Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 587 Ring

When he saw Lu Zhiyao again, Wang Luo found that he didn't seem very surprised.

On the contrary, seeing Lu Zhiyao here, some problems that have been troubling himself, the Immortal Alliance, and Jiuzhou can have a reasonable explanation.

The mastermind behind all this... Only this identity is suitable for the woman who came out of nowhere and shattered all order.

"Heh, with that expression, do you think I'm the mastermind?"

Lu Zhiyao chuckled as usual in the reception room, and then nodded at Shi Yue, who immediately retreated tactfully and stood guard outside the door.

Then, Lu Zhiyao stood up from behind a long table, and Wang Luo noticed that she was somewhat different from the Lu Zhiyao he had in mind.

First of all, in terms of age... Although she is far from being old and ugly, or in other words, Lu Zhiyao now looks to be at the most mature and charming age for a woman, but the Lu Zhiyao in my memory has always held the view that maturity and charm are equivalent to being outdated and outdated.

So even after a thousand years of hardships in the Immortal Alliance, Lu Zhiyao still looks like she did when she was in Lingshan, and she has never lost her girlish charm.

"Oh, after the mastermind, it's the old woman again?" Lu Zhiyao said sarcastically, but her expression didn't care at all. She even seriously explained to Wang Luo the reason for this discrepancy.

"Here, immortality is a taboo. Only by showing your aging appropriately can people not regard you as a monster."

When Wang Luo heard this, he subconsciously asked back: "Are you afraid of being treated as a monster?"

Lu Zhiyao's smile now took on a different meaning.

"I am afraid. After all, this is not Jiuzhou, and I am not the Lord of the Immortal Alliance... So, let's start from the beginning. Before we talk, what would you like to drink? I have a bottle of gray wine that I found when I was cleaning up the warehouse after the Gray Valley base was disbanded. Do you want to try it?"

Although it was a question, Lu Zhiyao had already taken out a bottle of fine wine with an old packaging from the wine cabinet in the reception room, and opened the metal package with her bare hands, and the whole room was immediately filled with fragrance.

"Ha, it's actually genuine ash. This bottle is enough to equal my legal income for a year. No wonder that old guy hid it in the deepest part of the warehouse. He didn't even want to keep it in his own home."

As Lu Zhiyao spoke, she took out two wine glasses, poured half a glass into each, and then started to talk.

"What do you think of the world?"

As expected, Wang Luo pondered for a moment before answering, "This is the origin of the Great Illusionary Realm, and it is also the place where the Great Void Heavenly Venerable truly resides. For more than a thousand years, he has been sealed here by you, through the so-called... open world?"

Lu Zhiyao said: "It's more or less the same, but strictly speaking it can't be said to be sealed. He lives here out of his own will, but the part released outside gives him a headache... But let's talk about these later. First of all, this is indeed an illusory world in the illusion. Luoshu has a total of ninety-nine pages, and each page is an idea made up out of thin air, and then gradually grows from an idea into a world that can survive and reproduce on its own. Tianzun, that is, Chicheng, divides his consciousness into ninety-nine parts, and experiences completely different lives in different worlds. In some worlds, he is a unique overlord, in some worlds he is a tragic savior, and in other worlds he is a relic delayed by chance. In some worlds, he has a lot of talent but becomes a mortal... Then after each life ends, he will be reincarnated in the original world until the world also comes to an end. At that time, Luoshu will restart the whole world, think of a new idea, plant new seeds, and repeat from then on. And in such a reincarnation, Tianzun will never wake up again."

This part of the content was basically consistent with what Wang Luo had seen and heard in the previous three worlds, so he digested and absorbed it smoothly, and then raised his own questions.

"So, what role do you play in this, Senior Sister?"

Lu Zhiyao asked back: "What do you think?"

"The Creator?"

Lu Zhiyao looked at Wang Luo meaningfully, then raised her glass and shook it a few times before saying, "I did start compiling the Luoshu, but it was not my own achievement. At that time, the Dinghuang War had just ended, and the Grand Illusionary Realm was still a mess. Although I managed to build a platform for the Heavenly Venerable to resurrect, it is easy to imagine that relying on technology from thousands of years ago, even with the help of the Heavenly Dao, it would be impossible to make a person with a shattered mind as stable as the Heavenly Venerable... a fantasy."

Wang Luo said, “Indeed, every textbook on illusion will mention at the beginning that the Great Illusionary Realm experienced incredible rapid progress in the early days before it could quickly get on the right track. But when it comes to the details, none of them are mentioned in detail… Is the Luoshu hidden here?”

"Yes, in fact, purely from a technical point of view, it is not something that needs to be kept secret. It's just that, in addition to Chicheng, I also dug up a lot of other things, such as the sleeping things in the Immortal Withered Forest..."

“……” Upon hearing this, Wang Luo had to take a sip of wine to express his admiration without words.

"In short, using the legacy of my predecessors, I managed to gather the conditions for activating Luoshu: ninety-nine sudden ideas and endless room for growth... But then again, most of the so-called sudden ideas were just copied from my memories of my hometown."

Hearing the word "hometown", Wang Luo couldn't help but adjust his sitting position, because this was probably the real point.

The core of the Taixu Illusion is the principle of the Luoshu. In fact, even without Lu Zhiyao's explanation, Wang Luo could guess 70% to 80% of it. Although its core is exquisite, it is after all a core that has grown with the illusion for more than a thousand years. It is natural that it is exquisite.

What really puzzled him was Lu Zhiyao, the dean who had been working in the Luoshu base for a long time, and the main world No. 18 which was highly similar to her hometown no matter how you looked at it!
"So, Senior Sister used her position to gradually build her own hometown in the Luoshu over the past thousand years, and then she couldn't bear to leave?"

"Yes, that's right." Lu Zhiyao admitted very frankly, but the smile in her eyes was obviously reminding Wang Luo that the truth was far more than that.

Then, based on Wang Luo's understanding of Lu Zhiyao, she actually had no interest, and had no patience to be a riddler, so... Wang Luo knew that there was only one chance to guess. "So, Senior Sister, is this your destination, or your origin?"

Lu Zhiyao finally nodded with satisfaction and gave the final answer: "Both. Regarding my past, I have never concealed it from anyone, but no one has ever been willing to take it seriously. You are now the true master of Lingshan Mountain. You have the two-volume Ascension Record combined into one. You should be able to see the notes of the previous and previous masters. Old Song should have mentioned me in them."

Wang Luo replied: "Yes, Master said that you are a genius he found by accident."

Lu Zhiyao smiled and said, "It's already this time, there's no need to cover up for me, his original words must be weird."

"In that era, weird was considered a compliment."

"But it's definitely not the case in his writing. I've been with him for hundreds of years, and I've long since distorted his writing style..."

Wang Luo shook his head helplessly. “Yes, Master actually often reflected on himself at the beginning. Why did he suddenly decide to bring a child who had long passed the age of Qi Induction up the mountain? Although you have a good talent, it is not... at least not good enough for the mountain master to make an exception. He also said that in the first few years of your practice, your progress was amazingly fast, but what was even more amazing than your progress was your brain... and your background.”

Lu Zhiyao shook her wine glass, her smile tinged with the reflection of the gray wine: "Lingshan never cares about the origin of people when recruiting them, whether they are from a famous and upright Taoist sect or the son of a humble beggar. Lingshan treats everyone equally, but that doesn't mean Lingshan won't do basic background checks on its own family members. After Lao Song took me in, he has been trying to find my past, but his efforts have never yielded any results... In fact, I have been telling him the correct answer, but he has never believed it."

Wang Luo said: "The idea of ​​time travel is indeed incredible."

Lu Zhiyao said, "It's okay if it's inconceivable to other people, but Old Song, or the master of Lingshan, shouldn't be so stubborn. The concept of 'gap' is not a secret to the previous masters, so the concept of time travel is at least theoretically feasible. Besides, if it's not time travel, how can he explain the endless ideas in my mind? People can't be born knowing everything."

Wang Luo listened patiently.

"So, I am indeed a time traveler, but I did not travel from a world outside of Kyushu. Instead, I accidentally traveled from the 18th main world of Luoshu in the 1,200th year of the New Immortal Calendar to the Old Immortal Calendar era."

Wang Luo was still listening patiently, but he had held his breath unknowingly.

Lu Zhiyao also put down her wine glass and explained this simple yet incredible truth to Wang Luo very seriously.

"World No. 18 is my place of origin. Yes, I was born as a fictional character on the eighteenth page of the Luoshu, in an ordinary family."

Before Wang Luo could ask, Lu Zhiyao immediately said, "This world evolved silently for more than three thousand years before I was born. The core of its story is "What would happen to the world if there were no magical powers?" And the conclusion is just as we can see, this world will develop extremely prosperously. Of course, looking at the ninety-nine worlds, World No. 18 is definitely not the most powerful. Many branch worlds have bred magical powers that can destroy the world in an instant, such as the Golden Man in the Sky in World No. 2. Even if World No. 18 uses all the killing weapons of the country, it is difficult to match it. However, World No. 18 is the world that understands fiction the most. Billions of mortals use their imagination to develop literature, games, animation, film and television... superimpose fiction on fiction and build an incredible fictional world. Then, if there are no other accidents, then fiction should only remain fiction, but accidents still happen after all. Someone opened a crack and let part of the real world flow into the fictional Luoshu."

Wang Luo reacted immediately: "Taichu?!"

"Yes, Taichu, the so-called magical power of turning the virtual into the real, in essence, he opened an ancient crack sealed in Jingzhou. For him, it was a means to dig out the Taixu True God and make a life-and-death attack, but for Luoshu, it was the origin of everything. Without Taichu opening the crack, Luoshu would not be in turmoil as a whole, and then cause the Eighteenth World to resonate with it, and a genius beautiful girl who stayed up late to play games before the exam would not lie on the Kyushu continent in the blink of an eye."

Wang Luo was somewhat puzzled: "The rift opened at the beginning, but it was at least 1,600 years after you traveled through Kyushu!"

"Because the crack he activated was not new. When my master found me, he was invited by several big sect leaders to go to Jingzhou to secretly seal the crack."

"So... because of Taichu, you came from the fictional world to reality?"

Lu Zhiyao said: "Yes, since you can come here in person, you should have understood the mystery. The gap can reverse the reality."

Wang Luo added: "It is also the origin of the entire world..."

This reasonable addition made Lu Zhiyao sigh: "Yes, Origin, so after solving the troubles of Taichu, I will also be responsible for building the Luoshu No. 2 base and starting the creation pre-research... It's really a headache just thinking about it."

Wang Luo was stunned for a moment, and then a completely incredible guess naturally emerged in his mind.

"Senior Sister, you are not trying to say that the entire Kyushu Continent... is something you will create one day in the future, right!?"

"It seems that your understanding of this world is finally complete. That's right, at least for now, the entire virtual and real world together constitute a closed loop." Lu Zhiyao smiled, "And in such a closed-loop structure, the safest approach is naturally to hold the key starting point in your hands. After all, instead of handing the power of creation to others, it is better to hand it over to me. From my experience of more than a thousand years, there are some things that must be done by me, and I must do them. If I had not traveled to the Jiuzhou continent more than 1,600 years ago, I would not have led the people of Jiuzhou to rebuild civilization in the subsequent era of heavenly tribulation, and it would be even more impossible to compile the Taixu Luoshu. And since I have done so much, I might as well do more. Jiuzhou will exist because of me!"

Wang Luo was moved by the confidence of the woman in front of him, and couldn't help but think of a trivial matter.

"No wonder the Lord of Heaven could never fully reproduce you to replace me..."

Mentioning the Lord of Heaven, Lu Zhiyao's expression was slightly gloomy, but the corners of her mouth curled up in sarcasm: "Copying me, he really thought too much, although at that time he had more magical powers and immortal methods, and mastered more heritage from the old world than me, so the theoretical efficiency of executing the replacement technique was much higher than mine. But he really copied the wrong person. A person born in a fictional world cannot be replaced by a real method. After all, he failed to see through the way of reality and illusion, which he should have been able to understand. I instilled the concept of time travel in him since he was a child. He should be able to understand more easily than anyone else that there is no absolute boundary between reality and illusion. Unfortunately, the identity of the Lord of Heaven and the cultivation of the Golden Immortal completely blinded his eyes. I said long ago that desolation is a dead end."

(End of this chapter)