At the depths of the Sacrificial Sea, atop that immense Black Altar, Yan Kuan's figure blurred and burned.
The black altar appeared especially eerie beneath the cold night sky. It was stained with blood, but it had long since dried, leaving black marks behind.
Yan Kuan vanished. He entered the Plateau and nearly destroyed it, yet after the Plateau's will revived, he traveled through time from the "Future" back to the "Past."
He walked against ancient history for an unknown length of time and saw something different. At the end of those unimaginably distant years, there was a small courtyard beside a lake upon a plateau.
A lotus grew within the lake, releasing a delicate fragrance. As the years passed, it changed and became the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Lotus. It had originally been an ordinary lotus, yet after receiving one person's guidance, it underwent a transformation beyond ordinary imagination.
A man turned and entered the courtyard, coughing continuously. It seemed... there was something wrong with his body? At such a level, he could actually still fall ill. It was somewhat unbelievable.
Within the courtyard stood a rough stone millstone, like the practical tool used by ordinary farming households. The person in the courtyard sat cross-legged, playing a zither. It was a... Stone Zither.
Beside him was a stove for boiling tea. It was the Time Furnace.
There was a flower in the courtyard. After withering, it turned into seeds and began growing anew. It had once merely been an ornamental flower, yet it was also the seed at the origin of the future Pollen Path.
This flower had also been extraordinary in those days. The man loved it deeply and planted it in the courtyard for viewing.
Within the small courtyard, the pale and refined man played the zither and