From the end of the world

Chapter 300: Discussions at the Foot of the Mountain
Supernatural powers cannot defeat destiny...

Perhaps I should have focused on how to reject Gua Tianshi's political solicitation first, but when I saw him utter these six words with seemingly genuine feelings, I somehow recalled the history told by the old man in Guyue Village, whose true or falsehood I was not sure.

A century ago, there was a god who had supernatural powers that were powerful enough to change the world.

However, faced with a world plunged into war and suffering, for some unknown reason, he was unable to intervene and could only silently watch countless tragic events occur.

Finally, in despair, he chose to live in seclusion in the mountains with refugees fleeing the war.

Ancient Moon God said that the immortal in this story was just a fictional character created by Yin Yue in the process of changing history. Such a person may not exist in reality, but even if this immortal does not exist in reality, there may be a person who is equivalent to the prototype of this immortal.

Could this prototype be the Heavenly Master of Gua? This thought came to my mind involuntarily.

Gua Tianshi is the Great Impermanence who stands for supernaturalism, but from his tone, he doesn't seem to intend to turn all mortals into slaves, or even into consumable flesh and blood. Besides, would such a wicked person really teach a disciple like Dong Che?

"You don't have to be so anxious to reject me." Gua Tianshi said, "Unlike 'immortal gods' like Mingzhu and Zhuanlun Wang who only treat ordinary mortals as consumable resources, perhaps after getting to know me, you will feel that I am a better choice for mortals than the so-called hegemony and other extraordinary ideologies."

"Maybe." I said noncommittally.

"You seem to be not interested. Don't worry. I don't intend to spend a lot of time trying to sell myself to you. You will have a life-and-death conflict with Yin Yue later. It is still unknown who will win. I will tell you more things after you return victorious." He said, "And if it is Yin Yue who survives, I will use the words I had prepared to tell you on her."

"Even you can't predict who will win or lose?" I asked back.

"When it comes to the Great Impermanence and those who are qualified for the Great Impermanence, even I cannot foresee the future very clearly. Moreover, in today's world that is entering chaos, it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the future." He shook his head, "Let's stop here for now. It's time for me to say goodbye to you.

"As a token of my gratitude for saving my foolish apprentice, I will tell you another piece of news. You want to find Xuanwu to obtain the elixir, but you are troubled by the fact that you don't know exactly where he is in Yueyin Mountain City, right? As long as you go to this location, you can find him first."

After that, he gave me a specific address and told me the exact time to go there so that I could meet the navy Xuanwu.

I immediately wrote it down, thanked him again, and was about to say goodbye and leave. But just as I turned around, I saw Gua Tianshi still standing there looking at me.

"I have a simple prophecy about your future. Do you want to hear it?" he asked.

"Didn't you say you couldn't see my future clearly?" I asked.

"I said 'not very clear', so I can still see something. That's why I can tell you the location of Xuanwu directly." He said, "It's just that the future I can see of you belongs to the category of undetermined possibilities. You can take it as a reference."

Since it is uncertain, it doesn't matter whether I listen or not. Thinking of this, I decided to give priority to satisfying my curiosity. Speaking of the Gua Tianshi, he is the ultimate expert in divination and prophecy. When meeting such a character, how can I miss the "asking about the future" part?
"Please teach me," I said.

Gua Tianshi nodded first, then said: "You have two important purposes for this trip to Yueyin Mountain. One is to save your friend's soul, and the other is to get the elixir for the girl.

"And even if you succeed in the end, you can only get one of them at most. Either the soul of a friend or the panacea. Once you succeed in one of them, you are doomed to fail in the other.

"As for where we will lose, I can't see that part. If we have a chance to meet again next time, you can tell me."

This is hardly an auspicious prophecy.

I don't regret asking the fortune teller about this prophecy. Whether I ask or not, the future will be there, I just know it in advance. If I get angry at the person who made the prediction, it would be a misunderstanding. It's better to say that now that I know it in advance, then maybe I can make changes to the future.

"Once you make a prediction, is it absolutely impossible to break it?" I asked.

"My predictions are rarely broken." Gua Tianshi smiled slightly.

This time, he really wanted to say goodbye. Gua Tianshi spread his wings, flapped them gently, and his body faded away on the spot. I don't know where he went. Since he said he wanted to curb Yin Yue's law of heaven and earth, he should stay in the Yueyin Mountain area for a while.

To say that it was contained, I guess at most it only contained the possibility of Yin Yue using the power of the law of heaven and earth to kill innocent people. The fog still exists in the area of ​​Yueyin Mountain, and the phenomenon of blocking network signals will not disappear for the time being. It can be seen that he seems to be more optimistic about my prospects than Yin Yue, but he still did not choose to favor me in this incident. Even if I were to clash with Yin Yue, he just put on an attitude of "see who will survive". The normal idea might be to give me more substantial help first and do me a big favor, but he insisted on being a bystander and not intervening in the situation personally.

He used the phrase "the destiny is broken" to refer to the disappearance of the power of the divine seal, but in his heart, he may still have awe for some real destiny. He may believe that only those who survive can be considered to be standing with destiny. On the contrary, no matter how powerful the potential is, once it goes against destiny, it is not worth cooperating with.

If this is the thought of ordinary people, it can only be said to be superstition. However, when we think that it may be the thought practiced by the Great Impermanence, it is inevitable that people will wonder whether there really is a destiny in the dark.

I went down the mountain first, and then sent a signal to Ma Zao through thermal energy marking that the danger was over.

Ma Zao used space transfer to return to my side.

I told her roughly the conversation that took place between me and the diviner. After listening to me, she was silent for a while, and then she said to herself: "The number of days...prediction..."

"Did you think of anything?" I asked curiously.

"...I thought of the doomsday prophecy." She said thoughtfully, "Isn't there a doomsday prophecy of unknown origin circulating in Luoshan? It says that the increasingly active world of strange things is a sign of the coming of doomsday. In ten years at most, all living things and strange things will be destroyed by the catastrophe, and even all matter will disappear, and the world will return to nothingness...

"Anyone who can predict the end of the world must be a very high-ranking fortuneteller, so I'm wondering... could the person who predicted the end of the world be the fortune teller?"

I thought about it and said, "... maybe."

Having said this, I actually have some doubts that it wasn't the fortune teller who predicted the end of the world.

Even the Lord of the Seal of God, who claimed to know most things in this world, could not tell the information related to the end of the world. Although he claimed that this was because he was still in a deep sleep that was no different from death, it was enough to illustrate the unpredictability of the information about the end of the world. And judging from his past performance, the Lord of the Seal of God might be an existence that even surpassed the Great Impermanence.

So, as the great fortune teller of impermanence, does he really have the ability to make such a profound prediction about the end of the world?
But if the prophet is not the God of Fortune, I really can’t imagine who else is qualified to make a doomsday prophecy.

Or is it that Luo Shan's doomsday prophecy just happened to predict the real doomsday, and its essence is no different from the countless false doomsday prophecies that have appeared in history?
"If there is a chance next time... I want to meet the fortune teller." Ma Zao said thoughtfully.

“If I get a chance,” I said.

We returned to Yueyin Mountain City.

I looked at the time. It had been twelve hours since we went up the mountain. It was the morning of the next day. And now Yueyin Mountain City had become a mess.

A little inquiry would reveal that the thin fog caused by Yin Yue's Law of Heaven and Earth not only blocked the electronic signal exchange between Yueyin Mountain and the outside world, but also prohibited normal physical traffic. People who tried to drive to the outside of Yueyin Mountain City would unknowingly return to their starting point, not to mention those who wanted to leave on foot.

Even the train cannot leave Yueyin Mountain City. No matter how far the train goes, it always arrives at Yueyin Mountain City Station. Time and space here are distorted in a way that humans cannot understand.

This kind of weird phenomenon that goes against common sense certainly cannot be hidden from the public. Everyone either saw it directly or realized the abnormality through the news sent back. No matter where you go, you can see people with different reactions. Some are terrified, some are excited, and some are confused as if their faith has been shattered. The streets and alleys are in a heated discussion.

There was still an hour before the water master Xuanwu arrived at the designated location of Gua Tianshi, so we went to the restaurant we visited last time to have a meal. There were many customers in the restaurant this time, and there were discussions everywhere, while the shopkeeper and the staff were actively serving customers. The latter two also had confusion on their faces. It seemed that they were not working diligently, but trying to find their inner balance through the usual business activities.

"It turns out that what was said in the news last time was true. Supernatural phenomena really exist!"

"Does heaven and hell exist?"

"How much is the country hiding..."

There were voices of discussion one after another.

(End of this chapter)