Eating bizarre things in public upgrades my status; the Special Affairs Bureau wants me to join them

The Demon Emperor was furious.

He knew the sacred tree was very special because he had been in contact with it longer than any other creature here; he had been around this ancient sacred tree since birth.

He knew everything that had happened to the divine tree, or what power the divine tree possessed.

At least he himself thought he knew.

So he once thought...

If the divine tree possesses any special power, then it will surely grant that power to me, since I am a being born around the divine tree and am the Heavenly Emperor.

The divine tree had no reason not to "take care" of him, but reality slapped him in the face and told him he was overthinking things.

The divine tree did not consider him special.

She even considered giving up on him.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been his turn to come into contact with the divine tree and trigger this strange situation.

The more this happened, the angrier the Heavenly Emperor of the Demon Court became, and the greater his dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Dao and the Divine Tree of this world became. He couldn't understand why the Heavenly Dao and the Divine Tree didn't choose him.

Although in his later years he chose to sever ties with the Heavenly Dao and break with its will, he was not in this era…

At least he was a good person in this era.

But in this era, neither Heaven nor the Divine Tree seemed to favor him...

The later Heavenly Emperor of the Demon Court was furious.

The original Heavenly Emperor of the Demon Court in this era, while not exactly furious, was somewhat dissatisfied and annoyed, and couldn't help but harbor some thoughts that were detrimental to this world.

However, he hid it very well.

Therefore, no living being present could perceive it.

Of course, most importantly, all the attention of the beings present was focused on He Li and Yu Ji.

As for He Li and Yu Ji at this moment...

"Where...is this place?"

With a slight lapse in consciousness, He Li realized that he seemed to be in the clouds when he regained his senses, and Yu Ji was not by his side, which made him both puzzled and somewhat wary.

Just when he was completely bewildered and had no idea what was going on...

hum! ! !

Suddenly, a strange phenomenon, resembling a game texture malfunction, flickered in the void ahead. Along with the appearance of that phenomenon, He Li vaguely heard whispers in his ear.

The whisper was very strange.

He couldn't hear clearly, nor could he understand.

At least that was the case at first, but as the whispers continued, he began to understand some of the words.

And in a moment, the whispers became clear...

"Outsider, you've finally arrived!"

Hmm? An outsider?

He Li's eyelids twitched. His intuition told him that this title indicated his identity as a transmigrator, an identity that was his biggest secret and no one knew about it.

Even Nuwa and the others didn't seem to see through their identity as time travelers.

But the mysterious object shimmering before my eyes...

How did it know about this?

Wait, could it be...?

As if struck by a thought, He Li hesitated for a moment before tentatively staring at the shimmering void and asking, "Are you... the Heavenly Dao? Do you know my situation?"

"I am the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao!"

The shimmering object responded, and He Li thought to himself, "As expected," but at the same time, he felt something was amiss.

As far as he knew, although the Heavenly Dao was conscious, it didn't seem to be easy to communicate with, or rather, it was unlikely that they could communicate normally like this.

This can be seen from Nuwa's communication with the Heavenly Dao.

Even Nuwa struggled to communicate with the Heavenly Way...

If the Heavenly Dao can communicate normally, even beings like Nuwa wouldn't have trouble communicating with others.

But... this thing in front of him doesn't seem to be fooling him, after all, his identity as a transmigrator is not something that anyone can easily see through.

So what exactly happened?

He didn't understand, and only became more suspicious.

And that flickering thing, claiming to be the consciousness of Heaven, seemed to have seen through He Li's little scheme...

"Time travel was no accident!"

A voice from the Heavenly Dao's consciousness rang out, and these words immediately piqued He Li's interest, causing him to almost instinctively ask, "No coincidence? So, could it be that you orchestrated this?"

"You could say that!" the Heavenly Dao consciousness acknowledged.

He then responded, "I...though I am the Heavenly Dao, I was once just an ordinary being."

"Huh?!?" He Li's eyes widened.

No? The Way of Heaven applies to ordinary living beings?

How is that possible?

He Li was increasingly shocked and puzzled.

The consciousness of that day spoke to itself: "I... have lost many of my past memories. I only know that I once wandered in that vast void for countless years..."

"Later, when my body transformed into a world, this world and the many beings that evolved along with me when I transformed into this world came into being."

"However, I don't know from that moment on..."

"I once sensed something in the depths of the distant void and suddenly realized that I might have once been a being myself, but I don't know why I wandered in the vast void..."

After a slight pause, the Heavenly Dao realized and continued, "You must come from the place where I first came from."

"Impossible!" He Li shook his head decisively.

There are no extraordinary beings in my world.

"It's even more impossible for someone like you to exist!"

"Is that so?" the Heavenly Dao Will questioned, then before He Li could say anything more, it spoke again: "How do you know... there are no extraordinary powers outside of your era?"

"Even in this world, there are gaps in time..."

"Doesn't your world have this? Besides, why do you think I could make you travel through time?"

"That's because you and I share the same origin."

"There is even a connection."

"So, when I began my scheme, you traversed the vast void to arrive in this world of the future... However, you should have arrived much earlier; I simply misjudged the situation!"

The consciousness of Heaven spoke.

He Li was deeply shaken, because according to the description of the Heavenly Dao consciousness, he realized that perhaps... the Heavenly Dao of this era intended to eliminate beings such as the Heavenly Emperor...

Then establish a new era.

And he himself, unsurprisingly, was the assistant he summoned from the distant void to help it.

However... perhaps the void is too vast, and his soul consciousness, having crossed from the distant depths of the void, needed too much time, or perhaps some other unexpected event occurred.

This is why I did not arrive in this era as Heaven's will had predicted...

It appeared in later generations, rather than later.

Besides, what if...

What price did this Heavenly Dao consciousness pay when it summoned me, resulting in its inability to suppress the Heavenly Emperor of this era, as well as other top-tier powerful deities...?

This ultimately led to the occurrence of the "severing of the connection between heaven and earth".

This is highly likely, after all, the power of Heaven should be absolute...

But that's not the case here.

In He Li's view, the weakness of the power of Heaven must have been caused by some special reason, but he didn't know about it before, so he couldn't figure it out.

But now he understands.

So, thinking about this, he couldn't help but ask, "You wouldn't really be here to summon me..., would you...?"

"Is that why you couldn't suppress the gods?"

"Yes and no!" the Heavenly Dao consciousness responded, "When I transformed this world, I considered the need to maintain it, so I shared authority with those top-tier deities..."

That's why they're strong enough.

"Suppressing them is already difficult, and the fact that they can continue to grow makes it even more difficult for me to suppress them."

"I had no choice but to summon you, who share my origin, to reshape the rules and order, but who knew..." It didn't say more, but He Li already understood...

He was right.

However, that's not the point.

He only pressed for details: "What about spiritual energy and resources?"

"This is not my interference!"

The Heavenly Dao consciousness responded: "The fundamental rules of all heavens and myriad realms are similar, so this is an inevitable result. This is not the result of my deliberate influence; after all, this is my world..."

"I have no reason to make it worse; I want it to get better more than any other living being."

Is that so? He Li seemed to be deep in thought.

He suddenly had a guess.

After thinking for a moment, he tentatively asked, "If the secret of the world's rules is not wrong in itself..."

"Then... do you think it's possible that you, like Zhulong and Houtu who left this place in later generations, were also a void pioneer who left the world of the past?"

"And...you succeeded?"

"Of course, since you are a self-created being, your choice might be somewhat different from theirs."

"But perhaps the general direction is similar?"

Upon hearing this, the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao fell silent for a brief moment.

After a moment, its voice rang out: "That's possible. Besides, according to you, the world we originally lived in was also very strange. That world shouldn't be without extraordinary power..."

"There are many myths there!"

"Most importantly, the origins of the names of beings in this world... such as Nuwa, are not accidental."

"It was... a decision made by my subconscious."

"Although I don't know why, as if by a flash of inspiration, such names were given to those powerful beings at their birth, if our origins are the same..."

"Then...that makes sense!"