It’s just cultivating immortality, who isn’t a favorite of heaven?

Seeing that she lowered her head and had no intention of answering, the man became curious.

"You don't seem curious about my identity. Aren't you afraid? I suddenly appeared here and exposed your biggest secret."

Cheng Shuyan shook his head slightly and said, "I am naturally curious, but if you don't want to talk about it, there is no point in me being curious.

The senior was a powerful figure ten thousand years ago. If he wanted to harm me, why would he say so much to me here?

I have been in this Heaven-Defying Realm for decades, yet Senior chose to show up now. I believe you have something to tell me. Please let me know."

"You are wrong. I am neither human nor demon. I do not belong to any race in this world. I am everywhere..."

He chuckled with interest as he said this: "Oh, you are so smart, why don't you guess my identity?"

Not human, not demon, not any other race in this world.

Cheng Shuyan recalled the vague voice she heard when she first entered the Qitian Realm, and also recalled the existence mentioned by the consciousness of the Goddess Xi Yun whom she met in the mysterious space before. In her heart, she vaguely had an existence that even she could not believe.

"You are... God!"

She gave the answer with a firm tone, but even she was surprised by the answer.

"As expected of Xi Yun's chosen successor, you are indeed intelligent and your guess is correct. I am the Way of Heaven."

His answer was expected, but Cheng Shuyan felt it was unreal and she thought she must be crazy.

A cultivator in the early stage of foundation building saw the Heavenly Dao and talked so much with Him. Who would believe it if he told others about it!

His figure became more solid again, and Cheng Shuyan could already see his vague appearance.

It was a face very similar to that of the Goddess Xi Yun.

In fact, she herself looked similar to the goddess Xi Yun, but her demeanor and aura were far inferior to that of the goddess.

"I have no true form. Everything in the world is my true form. I am whatever you imagine me to be. So, tell me, who... is it that you see?"

"Goddess Xiyun." Cheng Shuyan answered honestly.

"Haha, it's worthy of my status."

He seemed quite satisfied with this answer, and Cheng Shuyan vaguely felt that he heard joy in his tone.

"I have appeared today because I have something to tell you. I have been trapped in the Heaven-Deceiving Realm for ten thousand years, and I don't know what the current world of immortal cultivation looks like.

But according to Xi Yun's calculations ten thousand years ago, the demons will come again in about three hundred years. By then, only a complete Qi Tian Realm can help the Thousand Spirit Realm survive the catastrophe.

And you are the heir chosen by Xi Yun ten thousand years ago. Before the war, she spent half of her immortal power to calculate what is happening now. In the countless years of time, she has only seen death for you.

There is only you... there is only you in the long river of time. She cannot see through you, cannot see your past, and cannot see your future.

All she can see is you in this long river of time, so she believes that if there is still a glimmer of hope for the Thousand Spirit Realm, it will only be you.

Therefore, you have three hundred years to find various spiritual objects and restore the Qitian Realm to its former glory."

He said these words in a calm tone, completely ignoring how difficult it was for Cheng Shuyan to understand.

What does "the Thousand Spirit World's only hope lies with her" mean?

She is just a small foundation-building cultivator. Even if her luck is against the sky and there is no bottleneck on the road of cultivation, after three hundred years, she has only reached the level of Yuanying at most. How can she bear the vitality of the entire Thousand Spirit World?

What does "she has died in countless times" mean?

Are there countless more of her in this world? Each of them died for various reasons? What about this one?

She also died, but came back to life. So is she still alive?

"Senior, you should know that the me I am now is actually dead. I only survived because I reached the Heaven-Deceiving Realm. So... am I still me? Or rather... is the me Goddess Xi Yun choosing the me of the past, or the me of the present?"

Cheng Shuyan felt that she was confused by Tiandao's words, and even began to doubt whether she was still alive.

From the moment she saw the consciousness of Goddess Xi Yun, she vaguely felt that she might be involved in an event that she could not bear.

Later, Chu Yi said that people like her were favored by heaven and it would be difficult for them to die, but she didn't agree at that time.

It was not until "Cheng Dani", who was clearly dead, suddenly appeared again when she met Xie Jingxiu that Cheng Shuyan began to fall into deep confusion.

And Tiandao's words today made her doubt even more whether she really existed.

Fortunately, this time, the Heavenly Dao gave her a direct answer: "You are you. I simply preserved your soul and memories, allowing you to reincarnate. Whether it is the you of your previous life or the you of today, there is no difference."

So, "Cheng Dani" is actually just like the consciousness of Goddess Xi Yun, just a trace of her consciousness?

But this consciousness was born to escape reality. When she was born, in order to escape the fact that she was "dead", she imagined this consciousness as a "newborn"?

"It seems you've figured it out. I've watched you muddle through thirteen years in the Heaven-Deceiving Realm. I almost thought Xi Yun had made a mistake, but I never expected you to wake up out of nowhere."

Tiandao saw her sudden look and understood what she was thinking. He pointed out her thoughts in one sentence and gave her a positive answer.

There has never been any such thing as "occupying someone else's body". After she died in her previous life, her soul and memories were reincarnated into Jian Qing's belly, and she became "Cheng Dani" in this life.

She has always been her.

However, she still couldn't understand what Tiandao said about the great catastrophe in the world of immortal cultivation, so she asked while Tiandao was willing to answer.

"But I don't understand. The demons are only living in a small corner of the Thousand Spirit Realm. Although their strength cannot be underestimated, other races are equally powerful. How could the demons destroy the Thousand Spirit Realm?"

“The demons you are talking about are just a group of demon cultivators who have cultivated demonic energy. In reality, they are no different from immortal cultivators. They all rely on this world to survive.

What I am talking about is the real demon clan, a kind of demon that is born in the invisible and spreads in the invisible!

You have been to the dragon's burial place, and you must have noticed that the evil spirit there is different from the evil spirit you know.

Ten thousand years ago, Xi Yun imprisoned the group of demons underground. The dragon gave up its own life and used its body as the center of the formation, which truly sealed the demons.

And now, the dragon's original power is almost exhausted. When that happens, the demons will reappear in the world!"

Cheng Shuyan knew that he was talking about the dragon elder who was buried in Longyuan.

and so……

The elder said at that time, "If it is for the survival of the people of the world, I should sacrifice my life."

He really did it.