Let the World Hear the Name of Heaven's Mandate Again!

"I'm Heaven's Mandate. In case you've lost too much of your memory, I'll explain what happened as simply as I can."

"This is one of the Resource Coordinates you set up."

"Inside, you'll find..."

"Just see for yourself. It's all here anyway."

"If you're reading this, chances are you died and have now returned."

"The opportunity to become an Acquired Dark Monarch was too great. You should never have gotten involved, but no Strange Entity could have resisted the temptation. Don't lose heart."

"Keep at it. Make a comeback."

"Don't fall in the darkness before dawn."

Chen Fan silently read the inscription on the stone tablet. It offered little useful information. The one thing it did tell him was that Heaven's Mandate had died fighting for the opportunity to become an Acquired Dark Monarch, but he already knew that from the Yellow Springs Wraiths.

The rest was basically a pep talk.

This guy...

At a place this important, he'd written a whole bunch of words to comfort himself?

And "don't fall in the darkness before dawn" was a human saying, wasn't it? It hardly suited Strange Entities. Did they even look forward to dawn?

He continued inward.

He passed rows of Level-10 Eerie Stones displayed on shelves.

Farther in,

a formation covered the ground.

It spanned a large area.

He couldn't understand it, but he could tell it hadn't been activated. Its markings were dark and dull.

Another stone tablet stood beside it.

"This is the Race Conversion Formation. It can convert humans, members of the Dragon Clan, Centaur Clan, and other races into members of the Strange Entity Clan. Converting humans is pointless—you'd just get a bunch of Doppelganger Wraiths. But converting dragons or centaurs can give you powerful fighters."

"I don't know how long you'll sleep before you