“Do you… understand now?”

The Ancestral Will’s voice rang in Yun Che’s soul sea once more, but it felt like it was a lifetime away.

“...” He didn’t give a response even after a long time had passed. Yun Che’s soul sea was so silent it was as if he had died.

“Xia Qingyue is the Artifact of Fate. It was always a matter of time before she discovered the truth of herself. As for you, your affinity with nothingness will grow as you cultivate the World-Defying Heaven Manual, but you can never surpass the Ancestral Nothingness. Therefore, the occasional dreams are the most you can glimpse of the truth.”

“Even then, you will only treat the dreams as what they are, dreams. You won’t think of them as the truth.”

In other words, even with his current mastery over the laws of nothingness, he would never have discovered the truth on his own. He would’ve been kept in the dark forever if the Ancestral Will hadn’t told him everything.

“I never thought that I would be the one who would tell you everything when I started all this.”

“Even a fate that has been engineered is so difficult to predict.”

There was still no response from Yun Che.

If this had happened to another person, if this had been a legend from the distant past, he would’ve needed a long time to digest and ruminate over it.

However, he was smack dab in the middle of everything… so of course it took him even more time to digest it all. Even now, none of it felt real...