Jiang Hao, who had already crossed over to the Otherworld, had no idea that the Temple learning system he had left behind had nearly driven a top student from a Project 211 university mad. Even if he had known, he would not have cared. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
As a Huaxia student who had worked his way up through one exam after another, he naturally wanted to give something back to the public. To that end, he had prepared countless settings that would teach people around the world what it meant to say there was no shortcut through a mountain of books but diligence, and no end to a sea of exams but hard work.
The moment he returned to the Otherworld, he released the gift he had carefully prepared for the Lord of Omniscience: a fragment of consciousness consumed by madness.
Slick tentacles sprouted from its surface. Dark red flesh writhed and congealed into a shadowy barrier, while eerie eyes tore free of the flesh and gazed wildly at this world, at once familiar and strange.
In the Lord of Omniscience's Divine Kingdom in the Abyss, an old man raised his head and looked at the gray sky. "The Fate Sovereign has returned!"
"And he's prepared a gift for me. The part of my consciousness that was corrupted!"
The old man smiled faintly. Nothing that had happened in the past or was happening now in this universe could escape him. "But it's only been a few months. How badly could you have corrupted my consciousness—"
His smile froze. The world before his eyes seemed to have been smeared with pitch-black ink, and a stench so thick it choked him forced its way into his nostrils.
The stench came from foul, seething desires.
Drops of blood,