Upon sensing that Zhu Jiuyin, an Ancestral Witch who had perished in the Witch-Demon Calamity, had not only survived but had instead attained the Dao of the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin.
A trace of surprise appeared on Shichen Ancestor's seemingly eternal, unchanging face.
"This timeline's course is something This Seat has never encountered throughout the countless timelines experienced over innumerable Eons.
"It seems a tremendous variable capable of influencing the Heavenly Dao's grand course has emerged within the Great Desolation.
"Otherwise, given the Heavenly Dao's nature, it would never have allowed Pangu's descendants, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, to attain the Dao of the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin.
"Forget allowing the Twelve Ancestral Witches to attain the Dao of the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin—even allowing them to exist within the Great Desolation was something the Heavenly Dao would never permit.
"After all, in the countless timelines This Seat has experienced, the Heavenly Dao had schemed against the Twelve Ancestral Witches until only Houtu and Xuan Ming remained.
"And Houtu was forever confined within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
"This variable is truly remarkably capable, to have completely altered the grand course set by the Heavenly Dao despite the schemes of both the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
"It has even completely changed the fate of the Twelve Ancestral Witches."
Across countless timelines, Shichen Ancestor had long since experienced everything within the Great Desolation World.
In the countless timelines Shichen Ancestor had experienced, the Great Desolation World's development was more or less the same as the Great Desolation in Taiqing's memories.
Even if certain variables altered the direction in which some minor and major currents developed.
The Great Desolation in those countless timelines could not escape the outcome of being controlled or refined by either the Heavenly