[My Old Self Made His Move, the "Road to Immortality" Was About to Open, a Plot Quest Was Triggered, the Seal Would Be Lifted]

[You gazed at the [Heavenly Emperor] before you, towering waves of shock surging through your heart, refusing to subside.]

[Why had this world's incomplete laws, entangled in boundless [Karmic Sin], given rise to such an existence?]

[This simply defied all reason!]

[But your life hung by a thread, leaving you no time to dwell on it.]

[To save your life, you decided to stake everything on a single throw and use your one-use [Transform All Beings] talent.]

[—You would directly imagine "another version of yourself who had attained the Attainment of the Dao" to fight in your place!]

[Yet the transformation you imagined never happened.]

[It failed?!]

[That "other self" who had already attained the Attainment of the Dao had actually refused your summons?!]

[What kind of joke was this? Even a heaven-defying ability like [Transform All Beings] could be refused?]

[Wasn't it supposed to let me transform however I pleased?]

[Just as you stood dumbfounded, the dormant [Rainbow Talent: Fifth Black Hand] deep within your sea of consciousness suddenly erupted with a brilliant burst of rainbow light.]

[Immediately afterward, a cold, familiar message appeared:]

["Do not attempt to summon me.]

[First, figure out the arrangements in the [Northern Land of Sin], then travel to the [Supreme True Realm] a thousand years from now. Only then can we meet."]

["I have already secretly activated [Escape One] and [Colorful heaven's mandate] to aid you."]

[Turning calamity into good fortune should be nothing out of the ordinary. If you still perish, summoning me would do you no good either."]

[The first half went in one ear and out the other, but when you heard the words "[Escape One] and [Colorful heaven's mandate],"]

[Your taut heartstrings instantly relaxed.]

["Turning calamity into good fortune"...]

[Since that "Old Self" had intervened, perhaps this crisis really