[[Major Divine Ability]-[Primordial Unity Nine Heavens Soul-Suppressing Seal], an unexpected description]

["!!!"]

[Old Self... had been forced out?!]

[Was this some kind of joke?!]

[You found it hard to believe.]

[Scenes from the past flashed through your mind. Old Self's silence had not meant he was unwilling—he had been unable to act!]

[He had been locked down by the rules!]

[Judging by the information from these [Seven Rings],]

["Old Self" could only remain trapped in the [present]; any interference with the [future] was futile.]

[The only reason he had been able to help you was that his desire to "help you" had led him to set the starting point in the [Land of Sin].]

[So that message back then—]

[The future game has undergone a drastic upheaval.]

[At this moment, you are in the [Northern Land of Sin], a thousand years in the future.]

[Only here does a sliver of opportunity to maneuver remain.]

[That "opportunity to maneuver" had meant that the [Land of Sin] lay outside the jurisdiction of [karmic law]!]

[As for the drastic upheaval in the [future game], Old Self clearly knew nothing about it either. Otherwise, he would never have been so vague; he would have told you outright.]

[Then...]

[From this, you deduced that being "forcibly" expelled from the [Land of Sin] and brought into this grand age a thousand years later had been no coincidence.]

[The phrase "various reasons" in the information was extraordinarily telling.]

[A Heaven-Throughing Chess Player was definitely placing pieces in the shadows!]

[They might even have been plotting against Old Self, while you were merely a piece being moved across the chessboard.]

[Was it [Heaven and Earth]?]

[Or the legendary [Supreme Immortal]?!]

[This meant that you were now exposed, naked and defenseless, within the other party's game.]

[You had no Old Self to rely on, no powerful backing.]

[What alarmed you