Chapter 1157

Time Continues to Flow

Sitting underneath the stars, Feng Haochen leisurely voiced, “You have a lot of questions, don’t you? Go on.”

The siblings regarded each other. Nobody knew where to start, nor did it matter to them anymore because their goal to find and rescue their shifu had been achieved, not to mention the family was reunited.

“Over the past few years, I went to First Heaven to resolve the life qi there. Even I need time to handle a dark herb’s life and death qis,” Feng Haochen started.

“Did Bai Jie never get his hands on you?” Mu Yu questioned.

“Hahaha.” Feng Haochen winked at Mu Yu. “Thanks to your notification, I was prepared for him.”

“I notified you? When?”

“When you met me at World Manifestation Samsara Cycle Mountain. Forgot?” responded Feng Haochen, referring to Mu Yu’s meeting with his past self in Fiend-Sealing Pagoda. “I was perplexed as to why you told me to beware of Third Heaven Palace’s Bai Jie since I formed Third Heaven Palace.”

“I formed Third Heaven Palace with the intent of having it protect Third Heaven Palace’s human race when their race was in jeopardy. Otherwise, they weren’t supposed to interfere with cultivators. I never expected this generation’s leader, Bai Jie, to fall into the soul race’s hands.”

“Me?” Mu Yu pointed to himself since Feng Haochen directed his gaze onto him.

“Time is a miraculous regulator. I am free of time’s restraints. Unfortunately, you aren’t strong enough to escape its shackle. I sometimes peer into the future using World Manifestation Samsara Cycle. Sometimes, the death of a tree of butterfly can alter the future. After finding out you warned me in the future, I was worried about altering the future, consequently costing you your life. It’s not fair if I take in a disciple and then cost him his life owing to my error, is it?”

“A-Dai doesn’t understand. Why would a butterfly’s death alter the future?”

“You’re painfully stupid!” Xiaoshuai elucidated, “Let’s say a group of people go into a valley to hunt, for instance, and unintentionally enter a dangerous fiend beast’s territory. An hour ago, the fiend beast went to catch a butterfly, so the hunters are now safe. If you accidentally killed the butterfly an hour ago, though, the butterfly never would’ve drawn the fiend beast away. As a consequence, the hunters would’ve waltzed into the fiend beast’s territory while it was there and died. Now, let’s say one of the hunters was Mu Yu’s ancestor from eighteen generations ago. If the hunter died because you killed the butterfly, Mu Yu wouldn’t be born, so the future changed, get it?”

“Oi, Xiaoshuai, why didn’t you use A-Dai for your example? You want to go on a fast?” Mu Yu griped.

“You’re the one being protected,” Xiaoshuai grumbled.

“Oh!” A-Dai apologetically expressed to Mu Yu, “A-Dai won’t catch butterflies again in the future so that your ancestors don’t get eaten. I will take care of animals and A-Mumu’s eighteen generations.”

Am I being cursed right now? Mu Yu wondered. He returned to the main topic at hand, opining, “It is not fair to throw away so many lives just to save mine, though, is it? If you sacrificed me, the tragedies could have been averted.”

Feng Haochen smiled. “You can’t interfere with time. Since you met me at World Manifestation Samsara Cycle Mountain, the future must develop down the branch where you exist. If I sacrifice you, there’s no guarantee that the future will be any brighter. Nobody can control the future. I might be liberated from natural laws, but it doesn’t mean I can control the future. The future could venture down any path. I can’t gamble with it... So you must live.”

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