[Waiting for a long time?!]
[You looked toward "Chen Hei." He was no longer watching the Eldest Prince, whose grand display heralded the imminent formation of a grotto-heaven. Instead, he stared straight at you.]
[Your gazes met, and for a moment, the atmosphere grew extraordinarily tense!]
[You immediately activated your [Purple Talent: True-Sight Eye] to inspect the information panel of "Chen Hei" before you:]
[[Target]: Chen Hei] [[Realm]: Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking Ninth Level] [[Entries]: Golden Heaven's Mandate (black)] [[Heaven and Earth in Accord (purple)]] [[Chess Player] (purple—black)] [[Ill-Fated Path] (black)] [Status: Supreme scheming, a True Lord's setup, missing memories, opportunities bring calamity rather than fortune, ominous late years, True Self absent, watched by heaven and earth] [Evaluation: He should have been one born in response to fortune, destined to face the tribulation. Bearing a golden-grade [Heaven's Mandate], his life should have shone with utmost brilliance, endowed with both illusion and reality, his fate pattern elusive.] [Alas, he was born at the wrong time, rendering everything an illusion.] [One mistake after another: the wrong time, the wrong place, the wrong opportunity. Under these conditions, every aspect of his destiny was bleak.]
[There had been no Transformation. It was the same as when you had inspected him before.]
[As the [Past Self], this "Chen Hei" had, you could say, no chance whatsoever of turning the tables in this future spacetime...]
[To a certain extent, you even regarded him as nothing more than a chess piece—a useful chess piece.]
[That was the full extent of his usefulness. You did owe his [Future Self], the Chen Family Ancestor, a favor, but frankly, what you had owed him back then was only a single Heaven and Earth Wonder.]
[The resources you had now given him would have covered even a hundred Heaven and