directly opened his mouth and spat out all the tea he had drunk earlier.

His face was full of joy as he said, "Hahaha, Wei Yuan, so what if you're a Floating Li Jade Void Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate? Hahaha, after drinking my tea, just wait to obediently listen to me after you go back, hahahaha, you, ah you, stupid, stupid, how could you believe me?"

"Hahahaha, even if you saw through my words, how would you know that the cup of tea was the key!"

"In order to get you to drink the tea, I even revealed the plan of that old snake from the past, ah hahahaha!"

Fuxi turned around, laughing.

He saw the white-haired Daoist stroking his chin with one hand, thoughtfully saying, "I see."

Fuxi's smile froze.

A fist in front of him was rapidly growing bigger, bigger.

Until it smashed into Fuxi's eye socket, the force rising from the ground, running through his spine, and sent out from his shoulder.

Exhilarating!

Fuxi spun at high speed until his snake tail straightened, and then he directly stuck to the wall of the cave heaven blessed land secret realm.

The white-haired Daoist swept his sleeve.

The tea he had just drunk was actually directly collected into his sleeve's Qiankun (universe).

He smiled and said, "Ah, you really don't understand me, dear uncle."

"How could I possibly drink your tea?"

"Thank you for telling me a lot of important things, and even deliberately selling out the past you in order to get me to drink the tea and believe you, but I have other things to say." This punch just now, even though it didn't have any Gongti, was even more difficult to defend against, heavily smashing into Fuxi's eye socket.

Even Fuxi felt like he was seeing golden stars.

"Where did you get your Gongti?"

The Daoist laughed loudly and said, "The Dao of Heaven diminishes what is in excess to supplement what is insufficient!"

"I don't have a Gongti right now, so that's precisely 'insufficient'!"

Fuxi's lips twitched. "Did Hun Tian give it to you?"

Wei Yuan said, "No, I thought of it myself."

"But unfortunately, when 'I' am too strong, this will instead distribute my foundation, so this is just a method of 'becoming stronger when facing the strong, becoming weaker when facing the weak, not winning a single battle, not taking a single point', and it's only useful when I'm weak to this extent. At most, it only gives me some self-preservation ability."

"Also, one more thing to add."

The Daoist clenched his fist, his veins bulging, and smiled as he punched down.

"Tricking me?!"

"A quiet and secluded state of mind, existing alone, I'm not cultivating myself into a stone without emotions and desires. It would be better to die, dying would also have no emotions and desires." The Daoist refuted Fuxi's previous words, and then clenched his fist and punched again: "In conclusion."

"Who the hell, said, Heavenly Venerates, don't hit people?!"

*Pa!*

Fuxi collapsed, sporting two unprecedented black eyes.

Wei Yuan leaned over and 'extracted' a strand of Qi from Fuxi's body.

Satisfied and exhilarated, he said, "Farewell!"

The white-haired Daoist, with a jade hairpin holding up his hair and wearing a cyan Daoist robe, carried a sense of freedom as if he had finally emerged from a cage: "The future, ah..."

"Worldly affairs are like snow on a hairpin, life is but a cup of tea."

The Daoist flicked his sleeves and left.

And in the time seven years ago, Wei Yuan was sitting cross-legged in the Jade Void Palace beneath Buzhou Mountain.

Rolling cyan-purple thunder erupted from the Jade Void Palace.

ps: Today's first update...