The Mastermind Appears? The Greatest Conspiracy at the Dawn of Creation

Li Yue listened quietly.

This was an ancient secret he had never heard before.

It was a secret even Ye Mingkong and Xia Guangyin knew nothing about.

But why—

Why was the one who created the heavens destined to fall?

So the one meant to create this universe had originally been that Ancient Divine Tree?

"No one knows how many ages passed.

"Or perhaps the Chaos era had no calendar, no concept of years.

"Perhaps even the River of Time had yet to appear.

"At last, the Strength God and Devil Clan produced a Chaos Great Emperor. The Ancient Divine Tree bestowed on him the name 'Kai Tian.'

"Great Emperor Kaitian used the Ancient Divine Tree's trunk to forge the Axe of Creation.

"Honest and diligent by nature, he swung his axe countless times, cleaving Chaos apart and creating the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds and the Endless Underworld.

"But creating the heavens also brought about his death.

"Only as he fell did he learn the whole truth: he had never been the one meant to create the heavens.

"Even the Strength God and Devil Clan should not have emerged during the Chaos era. They should have been born from the Ancient Divine Tree's remains after it fell creating the heavens, becoming Innate Gods and Devils.

"He himself should have been the first Chaos Great Emperor of the age of Innate Gods and Devils.

"But because of the Ancient Divine Tree's scheme, he became the one who created the heavens and died in the Divine Tree's place."

Great Emperor Jian Yu's voice had grown faint and distant.

Li Yue was astonished.

So even at the dawn of creation, there had been a scheme this terrifying.

A Supreme Grade being who should have reached the Third Step in the age of