What Chu Ge did not know was that the World Within the Book had also undergone a change at the very moment his esper ability failed.
Qiu Wuji had already gained the upper hand in her battle with the King of Chasing the Sun. This was both a plot point Chu Ge had explicitly written and a result of Qiu Wuji's strength genuinely surpassing the king's.
It would have been hard for anything to go wrong here.
Yet the instant Chu Ge temporarily lost his esper ability, both combatants froze.
They both sensed something wrong with the Heavenly Dao.
How could they put it...
In truth, things had returned to how they were before Chu Ge personally began surveying and changing the world. Back then, the "Heavenly Dao" had truly been remote and indefinable, a passive, abstract, indescribable fate-or a set of rules.
Ever since Chu Ge began observing the world, however, its outstanding individuals had gradually begun to sense that "gaze from above," as though heaven were watching them.
At roughly the same time, they had also experienced the "illusion" that the world was growing more real and everything in it more vivid.
The vast majority of people in the world could not sense this. Only powerful cultivators like them, at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, could perceive it, with Chu Tiange the sole exception. In short, one could say that nothing had really changed. Even if something had, it had been like a frog in slowly warming water; they had not felt the course of that change at all.
But the abrupt return to the past felt starkly obvious, like growing accustomed to gradually warming water only for it to suddenly turn cold again.
Something has gone wrong with the Heavenly Dao! The same thought surfaced in both their