Fellow Daoist! That scoundrel has written a new book again.

Chapter 260 Knowing the result but not the cause

When the first bolt of lightning struck, several gasps of surprise rang out in Biyi City, mingling with the sudden downpour of rain, sounding like the buzzing of mosquitoes and flies.

Zhu Wuyao had already learned from Qi Suowei that when reincarnation restarts, it will not overturn everything in an instant.

It was not a massacre.

It is with the immense power of divine punishment that it rises above the weak, and with the cries for help of the weak, it calls forth a savior.

The silver fox seemed to be doing this on purpose, making the whole world incredibly miserable.

I wanted to evoke that trace of reluctance in Qi Suowei's heart.

Zhu Wuyao once asked Qi Suowei what he would think if he saw such a scene.

Qi Suowei's statement—

At first, one observes indifferently; after many cycles, one begins to feel a little reluctant; but if there are several more cycles, one becomes annoyed, and finally, one becomes numb.

However, having already guessed Silver Fox's purpose, he never made a move.

Zhu Wuyao believes that this may be Silver Fox's only mistake. He has exhausted all his wisdom and calculations, trapping Qi Suowei in a dilemma for eight hundred years.

But when making the final move, he destroyed his own Great Wall.

While the prospect of world destruction is certainly unsettling, if one knows the machinations behind it and that this place is a manifestation of the consciousness of the demon race, choosing to remain indifferent will not be too difficult.

Perhaps he both looked forward to Qi Suowei's tribulation and transformation into a god, and feared the moment when they would truly become enemies.

Or perhaps this is an open conspiracy.

The choice was left to Qi Suwei.

Will the human and demon races both fail to reach the Nascent Soul stage and remain trapped here, or will they risk renewed war to overcome their tribulation together and thus clearly distinguish their positions?

Zhu Wuyao silently counted the thunderclaps in his mind.

When the ninth thunderclap sounded, Hua Yingting remained as empty as a shell, while Xu San'er muttered something.

Ye Xiaozhou slowly raised his hand and pressed it against his forehead, then his pupils suddenly dilated.

Her eyes held a mixture of disbelief, realization, and understanding as she slowly turned to look at Zhu Wuyao, who had raised a sharp blade and stabbed her in the back.

Xu San'er's voice suddenly rang out.

He leaped a considerable distance away, his eyes filled with terror, his voice trembling with fear, and asked:

"Why...why...!"

A powerful and chilling spiritual force surged into Ye Xiaozhou's chest. Seeing her slowly close her eyes, Zhu Wuyao breathed a sigh of relief.

Doesn't this match Ye Xiaozhou's premonition?

If her memories hadn't been erased by the images of all living beings, her cultivation level hadn't been suppressed, and she hadn't been at the crucial juncture where her memories were about to awaken, Zhu Wuyao truly wouldn't have been confident of killing her with a single blow.

Ye Xiaozhou is too difficult to kill.

She glanced at Xu San'er, who was about to flee, and smiled upwards. Under the dark clouds, she slowly raised her butcher's knife and said:

"Switch account, change servers."

“BOOM—!”

The thunder masked the carnage.

In the school, Qi Suowei held a sword in his hand, counted the thunder, and decisively drew his sword and committed suicide.

I logged off as well.

She didn't quite understand what the little girl was talking about—parallel worlds, different timelines created by overlapping two dreams.

But that doesn't stop her from trying.

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Huaying Ting is not good at making up stories.

The myriad forms of life are a dream.

And her method of divination involves predicting dreams.

Therefore, the moment Hua Yingting entered Feidu Lake, she was plunged into a state of premonition.

If a person is constantly anticipating events, and in those anticipations, has already experienced things that haven't happened yet, has already shared life-and-death situations with companions, has already tried to break free from impasses, and has already witnessed the unfolding of all events, then—

Does she live in the present or in the future?

Zhu Wuyao once told Qi Suowei that the moment Hua Yingting entered Feidu Lake, the victory was already decided.

All that's left is to finish this story.

When Hua Yingting entered the realm of all beings, she fell into a state of precognition, and everyone's consciousness followed her into a dream within a dream.

Everyone woke up from their precognitive dreams and began to deduce how things would unfold.

Therefore, the prediction was interrupted and was no longer a prediction.

So, after sending everyone into a dream within a dream, Hua Yingting woke up in the first layer of the dream, which is a dream of all living beings.

There is a fundamental rule for predicting this event—

"We can only predict the future, but we cannot know the past."

"Knowing the result, but not the cause."

"Knowing what it is, but not why it is so."

After Huaying stopped, she could only foresee the outcome, namely—

"The Travels of the Zhu Family" was a bestseller, but "What's on the Other Side of the Mountain" was a dismal failure. Ye Xiaozhou's injuries had almost healed, and the Zhu family was already established.

These are all predetermined and unchangeable outcomes.

But Huaying arrived late, and she had no way of knowing how all of this had happened.

Under what circumstances would one reverse the effect to the cause?

When the story can't be continued and an explanation has to be forced.

Zhu Wuyao was able to guess all of this because she had heard Russell make a certain hypothesis in her previous life.

"What if the world was born eight minutes ago?"

Therefore, based on the fact that there is a bottle of 82 Lafite, the cause will inevitably extend forward to the endless years.

The same is true.

When Hua Yingting foresaw the situation of those two storybooks, he would inevitably have to explain it; every effect has a cause.

However, her storytelling skills were rather poor.

Therefore, Zhu Wuyao felt that every matter seemed to be explainable, but each explanation was somewhat forced.

Because that's really a forced explanation.

The biggest flaw lies in Xu San'er's dice.

Before Hua Yingting entered the realm of all living beings, it was already foreseen by the outside world that Xu San'er's Mo Yu Abacus would be completely transformed upon entering the realm of all living beings.

But she didn't know why.

All she knew was that Xu San'er's entry into the panorama of all beings would cause changes to the Mo Yu abacus.

Ultimately, it's because Hua Yingting, as an observer, has limited information, and many of the "precursors" are added later.

Zhu Wuyao, who enters a dream within a dream, experiences time moving forward normally from her perspective. Her memories are replaced with the "previous cause that was forcibly explained" and the "consequence" when she arrives at Huayingting.

Therefore, she felt that the various aspects of life were absurd.

However, if we were to force an explanation, it might make sense. For example, it could be that Silver Fox was jealous and targeting Qi Suowei's Adventures, which Zhu Wuyao had written. That's also possible.

Having figured this out, Zhu Wuyao knew the way that Sect Leader Fang had provided for her to break the deadlock.

It's simple in theory—

If this were a game, everyone would normally log in to the "All Beings" server by default. But the moment Huaying stopped logging in, she opened a second server, forcing everyone into the "Premonition" server, and she herself was squeezed out.

After playing for a while, no one noticed that the server had been changed.

At this point, the task is to manually switch the ingredients.

Otherwise, if the game restarts, it will still default to logging into the "Premonition Dream" server, as Ye Xiaozhou is an example.

it's good now.

Zhu Wuyao forced everyone to log off and switch servers, and now the "Premonition Dream" server only has Silver Fox as a player.

And because several people have completed the cycle of reincarnation.

After switching accounts, an empty NPC remains, providing interaction as the story progresses.

Silver Fox wouldn't actively contact anyone related to Qi Suowei, so he probably would never discover the truth.