The reason the Seal Master might not have found the Current World Divine Seal is surprisingly due to global warming, and the culprit causing global warming is actually me...

I don't even know where to start venting my frustration; the key point is that what the Master of Divine Seal, Tai Sui, says seems quite reasonable.

Of course, considering the strong bond between the Seal Master and the Current World Divine Seal, even if the Current World Divine Seal accidentally sank into the Arctic Ocean along with the ultra-ancient relic, it might still be regained by the Seal Master through a series of coincidences. Besides, the melting of the polar glaciers is a process; perhaps before the Current World Divine Seal sank into the sea, the Seal Master had already rushed to the ultra-ancient relic to recover it. These are uncertain things, so Tai Sui's side doesn't seem to be completely sure.

"Do you have any other questions?" Tai Sui looked at me, "Now I've been honest and open with you, you might still have many parts that are hard to believe about me, but you should understand me better than before. If you want to know more, as long as it can increase your trust in me, I will also do my best to answer you."

I thought very seriously for a moment and then asked, "Then please answer this question for me."

"Go ahead," Tai Sui said.

"In your current view, is the New World we're living in a fictional dream world created by the Seal Master?"

I asked this question both to know the nature of this world and to know the views of the Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui regarding this world.

And Tai Sui heard this question, paused for a long time, then slowly said, "…I don't think this world is entirely created by his thoughts."

"Based on what?" I asked.

"No matter what kind of power he has now, at least at the moment of making a wish, he was just a mortal like me," Tai Sui said, "Though I cannot fully understand his inner thoughts, nor know specifically what he was thinking when he made the wish, no matter how brilliant the world in his mind is, he cannot simply create a world with a complete history and culture, nor hand-design the life of every person."

I can roughly imagine the ideal world the Seal Master expected.

He probably hoped, like I did in the past, that the mundane and boring world he lived in had an unimaginable magical undercurrent beneath the surface.

Supernatural phenomena exist, monsters and demons exist, magic and superpowers exist... If there were "mysteriously charming professionals" who specialized in dealing with supernatural phenomena and monsters and demons, it would be great. Like in many magical battle comics, the peace of the surface world is maintained by mysterious organizations working behind the scenes.

One day, I accidentally encountered them, then naturally became a member of them, joined an incredible adventure, and another majestic world gradually unfolded before me...

What a childish imagination, like a heroic story a child who hasn't grown up would fantasize about, yet I can still understand the romance in it.

But my rational mind knows very well that such a world must have countless places that cannot withstand scrutiny. Thinking slightly about the details will inevitably reveal flaws and contradictions. Once too much attention is focused there, the fantasy surely cannot be sustained.

The Seal Master obviously never thought about so many detailed issues.

"As it turns out, there are too many real details in the New World we are in. Everyone living inside has a rich life of their own, this cannot be his fabricated object. If judged purely by proportion, his fantasy occupies a percentage so small it can be ignored," Tai Sui said. "This New World might be just one possibility of the Original World, the divergence point might perhaps be during the dawn period of the human race, or even earlier.

"And the divine seal is more like a rail-changing device that summoned a possibility missed tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago in the Original World, becoming the current main track."

"This claim seems hard to justify," I pointed out. "You're saying that this self-contradictory human history as it stands now is one of our world's naturally existing possibilities? That doesn't look like a future that would develop naturally, right?"

Tai Sui said, "Zhuang Cheng, since you already have the Power of Great Impermanence that can intervene in cause and fate, and you have witnessed the chaotic state that would appear during the Doomsday Era, then you should understand that the logic and reason supporting the operation of time and space are not things as indestructible as they seem.

"Entropy increase is the inevitable trend of the universe; chaos is the basic color of time and space. If we say this world is a precise machine, the fact that it has kept operating normally until today is instead a miracle. Just like how the blue planet we inhabit is just an extremely accidental bubble in the vast and cold universe.

"After becoming the Master of Divine Seal, I gained a perspective beyond human understanding and learned many things. Stones thrown suddenly don't fall to the ground, one plus one suddenly no longer equals two, time suddenly doesn't progress normally... These inexplicable things are quite common in the universe, and might even occur in the Original World, but in today's New World, they are becoming more frequent.

"It's like when one is dreaming, the first half of the dream is vivid, and suddenly inexplicable images appear from the middle. Some people liken the world we live in to a dream of the Great True Spirit, which is indeed an apt description. Ordinary people in the past regarded these absurd phenomena as unsolved mysteries of the world, while demon hunters mixed them with strange events. For us, those are the world's BUGs, but perhaps our very existence is more like a BUG of the world."

So, rather than saying that the current self-contradictory world is the creation of the Seal Master, it might be more accurate to say that the Original World was more like an artificially created artifact.

Considering the Original World is in a state modified by the ultramodern civilization, this statement has a peculiar convincing power.

Natural creations should inherently have various random traces; precise and harmonious things in nature are instead glaring. No matter how deftly nature crafts, no one would think a computer chip appearing in the savanna is randomly generated by nature. Some scientists believe that the world was created by God, perhaps because their observations and research make them feel traces of meticulous design and orderly arrangements.

However, Tai Sui's definition of the New World is ultimately just reasoning based on his own understanding. No. 7 might also have made different interpretations of me and Little Bowl in the past, unable to accept that their world might be a fictional artifact. Tai Sui may have just wanted me not to dwell too much on it, since he also admits to not fully understanding the Seal Master's wishes.

If that were the case, he is underestimating me. I am not that weak. Those matters are insignificant, no matter how they originate, this world now genuinely exists here, and I genuinely exist here. That is the most crucial fact.

"How do you plan to prevent Doomsday? Are you going to reboot human history to its original form, as Yama thinks... destroy 'the current world'?" I asked.

Tai Sui said solemnly, "There is no other way."

"With the power of the divine seal, even if maintaining the status quo while indefinitely delaying Doomsday, it should be achievable, right?" I asked.

"The divine seal indeed can postpone Doomsday, but not indefinitely," Tai Sui said, "Putting aside other matters, if human civilization is to enter the universe in the future, its internal conflicts will also expand as the territory expands.

"And while the divine seal is extremely powerful, even its fragments can bestow the Power of Great Impermanence upon a mortal. The complete divine seal can freely manipulate time and space, reconstruct planetary history... perhaps, even if human history's territory expanded to the entire Solar System, the divine seal could continue suppressing its internal conflicts. But then, what comes next?

"Taking a step back, even if human civilization forever retreats to the Earth for millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years... as history accumulates, the internal conflicts of human history will also grow more numerous. Can the divine seal truly perpetually suppress Doomsday indefinitely?"

What he said seems quite reasonable, but I doubt his motive.

Is he genuinely planning to wholeheartedly fight for the future human civilization sailing into the stars, or for humanity millions and tens of millions of years hence?

If he were like Gua Tianshi and Xuanming, those ancient Great Impermanences who lived for unknown ages, he might indeed possess such far-reaching vision and grand ambition. But before becoming the Master of Divine Seal, Tai Sui was just a mortal scientist who lived for decades; it's hard to imagine this being his true motive. Or perhaps, having the perspective of the Master of Divine Seal changes even the scale of scrutiny for human civilization?

I think it's more likely that he simply wants to reset the worldview back to the Original World's form.

His relatives, friends, or lovers, etc., exist in the Original World. Even though they exist in this New World, their memories are definitely different and no longer the people he originally knew. As someone with memories of the Original World, he feels no sense of belonging to this New World. Even if countless believers once worshiped him, he never calmly accepted it and perhaps could only feel loneliness and isolation in his heart.

Wanting to go home — perhaps that is Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui's true wish.

"For this, you need all the Divine Seal Fragments I possess..." I recited.

"Yes." Tai Sui nodded, "Are you willing to cooperate with me to save this fragmented world?"

"Why would you think that just being honest with me would make me cooperate with you?" I retorted, "Once the Original World returns, the current me will die, and the people I know will too... isn't that only the worst of drawbacks for me?"

"No, Zhuang Cheng, you won't die." Tai Sui said resolutely, "Neither will your friends."