A certain void space.
In the Outer Void, the Abyss was ancient, profound, and terrifying.
Shadows of demons continued to emerge from the Abyss.
This was destiny, and also an eternal truth that existed like Heaven's Way.
No one could change it.
They, too, sensed the stirring of a trace of Variable Fate within the heavenly secrets.
"Why is there another uncertain aura?"
The Abyss was thick with demonic shadows and never lacked fiends seeking to break into the present world of the Nine Heavens.
Seeing that the future indicated by the heavenly secrets had changed again, they could not help but feel a headache.
"Could they really have found the path ahead?"
"No. Something has probably appeared that can influence the Long River of Time in the future."
An even deeper, colder voice arose. Within the dim, lightless Abyss, none of these fiends could be considered mere cultivators anymore.
They did not cultivate the Dao, but devoured it. These fiends, rooted in devouring and distortion, differed somewhat from the Demonic Cultivators of the Nine Heavens and the Four Lands.
Yet they were not Demonic Beasts either. If they fell into becoming Demonic Beasts, they would lose all reason.
Now that they had seen the changes occurring in the Nine Heavens, they did not dare rashly charge in.
Several fiends who had made moves earlier had entered that vortex, yet no news had come from within.
It was as though they were in a state neither alive nor dead.
As for why they did not continue contacting them, they themselves likely understood that the other fiends of the Abyss could not be trusted either.
No matter what had happened, at least they had not died.
Thus, after that, once the Great Tribulation began, several more fiends split off portions of