From the end of the world

Chapter 401 Chaotic History
"The Chakravartin... is from the same generation as me?"

Although this was the divination conclusion of the Gua Tianshi, the first thought that came to my mind was that I couldn't believe it.

"Is this divination accurate?" I asked.

"I know why you are suspicious." Gua Tianshi seemed to have anticipated my reaction, "As the ancient Great Impermanence, even if the Wheel King is the descendant of Liangyi, he should be many generations away from you.

"Besides, my divinations for other great impermanence may not be completely accurate. Even if I can vaguely see something, I may not be able to see the truth every time. I may encounter anti-divination methods at the level of the great impermanence and be misled into making wrong divination conclusions... Is that what you think?"

“Something like that,” I said.

The Gua Tianshi nodded and said, "Then I can tell you directly that although I cannot guarantee that my divination conclusion is 100% accurate, it can at least be said to be 80% accurate. Even if the truth is slightly deviated, it will not deviate too much. You can trust this divination for the time being."

"But...how is this possible?" I wondered. "Indeed, if the King of the Wheel and I are descendants of the same generation of Yin and Yang, it can explain why there was no absence of White Tiger or Azure Dragon in the Yin and Yang descendants of the past generations. However..."

"This matter is related to the mechanism of the Mountain Liangyi spreading the power seeds." Gua Tianshi said, "The following words are just my analysis based on my observations of the Liangyi descendants of past generations. There is no guarantee that they are absolutely correct. You can only use them as a reference.

"First, if you have carefully investigated the descendants of the previous generations, you will find a strange phenomenon. Even the descendants of the same generation are not necessarily of similar ages. Some may only be in their teens or dozens of years old, while others may be thousands of years old. Of course, the time when they became descendants of the Yin and Yang was basically the starting point of their own power."

Due to time limitations, I have not yet found out as much information about the descendants of Liang Yi, so I can only listen to what the other party has to say.

"However, the interval between different generations of the descendants of Liang Yi may sometimes be only two or three hundred years, and there will not be any extra descendants of Liang Yi in each generation..." Gua Tianshi continued, "Why do you think this is the case?"

"Isn't it because the descendants of the previous generation of Liang Yi lived to the next generation and occupied the corresponding positions of the Four Symbols in advance? Just like Xuanwu." I said, "Or even if the power seeds of the previous generation were not recovered, the next generation would still have Liang Yi descendants with the same attributes? This seems to be different from the information I have collected."

If it is the latter, then there are two "Xuanwu" in my generation, and the navy Xuanwu I killed is only one of them.

"There are only four descendants of the Yin and Yang in each era, and there is only one person of each attribute. This is a rule that has never been overturned." Gua Tianshi said, "And your speculation just now is not wrong - if a certain power seed is not recovered in the previous generation, there will be no descendants of the Yin and Yang with the corresponding attribute in the next generation, and the surviving descendants of the previous generation will take up the vacancy. Therefore, there will only be one 'Xuanwu' in this era, and that is the Xuanwu you killed. So you don't need to have any extra thoughts.

"It's just that... well, let me correct what I said just now. Rather than saying 'there are at most four descendants of the Yin and Yang in each era', it's better to say that there are at most four descendants of the Yin and Yang that can be observed in each era."

I was puzzled: "What does this mean?"

"Listen to me first. Shan Liangyi's power seed has the same nature as himself, and can freely reincarnate in the past and future when he is reborn. Therefore, when Shan Liangyi reincarnates into a certain era, his power seed may descend into a different era." Gua Tianshi said, "This is your case. If nothing unexpected happens, Shan Liangyi has reincarnated into this era, but one of his power seeds has reincarnated into the ancient times, making the Wheel King the descendant of Liangyi."

This statement is still very contradictory.

The old fist god was also a surviving descendant of Liang Yi in the past, but his existence will not cause a vacancy in the new Liang Yi descendants of the subsequent generations, because he had already returned his power seed to Shan Liang Yi;
But the Chakravartin is different. He is the descendant of Yin and Yang who has survived from ancient times and holds the seed of power to this day. His existence will definitely cause the absence of subsequent generations, and the topic returns to the starting point.

No, that's not right... I've lost my train of thought. What the hexagram master meant was...

"…If Shan Liangyi's power seeds have the property of traveling through time and space, then even if Shan Liangyi can only release a maximum of four power seeds each time he reincarnates, a larger number of power seeds may appear in certain eras…" I realized the confusion.

If there is a person who has the power to travel freely through time and space, then he at the age of 20, 30, and 40 may all appear in a certain era at the same time, which means that there will be multiple versions of the same person in the same era.

It is possible that there are more than four descendants of the Yin and Yang who were created by the seeds of power and exist at the same time in the same era.

However, this phenomenon has never been actually observed in history, because at most only four descendants of the Yin and Yang would be observed in the same era - this is what Gua Tianshi said just now.

Combined with the previous hints, I came to a rather mysterious conclusion: "The descendants of Liang Yi can only be observed by others when they enter the era corresponding to their own generation... Is that right?"

"Yes." Gua Tianshi nodded. I thought this inference was too strange, but I still forced myself to reason: "The reason why the Wheel King has been so unknown from ancient times to the present is also because of this unreasonable nature?"

"No, that's just the style of the Wheel King himself." Gua Tianshi said, "Although the Wheel King was an unobservable descendant of the Two Principles before, this 'unobservable' does not mean that he can only become a transparent person, or a person without a sense of existence.

"At most, he is not aware of his identity as the successor of Liang Yi, and the outside world is also unable to associate him with the identity of the successor of Liang Yi. Shan Liang Yi does not seem to take the initiative to look for such an unobserved successor of Liang Yi.

“Even I only realized in the last few decades that he might be the descendant of Yin and Yang… However, since my memory of him has become quite faint, I can’t even tell what kind of descendant he is.

"Maybe... he realized long ago that he was the descendant of Liang Yi, so he hid himself early on, and at the same time wanted to target Shan Liang Yi and do something in secret."

The water master Xuanwu said that the reason why the King of the Wheels hid himself was because he was afraid of the existence of the two yin and yang of the mountain, and he was in a state of panic all day long. But now it seems that the King of the Wheels is not so superficial.

Perhaps even the water master Xuanwu himself, who said this, vaguely smelled the scent of conspiracy and aggression from the concealment of the Wheel King, and therefore suspected that the Wheel King had a plan to take Shan Liangyi's head.

At the same time, as my understanding of the Mountain Liangyi Power Seed deepened, I couldn't help but think of another thing.

That is the fragment of the divine seal.

Yes, the power seed of Shan Liangyi seems to be somewhat similar to the fragment of the divine seal.

The divine seal has the property of being unique in the past and the future. Even if the divine seal of the future is brought to the present, it will not increase from one divine seal to two, and its fragments have the same properties. The power seeds of Shan Liangyi can travel through time and space, and by placing the power seeds that do not belong to their own era in an unobservable state, they avoid the contradiction of actually increasing the number.

Coincidentally, in the past, No. 1 had asked how many fragments of the Divine Seal were scattered outside, and the Lord of the Divine Seal replied that the total number of fragments of the Divine Seal was uncertain and would change depending on the observation time and method.

Moreover, the descendants of Liangyi who are not in line with the times will fall into the situation of "unable to realize that they are the descendants of Liangyi" and "the people around them cannot recognize them as the descendants of Liangyi". This reminds me of the abnormal phenomenon before the Fantian incident, when the demon hunter group had no consciousness to intervene in the common sense world, and could not even realize that something was wrong with themselves, as if they were under deep hypnosis.

This association even made me doubt whether there was some kind of relationship between the Lord of the Divine Seal and the Mountain Liangyi.

I gradually sorted out the causes and consequences and began to accept the conclusion that the Chakravartin and I were descendants of the same generation of Yin and Yang.

However, there is still an lingering strange feeling sticking in my chest.

If the descendants of this generation were born in the ancient times, they would not conflict with the descendants of the two yin and yang that appeared in the middle, and their true identities would not be discovered by those around them and themselves... Although this logic goes against common sense, it is not unreasonable. Moreover, since this is a strange world, everything is possible... It's just that I always feel...

I thought about it for a long time before I finally came up with an explanation that I don’t know if it’s appropriate or not - this explanation is too coincidental and convenient.

There is a temperament that is like shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target, doing things for the sake of convenience in order to justify oneself.

If you think about it, even the history of the demon hunter community is the same.

Why, even with so many powerful demon hunters and strange things, the past history - especially the modern history of this country - still developed into that state? The reason is that everyone was hypnotized, so there is nothing they can do. Although this explanation cannot be said to be self-consistent, it always gives people a sense of nonsense.

To put it more directly, demon hunters and strange things are like things that should not exist in this world. They are foreign objects that are forcibly stitched in. Therefore, there is such a strong sense of separation between them and the common sense world. From another perspective, the current confrontation between Luoshan forces and secular regimes can also be said to be one of the manifestations of this separation.

Thinking of this, I can't help but ask a question: "Isn't our history... a little strange?"

(End of this chapter)