Tonight, Alice joins the hunt.

Without waiting for Flora's reply, Loye gave the correct answer.

"First of all, this world is a complete universe. And in this universe, in a remote corner of the third spiral arm of the Milky Way, a script called 'The Wandering Earth' is being executed."

"I won't go into the specifics, but although you don't acknowledge that you are A-Ping, A-Ping is your past life, and you have seen everything you knew in your past life. In short, Earth is destined to be destroyed. And they... the arrival of us otherworldly gods is simply to move Earth into the nearest three-star system."

She reached out her hand, shaped the Earth into a prosperous form, and placed three moons around it.

"This was the original script, and after that, we resurrected all the dead people in the world. We rebuilt Earth's civilization, and the Wandering Earth was changed to the Wandering Star. But the theme was a plot called 'The Three-Body Problem'."

A ray of light rose from the Earth's surface, and in the next moment, it enveloped the entire starry sky. A massive rift appeared in space. From within this rift, another ray of light and countless stars fell.

"Luo Ji killed Cheng Xin, and Ai Qidela thus completed her script and ascended to sainthood. Chang'e, the moon goddess of the primordial world, descended through the agreement between one of my companions and Ai Qidela. During this stage, Chang'e tried every means to get Ai Qidela to agree to start the Dao War. For this, she did not hesitate to sacrifice her own Dao, using herself as resources to give birth to many worlds, which is that Tree of Events."

The radiance receded, transforming into a large tree with eight branches, while outside the tree, a fleeting point of light was projected into the distance.

That single point of light contained the souls of everyone on Earth except Luo Ji and his previous incarnation, A Ping. They were sent by Ai Qi De to a new world to begin new lives. And within the Tree of Events, new souls began to be conceived.

"Chang'e's understanding of the Dao, coupled with my tacit approval in killing almost all of her legions and allowing all their souls to be reincarnated on the Tree of Events. It is precisely because of this that the Tree of Events was able to nurture life forms possessing the light of the soul. They are qualified to become 'True Beings.' And it is precisely because of this that Chang'e was able to move Aichidra and make her initiate the Dao Conflict."

Luo Ye said calmly, dividing the tree into several isolated starry seas.

“Chang'e created one, or rather eight, new universes. And Aichidra’s Dao wouldn’t allow her to stand idly by when she had the power to grant these universes freedom.” She reached out and dispersed the sea of ​​stars. “So Aichidra compromised, because of Chang'e’s decision, and also because of some…hidden reasons. She awoke from her eternal slumber and used the power of a True Saint to grant this newborn universe freedom. And the moment she used that power, the struggle of the Dao began.”

Then, she reached out and conjured up a cosmic image that was slightly limited in size, or perhaps limited in its perception.

"I am not a sage, and therefore I have no right to interfere in the war between sages. My companions set up a scheme, using a few remnants of the Dao conflict to create this universe, which is simply filled with resources. You, Alt, witnessed all of this, which is why you accepted my deal. However, even so, it cannot change the fact that you are the only living person in this universe."

She magnified the universe, creating Earth and seven singularities.

"It's all fake. We are strong, but we are not saints. We cannot understand the Dao, nor are we qualified to do so. Naturally, we cannot create living beings in the true sense. Including that enlightened one who is equivalent to a true god, all the people and gods here are actually just fakes created by rituals. That's why their combat power is relatively... weak. And that's why our companions do not hesitate when they act."

“And now, the struggle for the Dao is over.” She constructed a thin link connecting this universe. She casually severed it, and the universe immediately dimmed.

"The struggle for supremacy has ended, and there will be no more supplies. Everything in this false universe will wither away. And all people and things except you are part of this false universe. They will perish along with this universe—except you."

Luo Ye reached out her hand to her.

“My goals have changed three times. I chose Aping in The Wandering Earth because of the deal with Aiqidra. I chose Luoji in The Three-Body Problem because I needed to control the rituals. And I chose Altshu in The Phenomenon Picture because I needed to maintain influence over Alice and my true self—yes, it was inevitable that she chose you because I chose you. And while she was interfering with you, I was actually interfering with her through you—but now it’s all over.”

“It’s been you all three times, and I think that might be called fate. So, even if it’s just for this fate, I can take you away from here.” Luo Ye’s hand stopped in front of her, his gaze sincere. “You can take your servant, the only one who trusts you, needs you, and is needed by you—she’s just a phantom, an AI, and I still have the ability to exercise that level of authority.”

"I can take you away, escape this illusion, and lead you to another real, tangible lunar world. There you can fulfill your dreams. Otherwise—"

"Otherwise, I would have to transcend the destruction of this universe itself and accomplish the impossible in order to save this world that is destined to perish?"

"Yes, but you can't become a sage in three days. You can't even become a transcendent being or a true god. You can only waste your time and destiny in vain."

Flora blinked, looking at Luo Ye's outstretched hand.

"How many people... otherworldly gods, know about this?"

"There are quite a few guys who know that you are the only living person in this universe because you have unlocked your genetic potential and demonstrated its power. But only I know your past life and the whole story of all these changes."

“Then I choose to stay.” Flora answered seriously, “If there wasn’t even a sliver of a chance, you would have definitely taken me away without explanation. But since you came to ask me and told me everything, it means there must still be a sliver of a chance. Because you are Luo Ye, because you keep your word, because your principles are unchanging—your promise will not change.”

Luo Ye withdrew her outstretched hand.

“You are both smart and foolish—yes, there is still a glimmer of hope.”

"Although this universe has changed several times, its essence is still 'The Wandering Earth.' Now that the laws of heaven no longer exist and humanity is in decline, the operation of script memes is the only way to survive. Your colleague, Fujimaru Ritsuka, by accident... no, her efforts laid the foundation for this glimmer of hope. And me... one of my colleagues, that man named Zheng Zha, he opened up a path for you the moment Ur threw his punch."

"Proceed along the Abyss. It uses its own power, not the resources of this universe. So even if the universe is destroyed, that Abyss will still exist for a time. As for how far you can go and how long you can go, that depends on yourselves."

Her form gradually faded, and everything around her collapsed.

"Then, this is farewell. Flora, the last mortal in this world. My true form is about to awaken, the war in Heaven is about to end, and this is the last chance to obtain a complete Earth."

“Yes, farewell.” Flora bowed deeply to her. “Thank you for your guidance, and thank you for giving me three chances to live. Loye.”

The next moment, Flora returned to reality.

She remained seated in her temple, her five-minute nap drawing to a close—she glanced at the back of her hand, and this time, she easily realized that 'Mangertlund' had severed their pact long ago—Alice had broken the bond the moment she became aware of Luo Ye's hands and feet. The divine power residing within her was, in reality, ownerless.

She now possesses similar accumulation and experience as Arthiu before the final battle.

—Power Unleashed: 100%

Her hair had returned to its flaxen color, and her eyes had changed from pale blue to light green. A small silver snake coiled around her fingertip, and she finally understood why she had encountered such unwarranted hatred from all those followers and almost everyone else.

This is a false universe created by the Hunting Saint Ritual, and the foundation of the Hunting Saint Ritual is that alien entity called SERRS. And in the lair of one serpent, there should never be room for another serpent.

She heard a commotion—the Chaldean stealth ship arriving at the Seventh Singularity. She also heard the cheers and celebrations of Fujimaru Ritsuka, Olga Marie, and the others reuniting. Her gaze, however, fell upon the area above the Fourth Singularity, where she saw the Temple of Time, pierced into the sky by the Crystal Sword.

—This is also part of the Earth.

Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Battle of Heaven - Yinglong

—That woman transformed herself into a sword, pinning the Temple of Time to the sky. She thus lost her fighting ability, but this sealed the fate of the Celestials.

"We're going to lose." Pure light burst forth from the core of the temple, vying for control of the earth, which had been pierced by the crystal sword and was beginning to crystallize. Adam, with a gaping hole in his chest and his torso constantly breaking down and rebuilding, sat on the throne in the core area of ​​the temple, looking at his companions with a smile.

He wasn't dead yet, but that was all. Although he suppressed Zhao Zhuikong's dagger attack with his secret treasure, the injuries remained. And it was precisely because of this that he, who should at least be a regular fourth-grade student, was able to reach a stalemate with Yuzuriha Inori, who only possessed the Mimicry of the Light of the Mind.

They were about to lose, because all Yuzuriha Inori wanted was a desperate battle to break through her own limits. The very nature of the opponent was not her concern—now, nearly a quarter of the core area of ​​the Time Temple had begun to crystallize, and several members of the Central Continent Team, originally on the surface of the Fourth Singularity, had joined the battle. Song Tian had led most of the Celestial Team members to meet the attack, and in this vast Time Temple, only three living beings remained.

The severely injured Adam, the bewildered Lina, and Luo Yinglong, who is trapped in a complicated ritual but only watches Adam perform with indifference.

“We are about to lose,” Adam repeated. “We will lose almost nothing, we will be battered and bruised. We will lose with nothing but pain, regret and utter futility.”

Luo Yinglong responded with a cold laugh.

"Isn't this all your doing, Adam?" Luo Yinglong snorted. "I told you when the Celestials arrived on this land that if we just took a step back, we could have a brighter future. — But you didn't listen."

“I told you when Zheng Zha of the Central Continent Team made his move that participating in the war was a dead end. — But you didn’t believe me.”

"And now, the situation has developed into this. Your true godhood is gone. The Demon King and the seventy-two pillar demons who could serve as resources for our advancement are gone. You yourself have become a weak fourth-tier, ah, a fourth-tier with combat power comparable to the native gods. And we are even blocked here by the second echelon of Central Continent, sealed here by the trash thrown over by the demon team - all our gains are gone, and now even the best outcome for us is nothing more than using resurrection items to roll back to the main god space."

"You, Adam, are at least 90% responsible for the Celestials' current predicament. I opposed your decisions, which is why I'm trapped here. And now you're here complaining to me?" The mockery in his eyes gradually turned cold. "We have nothing in common, and I don't want to hear any advice from you. Or have you come up with some brilliant plan to turn the tide, and now you need a bunch of cannon fodder, a bunch of meat shields to buy you time?"

“Trust takes time to build, Adam.” Luo Yinglong’s gaze slowly shifted to the wall on the other side where Adam was not. “Your repeated failures have eroded all my trust in you. To me, you are no different from a stranger.”

"So you're planning to leave Team Celestial?" Adam's smile remained unchanged, even the amusement in his eyes was still there. "Leave here, transfer to another team, or perhaps simply leave this cycle of reincarnation?"

"So what if it is?" Luo Yinglong said calmly, raising his finger to touch the sealing ritual around him. The next moment, a spherical partition appeared at his fingertip, followed by dense cracks that extended to every corner of the spherical barrier and even spread to the ground of the Temple of Time!

"Or are you planning to stop me?" He stood up, and the sealing ritual that could have completely imprisoned the four natives, just as he had used the Four Symbols, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams Formation to seal the Demon King, was easily crushed into dust by him. He stepped out of the ritual, and the two sword lights, one purple and one blue, hovered around him. "I can no longer tolerate your arrogance and stupidity, Adam. When this world ends, we will be separated forever."

"In other words, you'll still take my orders until this world ends?"

"My sword will cut off your head after I've given you your command." Luo Yinglong sneered. "You're right, I will take your command, but only your command, with my ears. Or do you want to skip the 'taking command' process and just let me blow your head off with one sword?"

However, the next moment, a document emitting a faint glow floated out from Adam's hand and flew to Luo Yinglong's front. Luo Yinglong's pupils contracted sharply when he noticed the contents of the document.

"Adam, you—" — That document is the item that can force Luo Yinglong to be transferred to a random reincarnation team!

“I won’t stop you, Luo Yinglong,” Adam replied with a faint smile. “The Celestial Team is indeed not suitable for you, or rather, ever since I became the captain of the Celestial Team instead of you, this team has already become estranged from you. After all, you are not a man who is willing to be second best, especially when I am still a foreigner.”

"You Easterners have always been so arrogant, haven't you? Technology, culture, customs, ideas—you all want to be number one in everything, in every field."

For this reason, you have even crudely divided the world into two parts. One is your country, and the other is the collection of the merits of all other countries except yours, the so-called 'foreign countries,' the so-called 'other people's children.' Your nation has always been so arrogant, and you, Luo Yinglong, are among the most arrogant in your own people.”

Adam shook his head slightly.

“I’ve always cared about the Central Continent Team ever since I learned of their existence and their internal structure. Because the Central Continent Team and the Celestial Team have similar circumstances and similar problems. However, unlike the Celestial Team, the two witches of the Central Continent Team chose to give up despite having a significant advantage in various areas. Their decision resulted in the team’s stability and strength. As for me… I will not relinquish my power like they did.”

"So your choice is inevitable, Luo Yinglong. You will inevitably betray the Celestial Team, even if you don't now, you will in the future. Even Song Tian is very likely to betray the Celestial Team, because you cannot tolerate being subordinate to other races, because you and I received different educations and come from different ethnic groups."

“You cannot tolerate an outsider standing above you, because your world only has the concepts of your own race and outsiders. Song Tian may still have a way to deal with it, after all, I still have some people he cannot refuse, but you, Luo Yinglong, your departure is inevitable, and I will naturally make preparations for it in advance.”

"You—!" Luo Yinglong suddenly turned around and looked at Lina, who was standing to the side looking completely bewildered.

"Linaya, come here." He held out his hand to his girlfriend and whispered.

However, Lina remained standing somewhere between him and Adam, looking at them both with a bewildered expression, like a comical doll.

Luo Yinglong took a deep breath.

"...When?" he asked.

"It was a long time ago, but definitely after the last time you touched her. So you don't need to worry about anything... disgusting." Adam replied unhurriedly, "Besides, you'll eventually leave the Celestials team, you'll eventually abandon her, so as captain, you have to share the burden with your teammates—"

"Instead of letting you waver there, wasting your time and energy, I'd rather do it for you. Or do you not think that reincarnation is a better fate for her than being corrupted by you and turned into a puppet?"

Luo Yinglong remained silent. The purple and blue sword light beside him rose and fell, rose again and fell again. He was almost about to swing his sword and smash Adam's head, but in the end, all that was left for him was frustration.

Can a creature corrupted by the Dao still be considered human? Ah… of course not. It's merely a puppet, a tool, an existence utterly worthless, meaningless, and not even worthy of being called a living being—how can a Familia be considered alive? It's just a 'thing.' A 'thing' no different from mud, stone, or sewage. And compared to being transformed into a Familia by the Dao corruption phenomenon, being reborn and escaping this fate a thousand times better is far better.

Luo Yinglong pressed down on the sword light between his fingers, even lowering his head as he did so. In that instant, he had many questions for Adam. He wanted to ask him why he hadn't told him sooner, why he had allowed the team to fall apart, and why, if he could even foresee such a thing, he had let the Celestial Team fall to this state.

No, he didn't ask. Because he knew he didn't need to ask.

Is it helpful to tell yourself this beforehand? —Yes, it is; you'll gain gratitude. And then what? How long will that gratitude last, and how will you ultimately solve Lina's problem?

It's pointless. Lina's relationship to me isn't like that of the two witches in the Middle-earth team. If I were to emulate Alice, then Lina would be worlds apart from Patchouli. The difference in talent, will, and conviction between them is immeasurable. Therefore, the only thing I can ultimately do is send Lina to reincarnation or abandon her, and even then, the conflict between me and Adam will only intensify.

As for the Celestials' team issues... ah, that's something that's never been resolved. Because, as Adam said, unless he retreats like the witches of the Middle-earth team or becomes strong enough to crush everything, the current situation is the inevitable outcome.

As for the third question...

Even he himself could see through it, and he stopped it twice. How could Adam not see through it? Even he himself could perceive the many secrets hidden behind the scenes of this world. How could Adam not see through them?

Even if he truly couldn't see through things in the past, how could he have fought in the divine war in the outer realms for so long, and still not have any self-awareness after all that had happened? Didn't he know that his power as a true god was just a cobbled-together facade, and that he would inevitably become the first weak point to be breached when the divine war broke out in full force?

He couldn't possibly be unaware of this; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to secure his captaincy in the Heavenly God Team! He considers Chu Xuan his nemesis, which at least means he has faced Chu Xuan in the past. Given this, how could he possibly act so brazenly and recklessly in the Central Continent Team's home arena?

He didn't ask any of the three questions. He already understood why Adam had told him this here, and he understood that even within the Temple of Time, not everything was airtight—deception and being deceived, the struggle between the levels of true gods—wasn't entirely incomprehensible to him. And because of this, he understood everything that had puzzled him.

—All that is happening right now is due to Adam's will. The situation has shifted to this point, and at least for now, everything is still under Adam's control. This includes the Celestials' defeat, his own departure, and… everything he needs to do next.

He still hadn't regained his trust in Adam. However, he regained his trust in Adam's abilities.

He turned around and looked towards the outside of the Temple of Time. The 'miscellaneous members' of the Celestial Team, led by Song Tian, ​​were locked in a fierce battle with the three members of the Central Continent Team. The areas that had been crystallized and those that had been transformed by light continued to stalemate at the temple's border. And on the outermost edge, the battlefield between the true gods was an ocean of light.

"What do you want me to do for you one last time?" he asked calmly, looking at the battlefield outside the temple.

“Do what you’ve always wanted to do.” Adam replied with a smile, “I know you haven’t been using your full strength since the Lord of the Rings. I know how many secrets are hidden in cultivation. The path of cultivation you’ve embarked on is another great road to heaven, on par with the Gene Lock. And the path you’ve walked on the path of cultivation is actually much longer than the path of the Gene Lock.”

“I know why you're holding back. It's because you want to leave, and it's also because you want to compete with the Central Continent Team. That reincarnator named Zhang Jie provoked you. If you hadn't left the Central Continent Team because of your arrogance, you would be the one leading those powerful figures now, or even surpassing them. That's why you entrusted your precious cultivation knowledge to Zheng Zha. It's because of your one-sided arrogance; you want to prove that you are more capable than him.”

The purple and blue sword lights merged silently. Luo Yinglong did not refute this in the slightest.

The combined radiance converged into one, ultimately transforming into a shapeless, chaotic sword. Luo Yinglong's five fingers firmly grasped it in his palm.

Adam was right; he was indeed stronger than he appeared, and one piece of evidence was that he possessed both the Purple and Green Swords. Moreover, these two swords came from his sect, from the Shu Mountain World, which was different from many other unparalleled single-entity universes and had a heritage rooted in the primordial heavenly realm.

In the world of [Shushan], there is only one cultivator who can simultaneously wield the Purple Ying Green Rope without being harmed by its malevolent energy. That cultivator is Ren Shou, the ascended sect leader of the Shushan Sword Sect, who is also known as the Long-Browed Immortal.

A true person, a real person. In the primordial heavenly realm, only those who have developed their own unique spiritual light and are no longer mediocre can be called true people.