"Hum-"
Di Yi walked out of the Scripture Pavilion, only to hesitate at the sight of the world outside.
Had I traveled through time?
Luxuriant growth covered every mountain and field, as though flowers, grasses, and trees had surrounded the place, forming a "cage."
Nor was it nighttime anymore. Sunlight spilled down, though most of it was blocked by the continuous canopy of trees.
The scene was far too different from when he had first entered the Scripture Pavilion.
It was as though tens of thousands of years had passed.
"Could I really have undergone 'reincarnation'...?" Di Yi briefly sensed his surroundings, but found no traces of the weathering of ages. The familiar auras were still there.
"Deity..." The man standing dumbstruck beneath the Heavenly Ancient Tree-no, it could now be called the Shrouding the Heavens Tree-emerged from grass taller than himself when he saw Di Yi leave the Scripture Pavilion.
"What happened to you...?" Di Yi was surprised. He recognized this man's aura: he was the one responsible for guarding the Scripture Pavilion.
But how had he become like this?
He no longer looked anything like he had before. The hair all over his body had grown so excessively that his human shape could no longer be discerned.
Soon, however, Di Yi sensed something and understood the changes that had occurred to the man and this place.
Clearly, the power that had nearly sent him into "reincarnation" earlier had not been cut off immediately. Some fluctuations had spread outside, affecting the world beyond.
Some things had grown excessively, some had fallen into a "reincarnation" of time, and some had received such excessive nourishment that they had reached states they should not have attained at this moment.
"Stay still. I'll remove all that hair for you." Di Yi raised his