Qiluo Tulip gradually sensed something from that lingering feeling of familiarity. He repeated the name "Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb" in his heart, finding it more and more profound the more he recited it.
Just like him, the name contained the two characters "Qiluo."
Although the forms of their Immortal Herb bodies were completely different, he had a vague intuition that their functions and talents as Immortal Herbs were identical.
After a long silence, he finally spoke with a complex expression: "My true form is Qiluo Tulip."
Upon hearing this, the large pink flower, Youyou, shook her petals in surprise, her voice filled with undisguised delight: "Qiluo Tulip? Our names are very similar!"
She seemed very excited by this discovery, her petals opening and closing, causing the entire flower to tremble slightly.
However, Qiluo Tulip did not respond to her; he simply hovered silently in mid-air, a complex look swirling in his eyes.
A moment later, he transmitted his voice within Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea: "Yuhao, I feel that she should be me; the resonance of the Heart of Qiluo cannot be wrong."
"But she is completely different from me. This feeling is too strange."
Huo Yuhao was also confused, unable to figure out what was going on despite thinking about it for a long time.
Just as he was utterly baffled, the aged voice of Electrolux suddenly echoed from the depths of the Spiritual Sea.
"Actually, there is nothing to be confused about. The reason you are perplexed is simply because you have always been thinking from the dimension of a single World."
"Look at it from another angle, and the answer is actually very simple: it is merely two parallel Worlds."
As soon as these words were spoken, they instantly captured the attention of Huo Yuhao and all the Spirit Souls in the Spiritual Sea.
Huo Yuhao quickly asked: "Teacher, what do you mean by parallel Worlds?"
Electrolux chuckled: "I have told you before that there are countless planes in this World."
"The Holy Demon Continent where I once resided, and this current Douluo Continent, are both planes that truly exist in the vast Universe. This is a concept related to space."
He paused, then continued: "However, compared to space, time is even more mysterious."
"Space can be torn, folded, and pierced through by the brute force of the powerful, but time is different."
"Time is a river that flows in one direction; it cannot be reversed, halted, or replicated—at least, not within the system of Laws that I know."
"The fact that you can travel through Ten Thousand Years of time, moving between two completely different eras, is something that even the supreme existences of the Divine Realm would find difficult to achieve."
Speaking of this, Electrolux's gaze fell upon Huo Yuhao, his tone becoming more solemn: "Actually, over these years, you should have already sensed some clues to some extent."
"In this World of Ten Thousand Years ago, you have already successfully changed your original destiny."
"But when you returned to the World Ten Thousand Years later, the legends recorded in history books about Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao never changed because of anything you did here."
"Those legends still exist along their original trajectories, as if all the efforts you made Ten Thousand Years ago left no trace on the timeline Ten Thousand Years later."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao's pupils constricted slightly. He had indeed noticed this, but had not thought much about it before.
Seeing that he had gained some understanding, Electrolux stopped keeping him in suspense and stated directly: "This is enough to prove that the two Douluo Continents of Ten Thousand Years ago and Ten Thousand Years later are not the past and future on the same timeline, but two independent, parallel Worlds running separately."
"What you have been traversing is never time itself, but the barrier between two parallel World lines that even the gods cannot cross."
"Every time you disappear from the World Ten Thousand Years later, it is not a return to the past of your own World, but an entry into another parallel spacetime that is highly similar yet not entirely the same."
"These two Worlds share roughly the same historical context and character destinies, but they have their own paths in countless tiny details, much like two branches splitting from the same trunk—seemingly from the same root and origin, but actually growing separately and not affecting each other."
After this simple and clear explanation by Electrolux, Huo Yuhao finally understood what a parallel World was.
Finally, Electrolux brought the topic back to the present, his tone remaining as light and breezy as ever: "Since they are two parallel Worlds, it is only natural that there are differences."
He looked at Qiluo Tulip and said: "There is nothing to be confused about. In the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well of this World, what grows by the lake is the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb."
"And in the World you came from, it is you, Qiluo Tulip, who is rooted in that same position."
"You might be considered 'different bodies in different positions' of parallel Worlds, much like a seed taking root and sprouting in two different Worlds, growing into two flowers that are similar but not the same."
After Electrolux finished explaining his theory of parallel spacetimes, Huo Yuhao was silent for a moment, then readily accepted this explanation.
Although this explanation overturned his long-held understanding of spacetime travel, it was the only answer that could perfectly connect all the contradictions and confusion.
Qiluo Tulip, who had been full of confusion and bewilderment just a moment ago, finally returned to normal.
However, when he recalled Youyou's crisp, pleasant, and innocent female voice, he still felt a little awkward in his heart.
Watching the purple figure that shared such a similar aura to her own suddenly disappear, Youyou became anxious.
She shook her petals, the pink fragrance dispersing and swirling in the air. Her crisp female voice carried undisguised regret and urgency: "Hey, why did you leave?"
She looked at Huo Yuhao and added: "I have stayed here for so many years, and I have never met an Immortal Herb so similar to me. Make her come out and talk to me a bit more!"
Qiluo Tulip did not come out again. Since he did not exist in this World, his sense of belonging to this "home" faded away instantly.
Huo Yuhao looked at this Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb, which was emitting a dreamy pink halo, and stated his purpose directly: "I have come for the Immortal Herb."
Upon hearing this, Youyou turned her attention back to the human youth before her. She gently shook her petals and said: "Since you were able to pass through the poison array and enter this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well unharmed, you can be considered a fated person. According to the rules, as long as you pass the test, you can take away one Immortal Herb."
"One?"
Huo Yuhao frowned slightly. In his plan, he intended to take at least several Immortal Herbs during this visit to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Moreover, he remembered very clearly that although the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Ten Thousand Years later was controlled by the Tang Sect, and the Tang Sect had stipulated that only a certain number of Immortal Herbs could be taken within a certain period to prevent exhausting the resource, he had never heard of any need to pass any test.
Why were there so many restrictions Ten Thousand Years ago?
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A/N:
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