Great Xia's border.
Upon the boundless sea, a figure clad in a mud-stained kasaya stepped across the white waves and stopped before an ancient stone city.
Destiny Monk gazed at the magnificent ruins, a faint glimmer flickering in his eyes as if he were lost in thought.
After a moment, he stepped forward and calmly entered.
The instant his foot touched the weathered stone, an ancient, vast pressure descended from above the ruins. The scattered remnants of stone pillars flashed before him, forming an impassable towering wall. Its surface bore not the slightest crack, as though it had been naturally formed. More than a dozen gazes pierced through the void and fell upon him.
Destiny Monk immediately stopped in place.
"Who dares set foot in the Primal God Temple?" A deep, majestic voice echoed through the countless pillar remnants.
The Primal God Temple was no longer the ruined divine kingdom that had once drifted through the space-time gap. As faith gradually returned, the ancestor gods within had recovered some of their strength. Sensing an unfamiliar presence entering the Primal God Temple, they immediately awakened.
At the same time, they saw a face identical to Lin Qiye's... but that did not make them mistake him for Lin Qiye. They were far too familiar with Lin Qiye's aura. That seemingly replicated face instead filled them with vigilance.
After all, in their understanding, Lin Qiye was their faith.
Now, someone wearing his face had entered this place. It was like an outsider suddenly rushing into a temple dressed up as the Buddha—an immediate sense of offense and humiliation rose within them.
"...Fruit of Predestination requests an audience with the ancestor gods." Beneath the ancestor gods' pressure, Destiny Monk's expression did not change in the slightest as he spoke calmly.
Gazes swept across his