Chapter 1 "You're not right!"

For a moment, Su Zhou didn't even have time to tell Shao Qiming, who was looking at him with curiosity, the results of the Prajna Book's scan.

He suspiciously shook the Prajna Book with his spiritual power, as if testing whether the thing was working properly.

But obviously, the Prajna Book wasn't a TV or other appliance from an old cartoon that could be fixed by shaking or tapping it—moreover, it wasn't broken in the first place and was working perfectly.

So, after trying for a while, Su Zhou could only choose to give up. The huge warship Divine Tree shook its branches, making a sighing sound: "People's encounters are truly unpredictable. It's not just about individual effort, but also about the course of history..."

"According to the several hypothetical futures that Perfection showed me, if there were no me in this world, it would fall into a terrifying world of darkness and chaos. In such a world, it's only natural for Qiming or others to step into darkness."

"Don't blame them, it's all the world's fault."

As he spoke, Su Zhou's tone suddenly changed. He proudly shook the tree trunk: "But this, on the contrary, proves that I am the most important force in maintaining world peace."

"Thinking about it carefully, it's indeed worthy of me!"

Although he said that, he still felt that something was not quite right. Therefore, while Shao Qiming was confused, Su Zhou turned the Prajna Book again, aiming it at a figure in the distance, walking towards them.

It was Yan Sheng.

"Oh, it looks like he has something to ask me?"

Su Zhou could tell that Yan Sheng's soul fluctuations were quite solemn at this time, as if he had serious business.

But that didn't stop him from scanning the other party with the Prajna Book.

Yan Sheng was using a body modified from a lunar infrastructure robot this time. As a stream of spiritual data in essence, he didn't have a fixed material body.

Originally, if he wanted to communicate with Su Zhou, he could directly use spiritual power to transmit the message.

But this time, because the warship Divine Tree was still instinctively releasing Martial Virtue Divine Light, the high-intensity spiritual radiation shielded almost all remote divine sense communication. Therefore, he could only put on a robot body with radiation resistance to get close.

After all, the warship form was essentially evolved from Su Zhou's healing form. No matter how much he restrained his defensive spiritual light, the interference was still too serious for cultivators below the Overlord Earth Immortal realm.

By the way, the reason why Shao Qiming didn't have to care about these things was because he was also a Divine Tree body. His body had great resistance to the spiritual radiation generated by Su Zhou's transformation into the Divine Tree form.

The Prajna Book, aimed at Yan Sheng, was fluctuating with golden light patterns, constantly drawing wisps of golden mist from the surrounding space out of thin air. These mists would eventually gather on the pages and transform into words that Su Zhou could see.

[Name: Wu Chongwen]

[Age: 75 years old]

[Talent: Transcendental Saint]

[Race: Spiritual Information Life]

[Cultivation: Peak Commander Human Immortal]

[Historical Information: ...]

[Perfect Deduction: ...]

After scanning the words on the Prajna Book, Su Zhou was immediately stunned.

It wasn't because Yan Sheng's talent was surprisingly high-level—Transcendental Saint… More importantly, it was his historical information and related perfect deductions.

Wu Chongwen was born in 1944. At that time, modern computers had already gotten rid of their original clumsy shells and had been invented three years prior, being popularized and used by various countries.

And just when the first generation of small computers was invented, he was born.

Needless to say, as a member of the old-brand cultivation family Wu, Wu Chongwen's cultivation path was smooth sailing. His talent was excellent. If spiritual energy hadn't been cut off, he might have broken many cultivation speed records.

In addition, Wu Chongwen had an incredible keenness in divination and calculation. The teachers who taught him in this area repeatedly thought that he was born for the divination path—and the facts also proved this point. When Wu Chongwen traveled around the world, going to major universities to study electronics, he also epoch-makingly linked the computer system with yin and yang symbols, creating a new system of divination cultivation methods.

Such an achievement, if it were in an era where spiritual energy was abundant, would be enough to establish a sect and become a master.

Even in the era when spiritual energy was cut off, the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Sages at that time recognized his potential and sent him to the Preaching Tower to receive the inheritance of past immortals and gods, cultivating him as a reserve for the Holy Seat.

This sounded like a perfect and flawless life.

But even a genius like Wu Chongwen couldn't achieve perfection.

His life also had many regrets.

And among them, the most unpredictable thing he felt was a foreign student he met while studying at Zheng Guo Academy.

She was a beautiful and well-dressed woman from the Southern country. She was gentle and kind, and erudite. She was one of the few people who could chat with Wu Chongwen at that time, who was full of thoughts about cultivation and soul informationization.

Both were cultivators, and both were interested in the topics of electronic soulization and the electronicization of human thinking. After several passionate exchanges, the woman became Wu Chongwen's assistant, and in the next ten years, she assisted Wu Chongwen, who had not yet become Yan Sheng, in building the initial version of the 'Electronic Underworld.'

That was probably when Wu Chongwen was most proud of himself—he was a reserve for the Holy Seat, he had created a new cultivation method, the results of his research were recognized by major forces around the world, and he also had a confidante who could share his joys…

But soon, a sudden dispute caused the originally close two to break up.

"Wait, Wu Chongwen, don't you… don't you want to become the strongest in this world through this?! Are you serious?!"

"Darling, my purpose has never been to become the strongest in the world. I just… just want to allow everyone in this world to transcend the cycle of life and death and become beings that transcend this threat!"

"But I want you to become the strongest. That's why I've been helping you all along…"

Then, there was conflict, quarrel, anger, breakup, and finally, separation.

Because the desired future was different, they didn't share the same path, and they didn't work together.

After that, Wu Chongwen, who was busy with his work, never paid attention to the woman who was once close to him again.

In fact, at that time, he no longer paid attention to the real world outside the research institute.

And when he finished the first phase of testing and research, raised his head from the laboratory, and paid attention to the real world again, he was stunned to find that everything was different from the past.

Time passed, and the gentle Southern country woman in Yan Sheng's memory disappeared.

Replaced by the 'Operator,' one of the seven leaders of the Advent Society.

And during this period, he didn't know what happened to the Southern country woman.

Therefore, he felt extremely regretful and regretful.

Su Zhou stared at the many pieces of information on the Prajna Book, his eyes stunned as he scanned the rows of text.

"So, among the leaders of the Advent Society that I killed back then, there was actually Yan Sheng's former friend… No wonder Yan Sheng arrived at the first time and his emotions were a little off."

"And…"

Staring at the latter half of the Prajna Book, the part about perfect deduction, Su Zhou couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"There's a 15% chance that Yan Sheng will fall. He will choose to cooperate with the Heavenly God Advent Society, or rather, with the 'Operator,' to launch a large-scale riot on a global scale while building an electronic underworld on the ground, collecting the vengeful souls of many refugees, and becoming the Underworld King on earth."

"There's a 29% chance that Yan Sheng will go crazy. He will use his technology to create an unprecedented thought virus, infecting all of humanity at the beginning of the spiritual energy revival—in other words, hacking the brains of all of humanity, and he will be the master of the thought network that rules over hundreds of millions of beings."

"There's a 36% chance that Yan Sheng will rely on the power of the electronic underworld to purify the now-polluted Zheng Guo Underworld Realm, re-open the Netherworld, and re-establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation."

"There's a 20% chance that Yan Sheng will lose control in the battle with the Advent Society, causing the already-formed electronic underworld to go berserk, becoming a 'Wandering Star Wraith' sweeping across the entire Earth, and even the entire solar system."

To be honest, Yan Sheng Wu Chongwen's life was quite like the protagonist of a storybook novel.

Su Zhou was attracted by the other party's life with just a slight glance… But what made him pay more attention, and even be stunned, was the other party's dark future in the perfect deduction, which was even more exaggerated than Shao Qiming's.

"What's going on? How come everyone is a world-destroying maniac?"

"Qiming is at most a dark totalitarian society, but this Yan Sheng, this Yan Sheng… how can he casually create a thought virus that can affect billions of people, or even a Wandering Star Wraith that will affect life in the entire solar system?"

Although Su Zhou didn't have any expression in the warship Divine Tree state, his divine sense fluctuations were still frantically complaining: "Prajna Book? It's more like a Book of World Destruction!"

"Yala, does Perfection have a persecution complex? The world is so peaceful and beautiful now, but how come it feels like anyone can destroy the world in His deduction?"

Of course, Su Zhou knew that the Prajna Book's deduction was based on the premise that the target being deduced would succeed.

In reality, many people may not want to do evil, but just as they were about to start doing evil, they were beaten back and taught how to behave, so they had to obediently be a normal person.

Just like Jin Qiong and Tang Yuan—wasn't Jin Qiong evil enough back then? And Tang Yuan was even more likely to become the Spirit King, the Demon King-level figure who would cause the Spirit Machine Disaster.

What was the result? One obediently became a good student, and the other had completely become an excellent corporate slave secretary.

All thanks to Su Zhou's education.

But even so, the future of these two people, Shao Qiming and Yan Sheng, still made the youth feel quite strange: "It's too weird, this is too weird!"

"Actually, it's not weird at all, it can even be said to be normal."

In response, Yala, who was playing on a swing with a group of Evilwood tentacles in the soul space, shook her head slightly: "It is precisely because it is based on the foundation of 'success' that the evil thoughts in people's hearts are so terrifying."

"It is also precisely because of this that Perfection intends to deny the 'bad' half of all possibilities in the multiverse."

Saying so, the serpent spirit looked at the Prajna Book, her tone somewhat subtle: "The Prajna Book is indeed His creation, a part of His power. Perfection gave you this thing, perhaps to let you know how unpleasant the possibility of 'evil' is in the multiverse, so that you want to change it with Him."

"So, He was planning to use this to scare me. That's understandable…"

After hearing Yala's explanation, Su Zhou shook his branches thoughtfully. The huge Divine Tree stirred the spiritual energy on the back of the moon, turning it into waves like a tide.

Of course, he didn't think that Perfection was really trying to scare him with this, so he just sighed softly: "But there's no need. I will also change that kind of future."

"What's wrong, A'Zhou? What were the test results?"

In response, Shao Qiming, who didn't understand what was going on, shook his head in confusion.

"Um… pretty good!"

Naturally, Su Zhou couldn't directly answer, 'Good brother, in more than half of your possible futures, you're an extremely evil person, the most skilled at building dystopian societies, a Demon King-level figure who could destroy the world if you wanted to.’

So, the youth just laughed and told Shao Qiming, ‘Good brother, you have a great future. Whatever you want to do, you can succeed, even influencing all of humanity is easy!’

Saying these words couldn't be considered Su Zhou lying, only that he hadn't told the whole truth—influencing all of humanity, giant corporations, dystopian societies, that’s indeed influencing all of humanity, not much difference.

"Anyway, once my injuries heal, let's go back to Earth and take a look—Shuangyue recently returned from the Pioneer Space, and she has a lot of things she wants to tell you."

"Haha, okay, I also want to know how she's doing in the Pioneer Space, whether she's happy or not!"

In any case, Shao Qiming left the lunar back crater with a subtle feeling of being deceived, heading towards the teleportation array back to Earth.

And after Shao Qiming left, Su Zhou tested a few more times—he even pulled Sara out of his personal space and had the spirit of the Wisdom Tree possess Sara, appraising both of them once.

The results of this test were much more normal.

After all, Sara and the Wisdom Tree obviously didn't have the potential to destroy the world.

Especially Sara. Without Su Zhou's intervention, this little bee person was at most destined to be a queen of a remote sea tribe. Even then, the possibility was only 9%. Most of her so-called 'perfect life' was at most being a good gardener and a good fisherman, and the possibility of evil… was nothing more than being a small pirate.

She couldn't even be the captain of a pirate ship!

As for the Wisdom Tree…

Without Su Zhou, there was only a 1% chance that the Wisdom Tree would be born. For the Prajna Book's calculation method, this 1% could basically be equated with 'impossible.'

In other words, all the possibilities of the Wisdom Tree were based on Su Zhou's existence. Without Su Zhou, it wouldn't be born.

In short, after messing around for a long time, Su Zhou finally understood the true function of the Prajna Book in his hand.

The essential ability of this wonder gifted by Perfection was to read 'information from the past,' and then, based on this foundation, deduce 'future success.'

——The so-called perfection was to find out the flaws in the past and make up for them. Then find the future that is desired and achieve it.

Only after understanding and completely solving these two, can a person's life be considered perfect.

This standard was normal, and Su Zhou quite agreed with it.

"So that's how it is. The Prajna Book, the Prajna tattoos, are for recording all information."

After putting the Prajna Book back into his body, Su Zhou couldn't help but fall into deep thought: "Apart from things like the human heart, all objectively recorded history, as long as it hasn't been deliberately annihilated, will have traces—even if it falls into a black hole, there will still be traces of information remaining on the surface of the event horizon, and this is also the original meaning of the Prajna tattoos."

"And the Prajna Book can use some method to collect all the traces of information left in all things, and then use them to make deductions… I can't see how it works specifically yet, but that's normal. After all, it's the power of a Great Existence."

"However, with this book, I can rely on it to quickly understand the information of alien worlds when I go to other worlds in the future… The same goes for people. It's like a built-in encyclopedia, quite useful."

And just as Su Zhou was pondering the essence of the Prajna Book and how he should use it.

Yan Sheng, who had been watching Su Zhou's transformed warship Divine Tree swaying all the way, had arrived here.

[Su Zhou… are you, testing your range of motion?]

Yan Sheng, in the form of an infrastructure robot, stood under the Divine Tree, his divine sense flickering with a hint of doubt: [I sensed your divine sense scanning me just now—what's the matter?]

"No, nothing. Just reviewing history."

At this moment, Su Zhou had suppressed all kinds of scenes of Yan Sheng destroying the world or ruling the world in his mind, no longer thinking about them.

After all, those were just possible 'futures.' The Yan Sheng in front of him was a rather gentle old man with the air of an old scholar, who had always taken good care of him.

"On the contrary, Yan Sheng, do you have something to ask me?" he said.

Although he felt that Su Zhou seemed to be perfunctory, Yan Sheng obviously didn't care about such small matters. Su Zhou wasn't the kind of person who would hide important things. He had even told him the information that he was a favored one of the ancient Lord, which was enough to prove his reliability.

Therefore, at this moment, the Holy Seat nodded with a serious expression: [Indeed, there is something I need to discuss with you.]

[The information from the team exploring the Nine Profound Realm has confirmed that the space-time realm we call the Nine Profound Realm is the Xuan Demon Realm mentioned by Bai Yingxue and Jiu Ming—that is, the Xuan Demon Realm invaders who caused great damage to Earth in another possible world line in the information.]

[The civilization of the Nine Profound Realm was built by the descendants of the Heavenly Venerate. They almost went extinct during the era without spiritual energy and now live in the molten sea deep underground in the Nine Profound Realm. They are almost entirely militarized and have great hostility and aggressiveness towards the outside world. Now, the Nine Profound Realm exploration team is being hunted by them.]

"As expected?"

Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but frown slightly. Concerning another civilization, he also became serious. The youth said in a deep voice: "The demonic thoughts in people's hearts are just a matter of a moment, and civilizations are no exception… Moreover, now that you mention it, they should be tribes."

"Since they are descendants of the Heavenly Venerate, they probably have some town-guarding divine weapons in their hands, right?"

Saying so, the surface of the warship Divine Tree was glowing, and the totems of the Nine Dragons and Five Phoenixes began to transform and flicker, as if they were about to be activated and fly out.

Su Zhou's tone became serious and excited: "So, do you need me to take action? Although I am still recovering from my injuries, I will be able to fully recover in a while!"

His voice was eager to try—the first time taking action after advancing to the Heavenly Immortal realm, even if the enemy was not an evenly matched powerful foe, it still made the youth look forward to it.

[No.]

However, completely different from what Su Zhou thought, Yan Sheng's tone was solemn. He raised his head, looking up at the huge Divine Tree. The Holy Seat said calmly: [I came here this time to talk to you about this matter.]

[This time, regarding the Xuan Demon Realm, or rather, regarding the matter of the Nine Profound Realm… if possible, Professor Su Zhou.]

[Please, be sure not to take action.]