A few days later, Lu Yin left the Heavens Sect to return to the Immemorial Citadel and meet with the Origin Progenitor.
The Immemorial Citadel was still standing, as the powerhouses defending the city had all returned shortly after visiting their own universes.
Such experts were too powerful, and they had no one in their own universes who could speak with them as equals. They preferred to return to the Immemorial Citadel, where they could live as people once again, rather than remain isolated by their elite status.
Furthermore, it was necessary for someone to be protecting the Origin Progenitor. For a time, the Three Realms and Six Daos had taken on that task, but with additional powerhouses returning to the Immemorial Citadel, there was no longer a need for the Three Realms and Six Dao to fulfill that task.
Lu Yin arrived deep below the Immemorial Citadel and met with the Origin Progenitor.
“Pillar, you’re back,” the Origin Progenitor greeted.
Lu Yin’s visit had been prompted by several questions that he needed answered. "Why did you take over the Mirari Realm back then?"
Many events stemmed from the fact that the Origin Progenitor had worked with others to anchor the Mirari Realm to the Tianyuan Megaverse.
The Boundary Guardians regarded humanity as rebellious, and that mostly came from how excessive the Origin Progenitor and his allies had been in anchoring the Mirari Realm to a single megaverse.
When Progenitor Xi had first arrived in the Tianyuan Megaverse, she had restrained from revealing anything about her Consciousness Megaverse to the Origin Progenitor because she had learned that they had seized the Mirari Realm, which had made her hesitant.
The Origin Progenitor looked upset by the question. "Pillar, are you also blaming me? I wasn’t the only one involved. All of us had a hand in that."
"Who else was there?" Lu Yin asked, curious.
"Me." Mister Mu appeared.
Lu Yin turned around and bowed. "Master."
Mister Mu responded with a slight nod. "For you to bring up the Mirari Realm so suddenly, is this because many events were instigated by our seizing of the Mirari Realm?"
Lu Yin nodded. "Yes. I want to understand why the Mirari Realm was anchored to this megaverse. It couldn’t have just been to give the Three Realms and Six Daos a place to cultivate, right? Too high a price was paid for that. Even now, with my current strength, I still can’t find a way to restrict the Mirari Realm like you have."
The Origin Progenitor chuckled. "Pillar, you can thank your master for that. One of his greatest achievements in his entire life, aside from accepting you as his disciple, was helping us to seize the Mirari Realm."
Lu Yin gave Mister Mu a questioning glance.
Mister Mu sighed. "There was nothing honorable about what I did, as it was truly unfair to the other megaverses, but there was no other choice. If not for that, we could have never created the brilliant Heavens Sect or opened up any sort of possibility to defeat that being. Whether we were right or wrong will be for future generations to judge—if there are future generations, that is."
He looked at Lu Yin. "We anchored the Mirari Realm to this place in order to give rise to as many powerhouses as possible, especially those capable of breaking into the Origin realm. The Three Realms and Six Daos were among those, but unfortunately, things quickly went wrong with Tai Chu. If not for that, there would have been many more."
Lu Yin immediately understood. The Mirari Realm had been anchored to their megaverse to give them a chance to resist the being they referred to as the Fated One.
Mister Mu's megaverse had been destroyed, and beings capable of destroying an entire megaverse most likely possessed a similar level of strength as the Fated One. That was why Mister Mu had helped the Origin Progenitor anchor the Mirari Realm to the Tianyuan Megaverse: to create experts. However, they had not anticipated that the megaverse already had such a being in it, and that had led to the Origin Progenitor being ambushed. Mister Mu had been left with no choice but to intervene, which had eventually led to the war between the Immemorial Citadel and Aeternus.
This was not a matter that could be said to be right or wrong. Mister Mu had misread the Tianyuan Megaverse and failed to determine the existence of the Fated One. The Origin Progenitor had suspected such a being’s existence, but for his efforts to strengthen the Three Realms and Six Daos, he had chosen to overlook the matter.
The ancient Heavens Sect had been destroyed because of the Mirari Realm, but the Mirari Realm had also given rise to the current Heavens Sect, and even to Lu Yin.
Lu Yin did not know if the people of his megaverse would one day be able to resist the Fated One. As someone who had benefited from the Mirari Realm being anchored to the Tianyuan Megaverse, he had no right to judge whether the decision had been right or wrong.
After all, he had already benefited from the anchored Mirari Realm.
“Master, how was the Mirari Realm anchored here?” Lu Yin asked, quite curious about this, as he had not been able to come up with any possibilities.
Mister Mu clasped his hands behind his back. "Origin Tracer."
"Origin Tracer?" Lu Yin was taken aback. "Isn’t the technique used to find a specific moment in the past?"
"A moment that doesn’t belong to the Mirari Realm’s River of Aeons," Mister Mu explained.
Lu Yin had already known this much. He had even considered asking Mister Mu why he had created Origin Tracer. Lightstream devoured time that was not part of the River of Aeons, and Lu Yin felt that Origin Tracer might have been created to achieve the same purpose.
Mister Mu continued his explanation. "A single moment of time that isn’t part of the River of Aeons can be found with Origin Tracer. If there are enough of those ‘droplets,’ then they can build up across the river, essentially acting like a dam and blocking the flow. What do you think the results would be?"
Lu Yin was stunned. "Is that even possible?"
"As long as enough time builds up, a dam can certainly be found," Mister Mu replied.
Lu Yin was badly shaken.
From what he understood, Mister Mu was essentially saying that they had collected enough time that was not a part of the River of Aeons that they could use it to block the river and stop its flow.
While such a thing sounded possible in theory, in reality, it seemed impossible.
Where would one even find so many “droplets” that were not part of the River of Aeons? That much time was inconceivable.
However, Mister Mu had done just that. Lu Yin had thought that he was close to understanding his master’s true power, but at this moment, he was forced to realize that he had still been underestimating Mister Mu.
Just the fact that Mister Mu had traveled from his own destroyed megaverse to the Tianyuan Megaverse was already proof enough of the man’s capabilities.
The Lost Clan’s most powerful card had done the same thing, carrying its people so that they could escape their original megaverse. That card was so powerful that just a corner of it had been enough to break True God’s Dominion, which had been a demonstration of unmatched power.
Mister Mu had accomplished the same achievement as that card. Did that mean that Mister Mu was about as strong as that card? Just how powerful was the man?
"Pillar, your master is the most ruthless person," the Origin Progenitor’s voice rang out.
Lu Yin could not agree more.
Mister Mu was as calm as ever. "Tai Chu, be careful of what you say, or else you might drop your sequence strings."
Lu Yin looked over at Mister Mu. "Master, how did you develop the Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation?"
Mister Mu stared straight at Lu Yin, his expression more somber than ever. "Cultivate diligently."
It was only two words, but they weighed heavily on Lu Yin. The Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation was one of Mister Mu’s ultimate techniques. The man had only ever passed two of his techniques on to his disciples. However, of all of the man’s disciples, only Lu Yin had received the Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation. The others, including Mu Zhu, Mu Ke, Mu Xie, and Qing Ping, had received Origin Tracer.
Lu Yin emerged from the depths beneath the Immemorial Citadel and looked over to where a large tree had rooted itself in the city’s flames. It was the big tree that loved to run away.
He went over to the tree and examined it.