Li Su was somewhat stunned. He had never expected that, at the final moment, the one who appeared and blocked the Human Emperor's attack would be her.
Honestly, he would not have been surprised if any of those old monsters from the top sects that had already fused with this world's distortion had appeared. Yet the one who emerged in the end was Di Gongrui, who had been the first to withdraw and resist the world's distortion by sealing herself away.
Looking at the incomparably bizarre Di Gongrui, Li Su drew a deep breath.
So that was how it was!
All along, she had been searching for something. She had done so in Heavenly Moon Grotto, and likewise in Li Province. Yet afterward, as her cultivation steadily rose and the truth of this world gradually came to light, she stopped searching instead.
Clearly, in the beginning, her memories had yet to awaken. She had merely instinctively sensed that something was wrong, which was why she had kept searching. Once she fully understood what the problem was, however, she stopped looking and directly chose to give up.
Her behavior undoubtedly seemed deeply contradictory. She had laid flat far too quickly.
But what if she was this world itself? Or rather, the manifestation of this world's will?
It was like an ordinary person discovering they had cancer—not merely cancer, but fucking late-stage cancer that had already spread everywhere, with no possible cure left. What could they do?
That explained the contradictions in her actions before and after.
In fact, she had also proven her identity.
Her appearance had not come by cutting in from the side of the earthly baleful tribulation qi. She had emerged directly from within the world core.
What a joke—the world core was the key to why this