NOVEL NEXT Chapter 756: Tai Sui's Epiphany
Even though I can't be sure if the ability to see through lies is useful against the Master of Divine Seal, Tai Sui, at least I didn't feel like he was lying.
Liu Shuying...
This answer wasn't unexpected to me. In fact, I felt there were no other options.
At the same time, if Liu Shuying is truly the Seal Master, it also answers a past question, which is why Liu Shuying initially wanted to cooperate with me to find and assassinate Shan Liangyi.
In the past, when assassinating Taoyuan Village Master Meng Zhang with Liu Shuying, a significant reason was that Meng Zhang was an important suspect related to Shan Liangyi at that time. Not only was there a deep-seated hatred between Shan Liangyi and me, but Liu Shuying also had a substantial motive for assassinating Shan Liangyi, which he simply didn't directly explain to me.
Re-examining this issue now, the answer is clear. Liu Shuying is very likely planning, much like the Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui, to use the divine seal to change the world again. However, contrary to Tai Sui, who seeks the divine seal with the motive of saving the world, Liu Shuying's direction is probably the opposite.
According to my past thinking, if I obtained the divine seal, what would I do? First of all, I certainly wouldn't stop the apocalypse, letting Doomsday descend. However, having obtained the divine seal, self-preservation during the apocalypse wouldn't be a problem. It's entirely possible to enjoy the apocalypse's devastation and then consider changing things, venturing to the next world.
It is not only the divine seal holders who can survive in the apocalypse. Those who have opened the third door like Impermanence probably can too—entities that even the Void cannot easily eradicate. It is hard to imagine any disaster that could unconditionally eliminate them. At the same time, such entities will affect the renewal of worldviews, making it necessary to eliminate them in advance.
Shan Liangyi, after the world's destruction, may not reincarnate to another world; he might choose to continue reincarnating to the past timeline. At least until he avenges himself against Old Fist God, he certainly won't choose to say a true farewell to this world.
When Liu Shuying proposed cooperation with me, Shan Liangyi's progress in collecting power seeds was not enough to reopen the third door, making it the best opportunity to eradicate him.
However, if we're talking about timing, obtaining the complete divine seal should be the best time, right? Even Shan Liangyi would undoubtedly be powerless against the power of the divine seal... Or does Liu Shuying think that a fully restored Shan Liangyi, using the full force of his "Reincarnation", might not be constrained even by the divine seal's power and could reincarnate directly into the "next world", thus affecting the completion of his worldview?
The past Xuanming seemed to have analyzed the lurking Seal Master after cooperation and exchanges with the Evangelical Institute, so Evangelist Master Yan Mo likely also has the same clues. As Yan Mo's collaborator, Shan Liangyi would most likely be wary of the lurking Seal Master and the Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui. Although it's unclear if Shan Liangyi also covets the divine seal, even if not, he would certainly hinder its collection and restoration by anyone other than himself.
Therefore, from this perspective, Seal Master Liu Shuying also needs to eliminate Shan Liangyi while he's still weak.
"The reason you possess the innate manifestation talent also has at least half to do with Liu Shuying," said the Master of Divine Seal, Tai Sui.
"My talent?" I didn't expect the topic to shift here suddenly, "What do you mean?"
"I've told you before, haven't I? After coming to this New World and becoming the Impermanence Tai Sui, though I had the power and identity of Impermanence, I couldn't smoothly use my Mana," said Tai Sui.
"You did say that. According to you, it's because your spiritual essence conflicts with this New World," I said.
Tai Sui nodded and continued, "Now you should be able to feel the spirit pervading this Void Realm, which is my own. The divine seal can materialize the inner world of its user. This domain that denies Mana and aberrations is the manifestation of my internal worldview.
"Naturally, my soul is something incompatible with the New World. It's like a land animal being thrown into the sea or a water-dwelling animal being thrown onto land, unable to move as freely as in the original world. Even if I were given vast Mana, I could never utilize it as adeptly as you do. By demon hunter standards, I must be the most talentless human in this world.
"But conversely, any person who is the opposite of someone like me is bound to have excellent compatibility with the New World, possessing extraordinary magic talent. Considering that the current world came into being under Liu Shuying's wishes, the more similar one's spiritual essence is to Liu Shuying, the more outstanding their magic talent will be."
"Then, my talent could it be..." I understood the answer.
"'Similarity' is powerful," Tai Sui said, "Your past spiritual essence was too similar to Liu Shuying's. While the impulse to pursue adventure is not unique to you and Liu Shuying, those crazy enough not to care even if the world ends are extremely rare.
"And even in that group, the similarity between you was particularly high. Maybe when I previously described Liu Shuying, you felt some emotions in your heart. 'I had similar thoughts...' something like that."