After the Supreme Sword Intent annihilated everything, Jiang Zhiwei merely cast a distant glance at Lu Yan, and then his figure completely vanished within this Ancestral Hall.
With Jiang Zhiwei's disappearance, this time-space finally plunged into complete stagnation.
In this dead silent time-space, only Lu Yan remained as a witness to everything.
Jiang Zhiwei's action of shattering the Profound Vagina Door did not surprise Lu Yan, but what he did not anticipate was that the Profound Vagina Door had secretly left behind a contingency.
The Xiao Family trio and Mo Yangzi of the Mang Mountain Branch affected by the leaked aura of the Profound Vagina Door were just a façade. The true source lay with the Reflector Mirror utilized by the Cyan Simurgh Sect.
The Reflector Mirror retraced time, seeing the Human Emperor Banner and the suppressed Profound Vagina Door, yet its own memory of the Profound Vagina Door's concept had been silently erased.
He could not articulate the concept of the Profound Vagina Door, nor even recognize the term "stone gate." The erased knowledge was the concept pollution carried by the Profound Vagina Door, which began to spread in an extremely covert manner.
The Mang Mountain Branch of the Taiyi Sect, the Cyan Simurgh Sect, and many of its affiliated regions, millions of living beings have been infected with this concept pollution.
Concept pollution is formless and intangible, the only trait being the loss of recognition of the "stone gate" concept, but under normal circumstances, no one would realize this.
Yet as time accumulated, the concept pollution infecting millions had reached a terrifying level, and if it erupted, the not yet fully matured Human Emperor Banner could not maintain the suppression of the Profound Vagina Door.
Lu Yan could almost imagine that if he did not find Jiang Zhiwei to resolve the hidden dangers of the Profound Vagina Door in this Xianxia version, he would certainly trigger the pollution of millions when facing the three options of longevity versions using version-specific privileges.
The great eruption of the Profound Vagina Door would break the suppression of the Human Emperor Banner, forcibly twisting Lu Yan's version choices, rendering even his last card, the version formulating privilege, unusable.
The final outcome waiting for Lu Yan would be the destined conclusion of falling into the longevity version.
Upon this thought, a shuddering chill surged within Lu Yan's heart.
Pressing a hand to his brow, Lu Yan softly murmured:
"No wonder, after exposing Mo Yangzi, I faintly felt an unspeakable unease back then. Perhaps my True Spirit had perceived the hidden danger within, the pollution of the Profound Vagina Door had already spread.
However, constrained by my cognition and the covert nature of the concept pollution of the Profound Vagina Door, I was unable to detect the danger within.
If I hadn't completed the quest for Immortality and found the Immortal in Zhao Huowang's last message, it might truly have been an unsolvable death trap!"
"Wait a minute, Zhao Huowang?"
Upon this name, Lu Yan instinctively paused.
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"Heavenly Dao Discussion" is an extraordinary book by Zhao Huowang, who, with a frail mortal body, saw through the workings of the world, even describing the essence of this world's only Unchanging, his comprehension surpassing countless beings.
More importantly, Zhao Huowang, being an ordinary person, was unrestricted by any version, able to see through illusions to the source in any version. Lu Yan had been aided by Zhao Huowang's last words multiple times.
Now seeing Jiang Zhiwei holding that "New Heavenly Dao Discussion," Lu Yan couldn't help but suspect there might be some connection between Jiang Zhiwei and Zhao Huowang.
"Tracing back to its origins, Jiang Zhiwei's rise was just a few hundred years ago, while Zhao Huowang was also an ordinary person from a Mortal Dynasty a few hundred years ago. Both share an astonishing similarity in their time trajectories.
But if it's just a time coincidence, it doesn't explain much."
Lu Yan thought silently, then a flash of insight occurred.
He thought of a person, someone who had encountered both Zhao Huowang and Jiang Zhiwei.
He Dongsheng! The sole designated seeker of Zhao Huowang's relics!
"In this True Inheritance Trial, meeting Jiang Zhiwei was Jiang Zhiwei's own arrangement.
But besides me, He Dongsheng, this fortunate one accidentally involved in the True Inheritance Trial, was also received by Jiang Zhiwei, and given a precious Cultivation Technique.
Thinking about it carefully, there are indeed many doubts about how He Dongsheng could participate in the True Inheritance Trial."
"The one who set up the Array to transmit all trial takers was the Tenth True Inheritance, a master of array techniques possibly above Divinity Transformation.
Reaching this level, how could he make such a laughable mistake, sending a Foundation Establishment Stage non-trial-taker into the True Inheritance Trial?
Faced with such an error, none of the True Inheritances tried to correct it, and even the Supreme Profound Lineage's Ku Daojun, who attempted to dispute this, was expelled from the Taiyi Cave Heaven.
I have reason to suspect that sending He Dongsheng into the True Inheritance Trial was a result of some causal interference."
A faint light flickered in Lu Yan's eyes.
After the True Inheritance Trial ended, Lu Yan heard Mu Chunqiu mention He Dongsheng when they met, claiming to take He Dongsheng as a disciple because He Dongsheng had deep blessings, likely related to Lu Yan's connection.
But at that time, Lu Yan was just a Qi Cultivation Junior Cultivator, even with the trait of the Unchanging, his foundation was not evident enough to support immense blessings, the greatest likelihood relates to another layer of opportunity on He Dongsheng, that is, the causality between He Dongsheng and Zhao Huowang.
The causality between He Dongsheng and Zhao Huowang resulted in He Dongsheng's deep blessings.
If Jiang Zhiwei is related to Zhao Huowang, noticed the causality with Zhao Huowang on He Dongsheng, viewing him in a different light, guiding him to participate in the True Inheritance Trial and proactively granting the Cultivation Technique makes sense.