The Imperial Study Room was silent.
Lu Qingshan was silent for a mont, then slowly spoke, asking the first question.
It was also the question he was currently most concerned about.
"What exactly is the first Taoist?"
"You probably guessed it already." Qin Yitian stepped forward and pulled out a very familiar ancient wooden box from under the desk that Lu Qingshan recognized.
The box had dragon and phoenix carvings that seed to almost leap out.
Qin Yitian gently opened the box, and a flash of red light passed through the box.
The beautiful Dragon Sparrow lay calmly in the box.
"Yes, the Dragon Sparrow is the first Taoist, or rather, it is the carrier of the first Taoist."
"So, the first Taoist is ti reversal?" Lu Qingshan asked again.
Given the current situation, despite its impossibility, the first Taoist should be related to ti.
Yet unexpectedly, Qin Yitian shook her head and said, "No, the first Taoist has nothing to do with ti... It is related to Causality."
"Its true na is Causality Taoist," she said earnestly.
"Causality?" An unexpected yet reasonable answer.
After all, when Lu Qingshan comprehended the Causality True Intent back then, Qin Yitian had already told him that the Dragon Sparrow is the Sword of Causality.
Moreover, as everyone knows, anything related to Causality is the most terrifying weapon, no matter in which world.
"Yes, Causality," Qin Yitian nodded slightly and added, "To be precise, it should be called Reverse Causality."
"Reverse Causality...?"
Seeing Lu Qingshan's thoughtful expression, Qin Yitian gently pulled out a brush resting on the ink stone, soaking in the ink as if it were a clear pond.
Then she took a piece of paper from the stack and laid it over "Mountains and Rivers Shattered, Wind Fluttering."
Qin Yitian, holding the brush, pointed out two dots on the paper.
"Causality is like two dots on a white paper; this is the cause," Qin Yitian pointed to one dot and then pointed to the other, saying, "This is the effect."
"All Causality is predetermined. When this cause occurs, this effect actually appears along with it," Qin Yitian drew a straight line between the two points, "And this line segnt, the process from cause to effect, follows."
"That is to say, under normal circumstances, when the cause occurs, no matter how you draw the line in between, no matter how twisted it gets..."
Qin Yitian drew a twisted line segnt from the "Cause" point, making several bends and finally ending at the "Effect" point, "But the outco is always the sa, it will fall on this effect point."
"What Causality Taoist does is simple; it is to wield the sword and erase this effect point when the effect cos." Qin Yitian put the brush back in the ink stone, and the tip of the brush dispersed in the ink.
"From then on, everything will reverse; the 'effect' will be determined by the direction of the line segnt, rather than predestination."
"In other words... Reverse Causality."
Lu Qingshan was stunned.
"Then why would you entrust such an important sword to ?" After pondering for a mont, he asked again.
Even with Reverse Causality, it could not explain why Qin Yitian saw him at a glance and endowed him with unparalleled trust.
"No need to rush, General, I will explain everything to you." Qin Yitian spoke softly.
"Causality Taoist, as the first Taoist, is imnsely powerful but also has many limitations."
"Firstly, when I perform Causality Taoist and slay the destined effect, I can go upstream along the river of ti and find a ti node in the original Causality line to start anew."
"It's equivalent to ti flowing backward."
"Of course, this reversal is limited."
"My limit is to reverse thirty years."
"Then, the ti line in Reverse Causality is a closed loop.
It exists only between the ti node I chose and the original effect."
"In this closed-loop tiline, as long as the General does not die by soone else's hands, he can 'suicide' to return to the initial ti node."
"But once ti passes the point of effect, Causality Taoist loses its effectiveness."
"In simple terms, once ti passes the day I perford Causality Taoist, if the General commits suicide again, it would be real suicide."
"I wonder if I've explained it clearly for the General to understand?"
I'm familiar with this; isn't it like saving, loading, and auto-saving overriding the original save file… Lu Qingshan nodded, indicating understanding.
Qin Yitian nodded and continued, "Secondly, after Reverse Causality, everything that has occurred in the original Causality line cannot be touched, otherwise it will be erased to smooth the Causality line's disorder."
"Simply put, ti is like a long river, humans are passengers on the ship, the cause is the starting point, and the effect is the endpoint.
When the ship departs, the endpoint is already set, even if there are twists and turns along the way, ultimately it will sail to the endpoint.
Reverse Causality is like smuggling; during the journey, one must strive to hide oneself and not be discovered by the captain, otherwise they would be killed."
"The problem is that I myself exist within the Causality line, the passenger on the ship.
And a passenger knows the destination when boarding, so I must not change the course, or the captain will imdiately find sothing is wrong."
"To change the course and make the ship sail elsewhere, I must pick up soone who is not originally aboard."
"In Reverse Causality, I can only be an observer, not an executor."
"As you can see, no one in Dao Source Realm can escape the plight of Otherworldly Ghosts."
"That is to say, everyone in Dao Source Realm is on the ship."
"According to this principle, General should be from outside the Realm."
Lu Qingshan, feeling complex, looked at Qin Yitian and nodded, "Yes."
"Moreover, the General should co from the future." Qin Yitian smiled, then explained:
"On this ship we are on, identification checks are very strict, it's not that I can pull anyone onboard randomly, they will surely face rejection from various facets."
"Only if this person and I have an extrely deep Causality can I pull them onto the ship."
It's not hard to understand; passengers wanting to pull a random stranger onboard is naturally not allowed, but if they can prove the person is a relative, it would not be that difficult.
"When performing Causality Taoist, I feel as if I'm above the river of ti, flying backward quickly, and simultaneously seeing the Causality lines on as well as the people at the other end of the lines."
"Regrettably, everyone with Causality with is on the ship."
"As I previously ntioned, people on the ship cannot change the course."
"Just as I was in despair, a line of Causality on began to erge inexplicably."
"This line of Causality was very faint, extrely elusive, reaching the farthest end of the river of ti, as if it would disappear at any mont."
"This wasn't because the Causality with the person at the other end was too shallow; quite the opposite, the connection was extrely deep."
"Because this was a line of Causality spanning the river of ti."
"The person at the end of the Causality line I don't know now, but in the future, he and I will have an inseverable bond."
"I don't know what kind of close bond would allow the Causality line to span the river of ti.
But I know that soone with such a bond is certainly trustworthy, so nearly desperate, I unhesitatingly grabbed this line and pulled the person at the other end of the Causality line onto the ship."
"At the last mont of Reverse Causality, I also saw clearly the face of that person."
"That person was the General."
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