Treeside God

After Ancient God of Light gave them a few instructions, he left highly satisfied.

It seemed that this secret inspection tour, during which he had secretly descended to the Lower Realm to recruit talents, had succeeded perfectly.

Before leaving, he also told them to wait in secret.

He would find an opportunity to kill several newly ascended celestials, let them seize the magpie's nest and take their places, then enter the Light Ancient Tree and become the next generation of celestials.

After he left.

Even Black Star, despite his nerve-wracking bluntness, felt somewhat shaken. In a chilling voice, he said:

"Your guts are truly enormous! I was wondering why, the moment you returned from crossing through time, you had the you of this era immediately make arrangements and prepare for everything, pull me out of seclusion, and rush to this branch to help people refine artifacts. So it was for this one."

"Yes. In history, he would come here on a secret inspection tour."

Atabia's gaze was deep. "I only learned this in the future, so I deliberately crossed back and seized an opportunity that should have belonged to someone else."

He had obtained the information from the future, allowing him to accurately pinpoint Ancient God of Light's exact location and identity.

Otherwise, how could an ordinary person possibly lie in wait for the strongest being in this universe?

And this opportunity was not his to begin with.

Atabia spent years in seclusion and never paid attention to the outside world. How could he have happened to be outside?

It was another artifact refiner who had won Ancient God of Light's favor. In later generations, that person had risen to dazzling heights, practically ascending to the heavens in a single step.

What he had done was merely seize that person's