Chapter 1695 – A Game with the Three Pillar Gods!
A way to turn the tables?
Hearing these words, the faces of the crowd were bewildered.
”Queen Mother is right, there is no such thing as an inevitable result in the world, the Chang’an Rebellion, Jia Lan swallowing the Dan, and the blood washing of Yao Chi …… It’s all a cycle.
It is because I let Jia Lan eat the immortality dan that Jia Lan appeared in the later life, and it is because I have seen Jia Lan in the later life that I let Jia Lan eat the immortality dan after I returned here …… The Chang’an Rebellion is like this, and the Yaochi is like this as well!
All of this is a paradox of cause and effect, a circle with head and tail connected, and the one who personally created these paradoxes of cause and effect is me at some time in the future!
Because only by allowing cause and effect to articulate into a circle can I be completely hidden and free from the observation of the [Key of the Gate]!
Garland swallowing the Dan was not predestined, nor was the establishment of the Evil Suppression Division predestined …… The reason they seem unchangeable is because at some point in time, I used the power of karma to forcibly scrub these events into a circle, starting and ending because of me, as if I had hidden this history by myself by hiding my own karma.
As long as they are turned into paradoxical circles, then no matter how much the [Key of the Gate] changes history, it won’t have an effect on these events, and this is the [Established Fruit] that I planted!”
After figuring all of this out, the messy and disorganized cause and effect that ran through two thousand years of time suddenly became clear in Lin Qiye’s eyes!
On top of this messy cause and effect, there is a big invisible hand that is manipulating everything …… And this big hand is Lin Qiye himself, who is holding the [Unprovoked Cause] and [Established Fruit] at some point in the future!
And what he is doing all this against is the “eye” that hangs high above the river of time, one of the three pillars of Cthulhu, the [Key of the Gate].
In the future, he was using “cause and effect” to fight against “omniscience”!
”Why can’t I understand?” Yan Zhong looks blankly at Huo Zaiwei, “Marquis, did you understand?”
Huo Zaiwei shakes his head, “No ……”
”Humans have zero chance of winning the war with Cthulhu, this is the conclusion reached by [Key of the Gate] from observing all human history, but this conclusion, is limited to the history He has observed …… not the real history.” Lin Qiye turned his head to look at Chloe, who was on the side.
”If you want to win over ‘Omniscience’, you have to hide as much history as possible that is favorable to us, and the only one who can do that is me …… So, the future Chloe used the [First Holy Covenant] to send me back to this era, allowing me to begin this game of chess that runs through 2,000 years of human history.
From the moment I returned to this era and awakened the [Unwarranted Cause] and [Established Fruit], humanity’s chances of winning, will no longer be zero ……”
Lin Qiye took out a white disc from the chess basket on the side and replaced a black disc in the corner of the board.
At this moment, amidst the black discs on the full board, a white disc of hope finally appeared …… Even though it was insignificant compared to this entire chess game, it contained infinite possibilities.
”The first move of this reversal is your [First Holy Covenant], ‘Reversal of Karma and Reversal of Life in the Realm of Death’!”
Chloe looked at Lin Qiye blankly, although she didn’t understand Lin Qiye’s meaning, it seemed like …… she had done something really awesome and changed the fate of humanity?
”So, you came back to this era just to play chess with others?” Yan Zhong sort of understood a bit and walked over to Lin Qiye, “Then who is on the other side of the chessboard?”
Lin Qiye’s gaze, landed on the nothingness on the opposite side of the stone platform, and in a trance, he saw a door, a sheep, with a grinning black man.
He took a deep breath and slowly spoke, “Three Pillar God.”
Yan Zhong looked at the pitch-black board with only one white disc and couldn’t help but speak:
”Looking at it like this, the chances of winning are still very slim ah …… This first move you have already played, what next?”
”To flip the game, one piece is not enough, I need more pieces.”
Lin Qiye reached into the chess basket and grabbed it with force, and a handful of white pieces fell between his palms.
A thread of cause and effect extended from within his body, linking with these white discs, and the [Groundless Cause] and [Established Fruit] floated behind Lin Qiye, circling one circle of cause and effect after another amidst these chess pieces.
”These chess pieces, need to fulfill three conditions:
First, in the future after two thousand years, they exist.
Second, they possess the potential to engage the Cthulhu mythos head-on.
Third, there has to be karma between them and me in the past.
Only then will I be able to conceal their karmic threads in the future through space, allowing them to completely disappear from the observation of the [Key to the Gate]……. In this way, they will be like me, transcending the control of the Cthulhu Mythos, and playing a key move that belongs to them at some crucial point in time.”
”Hiding their karmic filaments in space? Can that be done?”
”As long as there is a karmic connection with me, and then through a certain medium, I can do it.”
”What medium?”
”The medium, isn’t it right here?”
Lin Qiye spread out his palm and a handful of white chess pieces clattered onto the table.
”Cause and effect as threads, white chess pieces as letters …… sounds a bit interesting.” Yan Zhong sighed helplessly, “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see the scene after two thousand years.”
”Why can’t you see it?” The corner of Lin Qiye’s mouth hooked up into a smile as he reached out and pointed to Hu Jia on the side, “Have you forgotten that we have the [Other Heart Tour]?”
”You mean …… spiritual immortality?!”
”Those who are in this temple should not only see it, but also participate in it …… The future of mankind will only be handed over to future generations, are you comfortable with that?” Lin Qiye took out a few pieces from the chess pieces on the table and spread them out in his palm.
His gaze swept over this broken temple where the wind and snow were howling…
Huo Zaiwei, Zhan Yuwu, Yan Zhong, Gongyang Wan, Wu Quan, Chloe, Hu Jia, Jia Lan …… They, the top group of people in this era, shouldn’t be drowned in the river of time just like this.
They, in Lin Qiye’s mind, were the initial class to fight against the Cthulhu Mythos.
Hearing these words, intentions appeared in the eyes of the crowd, the unwillingness and wariness engraved in their bones surging out one after another, their hearts burning a little when they thought that they might be participating in this chess game that concerned the fate of mankind and ran through two thousand years of history.
Huo Zaiwei was the first to stand up, his black and gold marquis uniform blown up by the wind that spilled out of the doorway, as he calmly walked over to Lin Qiye and took a white disc from his hand.
”Regardless of the people before or after, all of them are Yan Huang’s people, for the people of this world, this marquis is willing to fight.”