Moon God Shezhi

"Dr. Shezhi, you... you're still alive."

Although Dr. Shezhi had now aged to the point where she could barely speak.

Seeing someone who had lived for four thousand years still stirred something within him.

And Li Ran suddenly understood why the Penglai Immortal had sent him here.

Not only the Penglai Immortal, but Lilith as well.

"I understand now."

The tangled mess of threads in Li Ran's mind seemed to have suddenly found its loose end.

Once he pulled out that end, the seemingly chaotic threads all unraveled into order.

Lilith, the Penglai Immortal, even Moonrise City itself—this city untouched by the virus—Dr. Shezhi had been the force behind all of it.

Those who had silently borne the burden and fought against Indra.

That force lurking in the shadows, holding Indra back.

They had all been arranged by Dr. Shezhi.

After Li Ran had been sent back four thousand years by Zeref's power, he had always believed he would never see Dr. Shezhi again.

Dr. Shezhi could not possibly have lived until now.

Yet now, he had not only seen the supposedly dead Zeref, but also Dr. Shezhi, who was hanging on by a thread.

An utterly unbelievable thought suddenly surfaced in Li Ran's mind.

Could Dr. Shezhi have spent four thousand years laying plans to fight Indra?

Was Dr. Shezhi also the one pulling the strings behind Lilith and the Penglai Immortal?

Had she spent four thousand years planning all for this moment?

Now, the Heaven-Reaching Tower had been destroyed, the Laws of Investiture had crumbled, and spiritual energy had begun to revive.

And Li Ran had come here.

It was no coincidence.

He recalled what Lilith had said: she had noticed him the moment he entered his first instance dungeon.

No matter how powerful Lilith was, she could