[The [Immortal] had not descended in person. A single trailing strand of his gaze had already wrought a scene of world-ending destruction.]
[That gaze had not been directed at them deliberately, yet it drove countless Supreme Existences mad, reducing them to sacrificial victims.]
[And the projection of that supremely exalted gaze fell straight toward the [Supreme True Realm].]
[—Or rather, toward the enormous, nearly perfected [fruit position] formed from the [Eastern Domain] and the entire [Dream Realm].]
[At that moment, you and every other being understood this [Supreme Immortal]'s purpose:]
[He would personally enter the fray, pay an enormous price, annihilate the "fruit" you had won by staking everything, and cut off all your schemes!]
[But... how exactly had this [Supreme Immortal] managed to cast down a projection of his gaze?]
[You looked into the distance, your gaze piercing falsehood and reaching straight into the heart of the [Supreme True Realm], until you finally found the answer.]
[—It was the work of [Heaven and Earth]!]
[It, too, refused to allow the [Dream Master]'s fruit position to manifest in the Present World, and so it accelerated the [Supreme True Realm]'s progression.]
[Though you did not know precisely how it had done so, this directly caused the [Immeasurable Kalpa] to begin ahead of time!]
[Just as Senior Lin Feng had said:]
[“The contest between chess players is merely the product of mutual compromise. All things are Chess Pieces, and once a Chess Piece is placed, there is no taking it back.”]
[Neither the [Supreme Immortal] nor [Heaven and Earth] wished for the Dream Master's fruit position to manifest in the Present World. This was the essence of their mutual compromise.]
[Just as in the previous simulation, the [Immeasurable Kalpa] should have begun Five Hundred Years later.]
[The [Mysterious Dao Master]'s faction had