The void was boundless, endless turbulent currents weaving and darting wildly around him.
Ye Tian's eyes held the weight of ages as he transformed into a streak of light and sped forward.
He did not know how many ages had passed, yet it also seemed as if only an extremely brief moment had gone by.
Then, a long-lost voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Ye Tian, are you all right...?"
This voice had lain dormant in Ye Tian's consciousness for far too long—so long that he had nearly forgotten it existed.
His previous memories immediately surged back into his mind like a tidal wave.
Nine Provinces World, fate...
Back then, in the Chen Kingdom of Chu Zhou, he had encountered a portion of corrupted fate that belonged to Immortal Dao Mountain. In order to merge it into himself, that fate had used its powerful control over the Nine Provinces World to forcibly take Ye Tian away from that realm, all to completely erase the connection between this portion of fate and Immortal Dao Mountain.
"Has it succeeded?" Ye Tian asked.
"Yes. My connection with Immortal Dao Mountain has now been completely severed, and I can merge with the fate within your body," that portion of fate said.
"What needs to be done?"
"I will take you back to the Nine Provinces World. During the return, I will naturally merge with the fate within your body," that portion of fate said.
"Good!" Ye Tian nodded.
After he agreed, Ye Tian immediately sensed a spot of light within his body, dormant for a long time, revive and shine once more.
Then, that spot of light drifted out of Ye Tian's body. Once it entered the void, it began spinning as it expanded.
It became a vortex more than ten feet wide,