I am a living immortal.

"Fate?" Chen Dong said.

"I never believe in fate, nor do I believe you are omniscient. You simply see limited possibilities within your limited vision. Actually, there's something I'm not sure I should tell you."

"Go ahead, let me hear your opinion."

"Then I'll tell you, most of the responsibility for the Han Dynasty's current situation lies with you."

Chen Dong's words made Su Can freeze in his tracks. After a while, he came to his senses and said, "What an interesting argument."

"This isn't a thesis, but a fact. Your limited cognition has confined infinite possibilities within a certain range. You control the future, aligning it with the best possible path within this limited range. In the short term, this is the best option, but in the long term, you've already locked up the future of the Han Dynasty. The true cause of the shackles the Han Dynasty faces now lies with you."

"You see the Prime Minister in your limited future, and you make him Prime Minister; you see the Imperial Censor in your limited cognition, and you make him Imperial Censor. Just like looking at history from the future, you regard them all as inevitable. Little do you realize, what if the Prime Minister is not this Prime Minister? The outcome could be good or bad, but it becomes uncertain. This is the unknown."

"You rely too much on your abilities, your blind trust. Being in control, you've fallen into a deception called omniscience, and you've used this fraudulent confidence to deceive the entire world. You're the culprit behind all this. That's why I dare not use the power within me. Because in your eyes, it might be a good thing."

"But this one seems to be limited."

“People try to see through everything, but they don’t realize that what they see is just like a frog in a well, looking at a limited sky from a limited space, yet they mistake this limited space for the entire sky.”

"And you are the frog in the well."

"I said when I came here that what has not happened is just illusion, and what has really happened is the truth."

Chen Dong's words were blunt, but they were also true.

"In fact, the bitter fruit should have fallen upon us long ago. It was only that emperor's momentary lapse of judgment that delayed it until now."

After Chen Dong finished speaking, he thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I'm not that different from you. I regard this power as a kind of mission, and I don't know whether what I'm doing is right or wrong. It's like that when you're in the know, you're always confused. But there's one thing that's different about you and me. Do you know what it is?"

"Is it restraint?"

"No, it's not restraint, but the courage to seek help. I won't trap myself in my own world and stubbornly stick to my own opinions. I will seek help from outside. Those who are involved may be confused, but those who are on the sidelines can see clearly. This is why I came to you for help."

"I'm asking for your help, firstly, to persuade the Emperor if he disagrees. Secondly, and this is the real reason. I'm laying out everything I'm thinking about, hoping you'll observe and see if it's feasible from a bystander's perspective. And I won't leave this framework static. It will evolve and improve with everyone's thinking, even to the point of being completely changed."

After Chen Dong finished speaking, he picked up the tea in front of him and drank it all, looking at Su Can who was in a daze opposite him.

Su Can was startled awake by Chen Dong's words, and even sweat secreted on his forehead, as if he had just been fished out of water. He took a few breaths to calm down his current mood. He looked at Chen Dong, who was drinking water leisurely, as if he was looking at a monster.

Chen Dong teased again, "Now what do you think of my younger self compared to your older self?"

"Amazing, amazing! I admit, even now I'm not as insightful as you think. You truly are a monster, a monster among monsters. I now have reason to believe that your arrival was no accident."

"It's just that a bystander sees more clearly!" Chen Dong didn't care.

"No, if it's only bystanders who see clearly, why didn't others see it? They've known me for years and understand my abilities better than you do. Besides, who were the people I was dealing with? Even the Prime Minister and the Emperor couldn't be as insightful as you. You're more extraordinary than you think."

"I am now increasingly convinced that you have brought Dahan to an unprecedented height, not because of the framework you proposed, but because of this person."

After Su Can calmed down, he said, "What you said was truly eye-opening to me. Now that I look back, I realize it was really like this. After I gained the ability, I became arrogant and thrived, whether among the common people or in the officialdom. This made me think that there were no more secrets in the world. My thoughts began to follow a routine. I stopped some people I thought were bad, and promoted some people I thought were good. All these things that seemed normal to me were just my thoughts."

"The big man has become the big man I know, and he has also become more homogenized."

"It turns out that the most correct thing I did was to refuse to serve as prime minister, come to the Jiantian Division to retire, and return the future of the Han Dynasty to the Han Dynasty." Su Can said with a wry smile.

But even then, it was too late. The Han Dynasty was already firmly in his grasp, and all that was bound to happen was inevitable. If Chen Dong hadn't appeared, the Han Dynasty would have been doomed.

"So everything has changed because of your appearance." Su Can said subconsciously.

At this moment, the two of them did not know that this change refers to the change of Dahan and Su Can. Dahan, as a projection of Su Can's path, is similar in itself.

When Su Can started practicing, he looked ahead to all realms.

Then, step by step, he advanced towards this visionary realm. Resonance, Qi Guiding, Circulation, Bridge of Heaven and Earth, Mysterious Communication, Innocent, Celestial Immortal. These realms, known to Su Can since arriving in this world, were in fact the shackles that held him back. The Han was bound to encounter shackles because of Su Can, and Su Can, too, was bound to encounter shackles because of this vision.

Close and similar.

Therefore, Su Can needed someone like Chen Dong to pull the big man out of his predicament. And pulling the big man out would also pull Su Can out of the vicious circle he was in. This was Su Can's current argument, and the key point was Chen Dong.

Chen Dong lived up to everyone's expectations. Although he was still far from success, he took a crucial step in a very short period of time.

So Dahan needs to owe him a favor, and Su Can also needs to owe him a favor.

And who does Chen Dong represent?

This discussion of the Dao was far from as simple as one might imagine.

Of course, Chen Dong and Su Can didn't know this. What Su Can knew was that he owed Chen Dong a huge favor. It was Chen Dong who came to him, but in the end, he was the one who owed him the favor. He really didn't know what to say.