"We have been playing a game for all eternity, a game for all eternity..."
Dugu Yuqing and the others were all shaken as they spoke.
The Nine Attacks on the Dam had revealed that something had gone terribly wrong with both the past and the present.
So a wisp of true spirit had broken through everything and become the future.
Once the plan was complete, it would return from the future and shatter everything.
Aside from Li Fan himself, the Big Black Dog was the only living being in all heaven and earth who knew the truth.
After all, the whole world had been doomed back then. Only that dog had stayed by Li Fan's side...
And so, quite naturally, it had shouldered a heavy responsibility.
It had gone undercover in the darkness...
And it had gone undercover to protect the people Li Fan had fought to bring back during the Nine Attacks on the Dam.
How could they avoid detection by the darkness? By hiding within it.
The Big Black Dog had done just that.
So from the moment the Big Black Dog led them out of Small Mountain Village, it had actually been planning to take them straight to their deaths...
To deliver them to the darkness.
But there had been one unforeseen twist: the Big Black Dog hadn't expected Xin Ning to cultivate the Unchanging Heart Realm.
Even with the power of the second-strongest being under heaven, it couldn't corrupt Xin Ning.
So back when they attacked the dark world created by the End of All Daos in their previous life, it used its divine might to conceal the truth and reveal part of it to Xin Ning.
Only then had Xin Ning agreed... to let herself be corrupted.
In fact, it was precisely because Xin Ning