“If it’s merely a prediction of this level, of course I can understand.”

The Wolf King said, “But the future that we see and experience in the apocalyptic nightmare is not as simple as ‘exploring a mineral vein and predicting the size of a satellite town’s population’ or ‘predicting that a person will not live to a hundred years old if he finds that his work and rest are irregular, his diet is unhealthy, and he has a family history of hereditary diseases.’

“How much information or initial data do we need to predict the future so accurately?”

“That’s why I’m saying it’s an existence ‘above us.'”

Meng Chao said, “It’s the same for any deduction. The more detailed and reliable the initial data input into the computing system is, the more precise and accurate the output will be.

“A certain mega corporation from Dragon City only has the general data of a certain crystal ore vein. It can only predict the future development of the industrial chain surrounding the vein and the satellite city.

“You only have Picturesque Orchid Lake’s initial data. You can only see its future and doomsday.

“However, if this ‘existence above us’ can control all the information regarding a city, a region, a continent, a civilization, or even an entire planet—even if it’s not all but at least 50%, or even 10% of the information—it’s possible for this existence to make a lot of deductions, calculations, and predictions about the fate of the civilization or even the entire planet. It may not be accurate, but it’s reasonable and conforms to the laws of things.”

“Control all the information regarding an entire planet?”

The Wolf King frowned. “What kind of powerful existence could possess such terrifying abilities? Is there really such an existence?”

“I thought there wasn’t one, so I never thought about it. However, after absorbing the Mother of Origin’s life essence and memory fragments, I suddenly realized that there had been such an existence. At least, it did exist billions of years ago.”

Meng Chao said, “In the few months that I was covered, wrapped, and nurtured by the Mother of Origin’s spirit magnet, I felt like I had a long, grand, and soul-stirring dream that lasted from the ancient era to the present day.

“1 wonder if you had the same dream as me about that incredible behemoth?”

“Are you talking about the thing that seemed to have an entire planet as its body and a brain that was hibernating deep in the core of the earth, with countless tentacles growing out of the earth’s surface and waving crazily, the prehistoric creature that the Holy Light

Temple called ‘Chaos?”‘

At this point, the Wolf King seemed to have understood something. His eyes shone with disbelief as he muttered, “That’s right, hypothetically speaking, the ancient memory images transmitted to us by the Mother of Origin are all real. A long, long time ago, there really was a super life form on this planet that could unite all living things and use the entire planet as its body. Its tentacles could spread all the way from underground to beyond the heavens.

“This super life form could naturally grasp at least 10% of all the planet’s information billions of years ago on a certain level. With that as the initial data and following a series of complicated calculations, it deduced that in the billions of years after that, the entire planet would change, the tides, as well as the civilization, would rise and fall.

“Not only that…”

Meng Chao added, “Suppose that the ancient super being known as Chaos could grasp 10% of the planet’s information on some level. Then, what about its opponent?

“It should be known that its opponent used space-based orbital weapons to output destructive energy that was far more than ten thousand suns and almost killed it. At the very least, it has been suppressed for billions of years. Even now, it can only hide in the Egg of Chaos form, barely surviving.

“If the defeated Chaos could collect a large amount of preliminary data and predict the future based on it, there would be no reason for the victor of ancient war to be a temporary winner. The Holy Light that enveloped the entire planet could not do the same thing.

“Look. We’ve found at least two suspects at this point: Chaos and Holy Light

“Wait, there’s a loophole here.”

The Wolf King said, “You have to know that we didn’t just dream about the future. We also absorbed a lot of knowledge and martial arts from the future. It was the martial arts of the future that helped us to overcome the obstacles and turn misfortune into luck. We rose miraculously at an incredible speed.

“If we were not reborn, how do we explain the martial arts of the future?”

“It’s easy to explain.” Meng Chao asked in return, “Have you possessed such powerful strength since you were reborn as a teenager?”

“How is that possible?”

The Wolf King could not help but laugh. “If I possessed the strength I have today from the very beginning, wouldn’t I have found the yet-to-be-famous Horn of Destruction, as well as Violent Blade, and eliminated them straight away? Wouldn’t that have been the end of it? Why would I have to hide and suffer for so many years?”

“That’s right.”

Meng Chao said, “Have you noticed that, when we woke up from the nightmare that was so real, a lot of messy things were added to our brains, including a lot of information about our martial arts of the future. However, our bodies were not much stronger than before we fell asleep. At the very least, the improvement of our strength was within the limits that our bodies could bear.

“It’s true that we could not have risen without the guidance of future martial arts, but the spirit energy needed to cultivate the martial arts of the future and the experience needed to polish them are all the results of our own hard work through bloody battles.

“If we think of the future martial arts that we’re learning as a skyscraper that can pierce through the clouds, then what first appeared in our minds was only the skyscraper’s blueprint.

“The manpower, materials, and energy required to build the skyscraper, as well as the energy needed to maintain the skyscraper’s normal operations, were all accumulated and pieced together by us, bit by bit.

“I’m not saying that the blueprint isn’t important.

“But I’m saying that even something as strong as Chaos or Holy Light doesn’t have the ability to turn stone into gold in an instant. At most, they can only send a message to the depths of our brains. As for whether the message can become reality, we still need to work hard step by step by ourselves!”

The Wolf King nodded slightly and looked at his hands.

His hands had been perfectly healed by the spirit magnet and strengthened to an extremely tough level, where not a single scar could be found on them.

However, he still remembered clearly that in order to change from a “corpse-eating dog” to a “jackal,” and then from a “jackal” to the Doomsday Wolf, he had been on a journey that was full of thorns and flames. How many risks had he taken, how much effort had he put in, and how many crisscrossed scars were left on his hands! They were so deep that his bones could be seen!

“Why?” the Wolf King asked in a hoarse voice.

“Why did Chaos and Holy Light do it? Why did they input such ‘information from the future’ into the brains of insignificant people like weeds and ants from their perspective?”

“You’ll have to ask yourself that.”

Meng Chao said, “Why did you input so many ‘predictions from the Rat God’ into the brain of an insignificant rat girl who had yet to become the Ancient Dream Saintess? Wasn’t she like a weed or ant to you?”

The Wolf King was stunned.

He stared at Meng Chao for a long time.

Then, he shook his head slowly and enunciated each word clearly. “Although I admit that what you’re saying is not unreasonable, I’m still not fond of this theory. I don’t believe that anyone, even some bullsh*t existence known as Chaos or Holy Light, can control all the information about everything on an entire planet and deduce the future of an entire race and civilization based on that information.

“Even if these bullsh*t beings can control all that information, they can’t control my thoughts, and I will never allow them to completely control my thoughts, whether they’re part of Chaos or Holy Light!”

“Indeed, I don’t want to believe it, either, and I will never allow any existence above us to completely control our thoughts.”

Meng Chao said, “Even if this existence can obtain most of the information about the entire planet, it’s impossible for it to learn the thinking activities of every intelligent carbon-based life, because the complexities of the latter are at least several orders of magnitude higher than the former—I firmly believe that.”

“Then your theory isn’t valid.”

The Wolf King said, “Whether it’s the Earthlings or the Turan people, we have grasped the ability to move mountains and overturn seas, change the environment, and change the future, at least part of it.

“Even if Chaos or Holy Light can absorb most of the information about the planet under our feet, as long as it cannot perfectly control our thoughts, how can it accurately predict the future

“That is indeed impossible. As strong as Chaos or Holy Light are, they can only ‘predict the future’ at most. Even then, they cannot do so accurately, not in a 100% correct manner.”

Meng Chao smiled. “That’s why we saw two paths ofthe future where the process was completely different, but the result was the same.

“On the first path of the future, you were the Doomsday Wolf that dominated the world, while I was a nobody who fought on the front line from the beginning to the end.

“On the second path of the future, I became the Doomsday Blade that turned the world upside down, but you became the bloody assassin that fought alongside me.

“One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. Since we’ve already seen these two completely different possibilities of the future, who can guarantee that there won’t be a third, fourth, hundredth, and ten-thousandth path of the future that’s ever-changing and infinitely exciting?”

Meng Chao once again recalled the several thousand versions of him that he had seen in the crystal ball when he broke through to the Deity Realm.

In other words, thousands and thousands of possible futures.

He felt as though he had touched the key..