Uncle Orange's explanation can be said to have fed Liang Yi a tranquilizer, sweeping away the anxiety in his heart and visibly relaxing his entire being.
Other issues can be solved by other means, but it was this particular matter that Liang Yi truly could not make heads or tails of.
However, after having a heart-to-heart with Uncle Orange, the heavy stone in Liang Yi's heart finally dropped to the ground, and he no longer had to worry that his junior sister would get hurt by this matter in the future.
Regarding the memories of the past, the most vivid were those before he joined the Taoist Sect, those from his childhood.
After that, each time he advanced to a major Realm, he would recover some of his memories from after joining the Taoist Sect, more or less.
These memories emerged inexplicably from the depths of his Divine Soul, and the restored memories always appeared in scattered and fragmented states every time, like pieces of a broken jigsaw puzzle.
Liang Yi was quite unclear about the source of these memories, because they felt all too real.
When these memories emerged, it wasn't in the form of watching a movie where you see it once and it's over, rather, he felt as if he had truly experienced these events and was merely recalling them now.
Liang Yi wasn't sure if recalling these memories would lead to unpredictable changes, like a personality split or something.
Therefore, out of caution, he did not merge these memories into his Divine Soul, but instead sealed them all in a corner of his Divine Soul with Sword Intent.
But now, Liang Yi felt reassured.
He could just think of the Liang Yi from this world as one of his avatars. When the avatar returns to the original self, the memories the avatar experienced would naturally be integrated back into the Origin.
"Looking at it this way, these memories have probably mostly been restored..."
Liang Yi took a cursory glance at the memories he had sealed away and found that the fragments had been pieced together quite completely, with only a few scattered pieces still unrecovered.
"It looks like for the rest, I will have to wait until I reach the Ninth Realm."
Now that he knew the source of these memories, Liang Yi confidently lifted the seals and reintegrated them into his Divine Soul.
"By the way, didn't you mention that the Mystic Mechanism World is extremely distant from my own world? How were you able to find my world?"
While absorbing the memories, Liang Yi pondered this, tilting his head with some confusion to look at Uncle Orange.
Logically, when Uncle Orange and Heavenly Dao chose him, the Mystical Mechanism Continent should have been in an inextricable struggle with the Abyss, so how could he have the spare time to venture out?
Uncle Orange didn't seem surprised that Liang Yi would ask this question, shaking his head as if he had anticipated it:
"It wasn't me who found it, but it that found me..."
"Earth's Heavenly Dao found you!?"
Liang Yi was stunned, sizing up Uncle Orange.
He remembered that Senior Qinglian had mentioned that normally worlds are vastly distant from each other because when two worlds meet, either one world would retreat away or a worldly war would inevitably break out, resulting in one being devoured.
So was Earth's Heavenly Dao intending to devour Uncle Orange?
"It's not what you think. Earth's Heavenly Dao is a very unique existence, different from any other world's Heavenly Dao..."
Uncle Orange could guess what the young man was thinking just from Liang Yi's expression and directly raised a paw to wave his hand in denial.
"Right, if you had been devoured, you wouldn't be here now."
Liang Yi clapped his hands together, chuckling at the bizarre idea he had entertained.
Uncle Orange rolled his eyes; any way you looked at it, this kid seemed too pleased with the prospect of him being devoured.
"But what you said about Earth's Heavenly Dao actively seeking you out, and that Earth's Heavenly Dao is quite special, what's that all about?"
Liang Yi hastily pressed for an answer.
His intuition told him that this might pertain to the underlying reasons for all that had happened.
"..."
Contrary to Liang Yi's expectations, just as he asked this question, Uncle Orange fell into an eerie silence.
"You should know that normally, worlds wouldn't come into contact with each other, possibly even until their destruction, because contact would lead to many uncontrollable events."
"Yes, Senior Qinglian mentioned this to me."
Liang Yi nodded; this seemed to share some resemblance with the Law of the Jungle in the Void.
Every world wants to become stronger, and apart from accumulating strength over epoch after epoch, the fastest way to strengthen a world is to devour another world's World Origin.
The Abyss Will is currently following this path, growing stronger by devouring other worlds.
"In Earth, which you speak of, or as it is notoriously known in the Void, Heavenly Origin, the Heavenly Dao from there is extraordinarily powerful."
Uncle Orange slowly recounted the daunting will that seemed to view the Void as nothing, communicating with him from some unknown place, his heart pounding with some trepidation.
How strong that Heavenly Dao was, even he was not clear, but one point he was very sure of was that even if he defeated the Abyss Will and devoured it, he would not be a match for that will.
"Unlike normal worlds that strive to avoid contact with other worlds, Heavenly Origin's Heavenly Dao instead chooses to actively communicate with the Heavenly Dao of other worlds."
"Why?"
Liang Yi scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.
But his previous life's world seemed to be a technologically-oriented world, right? Could there truly be a Heavenly Dao in existence, and is that where the term "Mother Earth" comes from?