He Merged His Divine Kingdom with Reality

After space twisted,

The twisted threads before Su Yang's eyes gradually grew thicker, slowly separating and becoming tangible objects.

The surroundings were no longer Su Yang's bedroom—he and Heng Hong had arrived somewhere else.

This was a silent, desolate suburb, a vast wilderness.

Here, morning stars twinkled from time to time, and endless dawn mist hung heavy.

Gentle breezes brushed Su Yang's face from several directions.

The bright moon overhead shone on the scenery before Su Yang, allowing him to see it clearly.

This was the cemetery in the northern suburbs of Muyang City!

It was here that Su Yang had first met Gai Fengyan and witnessed his mighty power to pull the moon from the clouds with a single sentence.

At that moment, Su Yang's worldview had been shaken to its core, and for the first time, he believed that Deities existed in this world.

It was here that Su Yang had first seen the monsters formed when the last three sequences mutated after being contaminated.

At that moment, Su Yang had been shaken to his core by the monster. He had never imagined that a living person could turn into something like that.

Su Yang stared blankly at the scene before him. Returning to this place once again, he suddenly felt as though fate were playing a trick on him.

Because this time, a Demigod from the Soul-Reaping Bureau had brought him here.

He said he would tell Su Yang what the truth was.

But... was the truth really that he had already died once?

In the distance, there were still several chunks of flesh covered in green hair, and several tombstones whose graves had been dug open.

These traces told Su Yang plainly that the memories in his mind were not false.

He really had come here a few days ago and fought a group of green-haired monsters.

It was also here that Su Yang had first learned that his blood was a devastating weapon against Mutation Monsters, capable of completely erasing them.

But Heng Hong's confident assertions, along with the strange things Ren Yexue had said to him before, made Su Yang question his memories for the first time.

Heng Hong stood behind Su Yang and spoke softly.

"Didn't you say you didn't believe me? Go on, dig open grave number 23 and see what's inside."

Heng Hong's words interrupted Su Yang's thoughts.

Hearing that, Su Yang slowly walked toward tombstone number 23.

He didn't know how to put his feelings into words.

He suddenly remembered the words in blood that had appeared in the Dead Man's Book.

Those lines of blood-red words had led him into the mysterious world.

Those lines of blood-red words were the cause of Su Yang's joining the Soul-Reaping Bureau.

Those lines of blood-red words had read—

[Tomorrow, during the hour of the ox, Northern Suburb Cemetery, tombstone number 23.]

[You will enter God's Sight, and cause and effect will fall into disarray.]

[Every gift of fate has its price secretly marked. Good luck!]

Before he knew it, Su Yang had arrived in front of tombstone number 23.

He crouched down, murmuring to himself as he dug into the rain-soaked soil with his bare hands.

"What does the gift of fate... really mean..."

Heng Hong stood silently behind Su Yang.

His face was utterly calm.

At last, when Su Yang's fingernails could no longer dig into the earth and he had exhausted all his strength, he finally dug open grave number 23.

Inside was a coffin, covered with wilted blue flowers stained with soil.

For some reason, Su Yang felt as though he knew those flowers.

They should have been called Two-Branch Blue Enchantresses, flowers whose meaning was "destiny."

Trembling, Su Yang opened the coffin and saw the sight he least wanted to see.

A young man lay inside.

His face was as fair as polished jade, his smooth, pale features sharply and handsomely defined.

A faint smile rested on his lips, and in his hand he held a Twin-Branch Blue Enchantress in full bloom.

That young man was Su Yang!

The Su Yang who had already died.

The Su Yang in Ren Yexue's memories.

The Su Yang who had joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau two years ago.

The Su Yang Heng Hong had spoken of.

"What on earth is going on..."

Su Yang felt as though he had lost all his strength. He sank helplessly onto the rain-soaked soil.

His head hung low, and the light had gone out of his eyes.

He understood.

The words in blood in the Dead Man's Book back then hadn't been telling him to meet Gai Fengyan at the Northern Suburb Cemetery.

The Dead Man's Book had been telling Su Yang to dig open grave number 23!

Beneath that blank tombstone was buried the body of another Su Yang!

Unfortunately, Su Yang had been so awed by Gai Fengyan's divine power that he had simply assumed the Dead Man's Book only wanted him to come here and meet Gai Fengyan.

"I will enter God's Sight, and cause and effect will fall into disarray..."

"Was it the sight of the God of Fate and Reason I entered, or the sight of the Human Race Seven Gods..."

"Fate's gift had its price secretly marked long ago..."

As Su Yang murmured to himself, Heng Hong came to his side.

There was a trace of pity in his voice now, though it was unclear whether it was for Su Yang or someone else.

"After Su Yang was buried here, God sent down countless divine oracles to me, but I never told anyone in the Soul-Reaping Bureau about them."

Su Yang remained seated on the ground, his head lowered. He calmly asked Heng Hong, "What did God tell you?"

"God told me that a dead man had crawled out of the cemetery, and that cause and effect had fallen into disarray as a result."

"Su Yang, it was the God of Fate and Reason who gave you a second chance at life, but because of that, he too faced an impending calamity."

Heng Hong held up two fingers.

"Cause and effect are very difficult to throw into disarray. To bring you back to life, he turned the whole of District 19 into his divine kingdom."

"Within his divine kingdom, he used reality as a foundation to create another world, a branch of the true main world."

"In his divine kingdom, everything started over. There's another Soul-Reaping Bureau here, another Su Yang, another Teacher Zhao..."

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Su Yang kept his head lowered. "No."

Heng Hong opened his mouth helplessly and continued explaining.

"The long river of time split into two streams. The split happened two years ago, when you joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau."

"You can think of it as the God of Fate and Reason creating another parallel world. In this world, the first half of your life was the same as in the main world."

"What really changed was the point in time when you joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau. That change meant you didn't truly die."

Su Yang slowly raised his head and looked calmly at Heng Hong.

"Then why is another me lying here? If this really is a parallel world, grave number 23 shouldn't exist."

Heng Hong nodded with satisfaction. "It seems you understood."

He continued explaining to Su Yang.

"That's exactly where the problem lies. The two worlds have become intertwined!"

"To bring you back to life and allow you to truly walk out of his divine kingdom, the God of Fate and Reason forcibly merged his divine kingdom with reality!"

"Su Yang, you should feel incredibly honored. A Deity was willing to pay such a tremendous price for you!"