this infinite world

"Hmm...you don't need to think about it too much."

When people receive more information than expected in a short period of time, they will always fall into a brief state of stagnation. Yang Yun was not surprised by this.

After all, regardless of which Chu Xuan it was, they all behaved much the same way when faced with certain truths about the multiverse. Yang Yun had seen this at least two or three times, so he didn't show any surprise at the performance of the clone Chu Xuan before him: "Regardless of whether 'his' existence matches your initial conjecture, the narrative layer he belongs to is at least a step higher than yours now; and 'he' can indeed influence the members of the reincarnation team in the Main God Space in some way..."

"Even though these members of the reincarnation team are not actually characters he created or wrote about."

"...Yes, you're right."

Upon hearing Yang Yun's words, the "fate" before her, or rather, the clone Chu Xuan controlling this body, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. With this action, the steam rising from the person's forehead subsided considerably, as if an overloaded machine had suddenly stopped. This indicated that the clone Chu Xuan had temporarily abandoned her brainstorming session: "In essence, we only have a superficial understanding of 'his' existence, but the target is there, and what we need to do next will not change..."

"So, what are your plans next?" Yang Yun tapped his fingers on his arm twice and suddenly asked, "Would you mind telling me?"

"There's nothing I can't say. No matter how things change, it all comes down to the 'main god'."

The clone Chu Xuan glanced at Yang Yun, and finally chose to answer, but his words clearly left unsaid: "'The Main God' is the foundation of everything. Only by coming into contact with it can I proceed with the next step of my plan..."

"...Excuse me, the 'next step' you mentioned, you don't mean accumulating causal points to use the Investiture of the Gods to completely pull the 'main god' and the cycle of reincarnation into a fixed plane, do you?"

What Yang Yun said was what Chu Xuan, the clone of himself in the original world line, wanted to do after the final battle in "Infinite Terror"... He wanted to use the Investiture of the Gods to connect cause and effect, pull the main god into the plane of Death Comes where Ling Xin was, and lure the righteous Zhang Heng into this plane. This was his ultimate plan.

However, for some unknown reason, compared to the original Chu Xuan, who escaped with only a wisp of his soul under the Eastern Emperor Bell and even had to undergo a "reincarnation through physical destruction" and cooperate with the authorities to achieve his plan, the current clone of Chu Xuan is in a much better state than in the original timeline.

However, his condition was much better... which proved that his actions were not static; he was capable of doing far more than his other self.

Of course, Yang Yun's approach was still primarily based on probing and speculation. After all, as the saying goes, strength is the foundation of everything. In his view, since the clone Chu Xuan was never one to stay put... and in a sense, compared to the original Chu Xuan, who was influenced by emotional ties, the clone Chu Xuan was the more audacious one.

"Of course not. The number of causal points required to pull the 'main god' into a fixed plane and bind it to that plane would be immeasurable. Why would you have such an idea?"

Upon hearing this, the clone Chu Xuan's eyes flickered slightly, and it was unclear what he was thinking. But when he spoke the next moment, he denied Yang Yun's statement without hesitation: "Moreover, to achieve this goal, one must first have the coordinates of the 'Main God' space. Otherwise, with a single thought creating a world and a grain of sand creating a universe, these infinitely many planes cannot be searched slowly by human power. In other words, the success of this plan is more due to luck."

—Just as I expected.

Yang Yun understood; Chu Xuan's words, spoken by the clone, were not unexpected.

From what Yang Yun understood, the clone Chu Xuan was employing a two-pronged approach. On one hand, he successfully infiltrated the Main God Space, and on the other hand, he established the C Organization and the X Organization, two behemoths mentioned by Chu Hao, turning what should have been a Final Destination world into the Foundation's universe.

Not only that, this man... this woman also somehow acquired the technology to freely teleport across the multiverse, turning her power into a massive organization that could barely be described as "interdimensional," and even resorting to tricks like dimensional invasion. If we exclude the super-extraordinary existence of the clone Zheng Zha, just looking at the size of the organizations and the combat strength of the mid-level members, the strength of these two organizations far surpasses that of the former Demon Team.

So Yang Yun smiled and said, "But, for you who possess the Investiture of the Gods, no matter how much 'luck' accounts for, as long as the probability is not zero, then you can achieve it, right?"

"Yes, and no. If the situation hadn't been so dire that I had no other choice, even I wouldn't have resorted to this plan, after all..."

At this point, the clone Chu Xuan suddenly fell silent. He gave Yang Yun a deep look and said, "I think I understand what you're trying to say. Such a desperate plan, even I would find it somewhat insane. But when all other options have been exhausted, this is actually the path with the highest probability of success."

"Do you know another 'me'? Is it the 'me' of the past? Or the 'me' of the future? Or something more special, like a 'me' from a parallel universe..."

"--cough."

As the clone Chu Xuan's eyes gradually revealed a fanatical gleam, the kind of look he often wore when encountering a completely new research direction he didn't understand, Yang Yun's soft cough suddenly rang out, abruptly pulling him out of this special state.

"That's enough, any more and we'll be crossing the line," Yang Yun said, seeing that the clone Chu Xuan's eyes had regained their composure.

“…Understood.” The clone Chu Xuan glanced around, and after seeing that Chu Hao and Ling Xin on the other side were completely unaware, he pushed up his glasses to conceal the faint light behind the lenses: “So, what do you want to know?”

"Let's talk about yourself first," Yang Yun said.

Although Yang Yun did lack some understanding of the clone Chu Xuan in front of him, after the conversation just now, the two should have reached some tacit understanding, at least able to exchange relevant information: "For example, why did you take a different path?"

"After all, in my opinion, you're not someone who changes your mind easily."

“Because I have some doubts about certain things,” the clone Chu Xuan said.

"Oh?" This was a path Yang Yun had never considered. He asked with interest, "What things?" "The truth about the construction of the Main God Space," the clone Chu Xuan replied.

As is widely known, before the final battle between the Central Continent Team and the Demon Team officially began, the two Chu Xuans had a rather formal conversation.

During that conversation, Chu Xuan handed over one of the Central Continent Team's greatest gains in the Lingkong Pavilion—the Creation Jade Disc, which they had never been able to decipher—to his clone in exchange for the "right for the Central Continent Team to fight the Demon Team fairly." Then, the battle between the two Chu Xuans officially began...

But the truth isn't just what the naked eye sees... Is the truth really that simple?

It's common knowledge that the Demon Team already possesses the ability to teleport information across dimensions, and the principle behind this ability is most likely through the Investiture of the Gods in the hands of the clone Chu Xuan. Furthermore, in *Infinite Future*, the righteous Zhang Heng himself stated that the two Chu Xuans had already secretly conspired before the final battle…

So, in the conversation before the battle began, could Chu Xuan have handed something else to the clone besides the Jade Disc of Creation? After all, the Jade Disc of Creation, besides stabilizing the Investiture of the Gods, is itself an information storage device…

"...Leave this message to the destined one. Only members of the Samsara team can see this..."

"...The 'God' space was built three hundred years ago and is now nearing completion. During these three hundred years, the relationship between the saints and us cultivators has been greatly improved. Although we still cannot accept each other's ideas, as human beings, or rather, as former human beings, we do not want our mother race to perish."

"The last battle to become gods has already exhausted too much of our strength. In order to fight against 'them,' even the 'main god' space, which was expected to allow humanity to rise even if we all died in battle, has been completed. We really should join forces to fight against the enemy..."

Suddenly, the clone Chu Xuan began reciting a passage that sounded rather incomprehensible to others. Although the passage seemed to have no beginning or end, it appeared to involve a great secret about the establishment of the Main God Space... However, halfway through the recitation, the clone Chu Xuan stopped and looked at Yang Yun with a questioning gaze, the meaning of which was all too clear.

"...Hongjun, a cultivator of the Eastern yellow skin lineage, left these words three days before the completion of the 'Main God'."

Having understood what the copy of Chu Xuan meant, Yang Yun was too lazy to repeat the "message" verbatim, and instead read out the last paragraph directly.

Upon hearing this, the clone Chu Xuan nodded and continued reading, "Although cultivators outwardly respect us sages, they are inherently arrogant. They believe that the knowledge accumulated over generations and their diligent self-cultivation will ultimately surpass their own ultimate potential by unlocking their genetic locks. However, they forget one thing: knowledge is also contained within the operating rules of the universe. Our great courage and strength have brought us to the ultimate, which in itself is a manifestation of the rules of the universe. Therefore, cultivators are ultimately weaker than us sages..."

"At least until their accumulated knowledge and cultivation reach their limit, cultivators are ultimately no match for us sages..."

"...The sage Fuxi, of the Eastern Yellow Skin lineage, left these words on the day the 'Main God' was completed." Yang Yun added the last sentence expressionlessly.

"So you really knew." Seeing that Yang Yun recited the words left by the Saint Group and the Cultivator Group before the Central Continent Team entered the Lingkong Pavilion without any error, the clone Chu Xuan also nodded.

"...Don't tell me you actually believe it."

Although Yang Yun scoffed at this, since the clone Chu Xuan had asked the question, he had no choice but to play along with the other party's suggestion and engage in a so-called word chain game: "If you really believe that, I can only question your intelligence."

"I used to believe it."

The clone Chu Xuan didn't seem to care about Yang Yun's sarcasm, or rather, such feelings had never been related to him from the beginning: "But the more you research, the more you learn about the truth from other angles, the bigger the loopholes in this statement become..."

"For example, is the conflict between sages and cultivators truly irreconcilable? For example, when these two groups joined forces to build the Main God Space, was their true intention as flawless as they claimed? For example, where did the sages and cultivators go after the Main God Space was completed? For example, how much have they concealed in places not mentioned in the text?"

—That's beyond your imagination.

In Yang Yun's view, who at least knew the "true history" if not everything, the so-called "message" left by "Hongjun" and "Fuxi" when the main god space was built was simply complete nonsense, at the level of "clown, what are you stirring up?"... However, as the saying goes, one cannot see the whole mountain from the leaf. As a member of the reincarnation team who was in the middle of the game, he lacked access to the true information, so everything else was naturally out of the question.

“I have questions about this, and the more I explore, the more questions I have. It’s as if we, the members of the Reincarnation Squad, are just people in boxes. The information we have is what those saints and cultivators have told us.”

The clone Chu Xuan had no idea what Yang Yun was thinking. He simply stated his actions: "The reason I established the C Organization and the X Organization and continue to invade other planes is to search for the traces of the vanished saints and cultivators and to obtain relevant information from different sources."

This is indeed a smart approach. After all, from the perspective of the clone Chu Xuan, no matter what the saints and cultivators do, the traces they leave behind cannot be completely erased... People leave their names behind, geese leave their calls behind, so many traces cannot all disappear, right?
"So, what did you find?" Hearing this, Yang Yun also became interested. He was also very curious about what the clone Chu Xuan had found... the Primordial Heavenly Court?

"I found traces left behind by the creator of the Main God Space," the clone Chu Xuan replied. "Moreover, that person also possesses access to the Main God Space..."

"In other words, he, who is still alive today, is able to control the 'main god' in a certain sense."

"Um!?"

"Fuxi."

Yang Yun's surprise seemed to act as a catalyst for the clone Chu Xuan. This time, he didn't keep them in suspense but directly revealed the other's real name, emphasizing again, "Human Emperor, Fuxi." (End of Chapter)