Why tear up that letter?

The answer was simple.

She had already seen it.

In the countless meetings where she controlled destiny, the Empress had seen the contents of the letter, and Gu Shen, who had come to see her with it, countless times.

The Empress had said something after tearing up the letter back then.

["Thank you for delivering the letter, but this is the best end for it."]

Gu Shen had originally thought that the Empress tore up the letter because the old friend was gone, and reading the letter would only increase sadness.

Now he was also someone who had experienced "destiny divination."

"So... the first time I stepped into 'God's Domain,' my pendant didn't react at all..."

Gu Shen lowered his head, looking at the [Blessing of the Goddess of Fate], and murmured.

This pendant was originally a sub-item in the set of three.

"This pendant can divine good and bad fortune."

"The bracelet can provide 'disaster images' of the future."

Gu Shen raised his head, looking at the "silver light of the bracelet" that was scattered around the melting furnace, being dissolved by God's Domain...

Then what was the ability of the main item?

"It is the ability to completely and thoroughly observe the future."

The Empress seemed to have known that Gu Shen would say this.

She sat on the support of billions of ice and snow, at this moment truly like a god, every wisp of aura she emitted made people look up to her, wanting to prostrate themselves in worship.

"But... this is a future that can be 'shaken,' a 'false' future."

The Empress said softly, "Rather than saying that these three items are a gift of 'fate,' it's better to say that these three items... are an guidance from dreams to reality. We walk in the real world, and through dreams, we observe the ethereal possibilities. Whether to grasp them or let go depends on individual will."

If Meng Xiao hadn't chosen to enter the Doru River in the first place, or hadn't chased him down.

Then the scene he saw on the "bracelet" would not have appeared.

The bracelet itself was an object without emotion.

It would not predict the owner's emotions, nor would it guess what Meng Xiao would do... it was only responsible for providing a picture, a picture that "might appear." As for what this picture meant, the user needed to guess for themselves.

Gu Shen saw the arbiters coming to knock on the door.

And that disaster was successfully resolved by him!

If he saw this picture and wanted to run away in advance to "avoid" it, perhaps this scene would still play out... and at that time, the so-called "disaster" would be unavoidable.

……

……

So, the Empress already knew everything.

Everything here, including his own identity.

Looking at the eyes hidden behind the wind and snow, Gu Shen was silent for a long time.

Wind and snow swirled in God's Domain.

After a long time.

"Hoo..."

Gu Shen smiled.

"Okay, since you know everything... then it seems I have nothing to worry about."

What was the point of acting in this play?

Before he stepped into the Northern Continent, the Empress knew that he was the secret of the Underworld King.

Then, she also knew the truth about the battle in the cemetery, and the truth about the Wine God Seat being killed...

Great, Gu Shen felt a long-lost sense of ease in the melting furnace God's Domain.

If the Empress wanted to attack.

Then she would have done it long ago.

"I thought you would be like light... directly抹杀(mǒ shā, obliterate) the possibility of the 'Underworld King's Fire Seed' growing," Gu Shen said self-deprecatingly, "But now it seems that you don't care about my identity?"

"The Seven Gods... all originated from the division of the Gospel Box."

The Empress said softly, "Since everything in this world exists, there must be a reason for its existence. Erasing one will lead to a series of destructions, and besides... the so-called 'Fire Seed' is just an object without consciousness. The real good or bad depends on the user, doesn't it?"

Gu Shen was stunned.

Yes.

That was the principle... but it seemed that not many people truly understood this simple principle.

"So Di Jiu died."

The Empress continued, "He died in Qingzong Cemetery, and the Sky didn't say much, nor did it investigate further... The reason why Di Jiu was like this was because he lost the original intention he had when he first melted the Fire Seed. The Iron Law is above, and this is the punishment descended by fate."

Iron Law...

He had heard this word more than once.

Gu Shen couldn't help but ask, "What is the Iron Law?"

"The Iron Law... is the 'admonition' left by predecessors after the Gospel Box split into Fire Seeds. But in reality, the Iron Law is nothing."

The Empress said, "In the eyes of the Highest Seat, it is both an ethereal vow and a ridiculous warning. When you hold supreme power, you will understand this feeling. Not to mention those few unceremonious admonitions, even if the sky collapsed in front of you, you would feel that it is nothing."

"To put it in terms that you can currently understand... the Iron Law is like a kind of 'ominousness.'"

"Those who violate the admonition must bear the 'weight' of breaking the rules."

"But... for the God Seats, the weight they need to bear for breaking the rules once is as light as a feather."

The Empress said with some irony, "Moreover, those who abide by the Iron Law may not be able to die well."

Like, Gu Changzhi.

Gu Shen was thoughtful.

So that was what the "Iron Law" that the gods often spoke of was like... Although the Empress spoke lightly of breaking the rules, Gu Shen felt that this matter was not that simple.

Once one tasted the flavor of overstepping the boundaries, it was difficult to stop, and those weights as light as feathers, accumulated over time, could also crush a giant mountain.

"Your Majesty... I want to know, how much have you seen?"

Gu Shen asked sincerely.

"I haven't seen much."

The Empress smiled and said softly, "I just saw the 'possibilities' that happened in this阁楼(gé lóu, pavilion). In fact, many of the messages I received... came from you. For example, the stone tablet left by the Traveler, the long river left by the Underworld King, and the palace that carries the Fallen Arbiter, and that 'ancient text translator' of unknown origin."

"You came here and asked questions."

"I searched and tried to crack them."

Gu Shen was once again shocked by the power of the bracelet...

In fact, what he wanted to say when he came to the阁楼(gé lóu, pavilion) was these things.

And in the "future" seen by the bracelet, these questions had already been reviewed by the Empress.

Fortunately, this was not his enemy.

Otherwise, Gu Shen couldn't imagine what way he could use to defeat such an opponent.

Omniscient.

And... omnipotent.

"The 'past' recorded on that stone tablet did happen in reality. Humans underwent a 'great migration' before arriving in the Five Continents," the Empress said calmly, "Many people fell on the road of migration, and their bones are buried in the ash ruins of the [Old World], but unfortunately, this history was beautified by the 'Traveler' with spiritual rendering."

Gu Shen listened quietly and nodded slowly.

Yes.

He also had this feeling when he watched it... The Traveler had depicted the evolution of his race too greatly.

Anything that was too bright and immaculate often hid a greater darkness on the back.

"The Lin Clan of the Northern Continent were among the first survivors to arrive in the 'Five Continents'," the Empress said, "Long before Emperor Tieqiong planted his flag, the ancestors of the Northern Continent began to build giant walls for their homeland. As far as I know... these giant walls are not only to resist the 'storm'."

Gu Shen was surprised, "Not just to resist the storm, then what else?"

After he finished speaking, his heart skipped a beat.

Besides the storm, what else could there be?

"When a large group encounters disaster, the greatest crisis often does not come from the outside," the Empress said softly, "But from the inside... Since you saw the pictures on the Traveler's stone wall, then you must know to what extent human technology developed six hundred years ago. And what level has it regressed to now."

Six hundred years ago.

Humans could manufacture huge warships that could cross the [Old World].

And now... the large-scale source energy boats produced in the Northern Continent, although they could resist the storms outside the fortress, seemed very naive compared to the steel hulls of thousands of meters in size six hundred years ago.

"Some people don't want to leave."

The Empress said calmly, "They believe that the end is already doomed. No matter how hard humans struggle, they will fail. Rather than trying a large-scale 'migration' and facing the bombardment of source matter during the exile, it is better to cut off the warship's energy, hide in the hibernation pod, and wait for the storm to dissipate and the order to recover..."

Gu Shen was silent.

"You also saw the later ending. They basically all died. Order will not recover, it will only get worse and worse." The Empress said softly, "Because the warship's energy was cut off, many people were left in the [Old World]. Facing the source matter storm, no amount of sacrifice is meaningful. The storm will not stop because it devoured so many people... so abandoning their kind during the migration is of course a lie on the Traveler's stone wall."

"We cannot know the specific details of what happened six hundred years ago."

The Empress said calmly, "But we can know... that the Gospel Box was separated at that time."

"Part of it came to the Five Continents with the ancestors and was constantly divided and subdivided over the long years, eventually achieving the current 'Seven Gods'."

She paused slightly, looked at Gu Shen, and said, "You, and I... are both part of it."

"And the other part was forever lost in the [Old World]."

"Creatures that come into contact with the 'Gospel Box,' even non-living creatures, may produce the miracle of 'evolutionary leap'. The construction of the giant walls back then was because... we didn't know what would happen in the future."

The Empress said seriously, "Just like the 'Traveler,' the Five Continents now call him the 'Eighth God Seat'... But in reality, are there really only eight fragments of the Gospel Box?"

"Perhaps, in some deserted ruins of the Old World... there are still buried ninth and tenth pieces?"

The Empress looked directly at Gu Shen.

"The giant wall was built to resist the 'gods' in the dark distance... the unknown ones who control the other part of the Gospel Box."

"Six hundred years ago, or even in the more distant prehistoric migration history, they were also our kind."