Southern Jambudvipa, deep in an unnamed mountain range.
The Ruined Temple.
The autumn sunlight lazily filtered through the broken roof and fell into the courtyard.
Gu Changqing still lay in that creaking recliner, basking in the sun with his eyes closed, holding a cup of freshly brewed hot tea.
The war between humans and gods outside, which had swept across the Three Realms and overturned heaven and earth, seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with him.
Before him, a pale blue screen that only he could see was flashing rapidly.
[Ding! Detected that the host successfully guided Humanity to defy heaven and change its fate, overturning the course of the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Fate-Defying Value +10,000,000!] [Ding! Detected a qualitative transformation in Humanity's fortune. Human Emperor Yin Jiao has proclaimed the independence of Humanity's Dao, no longer venerating heaven, earth, gods, or Buddhas. Fate-Defying Value +30,000,000!] [Ding! Detected that the host has been revered as Humanity's sole deity of worship, gaining a vast amount of Humanity's power of faith. Fate-Defying Value +50,000,000!] [Ding!...]
A string of system notifications cascaded down the screen like a waterfall.
His Fate-Defying Value balance soared at an unprecedented speed.
In mere moments, it broke past the hundred-million mark and kept climbing.
"Mm, not bad."
Gu Changqing took a sip of tea, not even bothering to lift his eyelids, and merely swept his divine sense over that somewhat dazzling string of numbers.
"Those two tools, Tongtian and Yin Jiao, worked pretty hard."
"All my arrangements weren't wasted after all."
He was not the least bit surprised by this result.
From the moment he had passed the Mythic Great Luo Technique to Tongtian and engraved the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art into the Human Emperor Sword, this ending had already been set in