Lu Yin agreed. Scheming had nothing to do with one’s level of cultivation. Anyone who schemed from the shadows would have an advantage. But, whether or not their plans succeeded was an entirely separate matter.
Ever since he had first started cultivating, Lu Yin had participated in countless battles of various forms. He had fought against strange innate gifts and miraculous battle techniques. Still, the battle between Destiny and Wei Nu completely redefined his perspective of things.
The two never even physically fought each other. Instead, they used the power of time and altered the future as their battlefield. If their fight had not been revealed to Lu Yin, he would have never known about it.
Who could have imagined that Destiny, one of the Three Realms and Six Daos, and Wei Nu, a Dukkhan on the same level as the Origin Progenitor and other such powerhouses, had always been fighting in the River of Aeons?
"Can it really... start again?" Lu Yin took a sip of tea, seemingly asking both Mister Mu and himself.
Mister Mu looked at him. "What if you can?"
Lu Yin looked at Mister Mu. "Master, I'm not a naive kid anymore. Was this the true goal when anchoring the Mirari Realm?"
Mister Mu smiled. "This was my purpose in helping Tai Chu, though he didn’t know that."
"Then how did you know? How much did you know from Destiny?"
"Destiny never told me."
"Then how did you-?"
Mister Mu's eyes fell, and he stared into his teacup in a daze. "I once had my own megaverse."
A tremor ran through Lu Yin, and he nodded. "I understand."
The Origin Progenitor and Mister Mu had had different motivations for anchoring the Mirari Realm. The Origin Progenitor, like Mister Mu before, was in his own megaverse. After having already experienced the destruction of his own megaverse in the past, Mister Mu had sought to control all variables.
If it were truly possible to start again, Lu Yin could understand why the Boundary Guardians had gone to such lengths to eliminate the Origin Progenitor. Even at the moment, the Origin Progenitor remained unaware of their true motivation.
The Origin Progenitor had been much luckier than Mister Mu, as he did not need to know why he had been targeted.
"Wei Nu scattered her Dukkha for a reason. That reason-"
Lu Yin started, but Mister Mu cut him off. "Wei Nu’s reason is none of our concern. Now, you can decide: what will be the start, and what will be the end."
Destiny had plotted against Wei Nu, but there had been no clear start or end to their conflict. For the future of humanity, Destiny’s plans had started with Sage Yajna’s first cup of tea and had ended with another. At the moment, Lu Yin needed to decide when humanity’s future would begin, and when it would end.
While it appeared as if the Aeternals had been defeated and that humanity was experiencing an unprecedented time of prosperity, only Lu Yin and a handful of others understood that their current prosperity was accompanied by extreme danger.
The Heavens Sect had once risen to the pinnacle, only to fall and collapse. It was inevitable that it would suffer the same fate once again. How their tortuous path in the future looked was up to Lu Yin.
He thought for a moment before looking up across the table. "Kill Professor Wei."
"Another part of Wei Nu’s Dukkha?"
"She once gave Ancestor Tianyi a paper cutout, and she also held him back when my Lu family was being banished."
"Good. Let that be the start. The end will be with her." Mister Mu stared off into the distance in the direction Zhao Ran had gone.
Was Wei Nu truly an enemy of humanity? Lu Yin had no clear answer to that question. She wanted to escape from the Mirari Realm and leave the River of Aeons, while also entering the Immortal realm. She had schemed against Destiny and targeted both humanity and Lu Yin. Lu Yin could only treat such a person as an enemy.
The easiest and most straightforward path to becoming an Immortal was to reset a megaverse.
Lu Yin was certain that, given the chance, Wei Nu would help Yong Heng reset the megaverse. As for why she had not yet done so, the woman had to have her own reasons.
What Lu Yin needed to do was weaken Wei Nu’s power as much as possible. However, it was not really about the woman’s power. Since Professor Wei, Zhao Ran, and others were all part of Wei Nu’s Dukkha, eliminating them would simply extend the time that Wei Nu needed to overcome Dukkha; she would not truly be weakened.
What intrigued Lu Yin the most at this moment was the future that Destiny had seen. What had she seen to make her willingly abandon her efforts against Wei Nu so that she could give Lu Yin a chance?
He knew that, if he truly chose to restart things, all of Destiny’s efforts would fail. Everything that she had worked for would vanish.
While Destiny had offered Lu Yin a chance to start over, the gift made Lu Yin feel even more burdened.
It would not be easy to find Professor Wei, just like how Progenitor Xi was struggling to find True God.
All Lu Yin could do for the moment was wait. He had seen the truth of the megaverse, but he could not yet pursue it. All he could do was wait.
No, there was one thing he could do, what he should as well.
The Tower of the Fifth stood in the Cosmic Sea. It was a place that contained many inheritances that countless people in the Origin Universe longed to obtain.
It stood in the place where Lu Yin had ordered the Tower of the Fifth to be first built, above the Eye of the Seam and it was used to pass down battle techniques. When Aeternus had launched a massive invasion of the Fifth Mainland, the tower had been relocated several times before eventually finding a home in the Heavens Sect. With the Heavens Sect having stabilized, the Tower of the Fifth had been returned to the Cosmic Sea.
The tower held too many inheritances, many of which had originally belonged to Lu Yin. However, as time passed, people from the Fifth Mainland, the Sixth Mainland, the Perennial World, and even other parts of the Sixverse Association had entered the tower, obtained inheritances, and left their own legacies behind.
At the moment, no one, not even Lu Yin himself, knew just how many inheritances were stored in the Tower of the Fifth. There were simply too many.
At any time of year, many people would seek their lucky opportunity in the Tower of the Fifth. Everyone who received an inheritance as reward from the tower was obligated to acknowledge Lu Yin as a half-master. This had contributed to Lu Yin’s reputation throughout the Fifth Mainland. He had risen from being an ordinary cultivator to leading humanity to victory in wars and defeating Aeternus. But even more than that, the Tower of the Fifth had played a significant role in spreading Lu Yin’s fame.
More precisely, the Tower of the Fifth was the source of many people’s gratitude towards Lu Yin, as they saw him as a half-master. Even if some people did not truly feel any respect for him, as long as they received an inheritance from the Tower of the Fifth, they had to show him at least a token of respect.
The phrase "disciples across the world" perfectly described Lu Yin.
His fame had spread everywhere, in a manner that no one other than could have accomplished.
Lu Yin arrived beside the Tower of the Fifth in the Cosmic Sea. He watched as people came and went. On the surface, the tower was still being protected by experts like Jiu Chi, Liu Ye, Fei Hua, and Man Li. But secretly, there were multiple peak powerhouses keeping an eye as well. Otherwise, anyone capable of taking the tower itself would also succeed in stealing countless legacies.
Every era had its own symbol. In the ancient era, Burial Garden had been the symbol of the Heavens Sect, which in turn had represented the height of human civilization. Later, as one Mainland after another was destroyed, the Daosource Sect era had created Boundless, which was the vessel that held the Fifth Mainland’s inheritances. It was a battleship capable of traversing the Hollow, and it had even slammed into the Ossis Ark. For the modern era, the Heavens Sect had the Tower of the Fifth as its symbol.
Lu Yin’s eyes turned to the Inheritance Ranking for the Tower of the Fifth.
The Inheritance Ranking was a unique list. It was composed of the individuals who had made the greatest contributions to the Tower of the Fifth, and it did not list sects or families.
Anyone who could leave their name behind on the Inheritance Ranking would be recorded in the annals of history.
Countless independent cultivators and powerhouses had chosen to leave their inheritance to the Tower of the Fifth if they failed to find an heir or had no descendants. If they could leave their name on the Inheritance Ranking, then their legacy would endure for countless years. There was also no doubt that, someday, someone would obtain that inheritance and remember the one who had left it behind, which would also ensure that their name would be remembered.
There were many names on the Inheritance Ranking, as there was no limit to how many names could be on it. Anyone who offered a significant contribution to humanity's inheritance deserved to be remembered.