Hong Kong General Assembly began to practice

Lin Yun's appearance was just a minor incident. After Chu Lingtian eliminated Lin Yun, he unceremoniously sat down opposite Li Moxie.

Looking at the group of stunning women surrounding him, Chu Lintian revealed a meaningful smile, then teased:

"Brother Li, you're quite the sentimental one, surrounded by so many stunningly beautiful wives! It's truly enviable."

Hearing Chu Lingtian's words, Li Moxie waved his hand dismissively and said:

"Don't give me that. With your status, you can have any kind of woman you want."

Chu Lingtian shrugged and said:

"Women will only slow down my sword-drawing speed. Besides, you know my identity. I'm a villain. I'm always on edge. How can I be in the mood to look for a beauty?"

"You can fool others with your nonsense, but stop pretending to be innocent next to me. You've already dealt with the three most powerful protagonists in this world, and you're still living in fear. It's a miracle that the other minor protagonists who haven't grown up yet aren't living in fear."

Upon hearing Li Moxie's words, Chu Lingtian also said in surprise:

"It seems you're paying close attention to me, Brother Li. Or is what I've been doing actually part of the plot you're aware of?"

Chu Lingtian had a security device to prevent spying, so he could confirm that no divine sense was observing him while he was performing. Therefore, he suspected that Li Moxie might have learned about his situation through the plot.

Li Moxie shook her head and said:

"You don't need to think too much. Actually, when you met me, your storyline started to change. According to your original storyline, you would have gone down the path of annulling the engagement and trying to improve your relationship with Xiao Yan."

"However, in the original story, you acted somewhat conservatively. You didn't try to build a good relationship with Xiao Yan in such a roundabout way as you do now. Instead, you contacted him through other means. Moreover, the path you chose in the original story wasn't particularly outstanding. Although you established contact with Xiao Yan, he didn't trust you very much."

"At the beginning, your relationship with the main characters was just friendly, not like the brotherhood you have now."

"Actually, you've already broken free from the plot. Your style of doing things and your behavior are no longer bound by the plot. Simply put, you are now the author of your own future path. What your future will be like is entirely in your own control."

Hearing Li Moxie's words, Chu Lingtian's eyes lit up. He had said he was open-minded, but he was still afraid that he was actually still within the plot. As a bookworm from his previous life, he was quite familiar with this kind of nested plot.

Hearing Li Moxie say this now, he felt relieved, which meant that his current storyline had deviated from his original one, and his variable was Li Moxie.

Some might say he's currently part of Li Moxie's storyline, but so what? His story has been skipped and ignored. He might just be a minor character in Li Moxie's story, and his future will still unfold as he wishes, instead of remaining static.

At least this makes him feel that his life isn't planned out like a script.

"Haha! I feel relieved after hearing what you said, Brother Li. To be honest, maybe it's because I've read too many similar novels in the past. If I'm just a reader, I can just laugh it off when I see the plot in the novel. But if I become a part of the novel myself, it still makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Now that I've heard what you said, I'm very happy."

"Hehe! Does it really matter whether you're actually in a novel or not? As long as you feel it's real, that's all that matters. Just like me right now, I'm traveling through this world, and I've come to this beautiful place. I think it's nice, so I'm taking my wife here again to enjoy the scenery. Everything I'm doing is based on my own thoughts and actions, so I feel that I am real right now."

"Sometimes you don't need to worry about whether these are the real world. You can think about it from a different perspective. What you are experiencing now is what you think. The so-called plot is just the trajectory of history."

"Just like when you read history, you can learn how Zhu Yuanzhang went from a beggar to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. So, if one day you traveled back in time and became either Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Chongba, would you feel that your fate was controlled by history?"

"Life is an unknown script. The plot you know is just the original historical trajectory, and you don't need to put yourself into the role of a character in a novel."

"It's like you transmigrated into the body of Zhu Chongba, who was just a beggar at the time. Are you really confident that if you follow the original plot, you can become the emperor?"

"Everything still requires your own hard work. Your thoughts and actions will influence your future trajectory. In other words, the future is still in your own hands."

"Perhaps you can become the founding emperor like in the original timeline, or perhaps you'll end up achieving nothing and remain a mediocre beggar, or maybe you'll be killed by bandits or soldiers in an accident. It's all uncertain, so you don't need to worry about it too much."

Li Moxie thought it was perfectly normal for Chu Lingtian to have such thoughts. As a transmigrator, some people would naturally wonder if they were also a character in a novel and living in a story. However, Li Moxie did not have such thoughts at all, because after mastering the laws of time and space, he no longer cared much about such things as plot.

What plot? It's just the original trajectory set by the will of Heaven. It's just that you knew history in advance. So sometimes, if you think about it the other way around, the so-called plot is actually history. Being manipulated by the plot is just something that would have happened according to the original trajectory.

Unless it's a very incomplete world, the plots of these worlds are very rigid. They have pre-set mechanisms, and even if you travel there, the power of the world will still forcibly control you to follow the original plot. It won't let you escape its control.

Even if you traveled through time, it would be useless because you couldn't change anything. The power of the world would forcibly control you to follow the so-called plot.

These worlds are merely nascent forms of worlds just beginning to develop. Therefore, their so-called plot, or the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, is extremely important and needs to be forcibly controlled in order to drive the subsequent development of this world. It can be likened to this forcibly controlled plot being a driving force for the normal operation of this world. Once this plot has developed to its full potential, the various nodes will begin to operate autonomously, and then this world can be fully formed.

Even if there is a plot later on, these so-called plots can be changed, and the Heavenly Dao will not interfere.

Just like the Journey to the West in the prehistoric world, the plot of the Journey to the West is an important node that drives the great prosperity of the West, so the Heavenly Way does not allow any variables that may affect the Journey to the West to appear.

So even though the Taoists knew that the Journey to the West was not good for Taoism and could even be a great blow to it, no one came out to stop it. They just set up some obstacles along the way and then obtained some merit from the Journey to the West.

It's because they all know that these major trends are what Heaven is trying its best to create. If you want to cause destruction, Heaven will either exert strong control over you or directly unleash boundless karma to kill you.

However, Li Moxie felt that the Taoists' ideas were too traditional and conservative. The Heavenly Way only wanted to promote the rise of the West, not the rise of Buddhism.

They all fell into a misconception, equating the West with Buddhism, but they never considered why Taoism flourished in the West.

In the future, when no sages will emerge and no quasi-sages will rule, Taoism can directly send people to the West to establish a branch of Taoism. Then they can arrange their own journey to the West. Why go to the West to seek Mahayana Buddhism? Wouldn't it be better to seek the Taoist teachings of Xuanmen?

Moreover, the one who truly receives the Heavenly Dao's approval to undergo tribulation is not Tang Sanzang, but Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong was originally transformed from the stone that mended the heavens, born according to the mandate of Heaven. As long as Sun Wukong is controlled, the course of the Journey to the West storyline will be entirely up to the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) to arrange.

Therefore, these people's thinking is still too conservative. In fact, sometimes when people like Chu Lingtian broaden their horizons, there are real solutions to many established problems.

If a villain like him can be on friendly terms with the protagonists, why can't a simple Journey to the West allow him to go to the West to find Taoist magic?

If you arrange a convoluted and bizarre story to make everything coherent, then the will of Heaven will be established.

The reason Heaven desires the West to flourish is because Heaven bears the karmic consequences of the Western earth veins being broken when Hongjun fought against the demons, not because Heaven favors Buddhism or is compensating it.

You must understand that Buddhism borrows money from the Heavenly Dao to achieve sainthood. Buddhism itself has taken away the Heavenly Dao's karma, so why would the Heavenly Dao help Buddhism grow stronger for no reason?

The Heavenly Way only desires the flourishing of the West, not the flourishing of Buddhism.

However, in the eyes of many, Buddhism has always been associated with the West, so people naturally equate the West with Buddhism. But that is not the case. If one’s thinking is unique enough, Taoism in the West can also flourish.

Thinking of this, Li Moxie felt that he could go to the prehistoric world to gain some experience in the next world, since he still owed the Jie Sect some karma.

It could also be said that he owes Taoism a karmic debt, because he is a disciple of Maoshan, and Maoshan was his guide, so he naturally owes Taoism a karmic debt as well.

This karmic debt cannot be repaid simply by having them change their cultivation methods in the zombie world and causing the spiritual energy of that world to revive, because the key to this karmic debt lies in the Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture.

This is a technique from the Jie Sect. The first technique he practiced was the Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture, so he naturally had to repay this karma to the Jie Sect. Therefore, he eventually had to go to the prehistoric world, find the Jie Sect, and return the karma.

For Li Moxie, repaying this debt should be very simple. He just needs to lead the Jie Sect to escape the Investiture of the Gods. Because of the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect was plotted against by various parties, which ultimately led to all of its members being listed on the Investiture of the Gods.

In Li Moxie's view, it was reasonable for the members of the Jie Sect to be included in the Investiture of the Gods. However, it could have helped to eliminate some inferior disciples. Unfortunately, Tongtian Shengren trusted his second brother too much, and Li Moxie did not plan anything, so he was naturally tricked.

Otherwise, the Investiture of the Gods wouldn't have been such a bad thing for the Jie Sect. Because the Jie Sect's policy of teaching without discrimination resulted in a large number of disciples with low moral character within the sect. These people, relying on the name of the Jie Sect, acted extremely eccentrically and committed numerous murders. However, because they were disciples of a sage, all these consequences were attributed to the Jie Sect, causing its fortune to decline further and further.

In the end, even the Heavenly Dao disliked the Jie Sect, so it ultimately fueled the destruction of the entire sect.

This does not mean that the Heavenly Dao does not allow the existence of the Jie Sect's concept of seizing the Heavenly Dao's lifeline. If the Heavenly Dao did not allow the Jie Sect's missionary philosophy, it would not have allowed Tongtian to become a saint.

It should be understood that even the Heavenly Dao has the saying that one of its elements has been removed. How could it possibly prevent the existence of the Jie Sect? Because the one element that has been removed is a hope that the Heavenly Dao has left for all living beings.

It's just that Tongtian himself narrowed his path. As the saying goes, Heaven helps those who help themselves. In other words, Heaven will help those who are truly willing to work hard. However, Tongtian was too casual in accepting disciples. He accepted all kinds of disciples, which naturally led to the decline of the Jie Sect due to the uneven quality of his disciples.

Therefore, many things under the Heavenly Dao are traceable. This is why Li Moxie's understanding of the world deepened after he acquired half of the management rights of the Marvel universe.

Things I didn't understand before are gradually becoming clearer.

Upon hearing Li Moxie's explanation, Chu Lingtian felt enlightened. Perhaps Li Moxie's thinking was correct. He was too concerned about these so-called plots. As Li Moxie said, the so-called plot was just the original history of this world. It's just that he had transmigrated here and changed the original history.

But Li Moxie's arrival changed his history. Perhaps if you think about it this way, everything won't feel so bad.

Chu Lingtian couldn't help but admire the other person's insight. No wonder the other person could live such a carefree life, and even his double pupils couldn't see through their cultivation level.

Zi Neng said that a master is indeed a master. He was always concerned about the plot. Even though he had everything under control, he was still afraid that he would fail in the end. But thinking about it, it seems that he was thinking too much. Some things are just about following one's true heart and there is no need to worry too much.

(PS: Dear readers, I've been looking for a new place and moving these past few days, so the quality of the novel and the update schedule may drop a bit. I apologize for that. Once I'm done with that, I'll speed up the plot. The protagonist's path is pretty much set, and the story is about to really take off.)