Being a talent in the Chusheng Demon Sect

Chapter 1400 Biting the Hook
In the official historical timeline, not long after Lü Yang's attack on the pseudo-history, the aftershocks of the Dao Lords' clash gradually faded away the day after the cultivator's death.

The Other Shore: The fifth level.

No longer lofty and aloof, but rather a majestic and imposing figure stands with his hands behind his back, his gaze seemingly reflecting the passage of time, staring intently at the vast web of cause and effect.

In his hands, he held a gleaming golden book, its pages turning rapidly, revealing countless interwoven words. The overlapping light and shadow seemed to outline a pair of cold eyes, scrutinizing everything outside the book with a critical eye.

A long time passed like this.

"That's not quite right."

Suddenly, the First Saint spoke. There was no fear in his eyes, nor any human emotions, only the purest rationality and contemplation.

He couldn't figure out what the problem was.

But he always felt that a primordial spirit should not die so easily, and there were still many aspects of the behavior of that mysterious primordial spirit that perished that were difficult to understand.

"What do you think."

The First Sage lowered his head and looked at the [Book of Divine Fortune and Destiny] in his hand, as if he were having a casual chat with a friend he had never met, his tone completely calm.

"Wow."

Soon, the pages began to turn.

[My name is Tai Yitian. By the time you see this, I will already be dead. I must admit, my suspicions at the time were actually quite valid.]

Upon seeing this, Chu Sheng blinked.

Is this a sign that they're not going to act anymore?
Since choosing to abandon fear and completely cultivate the state of "Supreme Forgetfulness," this fellow Daoist in the book no longer tries to conceal his existence.

I think I was tricked by him back then.

As he looked at the words appearing in the book, Chu Sheng showed no surprise or anger; he remained calm and rational, considering the current situation and drawing a conclusion:

'There's no need to fall out. The person in the book is like me; we're both just trying to transcend. Rather than being enemies, he's more like a fellow traveler. In a sense, helping him is helping myself. Besides, our current predicament is becoming increasingly apparent, and I need an outsider like him.'

In the past, he would never have thought this way.

Because of fear, he would either destroy the Book of Divine Fortune and Destiny immediately or try every means to completely control the fellow Daoist hidden in the book.

But things are different now.

He no longer harbors the idea that it is of no benefit to transcendence. What is wrong with cooperating with it if it is for the sake of transcendence? He would even be happy to become one with it.

This idea, this thought.

—It's all part of the calculations in the book's mind, after all, this "supreme detachment" mentality was something he painstakingly crafted.

At this moment, the once completely dormant consciousness rapidly revived, surveying the Primordial Saint and this entirely new world, so different from what it remembered: 'Although the most important goal wasn't achieved, the secondary goal was, and the experience gained can be greatly utilized in the next life.'

His thoughts were icy, just like those of the First Saint.

The so-called "Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotions" is actually a creation based on His thought patterns and state of mind, and is a near-perfect imitation.

Chu Sheng is very talented in this field.

He achieved near-perfect imitation of the name, appearance, and Dao heart, which, in some ways, even exceeded His original expectations.

Now that things have come to this, He has no need to possess the body of the First Saint, because the two are like-minded. In order to transcend, the First Saint can give up his self, and so can He. Even if it means erasing all consciousness and merging into a more complete individual, neither of them will hesitate as long as they can transcend.

This is the most perfect development.

He had been planning this since his previous life.

Besides dealing with the successor of [Jun], it is also using him to put greater pressure on the First Saint, forcing him to sever his fear.

The latter has now been successfully achieved. As for the former...
Thinking of this, the author paused, feeling a pang of regret. It would have been better if it had been the successor of Jun, not the First Emperor, who had come at that time.

As long as his true form arrives, he is absolutely confident that he can control him while he is reading the [Book of Divine Fortune and Destiny], completely eliminating this last variable. Unfortunately, [Jun] may have anticipated this and left a way for his successor in advance so that he does not need to come in his true form.

The entire plan was thus ruined.

'Despite the latter's great success, without securing a successor for [Jun], all the achievements will be meaningless if everything has to start over.'

That's why He doesn't go out.

Even now, the First Saint, who has severed his fear, would not refuse His joining; on the contrary, He would welcome it with great enthusiasm. He also maintained restraint and did not act rashly.

'I can't leave this book now.'

'Once you leave, you can never go back. The book will then be considered empty, and you'll have to start all over again in that state.'

In other words, if He were to leave the [Book of Divine Fortune and Destiny] and merge with the First Saint, then when the successor of [Jun] restarts the world, He would be regarded as a remnant of the old era and directly crushed into ashes by the great power of the world's restart, unable to follow Him to the next era.

—Like walking on thin ice.

The book made him realize how desperate he was in his current situation, that even with all his strength, he couldn't use it at all and could only rely on others to orchestrate things.

A glimmer of hope is, in the end, just a glimmer of hope.

Where exactly is the hope?

How can we break this deadlock?

At this moment, the consciousness in the book seemed to have thought of many things, and even the words on the [Book of Divine Fortune and Destiny] began to distort, flickering and changing constantly.

Finally, He set His sights on one person.

'The original gatekeeper. '

'His aura is very similar to that of the little guy beside Jun back then, and it didn't appear before the last reboot, but it has appeared this time.'

He noticed something was wrong at that time, but fortunately the other party was on the opposite side of the First Saint, so He didn't need to intervene. The First Saint killed him directly.

However, now, the great web of cause and effect tells Him:

'There's more to the story than meets the eye back then. The gatekeeper wasn't killed; instead, he escaped with everyone. Could it be a trick left behind by [Jun]?'

'Did they escape into the Eighth Secret Realm?'

What method was used?

After much contemplation, finally, under the influence of the consciousness within the book, the corresponding text gradually appeared in the eyes of the First Sage:

The lineage of the gatekeepers has serious problems.

The original gatekeeper was once the attendant of that transcendent Nascent Soul cultivator. He harbored a great secret, and his karma must not be overlooked.

This should be thoroughly investigated.

Upon seeing this, the First Sage nodded slightly, first putting away the [Divine Fortune Book], and then reversing the passage of time, once again entering the depths of the Great Net of Cause and Effect.

Almost simultaneously, the heavens beyond the heavens and the earth within the heavens.

More than 100,000 years later, a slight ripple suddenly appeared in the dusty palace, and the keen observer noticed the ripples transmitted from the great network of cause and effect.

A big fish has taken the bait.

(End of this chapter)