newbobooks Chapter 428 - 428: You Can't Change the Past, but You Can Change the Future!
Chapter 428 - 428: You Can't Change the Past, but You Can Change the Future!
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--- Chapter 428 ---
Seeing how resolute the past Snow Empress was, the Ice Empress could not help but smile slightly because she really is the 'Snow' she knew, or truly became the 'Snow' she knew.
A dignified ruler.
The aloof empress.
Yet, truth loved her subjects and home to death.
Meanwhile, the current Snow Empress could only sigh because this truly made her question her own origin. However, seeing is believing, and this was perhaps her 'true' past.
Even then, the Snow Empress still can't settle with the fact that the 'past' has changed. She doesn't know if this was necessarily a good change for the future.
"Don't worry, Snow Empress," Han Yuan suddenly stated. "The Glory City won't fall because of that Slaughter God."
"Hmm, what are you implying?" Snow Empress frowned slightly.
Han Yuan smiled faintly, "Because I've decided to take this matter into my own hands."
"Once that Slaughter God appeared, it became quite personal for me, you know?"
While Han Yuan sounded sincere, yes, so sincere that Snow Empress and her fellow Heavenly Snow Maidens felt thankful, something about his smile is unsettling.
No, unsettling is not the right word.
It was an eagerness for something dangerous.
Unfortunately, neither Snow Empress nor others caught on to the purpose behind Han Yuan's personal interference.
They didn't know about his immense hatred.
The loathing toward Asura he possessed.
"This..." White-Eyed Phoenix Lord frowned slightly.
"Young Lord, I understood that that 2nd Class God might have triggered some unpleasant memories, but changing the past wasn't an easy matter."
"The space-time law alone, you might cause an even bigger wave that causes the butterfly effect to go out of control and destroy that past."
"Even God Mother doesn't dare to interfere with space and time regarding the past; otherwise, the Phoenix Clan would have escaped its unfortunate predicament many years ago."
Han Yuan smiled, "If I said something, I wouldn't take it back. Although, indeed, we can't change the past because that would cause too much ripple on the water."
"There is no such rule regarding changing the future."
"Changing the future?" White-Eyed Phoenix Lord mumbled in awe. Yes, there is such a thing. "However, how difficult it would be."
"Not only do you have to pinpoint exactly what happens on our side, but also time it perfectly for that future to correct itself."
"Normally, it is difficult. After all, we are running against the current of the river known as time." Han Yuan admitted with a nod. "Thankfully, someone is doing us a favor by putting a boat he left behind in this timeline."
"Young Lord, what do you mean by 'boat' in this timeline?" Jade Phoenix Lord and others frowned slightly.
Han Yuan shrugged and responded in a low voice, "You heard what I was saying."
"Someone simply traveled back in time before we did."
"And he didn't just travel back in time, but also change it."
"We are merely fixing the change, no, steering the timeline as it used to be."
"Am I right, Snow Empress?"
Everyone immediately froze on the spot. They glanced at Snow Empress and had a look of shock on their face.
"What makes you notice me?" Snow Empress's expression became deadly calm as she asked this question.
Han Yuan shook his head gently and responded, "Everything is fine until you revealed yourself by saying that the timeline had changed."
"Your acting skill is quite good, but I caught an indifference in your eyes upon saying that the 'past' has changed."
"Moreover, from the beginning till now, you have been leading us to this situation as if looking for the solution, while the truth is you're the one who makes the problem."
"The greeting, the leading to the spirit guidance platform, and finally, the time travel."
"You're trying so hard to solve the changing past, the one you caused yourself, but you're too weak."
"No matter how high your cultivation as a spirit beast, at the end of the day, you're still a 'mortal' in a grand way of scheme, and you cannot fight a divine-level powerhouse alone."
"You're
"Weak..." Snow Empress bitterly smiled. "You're right, I am indeed too weak to change everything."
"Snow..." The Ice Empress gazed at her best friend worriedly.
Han Yuan looked at the other Heavenly Snow Maidens and commented calmly, "Well, just like Snow Empress, you also travelled far into the future."
"Right?"
"Nothing grazes past you, huh?" Snow Empress sighed helplessly. "Yes, you're right. We are 'people' of the past."
"Travelling to the future to look for an answer."
"Or perhaps, salvation, if you wanted to think of it that way."
Xiao Wu clutched her head, "Uugh, this is getting too confusing for Xiao Wu."
"I don't get it."
"So, who was the Time Traveller here?"
"It's Snow Empress, or perhaps, we should call you Ye Ziyun." Bi Ji patted Xiao Wu's head gently. "Right?"
Snow Empress sighed even more, "Even you could guess that I am still Ye Ziyun."
"Eh???" Xiao Wu stared at the Snow Empress in disbelief. "So, you have been tricking us for the whole time?"
"Technically speaking, she didn't lie to us..." Han Yuan saw more into the Snow Empress's essence. "When she said that she was connected to her past self, though it was one-sided, she meant that the 'current' her is actually Snow Empress possessed by Ye Ziyun's will."
"I see... So, that's why I couldn't find anything weird about her." White-Eyed Phoenix Lord snapped her beak in realization. "The origins of Snow Empress and Ye Ziyun are the same."
"The only difference is their will."
"So, you hopped into the future via possession, and then brought us back into the past with the special method."
"I wouldn't call it a special method..." Snow Empress answered. "There is one way to bring someone from the future to the past to change that past, a method that is unexplained by common sense and mortal standards."
"The Ice God's Heart."
"The Ice God's Heart is the divine artifact that the first Lord of Glory City found accidentally on this land."
"He has many ways to draw upon the 'Divine' law within the Ice God's Heart and then developed the Spirit Guidance Technology using it as inspiration also."
"That's when he discovered he could trigger Ice God's Trials by cultivating to Level 90, also known as the Title Douluo Realm."
"Even then, he refused to, no, he denied this by being stuck on level 89 for hundreds of years."
"The next city lord also denied the Ice God's Trials until the 5th City Lord discovered that they could simply seal the Ice God's Heart in the Spirit Guidance Tool to prevent the remaining will of the Ice God to choose them."
"But isn't God's Trial good?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but comment.
Han Yuan rubbed his chin, "Well, that wasn't the case for some people. Ye Ziyun is chosen by the Ice God's Heart, and sure is going to trigger the Ice God's Trials."
"So, that's the true face of the Deification Project."
"You're telling God's Trials to transform you into divinity, casting aside all your humanity to protect the Glory City."
"If that's what I must do, then I will." Snow Empress, no, Ye Ziyun replied with a calm yet confident smile.
"But you wavered..." Jade Phoenix Lord suddenly commented. "If you did that, you actually won't become a God. You know your talent the best yourself."
"Even if you have talents, time doesn't support you."
"Without the 'spiritual energy' from that Small Grotto Demon Plane, your cultivation won't be as high as it is now."
"At most, you will only become a priest for the Ice God's Trials, preventing you from ever touching the Glory City again."
"That's the future of Heavenly Snow Maiden..."
"That's the future Snow Empress."
"The truth of your origin."
"All of you are priestesses of the Ice God!"