[You felt the slight improvement in your divine soul and will, satisfaction settling over your face.]
[Although breaking through each illusory world brought only a small improvement, there were so many of them.]
[Quantitative change would bring qualitative change.]
["The ninety-seventh illusory world..."]
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[You looked at the newly condensed illusory world, your expression growing solemn.]
[This illusory world was even more realistic than the ninety-sixth one you had just broken through. At least at first glance, you could not spot a single flaw or inconsistency.]
[The details of how heaven and earth operated, even the fluctuations within the layers of space... everything was nearly perfect.]
["One step at a time."]
[You withdrew your divine sense from the Black Chessboard, intending to study your arts for a while and give your mind a change of pace.]
[In the three hundred and tenth year, you were three hundred and twenty-seven.]
[You finished cultivating and left your cave abode.]
["Judging by the time, that child with the primordial yin treasure body should be about to be born..."]
[You calculated on your fingers and looked toward the Southern Sea.]
[In roughly thirteen years, that child with the primordial yin treasure body would be discovered by True Lord Lishui as he passed through, triggering a great battle between True Lords.]
[At this point, however, the child with the primordial yin treasure body had yet to be born.]
[During your previous simulation, you had thoroughly investigated that child's background. Which archipelago she had been born in, her family members' names, their distinguishing features-you knew it all by heart.]
[If you had not been worried that intervening early would alter her fate-for instance, bringing her parents to Heavenly Sword Peak ahead of time, only for their child to be born without the primordial yin treasure body...]