"Where does it not hold?" I asked, puzzled.

Little Bowl seemed to be pondering which angle to start explaining from. Two seconds later, she seemed to have found a suitable entry point and said, "The most obvious contradiction lies in the planetary natural will. Brother Zhuang Cheng, do you remember how Gua Tianshi explained the origin of planetary natural will?"

"The planetary natural will is the accumulation of countless deceased souls that precipitates through the planet's life evolution history, forming a super soul at the Earth's core... What's the issue?" I asked.

Little Bowl said, "If there originally existed two worlds, that would mean there were originally two Earths, that is, two planetary natural wills—is that correct?"

I deliberated for a moment and quickly found at least two negative angles. However, from Little Bowl's tone, she seemed inclined to start analyzing from an affirmative stance. I wanted to hear her subsequent reasoning first, so I tentatively said, "Let's assume that's the case, then what?"

"Before the Seal Master made a wish, neither world was threatened by Doomsday, and the divine seal was not split into the present divine seal and the Doomsday divine seal," Little Bowl said. "The complete divine seal existed in one of the worlds, and we can thus distinguish the two worlds as 'the world with the divine seal' and 'the world without the divine seal.'"

"The post-mortem world was created by a super ancient civilization destroyed 66 million years ago using the power of the divine seal. Only the world with the divine seal has a post-mortem world, while the world without a divine seal does not have a post-mortem world.

"The creation of the post-mortem world caused the accumulation of souls by the planetary natural will to halt, preventing the birth of the prophesied end-of-all Decay God by Gua Tianshi... So what would the world without the post-mortem world become?"

I tried to deduce, "Without the post-mortem world, the planetary natural will would continue to develop until it becomes a complete form."

It might not fully develop even by the 21st century we live in. Although we don't know exactly when the super ancient civilization began constructing the post-mortem world, one must understand that the growth history of planetary natural will spans billions of years. Even if the post-mortem world was completed hundreds of millions of years ago, it only occupies a fraction of the planetary natural will's evolutionary history. It's not quite convincing to say that development must be completed within that time frame.

However, it's said that the post-mortem world, upon completion, not only paused the development of planetary natural will but also absorbed some of the souls precipitated underground. One thing is certain: the planetary natural will without the post-mortem world must be stronger than the planetary natural will as we know it—the Naraku Gospel of the post-mortem world.

Yes, the present planetary natural will must originate from the world with the post-mortem world. The post-mortem world is a product formed by the sedimentation of all deceased souls. Although we don't know what its original state was, today's post-mortem world can also be viewed as the manifestation of planetary natural will. The fact that "we can access the post-mortem world" itself suffices to determine the origin of the current planetary natural will.

Upon this realization, I noticed a contradiction—if that's the case, then where did the "planetary natural will unrestrained by the post-mortem world" go?

Could it be that since the two worlds were merged together, the two planetary natural wills were also fused? But we are well aware that, even if it is called planetary natural will, this super soul is essentially an ultimate monster using the planet as an incubator. Although it seems to have a stance similar to that of the world, it is not absolutely bound to it.

Could it be that for a reason like "a planet cannot have two planetary natural wills," it was covered by the current planetary natural will? That seems somewhat illogical. How could the stronger party be covered by the weaker one?

While administering close-attached treatment to my True Spirit, Little Bowl, she might be able to read my thoughts, and she continued as if echoing my inner words: "Unless there only existed one world, one planet, and one planetary natural will from the start—"

"No, there's a flaw in your reasoning," I said, pointing out the two negative angles I had thought of earlier, "perhaps there were two worlds originally, but only one of them possessed a planetary natural will."

In No. 7's account, there were originally two worlds, one of which had monsters and demon hunters, while the other was a familiar world of common knowledge.

Assuming the common knowledge world didn't have any supernatural powers, it might not have "souls" as a supernatural entity, let alone a planetary natural will birthed from souls of all living beings precipitating into the Earth's core.

Moreover, the worldview of the abnormal world might not have been a planetary one before the fusion. It could have been the sky-round-earth-square worldview, or maybe, like in Indian mythology, the world is carried on the back of a supermassive turtle... I know this imagination might be too whimsical, but since it hosts such powerful Impermanence, if it were the same place as Earth, it might not make sense.

And in such a world, the concept of planetary natural will might not necessarily exist.

"Let's tentatively proceed according to Brother Zhuang Cheng's perspective. These two negative angles have one common point—both assert that fundamentally, the two original worlds had vastly different underlying rule orders," Little Bowl said. "Such disparate entities would indeed have two completely different evolutionary histories from their emergence, wouldn't they?"

"I suppose so," I said.

"So why is it that, after the two merged, only human history became contradictory?" Little Bowl hit the crux with her question. "This planet on which we reside was born over 4 billion years ago, with the first known traces of life appearing over 3 billion years ago. The accumulation of planetary natural will also began at this time, while humans entered the historical stage just a scant million years ago. In fact, if one were to define humans strictly as Homo sapiens, then it's merely about 300,000 years of history...

"Why is it that the only conflicts occur within such a small and 'insignificant' segment of history? Does that mean history before this is irrelevant?

"Even within the last three hundred thousand years of history, it's not just humans who have been active. The history of cats, the history of dogs, the history of fish... Although they, like abnormal entities, do not record their past, their genetic makeup and instinctual consciousness get passed down as an alternative form of historical record."

In contrast, abnormal entities don't have genetic inheritance. Although they do evolve over time—such as through bizarre events captured in audiovisual media and spread via the internet in modern times—they are more like a reflection of human societal changes rather than accumulating their own history. Thus, No. 7 once argued that abnormal entities have no history and cannot have historical conflicts.

At this point, I think I fully understood Little Bowl's perspective.

The contradictions she pointed out can only be resolved by the notion that "there was only ever one world from the start."

"It was the divine seal that modified the original world into what it is now," Little Bowl continued. "Considering that the planet's natural will regards abnormal entities and demon hunters as erroneous factors, and intends to have Sister Mazao eradicate them, I believe that before the world was modified, its pure form had concepts like the divine seal and super-ancient civilizations but lacked demon hunters and abnormal entities."

"And because the divine seal stitched those conflicting concepts into our world, the Divine Seal Fragment has also been deemed by the planet's natural will as a subject for cleansing. Sister Mazao's扫帚 star power attracts the Divine Seal Fragment on a fate-level, likely for this reason."

"... compared to the idea of two originally existing worlds, this explanation is definitely simpler. From the perspective of 'entities should not be multiplied without necessity,' this explanation is also more convincing," I agreed.

More importantly, I felt like I had broken through the Knowledge Barrier—standing in the position of someone using the divine seal to make a wish, there is no reason to create a world that matches your wish by "merging another world." The divine seal itself is the ultimate alternative; why not use it directly to modify the world you're in to match your wish?

Then a new question arose in me: "But why didn't No. 7 come to the same conclusion, preferring to add extra complexity to that line of reasoning?"

I didn't think No. 7 was lying at that time, as any lie would be shattered before Little Bowl.

"She might have unconsciously mixed her own expectations into the truth," Little Bowl said. "Because admitting my reasoning is tantamount to admitting that the history of demon hunters and abnormal entities is merely a daydream of the Seal Master—only this phantasmal dream was turned into reality by the divine seal's power. Lady No. 7 might not want to accept this and thus seeks another convoluted solution."

"Dream..."

I could somewhat grasp No. 7's mindset. If all I've experienced is just someone's dream, that would be truly terrible. My adventures are no shallow thing.

Little Bowl looked at me.

"However, beyond this, I still want to say— I don't believe that these subsequent additions are purely the figments of the Seal Master's mind," she said.

"Why?" I wanted to rely on Little Bowl's wisdom once more.

But Little Bowl didn't offer another exquisite deduction. Instead, she said, "It's just my intuition... just a feeling."

"Just a feeling?" I asked.

"Yes. I'm sorry, Brother Zhuang Cheng, I also don't know how to analyze it," Little Bowl said. "If I had to say, the current situation is a basis of its own. Because 'demon hunters and abnormal entities' in essence exceeded the Seal Master's plans, bringing about an unexpected doomsday... that's probably it."

I repeatedly mulled over Little Bowl's words, and my mind gradually calmed down.

I trust Little Bowl.

Some time passed, and I felt my True Spirit was nearly restored. It's hard to imagine that not long ago, I was in such a half-dead state. Without Little Bowl, I truly wouldn't know what to do next.

At this time, in the distance, the "Outer World Wall" also underwent a new change.