Chapter 909 - 352: Like a Dream
Fan Wubing tried to find Si Jiuyou, but after a search, there was no result. Even the Eye of Eternity and the Ear of the Unheeding could not locate her.
Clearly, she intentionally did not want to be found.
"What on earth is happening now."
Facing his senior sister, Fan Wubing was truly helpless. Except for the time on the Eternal Immortal Continent when she had lost her cultivation, almost all other times, he could only follow her pace.
He shook his head and did not dwell further.
Calculating the time, there were three days left until the Human Dao Assembly. In his plan, he needed to complete the reconstruction of the foundation of the Path to Immortality before the assembly. Now the thirty-three innate treasures have returned, and all aspects of this Small Thousand World such as time, space, dao, and vital energy have been mostly repaired by Si Jiuyou.
However, Fan Wubing knew well that reconstructing the Path to Immortality was extremely important, and there was only one chance.
The upcoming Fate Worms with eternal nature would not give him a second chance.
Therefore, he did not rashly begin but first performed simulations in his mind, evaluating various possible situations and solutions.
With the Dial Calibration Instrument and the Twelve Thousand Eight Hundred Eyes positioned on either side, the Eye of Eternity perused all possible essential causes, and the Ear of the Unheeding listened to the silent sounds of countless things. The All Things Law Dao from the Seven Luminaries’ Will was at the center, under the blessing of the "Master of All Life," controlling all connections and change patterns of all existing things in the Small Thousand World.
At this moment,
he truly achieved omnipresence.
This heaven and earth were his "furnace of the heart." With a thought, he could swallow stars or chew moons.
In his self-will, he created a world completely equivalent to reality. In this world of will, he could simulate various scenarios without burden and pressure.
One simulation after another leading to different outcomes occurred continuously in his mind.
Two hours later, he suddenly opened his eyes, thinking,
"No, something is still missing!"
In just two hours, he conducted over seven trillion simulations, but each simulation resulted in failure. The reasons for the failures varied, but they all led to one thing—
"Balance."
Although the loopholes of this Small Thousand World have been repaired, that merely completed the superficial cleansing.
Its core, or the situation forming the world’s great will, is unbalanced.
A perfect world should have changes in such matters as ebb and flow, life and death, and phases of the moon flow like a circle, head to tail, symmetry everywhere. A world with sharp edges and corners will inevitably evolve toward extremes for some reason.
In the boundless Great Thousand Worlds, any Small Thousand World undergoing extreme evolution has no Heavenly Dao and speaks not of ascension.
"Balance..." Fan Wubing murmured.
This is not something that exists concretely like the dao, but rather a concept used to describe the relationship between things.
Where exactly is it unbalanced?
Fan Wubing spent more time walking over and over the river of time, leaving his mark in almost every corner.
The Celestial Snake guarding the river of time did not understand his actions and asked if help was needed.
Fan Wubing smiled and asked,
"Do you know what ’balance’ is?"
The Celestial Snake’s comet-like eyes shimmered with brilliant light. It pondered and long after provided a negative answer.
Although it guards the river of time, the "balance" Fan Wubing mentioned cannot be found solely within time.
The Celestial Snake expressed apologies.
Fan Wubing shook his head and, before leaving, asked again,
"Oh, yes, do you know where your master is?"
The Celestial Snake’s master was, of course, Si Jiuyou.
The Celestial Snake shook its massive head in a human-like manner.
Fan Wubing sighed,
"Of course. If she’s avoiding being seen, I suppose no one can find her."
The Celestial Snake curiously asked, "Did you two have a disagreement?"
Fan Wubing thought carefully and denied, "No disagreement. She just changed her personality inexplicably... But she didn’t get angry at me, so it should not be something I did wrong." He pondered, "Perhaps she really does have some mental issues. She planned to imprison me for life. Could it be a side effect of reversing the Path of Eternity?"
Celestial Snake: "..."
Seeing that the Celestial Snake was also clueless, Fan Wubing did not waste time, waved his hand, and left,
"Forget it, I’ll take more care of her mental health later."
...
After leaving the river of time, Fan Wubing visited various experts one after another.
He consulted everyone he could about this Small Thousand World. But none of them knew what the "balance" he mentioned was about. They said that if he, as the Master of All Life, did not understand, how could others possibly comprehend it.
An entire day passed, and it yielded no results.
Logically, he could just consult his invincible senior sister. But at this moment, one could not know what she was up to.
At midnight,
Fan Wubing bid farewell to Jiang Xuan, left the Imperial Palace of Shangjing, and walked on the still bustling streets of Changning City.
The fall of the Shangjing Immortal Dynasty affected this Immortal City, making it not as luxurious as before, yet it remained the greatest city in the world.
He passed by Liu Qingqing’s manor, where the ownership had changed.
A prominent family from Wangyue Continent with the surname Chen had bought this precious site, planning to begin their family’s Path of Cultivation in the Immortal Continent. During the dynasty times, no matter how capable the Chen family was, they could not have bought it; it was not about money but the fact that the local forces in Changning City at the time would never allow external forces to settle.