Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 610 - 61: The Cause and Effect (4)

"That being," after accumulating the fortune of the entire world for countless years, suddenly underwent a fundamental transformation, becoming the omniscient and omnipotent "Immortal" of Martial Arts, mastering sun and moon, understanding yin and yang, and knowing all secrets of heaven and earth!

At this moment, that being discovered the existence of the Heavenly Dao Consciousness of the Cangxuan Realm.

What that being truly thought, no one knew.

Upon discovering the existence of the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, he conceived a bold idea, intending to devour the Heavenly Dao and refine the entire Cangxuan Realm into his possession, aiming to become the ruler surpassing all things!

At this time, although the Heavenly Dao Consciousness was ignorant, it still possessed an instinct to seek profit and avoid harm.

As the Heavenly Dao Consciousness formed from this world, born from centuries to millions of years of human and martial arts civilization evolution, it controlled the power of the entire world. Even though "that being" had reached unprecedented heights, in the process of attempting to refine the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, he was still drawn into an endless sea of consciousness for a tug-of-war that lasted ten thousand years.

During this process, the Heavenly Dao Consciousness attempted to erase the existence of "that being" from the river of time. If all the information of that person were erased, the other would "die" in another way.

In Austin's previous life, there was a saying:

A person's life has three deaths. The first is in the hospital when the heart stops beating, and doctors pronounce death; the second is when sent to the crematorium and buried in a grave; the third is when the last person who remembers him in this world disappears, and he completely dies from this world.

The erasure by the Heavenly Dao Consciousness is like the third death of humans.

Traces of the past were gradually cleared, thus causing him to "disappear" from the Cangxuan Realm, being expelled from the world, and naturally eliminating the crisis.

And this,

is also why the origin, even the name and gender of "that being" kept disappearing from people's memories!

Because his existence was overshadowed by a higher-level power!

Even today, Austin feels utterly shocked by such power of the Heavenly Dao.

But "that being" is no simple character, one who could gather the martial arts fortune of millions of years of world development, achieving Martial Dao True Immortal in one stroke and attempting to devour the Heavenly Dao—how could he fail so easily?

Before the Heavenly Dao Consciousness could completely erase the opponent, "that being," deep in the tug-of-war, reversed the situation, relying on the battlefield to seize a portion of the Heavenly Dao's power and successfully counteracted the Heavenly Dao Consciousness.

At the same time,

"that being" secretly acted, using the power of Heavenly Dao causality to covertly resurrect past great enemies a thousand years ago, returning them to this era, attempting to trigger an early outbreak of this millenniums-long Immortal Dao war, to clean up all the "protagonists" created by the Heavenly Dao Consciousness to weaken its power.

Indeed, the "protagonists" Austin encountered were exactly those the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, in its self-preservation, instinctually fostered, intending to nurture someone able to resolve "that being."

If successful, this period of history in this world would become a story of a protagonist rising against fate and ultimately defeating the Great Demon King struggling for the Heavenly Dao.

For millennia, "that being" and the Heavenly Dao Consciousness constantly plotted and tugged against each other.

Like two players on a chessboard, exalted and towering,

using the world as the game board and all beings as pieces, leveraging the power of celestial secrets and causality to manipulate the direction of the world's development.

However, 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

the Heavenly Dao Consciousness is not as cunning and wise as "that being." The fortune of the last era was almost exhausted, leading to a millennium-long martial arts extinction, plus the opponent's secret maneuvering, the Heavenly Dao Consciousness began to fall into a disadvantage.

Without unexpected events, the Heavenly Dao Consciousness would eventually have the Authority of the world invaded little by little by "that being," ultimately being devoured, and the Cangxuan Realm refined entirely.

All this change, until the emergence of Austin twenty-six years ago.

Despite the thousand-year tug-of-war putting the Heavenly Dao Consciousness at a disadvantage, it still grasped most of the world's Authority. When Austin broke through the Crystal Wall perimeter and appeared in this world, sensing the alien Space-Time power within Austin, the Heavenly Dao Consciousness immediately felt the opportunity arrive.

Although the river of time in this world is part of the power controlled by the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, it cannot use the river of time to return to the past; otherwise, directly returning to before "that being" rose ten thousand years ago to kill him would be much simpler, wouldn't it?

The time power controlled by the Heavenly Dao Consciousness from the river of time was not feasible, but the alien Time Power within Austin was not a problem!

This is because the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, born of human and martial arts civilization aggregation postnatally, is not the world's creator itself. The Law of Power it controls hasn't reached the degree of changing the roots.

Just like a computer loaded with artificial intelligence, where the AI can process internal data through various commands but cannot disassemble itself to change the position of any key on the keyboard or any structure of the chip inside.

The Time Law Origin power within Austin is akin to a human outside the computer, able to dismantle the computer's structure at will. Hence, Austin can change the river of time presence on another level.

Having realized this point,

the Heavenly Dao Consciousness knew an opportunity had come.

But before the Heavenly Dao Consciousness could make any moves, as the opponent of the millennium-long tug-of-war, "that being" sensed the crisis as soon as the Heavenly Dao Consciousness showed any disturbance.

The attack on Austin on the day he crossed into this world was precisely the result of the other party subtly guiding through the Power of Celestial Secret Destiny, later encountering the Venerable, and constantly battling with resurrected Venerables from millennia past, was "that being," threading the needle behind the scenes, using Celestial Secret Power to push, made Austin feel that familiar power.

The Heavenly Dao Consciousness did the same,

to obtain Austin's Time Power, continually guiding the "protagonists" favored by the Heavenly Dao Consciousness to converge around Austin.

Or, whenever Austin appeared, the Heavenly Dao Consciousness favored nearby potential individuals, hoping to obtain Austin's Time Law Origin power in another way, perfecting the Time Law of this world, traveling back through the power of time, thoroughly erasing "that being" from history!