Chapter 956 - 369: An Unpredictable Future (Final - Part 1)

However, even so, she found that Fan Wubing’s fate was still to be crowned as king.

She couldn’t understand. Clearly, she had control over the Eternal Essence. As long as she didn’t relinquish it, her junior couldn’t be crowned king, and the ending would change.

But that’s not the case!

But, why, why?

Watching all this, Fan Wubing sensed his senior sister’s intense emotions. That feeling of giving everything, striving with all one’s might, yet unable to change anything, lingered perpetually in her heart.

Nonetheless,

Fu Ming was not one to accept defeat. Just as she faced slander in the past, she would never give up resisting, even in the face of death.

She began to walk against the Path of Eternity. With the Eternal Essence in her possession, none could stop her.

On the Path of Eternity, she encountered the newly ascended Baili Yao Yue. Baili Yao Yue accused her of hurting Fan Wubing’s feelings, while she accused Baili Yao Yue of interfering in her and her junior’s relationship.

Thus, a feud was formed.

Here, Si Jiuyou deceived Fan Wubing. She had once said that she was lost in the star-filled Small Thousand Worlds due to Baili Yao Yue’s deception, unable to reunite with him in time.

But in truth, she realized that even if she reunited with her junior, it wouldn’t change anything. Instead, it would hasten the arrival of the coronation as king.

So, she hid behind Fan Wubing, as she did on the Eternal Immortal Continent, silently observing him while seeking ways to change the outcome.

Until,

As Fan Wubing, the Seven Luminaries True Monarch, ascended the Everlasting Mountain to erase the Eternal Essence, he found the Eternal Essence vanished. At that moment, as he touched the Destiny Dao to discover where the Eternal Essence had gone, he was suddenly attacked.

Observing this, Fan Wubing said,

"I always thought the attacker then was the Destiny Dao. Unexpectedly... it was you, senior sister."

Yes, the one who attacked Fan Wubing was his senior sister.

Fan Wubing asked,

"Do you want to drive me out of the Great Thousand Worlds?"

Si Jiuyou replied, "I tried every way to change your fate. But I know if you remain in the Great Thousand Worlds, as part of everything, you will never escape the grasp of fate and will inevitably step into the final eternity. That is the most powerless capability of the Destiny Dao."

"Is the Infinite Sea your solution?"

Si Jiuyou nodded.

"What is the Infinite Sea exactly?" Fan Wubing asked.

Si Jiuyou said, "A miracle built upon the corpses of generations of resisters. In the distant past when fate created the Eternal Essence, the true dragon foresaw the end.

"As an observer, it realized that ultimate eternity meant the self-destruction of fate. Hence, it began spreading its will within the Great Thousand Worlds.

"Many, driven by its will, rose in resistance. At that time, the Destiny Dao hadn’t fully written the ending, so resisters posed a certain threat to it.

"The Destiny Dao forcibly suppressed all resisters. To prevent the will of resistance from spreading further, it deliberately fragmented their fate and scattered it into the Void Realm. The true dragon, sacrificing its ’omniscience’, sheltered them within the Void Realm. Over time, the Infinite Sea formed, existing outside fate."

She didn’t elaborate on how the resisters resisted, what they sacrificed, or how much they gave.

Yet the weight of these few words pressed heavily on Fan Wubing’s spirit, leaving him breathless,

"So, the Infinite Sea was formed like this."

Si Jiuyou said,

"I realized that if I sent you to the Infinite Sea, removing you from the Great Thousand Worlds, that ending would never come. And it’s true. But Wubing... I never truly understood you, and underestimated your resolve."

Her tone was filled with helplessness and a sense of immense pride. She was proud to have such a remarkable junior.

Fan Wubing softly said,

"You really only have eyes for me..."

Back then,

During the brief moment before entering the Infinite Sea, Fan Wubing found a way back. He exhausted all his strength to send the Peach Blossoms beyond the Eternal Sea, to the Great Wilderness World where the Dao Ancestor, the Sage, and Shituo resided.

Following his will, Peach Blossoms severed the Path to Immortality, preventing the Great Thousand Worlds from spying on it.

Si Jiuyou asked,

"What did you encounter in the Infinite Sea?"

Fan Wubing remarked, "Sometimes, senior sister, you tend to act on impulse. The Infinite Sea is a place composed of resistance will. How could I discard the will to resist upon reaching it? In the Infinite Sea, I constantly pondered the solution, pondering how to truly achieve freedom."

"What is your answer?"

"I found two answers. First, to let fate exist only in the present. Second, to let desire surpass fate." Fan Wubing said, "I’m unsure which is the correct answer. I endlessly searched... slowly, my self fell into a slumber, relying only on the will to resist to instinctively move within the Infinite Sea."

Fan Wubing paused for a moment. What followed was a secret never shared,

"When I opened my eyes again, I was born on a planet called ’Earth’. The Infinite Sea wasn’t entirely chaotic. Over long years, a universe was nurtured, along with life. I became one of them. Earth and the Great Thousand Worlds are entirely different. There is no so-called Immortal Spirit Qi there, yet humanity, through wisdom, created astonishing miracles of civilization. Cars, airplanes, the internet, spacecraft, electronic technology... all sorts of things together make up the splendid Earth civilization."