In chaos, there were no years; in Extreme Darkness, no passage of time was recorded.
Time flew. In the blink of an eye, nine years had passed since the last Dark Tide ended.
Compared to the long and exaggerated timescale of an era, nine years were hardly worth mentioning. But for Bai Zhi, these nine years had been the most comfortable he had ever lived through.
Over those nine years, aside from Anna, who represented [Pride], he had gone on to convert the Seven Deadly Sins one by one through various means.
[Wrath], [Gluttony], [Envy], [Lust]... Other than the ever-mysterious and almost inactive [Sloth], as well as [Greed], the most dangerous of the Seven Deadly Sins, all of them had been successfully replaced.
As their numbers grew, the Small World Bai Zhi had originally constructed was no longer sufficient. So over the following years, he had no choice but to expand it several times.
Compared to before, the Small World was now exceptionally lively.
Leaving aside everything else, the three-person group of Qingyi, Anna, and Tong had now been assembled. Qingyi had been the second to arrive, replacing [Wrath], who had been successfully captured during that Dark Tide. Tong, meanwhile, had successfully replaced [Gluttony] a year later, during an incident jointly orchestrated by Anna and Qingyi acting as insiders.
As for the later [Envy], Mu Mu had originally planned to come herself. But as the World Spirit, she occupied an indispensable position in the Shipbuilding Plan, so the ones who came to replace her in the end were the Gemini pair, Black Xi and White Xi, who were two bodies with one heart.
As the number of insiders among the Seven Deadly Sins continued to increase, after Black Xi and White Xi arrived, [Lust] was successfully lured into an encirclement