Bifang had originally come here only to see whether another possibility existed for this universe.
Now he had indeed seen one, though the result was somewhat different.
But there was no doubt that the corpse spanning this universe had surpassed the realm at the end of the Great Dao.
The future.
What a distant, unreachable word. Yet Bifang's Providence could still exert its influence here, which meant this future might truly be the future of the Nine Heavens.
Then he could draw in another fragment of Cause and Effect.
Those fragments alone were not enough to generate a world from a bygone age.
Only Cause and Effect of sufficient weight could do that.
The Golden Finger had been tailor-made for this universe. Only after entering it had the Golden Finger taken the form of Infinite Paradise.
Before entering, the Golden Finger could have been an old grandfather living inside a ring.
It could also have been a peerless cultivation manual that led one to immortality and the Dao.
Or it might have been an unrivaled treasure that granted mastery of divine arts to whoever wielded it.
In data-driven worlds, it might even have appeared as a chat group or something similar.
Only after entering this place and seeing that young man surnamed Shangguan, cast in the role of villain, had the Golden Finger come into contact with the three major powers here.
From there, it had evolved into Infinite Paradise, a power that should never have appeared in this universe.
Now that it had appeared, its ties of Cause and Effect with this world had deepened, and it could stir up even more Providence.
That was a good thing, too.
Those ancient immortals certainly had not all been erased in bygone ages.
In those ages, even Reincarnation had failed to