What an unexpected windfall!
Where his true body was, Li Su slowly opened his eyes.
His avatar had already fallen asleep and would awaken on its own if anything urgent happened.
Of course, that was not the point.
The point was...!
Slowly raising his hand, Li Su could not help but draw in a breath as he looked at the sheet of yellow paper resting in his palm.
There was no writing on it, yet the paper itself was incomparably mystical. A hazy light flowed within it, and astonishing power filled the lines of its grain.
It was unlike any power he had sensed before.
He could feel immense fate entwined within it, mingled with the powers of life and death.
The Human Book, the Book of Life and Death!
One of the three great extraordinary books of the Primordial World's Three Realms, standing alongside the Heavenly Book, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Earth Book, the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Of the three, only the Investiture of the Gods was widely known, its might immeasurable. By contrast, the Human Book, the Book of Life and Death, had appeared only once in Journey to the West, where it had even been casually altered by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, seeming to possess little power.
But was that really so?
This was an extraordinary book that governed the lifespans of every living being in the entire Primordial World. That function alone doomed it to be immensely powerful.
Anything involving the fates of all living beings in the Primordial World was itself supreme karma.
At the very least, after gaining the Book of Life and Death's recognition and obtaining a single page, Li Su had been profoundly affected.
Though his avatar had obtained it, it returned to his true