Published: March 2, 2025
"Hu... hu..."
It was as if a drowning person had received oxygen. Tang Haofei knelt on the scorching rock, gasping for breath.
His mind recalled the scenes he had just witnessed, and Tang Haofei suddenly raised his head. His originally clear eyes were now bloodshot.
"You’re lying to me, right? That was fake, wasn’t it? Wasn’t it?"
In response to his questioning, there was only a soft sigh.
The white light floating on the ground quickly coalesced, and in no time, it formed a mottled humanoid light shadow.
The light shadow took two steps forward and gently stroked Tang Haofei's hair, a stream of warm origin power surged into his body from the top of his head, calming his turbulent heart in a short while.
"I did not deceive you... I can vaguely perceive future fragments occurring on me, so the first time you saw the extermination imagery of the Sea King clan was real. This time's apocalyptic imagery is also real. Wen Yu is not your brother or friend; he is no longer my child. He is the culprit behind it all, the one who brings about the end."
Tang Haofei was utterly speechless.
...
After about three minutes, Tang Haofei finally calmed down. The earth's will stood beside him, its body made of mingled light radiating a mesmerizing glow, and its neutral voice rang out again.
"When I generated the first segment of the Sea King's extermination imagery, I did not consider Wen Yu to be a troublemaker. The conflict between Wen Yu and the Sea King clan may have been Wen Yu's fault, or it may have been the Sea King clan's fault. Who can know? I initially showed you this to remind you to be cautious of Wen Yu or the Sea King clan."
"But five years ago, everything changed..."
"Five years ago?"
Tang Haofei raised his head to look at the earth's will, his brows slowly furrowing.
"That's right, five years ago, I received some news from others..."
The earth's will pondered for a moment before changing the subject.
"Do you know the reason for your rebirth?"
Faced with the abrupt change in topic, Tang Haofei was confused. However, the news received five years ago, in theory, was still more important concerning his rebirth, so he was happy to continue listening.
He shook his head and then uncertainly said, "Is it the sovereign?"
"It was me and the sovereign... You understand the situation from the last life. As I was approaching the end of my life, the sovereign and I discussed using origin power to reverse time. In this process, we only sent back one reborn person... and that is you!"
Tang Haofei wasn’t so dull that he couldn’t understand; he instantly grasped the key point in this statement.
"So... Wen Yu's rebirth wasn’t done by you..."
Tang Haofei sighed, feeling emotional. He had thought his and Wen Yu's rebirth were the same in nature, but from this statement, he quickly realized why the celestial god had said, "You two are not on the same path at all..."
Essentially, the roots of their rebirth were worlds apart, and the purposes of their rebirth were naturally also diametrically opposed. Coupled with the illusion he had just seen, the answer became clear...
His rebirth stemmed from the earth's will and the sovereign, while Wen Yu undoubtedly belonged to the demon lord. The factions that helped the two reborn persons were oppositional, so it was truly strange that these two reborn individuals had not clashed yet.
The earth's will continued, "I had never dealt with rebirth before. Perhaps at a certain moment, when someone stands at a crossroads, pondering whether to go left or right, fate can undergo tremendous changes. I initially thought Wen Yu was like this; perhaps a different thought at the beginning caused two entirely different fates. In other words, I originally only thought Wen Yu's appearance was due to the butterfly effect brought by your rebirth. However, five years ago, someone gifted me some items, and that was when I realized Wen Yu was also a reborn person."
"Who? Who gave you this news five years ago?"
The earth's will's words did not hit Tang Haofei's sweet spot. At that moment, Tang Haofei was more eager to explore the reason that brought about changes in the earth's will.