Paragon of Sin

The chaos of the Four Extreme Continents hadn't reduced with time, but escalated as the Season of Regression neared its ends. At times, thousands in every region would die to others, plundered and reaped by greed and fear. The Season of Devils provoked untold levels of desperation and terror, especially to those residing in the Scorched Skies, Noxious Seas, and Zephyr Plains.

With the Desolate Lands now protected, the Desolate Devils would find their way to the other regions, in a similar way as the Frost Devils and Thunder Devils had, those devils that once plagued the Central Region. With less space, more devils, the mortality rate was expected to reach half of all those present in the three regions.

This estimate was terrifying to hear, yet there was no easy solution for those exiled and unable to enter the Desolate Lands or Central Region. They could only take over former strongholds left behind by the native humans and elven tribes in hopes of fending off this calamity.

While the conflict in these three regions revved up, the conflict within the Central Regions weren't any less intense. The fight for treasured lands and good environments were extremely bloody, with more deaths happening here than in the three regions combined. Every day, blood would rain!

The Elven Tribes and Human Clans decided to hold a summit, a discussion to decide things, hoping to end the violent conflicts and skirmishes occurring across the Central Region. While this summit was planned, a temporary truce was met with universal agreement.

A peaceful period was entered as the summit's date approached.

Since entering the Gateway Door, venturing into this grand world that seemed to come out of the declining Golden Age of the starfield, it's been two years and ten months. For such a large amount of time to have passed, those amongst the three thousand entrants who entered this trial, those who were still alive, all made terrifying advancements. When they left, re-entering the starfield's environment, they might be regarded as geniuses of the highest standard!

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"Everything's changed…"

In the Zephyr Plains, two female figures were traveling together. Ming Shufeng stood next to the cloaked woman, turning to her after she said those words. In truth, she felt the quivering sense of loss and uncertainty in her voice, and felt the exact same.

As a Heavenly Seer, an individual that receives glimpses of Heavenly Fate, the future intent of the Heavenly Daos, and consistently finding out her predictions had changed so drastically or been entirely inaccurate, she was unable to feel anything but lost.

"San Yongli, are you certain your book is reliable?" After staying with San Yongli for so long, she finally learned that she had obtained a book that could predict the future events of grand characters in the future, such as their fortuitous encounters, disastrous struggles, and outcome. Of course, she felt that San Yongli hadn't told her everything, but how else did she know about these details without cultivating Fate Energies?

San Yongli, this cloaked woman, lowered her head. She murmured something indistinguishable. After a while, she stomped her feet. Her actions caused the wind stored in the grass to surge out, slicing towards them. She waved her hand, dispelling the slicing wind with ease.

Ming Shufeng knew San Yongli was powerful, so she wasn't shocked by hee display.

"Wei Wuyin never became the Holy Son. He wasn't the one who should have taken over the Central Region, and they never entered such a disastrous war before. Everything changed, and I can't be certain of anything anymore," San Yongli said.

Ming Shufeng frowned, "Did someone else in your book do this?"

"...Yes. The True Elemental Emperor. He became a Holy Son, and fought the Holy Clans. He won, becoming the possessor of the three badges. After, he united the humans and the elven race violently rebelled." She explained this with a contemplative hand on her chin.

"Rebel? Why?" Ming Shufeng might be a Heavenly Seer, but the course of history had already changed from what San Yongli knew, so it wasn't possible to peer into those answers with her cultivation.

San Yongli shook her head, "It had to do with the True Elemental Emperor forming an irrefutable conflict with the elven tribes. I don't know the exact reason." Since nothing was going as expected, she was thoroughly lost. She had even left Lin Ming enough resources to keep the events consistent.

She was terrified that a single change would alter everything, but how could she not act with her foreknowledge? After all, she wanted to experience a better life in this second chance of hers. But then Wei Wuyin abruptly arrived without warning, a character that shouldn't be relevant at this current point in time.

San Yongli even suspected that he was like her, someone who came from the future, likely holding a similar book in his hands that detailed certain events of the future. How else did he change everything so drastically, acting completely different from what was written?

It was also possible that her actions prior to this, something very small, erupted into a tempest of unfathomable change. If that's the case, then her every action, no matter how small or careful, had the power to alter history drastically. The Book of Heaven's Path would soon become absolutely useless lest it changes, capable of adapting.

Just as she thought this, a minuscule golden flash of light flickered at her glabella. It was swift, unnoticeable. Her crimson eyes behind the shade of her hood brightened soon after.

"You okay?" Ming Shufeng asked after realizing that San Yongli was acting a little strange.

Suddenly, San Yongli spoke: "The True Elemental Emperor becomes the Holy Son tomorrow. But…" She frowned, peering into the second figure that had caught her eye. The Grand Monarch…

"What? Tomorrow?" Ming Shufeng was startled. Wasn't it supposed to happen a month from now? Why did her prediction suddenly change? Incredibly curious, she waited with expectations about this development.

"They are no longer male? A female? What…?" San Yongli was extremely confused after reading the changed contents in the Book of Heaven's Path that was within her Sea of Consciousness. According to it, the Grand Monarch was given the title the Grand Monarch Wu Baozhai, not Grand Monarch Long Chen. Furthermore, prior to this, it detailed Long Chen's advantages, struggles, and fortuitous encounters for the next decade.

Now?

There was no mention of Long Chen.

At all.

...what the hell happened?