Heaven's Mandate, Immortal Ascension, Homecoming

In the year 4857, you broke through to the 8761st Heavenly Layer.

The duration of Future Prediction officially exceeded a full year.

At the same time, you discovered that after your Sacred Body reached perfection, the Time Leap ability you gained indeed had a maximum future-jump limit of exactly one year.

Descent accumulated once per day and could only descend into a state within the next twenty-four hours; Return to Truth occurred once per week and could only return to a state within the following week. Today, Time Leap, with its cooldown as long as a year, had also reached its limit.

Only by breaking through to the Seventh Realm could you escape the limits of these three time-related abilities.

In the year 5000, you slackened off slightly and began going out more often.

You no longer gave yourself a one-year vacation every century. Instead, you gave yourself a one-month vacation every year.

By chance, you heard that an exceptionally outstanding Mechanical Race lifeform had appeared in the outside world.

It had repeatedly rendered great service, luring and killing Sixth Realm experts from multiple factions.

Could that fellow be the Child of Destiny who, in the original timeline without me, would have become the recipient of the Desolate Fruit?

Out of sheer curiosity, you located that Mechanical Race lifeform in the future. After sensing the sky-blue glow around it, you slapped it to death, then backhanded its Sixth Realm main body to death as well.

If it had been a pure artificial intelligence, it might have possessed consciousness carriers scattered across different places, sharing signals and data like incarnations. It would not have been so easily killed by you.

But its essence was a kind of living metal, an intelligent species that used active metal as its body. It had