Seen that way, Tai Yu couldn't help admiring—or perhaps envying—Great Monarch Po Ran.
He had gone from a member of a radical organization and a prisoner to an Evil Cult leader deeply entrenched in the Boundary Curtain region. He had even drawn Great Monarchs of the Ruin and Fall System into it.
Those nearly two thousand Myriad Heavens Standard Years had been rich and eventful. In some ways, he seemed better off than Luande and Chang Yi Zhen, those "Old People of Tianyuan" living at others' mercy.
It proved something else, too: in this age, the Tian Yuan System and Heavenly Abyss Law had become nothing but burdens.
Luande and Chang Yi Zhen were Great Monarchs and exceptional figures, no less capable than Po Ran. Yet what they had done and gained so far corresponded almost directly to how far they had cast off the burden of the Tian Yuan System.
These days, even members of Evil Cult Organizations and people of the Abyss seemed to have it easier than the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe.
In truth, the past six thousand-odd years had been a steady process of replacing the rules and laws of the Sky Abyss Remnant Tribe and the Tian Yuan System.
It was all plainly visible in the Rule Environment of the Abyssal Spirit Net and in the ceaseless flow of the River of Time. There seemed no turning back.
Whatever major moves the Ruin and Fall System might make next, its plans for the Illusory Nightmare Domain could not succeed in one stroke. It would take a long time, with boundaries tested again and again and ground contested back and forth.
None of that had anything to do with Tai Yu.
He merely looked again at Wyatt, the "humanoid plant" who had "planted" himself here, and