The Present

Ancient Tree Era Year 500.

"Why—there really has been a mutation!"

"Yes. The ancient tree has been gestating for hundreds of years, and it's finally begun to change."

People discovered that the fragmented consciousnesses of the ancient dragon and the ancient tree were gradually becoming continuous, like frame after frame of slides coming together to form an animation.

Although they died and were reborn every few seconds, it seemed that they had learned something from dying. Their wills had become a form of inherited chaos, yet they had begun to possess a certain kind of logical thought.

At that moment, inside the Origin Ancient Tree.

Countless bubbles of chaotic consciousness churned back and forth, while fragmented thoughts gave rise to generation after generation of inheritors of the Ancient Tree Will.

"I am... light."

Rustle, rustle.

At last, a will called light was born within the ancient tree.

"I shield the universe from wind and rain, overthrowing all disturbances of darkness and evil."

The thoughts left behind by countless prehistoric scientists and sages to protect the universe finally converged into a cold statement.

"It has finally been born."

Li Qing's figure suddenly appeared here. His eyes flickered as he calculated the data and thought to himself:

"I spent hundreds of years entering it intermittently and becoming one generation after another. I've replaced tens of thousands of generations by now. Have I finally influenced them?"

The will born from the Origin Ancient Tree was precisely the Ancient God of Light that Li Qing had created.

His original intention had been to search everywhere for someone to replace the Ancient God of Light's identity, but he soon discovered that the Ancient Tree Will was becoming continuous.

This ancient tree had actually begun thinking clearly!

How could he allow that?

Terrified, Li Qing immediately