The grotesque rules and the rules of decay had turned into seeds, and the Flesh-and-Blood Immortal's four ghost faces had fallen asleep. Gao Ming had lost his physical body. At that cost, he had utterly destroyed the thing that had emerged from the fate giant tree.
He had not overturned fate, but killed a part of it—something no one had ever accomplished before.
Gazing up at the night sky, he saw that fate's situation had grown even worse. While Gao Ming and Lu Zang fought in the Delusion World, tremendous changes had also taken place in the Endless Mortal Worlds. The ghost gods of the Thirteen Blood Cities in the Deep World and the monsters in the boundless sea of blood had crawled out through the passage. With fate's "Awakening" killed, more and more unspeakable beings were entering the Endless Mortal Worlds.
The variable had escaped, and fate's corpse had merged into countless Mortal World Leaves. The "divine oddities" in the Yin-Yang Interstice had begun entertaining ambitions of their own. The bold ones severed fate's leaf veins and claimed entire Mortal World Leaves for themselves. The even bolder ones began trying to attack the fate giant tree, hoping to become the next fate. Beyond these, another force drew Gao Ming's attention most of all. They came from countless Mortal World Leaves. They lacked the strength of the "divine oddities," and unlike the Deep World, they wielded no rules. They were as insignificant as fireflies, yet when they filled the night, they resembled a river of stars. Every Mortal World Leaf shrouded by fate had people who resisted, and some force had brought them together through an unknown means.
This force had remained hidden all along. Only when the Deep World opened the passage and sent fate's corpse into the Endless