Hearing the Direct Vision Great Sage say that the arrival of the True God’s Envoy was the best opportunity to destroy the world and awaken Omniscient True Knowledge, Lin Xun could not help furrowing his brows.

Previously, the Servant of Knowledge had told him, [No one knows whether the awakening of Omniscient True Knowledge will mean a complete rebirth or the final destruction of this entire world.]

Yet the Direct Vision Great Prophet had prophesied that the True God’s Envoy could awaken the true Lord, and that after Omniscient True Knowledge woke, it would destroy the world…

“Is this Prophet’s prophecy based on its own judgment, or did it come from the Servant of Knowledge?”

If it was the former, Lin Xun would not take it too seriously.

He could control his own actions and choices and would only work toward salvation, and would certainly never let himself drift in the direction of world destruction.

But if it was the latter…

He did not know just how strong the Servant of Knowledge was, but from the fact that it could perfectly use the authorities left behind by the main god, it was clear that the Servant of Knowledge was unimaginably powerful.

In fact, this was exactly the case. With the Servant of Knowledge sitting in town, those starborn evil gods did not even dare show their heads.

It was like whack-a-mole. Any star god that dared to poke its head out would get hammered half dead and then dragged away to be used as a battery.

If the prophecy really came from the Servant of Knowledge, then it would definitely not speak without reason.

Did that mean that no matter how he chose and how hard he tried, the final outcome would still be to awaken Omniscient True Knowledge and destroy the world?

Lin Xun was full of doubts.

The Direct Vision Great Sage in front of him seemed to know quite a few secrets. He continued to play the role of a lunatic idiot, trying to obtain more information.

[…]

[The carriage slowly comes to a halt and the door opens on its own.]

[The Direct Vision Great Sage snaps out of his muttering, raises his staff and points it at you.]

[Countless tiny characters appear out of thin air and crowd around you, escorting you and him as you step down from the carriage together.]

[In the endless mist, many refined copper carriages stand outside the Direct Vision School Branch Association. Unlike the shabby Multivision Association you saw in Sophia City, the Direct Vision Branch Association is incredibly grand and imposing.]

[Through the thick fog you can faintly see a complex of tall buildings, each belonging to the Direct Vision Branch Association.]

[The many Scholars are not surprised at all to see you in such a dull, stupid state. No one able to endure the torture of the Time Prison has ever been born.]

[The Direct Vision Great Sage announces to the Scholars that the impact of this incident, in which a heretic impersonated the True God’s Envoy, is far too bad and must not be made public.]

[The relevant personnel in the workshop have already had their memories erased, but this matter likewise must not be discussed or spread within the association. Anyone who violates this will have their academic rank revoked and be expelled from the association.]

[The Scholars all respond in agreement and then disperse, each entering a different building in the mist.]

[Only the Direct Vision Great Sage and five other Sages remain.]

[One Sage steps out and asks, Lord, how should we deal with this ‘fake’ True God’s Envoy?]

[If you allow your subordinate to handle it, your subordinate will definitely erase all traces this man has left in the world.]

[The Direct Vision Great Sage shakes his head and says, no. The True God’s Envoy possesses a special ability to fake death and escape. Killing the envoy outright would actually help him get away.]

[He plans to personally imprison and guard this man. As long as the envoy is kept in the Branch Association, the next step of the Multivision Association’s plan can be stopped.]

[He orders the few Sages, who serve as Vice Presidents, to split up and erase the memories of the Scholars who knew about the incident just now, then report back to him.]

[The Sages obey and depart.]

[The Direct Vision Great Sage leads you deeper into the fog and into the tallest building in the complex.]

[You keep your vacant expression while letting the countless tiny characters crowd around you as you follow the Great Sage. As you go deeper into the Direct Vision Branch Association, you carefully note the distribution of the surrounding buildings.]

[You see that the Branch Association has standalone buildings like a library, an experiment building, a transplant building and so on. There is even a huge academy that also belongs to the Branch Association.]

[There is a tall wall between the academy and the Branch Association. Strangely, you cannot hear any noisy students on the other side of the wall. It is completely silent over there.]

[The Great Sage takes you into what seems to be an administrative office building, leading you by refined copper elevator straight to the top floor.]

[…]

[After entering the Great Sage’s spacious office, he locks you in the lounge on one side of the room.]

[He presses a few refined copper devices and several indestructible Knowledge Barriers rise up, sealing you in on all sides. Above and below you are also sealed, leaving not the slightest gap.]

[He even cautiously activates an alarm device and a life monitoring device. Even if you were to fall into madness in your stupor and attack and damage the barrier, or keep on self harming until you die, he would immediately sense it.]

[After doing all this, the Direct Vision Great Sage looks at you through the barrier with a hint of reluctance in his expression.]

[But he quickly returns to normal and softly says to the foolish you that he is very sorry. Even though he knows you are the true True God’s Envoy, he still has no choice but to do this.]

[Although he also very much hopes that the true Lord can awaken, if the price is the destruction of the entire world… sigh. What the Direct Vision School has been bitterly seeking is the Dual-Perfection Method that can both awaken the true Lord and preserve the world.]

[The Multivision Association, as fanatically loyal believers of the true Lord, are complete madmen.]

[They do not care whether the world will be destroyed when the true Lord wakes. As long as they can awaken the true Lord, they are willing to sacrifice everything, including their own lives.]

[The power of the Multivision School has steadily grown and now can stand on equal footing with the Direct Vision School. If those senior lunatics in the Multivision Association learn of your existence, then this world will truly be beyond saving.]

[Illusion is ultimately still illusion. No matter how beautiful it is, it is still false.]

[What we Scholars pursue is not just knowledge, but ‘reality’.]

[After speaking, the Direct Vision Great Sage leaves the lounge and shuts the door tightly.]

[You quietly prick up your ears and hear his footsteps leaving the office, growing more and more distant until they can no longer be heard.]

[Will you attempt to attack the Knowledge Barrier and escape your confinement?]

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.

The information contained in what the Direct Vision Great Sage had just said was enormous.

The Direct Vision School had always been searching for a way to awaken Omniscient True Knowledge while preventing the destruction of the world.

The Multivision School, on the other hand, had no such scruples. They were more like fanatical zealots. As long as they could awaken Omniscient True Knowledge, they did not care even if the world was destroyed.

It seemed that only high ranking figures in the two factions knew about the follow up part of the prophecy regarding the True God’s Envoy.

If Lin Xun wanted to obtain more rewards and gains, going to the Multivision Association and finding whoever called the shots there was probably the right decision.

“…It cannot be that simple. Why is the prophecy so certain that my arrival will awaken Omniscient True Knowledge and lead to an ending where the world is destroyed?”

Because he could not figure this out, Lin Xun worried that going to the Multivision Association might leave him even worse off than in the Direct Vision Association.

And this was not the only thing he could not understand. What exactly did the Direct Vision Great Sage mean at the end by ‘illusion’ and ‘reality’?

The option in front of him about attacking the barrier did not appear in blood red text, but it kept shaking non stop, irritating Lin Xun to no end.

He curled his lip and immediately pressed ‘No’.