Leaving the biting winds of the Far North behind, Dai Youheng and his companions entered the Heaven Dou Empire. As they traveled south through a dense sea of forest, Dai Youheng suddenly stopped and instinctively pressed a hand to his forehead.
A strange, indistinct tremor rose from the depths of his soul, as though someone had plucked an invisible thread.
Then two fleeting yet remarkably clear images forced their way into his mind like fragments of a shattered dream!
The first: a dazzling golden tree, radiating boundless life energy, was tightly entwined and enveloped by the phantom of a majestic, sacred dragon whose entire body seemed formed from condensed light. The dragon and tree appeared to have become one, exuding an aura both tragically heroic and eternal.
The second: a Dark Sacred Dragon, similar in form to the Radiant Sacred Dragon but pitch-black all over, emanated an unfathomable aura of deathly stillness and destruction. It faced several immensely powerful figures in a tense standoff, swords drawn and bows bent, ready to erupt at the slightest touch!
The images vanished in a flash, but the information they contained sent a tremendous shock through Dai Youheng's heart.
"The Radiant Sacred Dragon and the Dark Sacred Dragon-Mu En and Long Xiaoyao?" he murmured. In an instant, he understood the source of this sudden perception: the power of destiny he had acquired through his bargain with the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Beast!
He needed this power to preserve, as far as possible, the advantage that only someone who had transmigrated into this world possessed.
That advantage was foreknowledge of the plot.
This was the so-called butterfly effect. His arrival in this world would inevitably cause enormous changes to the plot. Its broad course might remain similar, but certain parts could become completely