This time, however, Rei did not waste the simulation.

Instead, he used it to continue investigating the events of the entire day ahead.

And just as expected...

The Xisa team, who should originally have been trapped within the monument forest, had already disappeared.

No one knew where they had been guided away to.

The thing that irritated Rei the most was...

His Future Simulation was gradually becoming known.

Both Yakatikto and Yog were now aware that he possessed the ability to simulate the future.

SWOOSH—

His pupils expanded once more as the Future Simulation ended.

Before him still stood the bird-headed man with his back turned.

The bird-headed figure slowly turned around and faced Rei.

"Please follow me."

This time, his words were completely different from what he had said in the simulation.

Rei glanced back at the two women behind him.

Both Shumi and Elosha looked utterly confused.

Rei couldn’t help but sigh.

"We’ve run into a situation that needs investigating. Come with me."

"A situation that needs investigating?"

"What situation? Aren’t we supposed to be searching for Xisa and the others right now?"

Rei replied, "This is related to finding them."

He had no intention of sending these two back alone anyway. No matter what, they were still Level 8 class-holders.

If danger really appeared, they would at least count as combat strength.

Rei raised his hand and tore open space.

A phase corridor instantly appeared before him.

With one step, he crossed through it—

And arrived directly in front of the bird-headed man.

Following behind Rei were Shumi and Elosha.

"A monster!"

Shumi’s fur practically stood on end in alarm as she instantly drew the dagger at her waist!

A Rank 8 monster!

A deadly threat!

She was just about to attack—

When Rei suddenly pressed a hand onto her shoulder.

"This is the guide I mentioned."

"Right, Huang Minzhi?"

The monster before them nodded.

"Yes."

Rei had not awakened the memories of its previous life.

But apparently, there was no need to.

Rather than calling this thing a monster—

It was more accurate to call it a human wearing the skin of a monster.

"What exactly is going on, Rei?" Elosha asked with a frown.

Rei answered, "The situation is that we’ve been invited by Yog to attend a gathering. Xisa and the others are there too. If we want to rescue them, we still have to make this trip."

"You mean we’re supposed to trust this suspicious thing?"

"Doesn’t this scream trap to you?"

Rei shrugged lightly.

"Half trust, maybe. But this is an invitation from Yog. Wouldn’t it be a waste not to go?"

His intuition had no issues.

His wishes had no issues.

His foresight had no issues.

Indeed...

Elosha understood exactly what Rei meant by "waste."

If the gathering truly was safe, the information they could gain there might surpass imagination itself.

The bird-headed man completely ignored their suspicion and questioning.

Instead, he directly began speaking.

"The phase coordinates are..."

HUMMM—

Long, drawn-out syllables transformed into incantations as they drifted through the air.

Rei memorized every single runic symbol instantly.

"This coordinate isn’t in the material world."

After deciphering the coordinates, Rei looked back toward the bird-headed figure.

But it also wasn’t a Divine Kingdom.

"I will be able to return safely and unharmed from this coordinate back to Moonsea."

Rei made the wish.

At the same time, he felt the wish take effect.

One wish to become a Moon Sovereign.

One wish to return unharmed.

Both wishes guaranteed his future existence.

And now that reincarnation no longer required restarting cultivation from scratch—

SWISH!

Rei raised his hand again and reopened phase space, targeting the coordinates Huang Minzhi had given him.

Then he stepped directly inside.

...

[Abyssfall]

Within the filthy darkness of Abyssfall, monsters that devoured living beings lurked everywhere.

Yet amidst such a place—

A frail figure wandered aimlessly in a daze.

"Light."

"False light..."

Platinum-blonde hair had already become stained with black-red blood.

The golden radiance within her eyes had faded away.

She simply walked through Abyssfall like that.

The monsters swimming past her merely sniffed at her body, or licked Yelia’s skin with fleshy tongues covered in tumors—

But none of them bit her apart.

Instead, after touching Yelia’s body, the monsters themselves gradually began to glow.

Before long, a pool of golden radiance spread throughout Abyssfall, slowly continuing downward into deeper darkness.

"Yelia, you’ve done very well. Why punish yourself like this?"

"How much longer do you intend to wander through this filthy Abyssfall?"

Divine voices echoed throughout her mind.

Yet the source of the voice was not Zhuya.

Instead, it belonged to another woman’s voice—far gentler and kinder.

"You bear no sin. There is no need for redemption."

"You are one of us."

Yelia muttered irritably, "So annoying... when are you people finally going to get out of my head?"

"Yelia... not ’you people.’ We are one."

"In the end, everything in this world will become Light. We will all become part of the Light. We are both fragments of the Light and the Light itself."

"There is no distinction between Lord Zhuya and ourselves."

Step.

Every footstep Yelia took left behind marks of light within Abyssfall.

The glowing footprints dripped downward like filthy water splashed across a windowpane.

It was as though even light itself was being affected by Abyssfall’s laws.

It spread sideways in all directions.

It dripped downward.

But not even the slightest trace of it spread upward.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

"Yelia, didn’t you love light the most?"

"Your father and mother have both become Light too. Why aren’t you happy?"

"Puri, don’t provoke her like that. She still hasn’t learned to distinguish becoming Light from death."

Her mind was filled entirely with voices.

All of them were angelic voices.

All of them were the voices of Light.

Yelia could see it.

She could see the Heavenly Realm.

She could see the Sea of Light.

She could see the Insect Hive...

She could even see Windgather Isle—

The island that had transformed entirely into a purified domain of Light simply because she had touched it once.

The villagers who had treated her kindly.

The little girl who had only just turned seven, who always called her "pretty big sister" whenever she saw her.

All of them had become Light.

At last, Yelia finally understood what a Chosen Vessel truly meant.

It was never about inheriting Zhuya’s divine throne.

Nor was it about becoming some successor...

It meant—

A suitable container.

A being selected for possessing the appropriate physique capable of becoming a vessel for Light.

A container born to purify the world.

"Kill me..." Yelia whispered softly.

Her surroundings were filled with monsters.

Yet not a single one harbored any killing intent toward her.

SHING—!

Yelia waved her hand furiously.

A massive blade of light flashed across Abyssfall!

In an instant, countless monsters were severed apart.

Yet even after she slaughtered them, the surrounding monsters still showed no reaction toward Yelia whatsoever.

Instead, the attack merely left behind an enormous streak of light within Abyssfall.

The radiance from that slash remained suspended in space, gradually converting everything around it into the same light.

"Yelia, you should return to the material world."

"You’re lonely right now, aren’t you?"

"You still don’t understand Light. Once everything becomes Light..."

"You will never feel lonely again."