According to the original script, it should have taken another two years before Miss Wendy fell to darkness and became the strongest Herrscher.
But because Mo Yi had repeatedly disrupted the God of Honkai, the God of Honkai—whose role on the Imaginary Tree was to assess whether civilizations were qualified to continue drawing nourishment from the Imaginary Tree and growing—had originally not cared much about Herrschers being defeated. Otherwise, when faced with Lord Green Otto's questions, it would not have generously told him the method as though teaching a student preparing for exams. It was only that he could not accept such an excessive amount of truth.
To the God of Honkai, sending Herrschers to strike at civilizations was merely routine work. Reason Herrschers, Void Herrschers, and the like were only monthly tests. Only the Herrscher of the End was a final exam worth its attention, testing whether that civilization could hand in a paper that satisfied it. But—
It had encountered Mo Yi before and sensed a power system from him that belonged neither to the Imaginary Tree nor the Sea of Quantum!
After discovering this interesting and important finding, the Imaginary Tree could not help but begin operating, wanting to continue probing Mo Yi for information. For an existence like the Imaginary Tree, transcendence was its sole purpose. Otherwise, it would not have been locked in its endless love-hate struggle with the Sea of Quantum.
Now that it had discovered another possibility, how could the Imaginary Tree possibly give up such a good opportunity? Thus, its civilization-selection mechanism, "Honkai," activated once more. This time, it was indeed deliberately stirring up trouble and unreasonably raising the difficulty.
Thus, the dormant Gem of Desire suddenly began to stir. Having learned the inside story from Fu Hua, Derishya decided to rescue