[Sweet satisfaction, settling scores, destroying the [Blazing Sun Sacred Land], killing the [Incumbent Dao Master]]

[After hearing this intelligence, you understood why "Old Self" had remained unresponsive.]

[Presumably, he had gone to settle accounts with [Heaven and Earth] and the [Supreme Immortal].]

[The intelligence explicitly stated that they had completely abandoned their arrangements for the [present] and placed all their stakes on the [future].]

[As for what puzzled them—]

[—why had the "Sliver of Vitality" in the [present] suddenly vanished, turning the [present] into something "truly predetermined"?]

[That could only be explained by the [Simulator]!]

[That "Sliver of Vitality" was Purple Cloud True Lord's—no, she should now be called [Purple Cloud True Person]—[life-bound divine ability], [Little Wish].]

[But just as they deployed her ability and began laying their plans, "Old Self" also obtained the "Sliver of Vitality" from the Simulator's simulation rewards.]

[In other words, this "Sliver of Vitality" no longer worked against him!]

[They truly had no way left to break out of their predicament.]

[And that [era fruit] should have been the [origin world tree] from the [First Future Simulation].]

[Back then, with nothing more than a single unripe [era fruit], the [Supreme Immortal]]

[had forcibly altered reality, rendering the [Heavenly Secrets Palace] ineffective and nearly killing the Simulated Clone with his gaze, bringing all your efforts to ruin.]

[So you knew full well how powerful an [era fruit] was.]

[Yet "Old Self" had forcibly plucked it?!]

[He truly defied the heavens.]

[Then presumably, "Old Self" was now cleaning up the contingencies that the [Supreme Immortal] and [Heaven and Earth] had failed to "take away" from the [present]!]

[With that thought, you directly controlled the "other self" left in Chen Qingyan's past-life secret realm and had him leave the "secret realm."]

[He went neither to the [Myriad Beasts Mountain Range] nor to the [Dream Realm] in the [Northern World Domain].]

[He headed straight