[True God’s Envoy, since you have already taken over the shell of the Direct Vision Great Sage, you should have recognized his true identity as well…]

[He was sponsored by the Direct Vision School from a young age, and after lurking in the Multivision Association for many years, he slowly grew step by step into a sage, then step by step became Vice President of the Multivision Branch Association, providing a lot of intelligence and information to the Direct Vision School…]

[Strictly speaking, you are the one he is loyal to. You are his direct superior.]

[You possess the shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Branch Association Great Sage!]

[Looking at the familiar face of the sage before you, you gradually recall that he is indeed an undercover agent planted by the Direct Vision Association.]

[The Direct Vision Association is wealthy and powerful. They recruit a large number of impoverished students with scholar talent and provide them with financial support. The goal is that once the students graduate, they will join the Multivision Association and provide a series of intelligence information for the Direct Vision School.]

[There are quite a few undercover agents like the sage before you, but most of them never climb to such a high position…]

Lin Xun was stunned. “Good grief. The two schools clearly worship the same god and are supposed to be allied forces on the same side, yet somehow it feels like they are enemies, even playing infiltration wars like this?”

Based on the information he had obtained before, it was normal that the Multivision Association had planted spies in the Direct Vision Association and that the Direct Vision Association likewise had intelligence sources inside the Multivision School.

However, the rank of this particular agent was far too high. He had actually climbed all the way up to Vice President at sage level. If he rose any higher, would he not literally become an undercover big boss on the enemy’s side?

[The leading sage forces out a reluctant smile and says that given this identity, as long as you spare his life, he will definitely serve you well.]

[Seeing that this sage is so tactful, you order him to tell you the truth about the prophecy and why the Multivision Association set a trap to deal with you…]

[The leading sage’s answer is beyond your expectations…]

[Originally, you thought the reason the Multivision Association harbored ill will toward you was because the so-called Multivision Prophecy was entirely fabricated and that the real content of the prophecy was probably similar to the one from the Direct Vision side.]

[But the leading sage tells you that the publicly shared Multivision Prophecy is completely real and entirely the original words of the Multivision Great Prophet.]

[The following conclusions are his own most reasonable deductions based on the intelligence clues he currently possesses.]

[After all, he is only Vice President of a Branch Association. He knows quite a lot of inside information mainly because his identity is special and intelligence to him is a resource just like money…]

[The future scenes seen by the Multivision Great Prophet and the prophetic content he wrote have extremely clear directionality.]

[There are countless branches in the river of time. Every choice you make, every word you speak, and every difference in attitude you show when facing the same person can all change the course of the future.]

[If the Multivision Great Prophet’s prophecy is to be realized, then at every key node you must make the most correct choice… No, it would be more accurate to say the choice that most advances the direction of the prophecy.]

[The Multivision School does not need a Savior. What they need is a puppet who can, along a predetermined path, achieve the future ending the Great Prophet desires.]

[To put it in simple terms, what they need is a puppet who can awaken the true Lord and bring about the course of events in the prophecy.]

[The Multivision Great Prophet does not believe that you can accomplish the feat of saving the world by your own strength alone. He believes only under the control of the Multivision Association can you achieve the future he requires.]

[The scholars of the Multivision Association are devout in their faith and absolutely steadfast… Of course, the scholars of the Direct Vision Association are the same. The difference between the two lies in their differing philosophies.]

[The fundamental intent of the Multivision Association is to awaken the true Lord who has slept for ages. As long as they can control you, they can control the path of the future and awaken the true Lord at the time node they desire, thus fulfilling everything in the prophecy.]

[The Direct Vision School also wishes to awaken the true Lord. However, the future path they seek is different from that of the Multivision School, which has led to a massive rift between them.]

[…]

Lin Xun opened the Inventory and checked the original Prophecy Book of the Multivision Great Prophet that had just dropped from the Great Sage’s body.

The content in the Prophecy Book was word for word identical to the prophecy text he had learned in the Grand Auditorium, proving that the prophecy was not fabricated.

To verify the authenticity of the undercover sage’s information, he possessed the nearby Multivision Great Sage’s shell to obtain its memories.

While the memories were not as detailed as what the undercover sage had said, they still contained enough related fragments to prove that the information was not a lie.

There was one more new clue in the Great Sage’s memories: he had already informed the Multivision Headquarters in the Imperial Capital that after the True God’s Envoy was captured, he was to be handed over to Headquarters.

From this, it was clear that the undercover sage had not lied.

However, Lin Xun had a faint premonition that the truth was not so simple and that there might still be hidden clues that had yet to surface.

[Apostle, what is your next move?]

[1. Seize the mountain and rule as king. Now that you have gained control of the Multivision Great Sage’s shell and possess the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation Main Controller, you can unite the many lower-ranked scholars in the association to become an invincible existence beneath the gods.]

[2. Head to the Imperial Capital. After the Great Sage’s death, he dropped the Imperial Capital Pass and Imperial Capital Route Map. You can now travel to the Imperial Capital Saint Etienne to face the Great Prophets of both schools directly.]

[3. Head to the Abyss. You possess the Route Map of Ramsey Abyss Cave and can head to the underground abyss to investigate the secrets hidden beneath the demons’ sacrificial rituals.]

Lin Xun did a quick calculation of the timing. Over at the Direct Vision Branch Association, the Great Prophet from the Imperial Capital was on his way.

Now that the attempt to capture him here at the Multivision Association had failed, the Multivision side would surely send Prophet level scholars as well. Staying here any longer would be no different than seeking death.

As for going straight to the Imperial Capital… At this critical juncture, heading into the base camp of both schools was basically walking to his own execution.

“I’d better go to the Abyss to lie low for a while…”

On the surface, there were three options, but in reality, Lin Xun did not have a choice.

The first two were suicide routes. If he really followed them as written, he would definitely be captured by the two schools.

Only the third option was his sole path to survival.

This did not feel good, because he was unconsciously advancing along the lines of the two prophecies, like walking along a road the Great Prophets had already paved for him.

It looked as if he was choosing, but in fact, it was a contest between the two Great Prophets.

No matter what he chose, he would continue forward along a set course, and the final ending would either fulfill the Multivision Prophecy or the Direct Vision Prophecy.

The only thing he could do was lean toward one of the two prophecies when facing choices.

“Comparatively speaking, the Multivision Great Prophet’s prophecy seems to be a happy ending. If I had to choose between the two, I would definitely pick the Multivision Prophecy…”

“No, that way of thinking is definitely wrong!”

“If I could complete the world-saving feat just by following the predetermined path, wouldn’t that be like lying flat and getting the highest interpretation rating?”

“So if I want to save the world and get the highest rating, I absolutely cannot advance according to the prophecy’s script!”

Lin Xun fell into deep thought.