"Village Chief, you wanted to see me!"
Inside a wooden house at the center of God Path Village, a White-Haired Old Man stood with his hands behind his back, gazing out the window as he contemplated something.
Chen Sheng entered and respectfully cupped his hands in salute.
Hearing him, the old man's lips curled upward.
"You're here! Have a seat!"
Chen Sheng glanced at the Old Man, then walked over to a wooden table nearby and sat down.
"May I ask why the Village Chief summoned me?"
Although God Path Village had been manifested by Chi Yu's Future Self, the living beings within it were real, not illusions.
The Old Village Chief's surname was Jia, and his given name was Gu Dao. He was the ruler of the stranded lands within the Silent Star River of the Primordial Universe.
When Chi Yu's Future Self had traveled through the Primordial Universe, he had encountered a great battle in the Silent Star River and casually saved Jia Gu Dao. From then on, Jia Gu Dao had pledged himself to him and obeyed his every command.
In truth, all the living beings in God Path Village came from the stranded lands of the Silent Star River.
When Chi Yu became the Endless Source Lord, his past, future, and present selves had originally fused.
However, when the novel merged with reality, Chi Yu replaced the real-world Writer Li Chen and inherited his karma. The future changed, and his Future Self broke free of Time-Space and manifested into its current form.
This Future Self had originally controlled the future, but since he was not the Source Body, all things he did were hindered. Thus, he used Source Lord Authority to traverse Time-Space into the present, plotting to seize the Source Body, perfect his authority, and