Chapter 360: Past & Future
As soon as the reset happened, Xiang Yu found himself floating high in the sky.
The place seemed somewhat familiar.
He looked around, and with his enhanced eyesight, even while floating high above, he could still see everything below clearly.
"Skyscrapers?" he wondered.
Although there were tall buildings in the cultivation world, even taller than the tallest buildings in the modern world, the skyscrapers here were different. They looked just like the ones from the modern world.
He wondered if he was back.
No, that wasn’t it. He closed his eyes. "Is this the law of karma?" he wondered.
The Empress had told him that he might be able to glimpse the law of karma when breaking through to immortal grade appraisal. He wondered if this was what she was talking about.
If that was the case, he didn’t want to glimpse his past, that would be a waste of the chance. "Let’s try for the future," he thought.
After concentrating for a long time, he felt the scene change.
Slowly, he opened his eyes.
"What is this place?" he wondered.
It was so dark that even with his enhanced senses, he couldn’t see clearly.
He tried accessing his void flame to see through the darkness. Since his flame had affinity with void, it should allow him to see through a little darkness. But surprisingly, he couldn’t access it.
"That’s strange," he thought. Even without the flame, it was indeed strange that he couldn’t see through a little darkness considering he intrinsically had affinity for void.
"Hmm, I guess it’s a non-interactive stream," he thought.
Since he was probably seeing the future, he guessed it was just a video and he couldn’t use his abilities to change how he viewed it.
Well, he guessed it didn’t matter.
He walked through the dark corridors until he entered a room with a little light passing through a small opening. At the center of the room, he saw the figure of a man. The man was chained to the walls with ice and was naked except for some shorts.
As he came closer, he recognized the person. "Umm, that’s me," he thought.
At the same time, someone appeared next to the chained him. It was someone he recognized.
"Junior sister?" he wondered aloud.
"Senior brother, I’m back. I was only gone for half a second, but I already miss you. Senior brother also missed me too, right?" she spoke.
"Fuck, I actually got the yandere basement ending," Xiang Yu thought.
As he was thinking of this, Li Yao suddenly turned around and looked directly at his position. Xiang Yu froze, wondering if she could see him.
"Senior brother, I think someone might be watching us. I’m so scared," she said, hugging the chained Xiang Yu.
Suddenly, the chained Xiang Yu opened his eyes. The moment Xiang Yu’s eyes met with his, the scene shattered and he opened his eyes in the real world.
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After returning to the real world, Xiang Yu was deep in thought after what he had seen.
He wondered if that was his future. He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t think that Li Yao was this sort of person. Well, she was, but he felt that something was fishy.
"Those ice chains," he remembered.
Li Yao had said she had experienced something similar when trying to comprehend fate. "The sage," he thought. That’s right, Li Yao said that the sage looked just like the Empress, who looked just like Li Yao from his perspective.
He held his chin in thought. Then it was safe to assume that that person was not his junior sister but the sage. She was probably pretending to be his junior sister after capturing him. He had a heavenly dao treasure according to the Asura God.
Xiang Yu developed a theory. Li Yao had confronted the enemy and eventually lost. The enemy then returned to where he was and tried to pass herself off as his junior sister, but the future him didn’t believe her as he could see her status screen through the system function. He pretended to believe her but then tried to run away and was caught and tied up. Yes, this made much more sense.
He let out a loud sigh. Still, it didn’t seem like there was much to worry about. The moment their eyes met, his future self didn’t seem worried. In fact, he was the one who had kicked Xiang Yu out of that state using some kind of ability.
Xiang Yu smiled. Of course there wasn’t any danger. After all, even when he was tied up, his experience was still doubling daily.
Even then, he was still a little worried. If that person was trying to pass herself off as his junior sister, then where was his junior sister? According to his theory, she had lost to the sage, but he didn’t know exactly what could have happened to her once she had lost. Was she also locked up, or worse?
After some thought, he decided not to dwell on it for the moment. The Empress had said that they shouldn’t worry about the sage at the moment. For now, he needed to focus on the wedding. And for that, he needed to master the fate domain.
Just like the Empress had predicted, when he had tried inversing the chaos domain using his understanding of yin-yang, he had gotten the order domain instead. Luckily, after glimpsing karma, he now had an idea of what fate was and felt it wouldn’t take long before he could grasp it.
And just as he had expected, within just a few minutes, Xiang Yu was able to grasp not only the fate domain but also the karma domain. Although they were both somewhat similar to order, which was the extreme opposite of chaos, they were also unique in their own ways.
Still, Xiang Yu didn’t feel that these domains were particularly powerful.
Although the order domain would definitely be powerful in combat just like the chaos domain, the others, not so much. At least not at the moment.
For now, they seemed just like secondary professions.
"I’ll need to research more to see if I can use them effectively in combat," he thought.
As he thought of that, he felt his spiritual root that had been boiling ever since the reset reach a critical point.
It was time to upgrade to heavenly grade.