Tula Zo had already revealed many secrets, including the Merova People's movements after betraying the Empire and their gradual fragmentation. But Sandora and I still had much to ask, starting with the most crucial question: before their betrayal, they had set out on the expedition alongside Older Sister. Yet even with Lin Xue's help, Older Sister could not completely recall what happened back then. No one knew exactly what had occurred on the day Merrowa betrayed the Empire. It seemed that countless things had happened during that brief period—the emperor of the Fifteenth Celestial Region found a Void Creature; the Void Creature went all out to protect the world and died; the Celestial Region's emperor and her adjutant, the prophet Reiji, were both killed by the aftershock; the Merova People rebelled. Everything had happened over those few short days—the final days of the century-long expedition. That seemed to be the point where many events had become entangled. If those things had not happened, my life would have taken an entirely different path—well, I might still have been drifting through the void. Apparently, Void Creatures liked to sleep in during infancy. One yawn could last seventy or eighty thousand years.
To most people, there was no particular meaning in these events happening together. Ordinary people only paid attention to the events themselves, not the fact that they had "happened together." But I did not see it that way. Once something involved me, a Void Creature, it was no longer simple. My many conversations with Father God had taught me one thing: any event related to a Void Creature that displayed an entangled state could never be analyzed in isolation. At some point, it would inevitably become the key to whether countless events occurred and how they ultimately unfolded.
So I was