Blessing? Calamity? Fate?...

Wu Yan gradually froze as he stared at the shadow floating in midair before him...

It was clearly only a shadow, yet Wu Yan felt as though he were facing the entire world!

There was clearly not the slightest aura around it, yet its presence was simply impossible to ignore!

There was clearly not the slightest change in the surroundings, yet the atmosphere in the air rippled like the surface of a lake, creating the illusion that space itself was about to shatter!

Ordinary, plain, steady, yet terrifying!

What exactly... was going on...

Just as Wu Yan's mind struggled to process this sudden development, a faint sigh slowly echoed from the shadow...

"Fated one..."

The moment it spoke, the shadow's impossible-to-ignore presence made Wu Yan, who had not yet recovered, raise his head to look at it. Wu Yan did not even realize that he had made the movement, as though someone were deliberately controlling him!

"Since you can see me, it proves that you found what I left behind and came to my empire..."

The weathered, mysterious voice carried a trace of ethereality and leisure. Wu Yan had no idea which part of the shadow it came from, yet it seemed to enter his mind directly, waking him from his daze. At this point, Wu Yan roughly understood that the person before him was the God-tier expert named Ai Lu! Or rather, a projection he had left behind!

However, what he said left Wu Yan extremely surprised.

"If possible, I truly wish you had not come here!" the other party said, his voice filled with inexplicable sorrow.

"But existence is existence. Any existence that has not been erased, no matter how deeply it is hidden, will sooner or later reveal a corner of itself in this world. What use