"Is this your final choice?"
“To form a symbiosis with an ant that happened to gain consciousness in a crack in the Universe, cast away your dignity, and wait to die, pitiful and lowly?”
Anger spread across all three faces on the Flesh Monument. They roared:
“You entrusted your Fate to a mortal! You are our disgrace!”
Their voices multiplied into hundreds of millions, blanketing every Void. They bore down on Xu Yuan with the weight of a thousand jun.
But the Paper Strip clung to the Shrine, and together they said:
"You want to eat me? I want to eat you too. We don't know who'll win yet!"
Boundless divine light enveloped Xu Yuan.
The force of those voices could not break through the light to strike him.
“Your Fate is already sealed. Why struggle?”
The three faces sneered.
“And you? How do you plan to change your Fate?” the Paper Strip and the Shrine asked with a cold laugh.
"At least I can eat you first!" the three Flesh faces said.
"Eat, eat, eat. Is that all you ever think about? Can't we be friends?" Xu Yuan asked.
"No one asked you, ant."
Damn it.
Xu Yuan had just enough time to raise a middle finger. Then his vision blurred, and the whole world changed.
In an instant.
A flight attendant walked past him and smiled.
Beyond the window lay a blue sea and sky.
The plane flew steadily onward.
He sat in a wide, comfortable seat, reading letters from his fans.
This was—
Earth.
His previous life!
He was in his twenties, fresh from winning the championship, taking a brief rest aboard the plane.
Could it be...
Xu Yuan picked up his phone and checked the time.
It was 11:37 a.m. on January 10, 2026.
In a