The Dragon God fell into deep thought.
A person who didn't exist in history.
Who was that?
Prompted by Su Ming, the Dragon God only now realized that after the previous historical tampering, history had become blurry. The history of Tang San becoming a god ten thousand years ago had become blurry.
However, no new history had appeared.
Su Ming looked at the Dragon God. His thoughts were similar to the Dragon God's; based on what he knew, he could guess how the Dragon God was currently reasoning.
After all, he had changed history himself, so he was naturally also monitoring it. He knew many of the doubts from his previous tampering.
For example, in the false history, he had clearly killed Tang San, clearly united with the God of Destruction and other deities to seal the Asura God, and then the false history had overlapped with real history.
After such tampering with history, examining history from Douluo 2 indeed showed differences, but still lacked information about the Douluo 1 Su Ming, Tang San's death, and the Abyssal channel.
Su Ming was also puzzled.
Fortunately, with the Dragon God here, he could try to subtly inquire and see if he could get an answer.
At the same time, this was also a test for the Dragon God, a way to indirectly gauge his level.
"I can confirm that seven thousand five hundred years ago, Di Tian knew of the existence of that person who doesn't exist in history. But I can also confirm that the current Di Tian doesn't know of this person's existence, has no impression of him at all. He only knows that seven thousand five hundred years ago, I and Electrolux came to him to help nurture the Auspicious Beast for the Spirit Beast lineage of the Star Dou Great Forest."
Hā jī lóng, without your Trinity, what level of understanding can you have of time?
Su Ming stared at the Dragon God, waiting for his analysis.
The Dragon God glanced at Su Ming, noticing that he indeed appeared puzzled and waiting for his analysis.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "That person probably tampered with history multiple consecutive times."
The Dragon God organized his words and explained succinctly to Su Ming: "Ten thousand years ago, he tampered with history. Then, after you tampered with history this time, he tampered with history again."
Su Ming revealed a look of shock.
In reality, he was secretly rating the Dragon God as 'failing'.
"I only sensed two fluctuations. Based on my understanding, he should have tampered history at both nodes. Only when the previous history became chaotic did he complete the closed loop, thereby completing both tamperings at once."
"During this period, history was modified. So, the intermediate point you entered was the other party's modified history. Returning to the present, you are in the normal history that the other party has concealed."
Su Ming raised an eyebrow.
He noticed that the Dragon God's analysis was approaching the essence of his own false history.
He secretly upgraded his rating of the Dragon God to 'excellent'.
Although the process was wrong, the conclusion was correct.
At the same time, Su Ming also understood why he had changed history yet left so few traces.
"Only the changes at the two nodes continued. The rest – the changes at other nodes in the false history, and even the changes at those two nodes that only existed based on the false history – were illusory. The River of Time did not accept them," Su Ming thought to himself.
His question was answered.
However, Su Ming's brow furrowed deeply.
Because the moment his own question was answered, he was also trapped by the Dragon God's question.
Yes, who had nurtured the Fierce Beast?
Su Ming had previously thought this wasn't a big deal, because in the false history, Su Ming had nurtured more than one Fierce Beast Spirit Soul.
But he now understood that those changes hadn't been recognized by the River of Time. Therefore, those Fierce Beast Spirit Souls weren't recognized either.
After all, Little Gold had indeed become a Fierce Beast – at the node of the first historical tampering, he had become one. But the process of Little Gold's existence and growth involved even more false history and wasn't recognized by the river.
Therefore, the new Fierce Beast the Dragon God was referring to wasn't Little Gold or the others.
Both the Dragon God and Su Ming were now puzzled.
Who was it?
"Could it be related to Tianmeng?" Su Ming said.
"Tianmeng?"
The Dragon God's gaze flickered.
"Why do you say that?"
"Tianmeng is not affected by tribulation effects. Is there a possibility that because I nurtured the Auspicious Beast, the tribulation Tianmeng previously owed descended?"
Su Ming explained the process of using Tianmeng's life vitality and luck to nurture the Auspicious Beast.
Hearing this, the Dragon God did not agree.
"Tianmeng's situation is special. He actually does have a tribulation."
Su Ming looked at the Dragon God in surprise.
What did he mean?
"I told you, tribulations are conserved. And Spirit Beasts are not allowed to become gods. Experiencing a tribulation every hundred thousand years – that's the rule."
"Tianmeng cannot escape the tribulation either. No matter how weak he is, that's not a reason for the tribulation not to strike him."
"There's only one explanation for Tianmeng coasting to a million years: his tribulation was transferred."
Su Ming was greatly shocked: "Transfer?"
"As long as they are deities, they can use their divine seats to shield tribulations for Spirit Beasts," the Dragon God said flatly.
He had revealed another key piece of information.
With this information, Su Ming gradually understood the issue of Tianmeng's tribulation.
It wasn't that Tianmeng was close to being an Auspicious Beast, but that Tianmeng had been sheltered by a deity.
"Ice God?" Su Ming said.
"Most likely," the Dragon God said. "So, Tianmeng's tribulation was shielded. Those tribulations were either borne by the God Realm or transferred to other Spirit Beasts."
"The God Realm?"
"The God Realm is a shelter..."
The Dragon God realized that Su Ming's breadth of knowledge was indeed limited.
He didn't even know the essence of the God Realm.
He didn't know how Su Ming had such an understanding of time and had completed transcendence.
Why should he?
The Dragon God was puzzled.
Su Ming understood.
Tang San had sheltered a group of Spirit Beasts to ascend. Hadn't he taken their tribulations along with them?
The God Realm was a shelter, so tribulations wouldn't come knocking, because the Universe's Will couldn't lock onto it.
But asylum also had its limits.
When enough attention accumulated, the Universe's Will would come for the God Realm.
Therefore, the turbulence of time and space appeared...
Su Ming combed the plot points he knew, digesting the secrets he had obtained from the Dragon God.
"Tianmeng's tribulation was probably passively obtained," the Dragon God continued analyzing. "Plus, the Ice God fell. The transfer of Tianmeng's tribulation wouldn't be too complicated. So, it was most likely grafted onto other Spirit Beasts."
Grafted onto other Spirit Beasts?
Who was so unlucky?
Su Ming offered silent condolences.
"What about the Auspicious Beast? Is it possible that, because I was unaware of Tianmeng's situation and mistakenly treated him as a half-Auspicious Beast, the process of nurturing the Auspicious Beast went wrong, causing it not to jump out of the tribulation's restrictions?"
"Auspicious Beasts are favored by fate. They are themselves transcendent," the Dragon God said. "Auspicious Beasts are not bound by tribulation – that's the true mechanism."
Su Ming fell silent.
In that case, who was the Fierce Beast?
Su Ming and the Dragon God looked at each other.
Besides them, Electrolux had been digesting the information from their exchange.
Now, seeing both fall silent, he hesitantly offered his opinion.
"Is there a possibility that this is just history itself becoming chaotic?"
Su Ming and the Dragon God both looked at him.
"Su Ming's tampering this time is very clear. The past history and the present changes have all become very smooth."
"But the tampering from ten thousand years ago is not only obscure, it has also made the original history elusive."
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