Where Did the Authority Deficit List Come From, Director of Fate?

Early.

This word weighed upon the Clear Gate Register more heavily than all the previous questions.

The Remnant Position Assignment Register recoiled.

It could not move.

The Shangqing Sword Intent lay across the register's edge like a sword still sheathed, yet it nailed that half-page remnant register firmly in place.

Zhao Xuan watched it.

"Can't write it?"

Gray qi churned along the remnant register's edges.

No words appeared.

Zhao Xuan raised his brush and added another line beside the word "Early."

[Before the Investiture of the Gods deliberation.]

The moment the five characters formed, the remnant register jolted violently.

On Golden Turtle Island, all the immortals caught their breath.

The Investiture of the Gods had not even been deliberated, yet destiny had already been set?

If this claim proved true, then the so-called obedience to Heaven in answering the calamity would collapse by half before it even began.

Daoist Duobao's gaze darkened.

"Senior Disciple Brother."

"Before the Investiture of the Gods deliberation, who dared decide the divine positions in advance?"

Zhao Xuan did not answer.

He looked at the remnant register.

"I want to know that too."

The vermilion brush descended again.

[Before the Zixiao Palace assembly?]

The moment this question landed.

Outside Zixiao Palace, that gray-white phantom suddenly stilled.

Only briefly.

So briefly that almost no one could have noticed.

But the Clear Gate Register noticed.

A hairline crack appeared beside the word "Early" on the page.

It was not a crack in the Clear Gate Register.

It was a crack in the gray shadow cast by the remnant register.

Zhao Xuan laughed.

"Afraid of that question?"

He did not continue pressing toward Zixiao Palace.

Instead, he changed the line of inquiry.

[Before the Three Teachings were divided by the calamity.]

The remnant register trembled again.

This time, that