The Fate Giant Tree could not find Gao Ming's true name, so it influenced him through those who had come into contact with him. The more deeply someone's fate was entangled with his, the more easily the tree could use them as a conduit to target him.
"Liu Yi is only the beginning. Unless the Fate Giant Tree is destroyed, everyone connected to me will die because of me, one after another."
"Fate's gaze has been fixed on me all along, trying every possible way to find my true name. Unfortunately, even I don't know what I'm called." "What a pitiful, tragic fellow. You've reached the end of fate, yet you don't even have a name."
The hand he had once extended and then withdrawn no longer hesitated. Gao Ming cupped the words traced in blood and placed them inside his dreamscape. When the power of fate was involved, death was like a drop of water falling into the ocean, leaving no trace to be found.
Gao Ming stayed in the hospital for a long time. Only when the Afterlife Butcher's Knife erupted with brilliant light did he leave and head for the next mortal world. All the mortal world's Leaf Veins had been severed, and its inhabitants had escaped control. Fate could no longer influence this Mortal World Leaf. Yet just now, Gao Ming and the Afterlife Butcher's Knife had both sensed a lingering wisp of fate's aura fleeing somewhere.
He arrived at the tunnel on the edge of the city. Gao Ming knew this place very well; it was here that he had emerged from the Yin-Yang Interstice.
"A crossroads between mortal worlds?"
Whether or not fate was deliberately luring him in, Gao Ming had no reason to retreat. If he waited for fate to finish its preparations