It turns out, they were the main characters.

Mu Zhian was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but shiver slowly.

It's not death, but the complete disappearance of a person's entire existence...

This is actually more terrifying than death.

If it's just death, at least there will be people in this world who remember you.

But if he were pierced by the arrow of Heaven, no one in this world would remember him anymore.

It's as if Mu Zhian never existed in this world.

Shang Yanfei's eyes remained calm as she continued, "I cannot change that arrow, so all I can do is change what has already happened and try to free you from history."

"After that, I discovered that you didn't exist in any of those countless timelines."

The truly terrifying thing is that those struck by the arrow of Heaven's will be unable to find the person even if history is altered.

Even just imagining it made Mu Zhian feel somewhat hopeless.

But when he looked at Shang Yanfei, he found that the sect leader's expression remained calm, as if she were talking about something insignificant, ordinary and indifferent.

She said in a calm and gentle tone, "I was not resigned to this, so I observed the timeline countless times, repeating it over and over again, until finally, among billions of timelines, I found your existence."

The Primordial Mother Goddess is the origin of everything. She observes that one timeline will become the real world, while other timelines will simply disappear.

But she kept repeating the same thing until she became completely numb... Mu Zhian couldn't imagine how much of a mental journey she had gone through in between.

“I remember Ancestor Lan Shihua once said that you also restarted the entire Kyushu. Why is that?” Mu Zhian asked subconsciously.

"Because in this only timeline where you exist, you eventually die."

Shang Yanfei said calmly, "From then on, I knew that the Arrow of Heaven symbolizes predetermined fate; it is cause and effect."

"From the moment Heaven unleashed that arrow, your fate was sealed: death. No matter what you do during that time, you cannot change that outcome."

"Before you died, I restarted the entire Kyushu, letting everything begin anew. It's like playing a game; if you fail, you reload the save." She even had the nerve to say it in a joking tone.

Mu Zhian stared blankly at Shang Yanfei, finally realizing the truth of the world.

The truth behind the restart of the entire Kyushu.

The arrow of Heaven was aimed at him... The primordial witch's spirit deep in the Southern Wilderness had no choice but to fall into slumber in order to suppress the arrow of Heaven.

This was all part of Shang Yanfei's scheme from the very beginning. She needed to guide the course of events during the time when the Primordial Witch was suppressing the Heavenly Arrow, all in order to deal with that arrow.

"Where is that Heavenly Arrow now?" Mu Zhian suddenly asked.

Only then did he realize that the Primordial Witch's consciousness had returned to Wei Mengrou's body, but the Heavenly Arrow seemed to have made no move.

"It's already been taken care of," Shang Yanfei said with a smile.

It was dealt with so easily...?

The thought had just popped into Mu Zhian's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

The sect leader had been planning all this for a long time, so she had naturally made preparations long ago.

I just don't know how she managed to deal with the Heavenly Arrow, which symbolizes 'cause and effect'.

Seeing Mu Zhian's curiosity, Shang Yanfei suddenly spoke up calmly, "Aren't you curious why the Heavenly Dao wants to suppress you?"

Mu Zhian subconsciously looked at this stunningly beautiful woman.

Bai Ruoxi also looked over subconsciously, her small face filled with astonishment. The information she had received today had completely exceeded the capacity of her brain.

"The Heavenly Dao attacked Mu Lang because he threatened its existence? But logically speaking, isn't your existence more dangerous to the Heavenly Dao?" Bai Ruoxi asked subconsciously.

Shang Yanfei gazed tenderly at the handsome fox-eared boy before her, but did not answer. Instead, she whispered something that seemed insignificant: "In the beginning, before 'humans' were born, the only person who accompanied me was him."

"Until one day, all living things were born. Not long after, he unexpectedly saved something in Kyushu that could not be called a living being."

"That thing grows very quickly."

"Initially, He had no self-awareness."

Bai Ruoxi's eyes flickered slightly, as if she had thought of something. A thought flashed through her mind, and she subconsciously asked, "Did Mu Lang save the Heavenly Dao?"

Shang Yanfei nodded silently.

In the past, Kyushu was not Kyushu, but a unified chaotic world.

That world was called 'Nine Heavens and Ten Earths'.

There was no one, and no living being.

Later, the primordial mother goddess created the nine heavens and ten earths, each world independent and isolated, forming its own realm.

The Heavenly Court and the Upper Realm are both realms within this system.

Of these, Kyushu is the largest and most suitable for living beings to inhabit.

As time passed, Kyushu began to give birth to new life.

The Way of Heaven was also born because of living beings.

In the beginning, in order to maintain the limited spiritual energy of the Nine Provinces, the Heavenly Dao wove the rules of heaven and earth to restrain all living things.

Until later, the Way of Heaven fell ill.

The negative emotions of all living things are reflected in the Heavenly Dao, which begins to weaken and loses its ability to control the rules of heaven and earth.

After that, as Shang Yanfei had mentioned before, Mu Zhian saved the 'sick' Heavenly Dao in a certain place in Kyushu.

Mu Zhian's eyes were filled with doubt and uncertainty as he tried to process what Shang Yanfei had said.

After the birth of the Nine Provinces, living beings appeared, and the will of those living beings gave birth to the aggregate of living beings, the 'Heavenly Dao'.

Later, the Heavenly Dao slowly 'fell ill' due to the negative emotions of all living beings, and it disappeared in the Nine Provinces, but was unexpectedly saved by him.

and then?

Why has the way of Heaven become like this?

Mu Zhian's eyes flickered slightly.

"I think you've probably already guessed it."

Consort Shang Yanfei said in a gentle tone:

"The humanity that Heaven now possesses is what you have bestowed upon it."

Chapter 639 Heavenly Dao, Illness Named Love

Through countless cycles, they found the only hope for survival, and have been planning since the beginning of the creation of Kyushu, all to deal with the Heavenly Arrow that involves 'cause and effect'.

This is Shang Yanfei's true face.

The humanity that Heaven possesses was originally bestowed upon it unintentionally by Mu Zhian.

Upon hearing the truth, Mu Zhian's handsome face showed a slightly stunned and shocked expression, so much so that he was momentarily speechless.

Bai Ruoxi, who was standing to the side, was equally astonished.

"The humanity that Heaven possesses was bestowed upon Him by Shepherd Lang... What kind of humanity did He bestow upon Heaven?"

Bai Ruoxi immediately pressed for answers, her mind racing with countless questions, to the point that she completely forgot the unpleasant scenes she had just witnessed.

Shang Yanfei glanced at her silently and said softly, "Love."

Bai Ruoxi was stunned for a moment.

Mu Zhian was also stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "...Love?"

"Is the humanity that Heaven possesses love?"

Shang Yanfei nodded gently: "The Heavenly Dao is the aggregation of the will of all living beings. In the past, the three Daos of Heaven, Earth and Man jointly established the rules of Heaven and Earth. One of the rules is that if any one of them has 'desire', they must be baptized in the rules of Heaven and Earth and have their personality reset."

"When the Heavenly Dao 'gets sick' and is tainted with a lot of negative emotions, it realizes that if it continues like this, its 'personality' will be reset by the rules, and it will no longer be itself."

"At first, He chose to accept this ending gladly, because at that time He did not have human emotions."

Shang Yanfei gazed intently at Mu Zhian: "Until later, you saved Him, healed Him, and tried to help Him purify those negative emotions."

"In the end, you did it."

"In the Heavenly Court, the rules of the Heavenly Court are greater than the rules of the Nine Provinces. You rewrote everything through the rules and purified His negative emotions."

Mu Zhian frowned, somewhat puzzled: "Since the negative emotions have been purified, why does the Heavenly Dao still exhibit human nature?"

"Negative emotions have indeed been purified."

Shang Yanfei gazed at Mu Zhian with eyes as clear as autumn water, and said softly, "But when He was in the Heavenly Court, He transformed into a human and imitated the personalities of many beauties in the Nine Provinces to talk to you, and eventually developed feelings for you."

"You did erase her negative emotions... but she gave birth to a humanity called 'love'."

"She's not content with just controlling Kyushu; she wants more... including you."

Mu Zhian was taken aback.

He carefully and repeatedly considered Shang Yanfei's words.

However, I felt somewhat lost, or rather, incredulous.

"What kind of love are you talking about...?" he suddenly asked tentatively.

However, Shang Yanfei's next words completely stunned Mu Zhian.

“In the past, you and she practiced dual cultivation to purify her negative emotions.”

"...?"

Boom!

Like a bolt of lightning striking his brain, Mu Zhian swayed, his entire being standing like a gray-white sculpture, feeling as if his worldview had been greatly shaken.

With the descent of the Heavenly Dao imminent, he repaired the essence and blood of the Ascension Realm, preparing to seal the negative emotions of the Heavenly Dao in the Black Box.

I thought my goal this time was to obtain the Heavenly Dao.

But little did they know, he had actually done something against the Heavenly Dao once before.

"The Innate Furnace was originally my creation power, but I later discovered that you are more compatible with it than I am. The Innate Furnace can unleash its most perfect power in you... Therefore, I gave it to you."

Shang Yanfei continued, "A natural furnace can create miracles... With the blessing of the Heavenly Court's rules, your natural furnace can even purify the negative emotions on the Heavenly Dao and 'heal' Him."

Upon hearing Shang Yanfei's words, Mu Zhian's expression became subtle, and he once again fell into deep thought for a long time.