What a Star-Crossed Pair~

"Hmph..." Feiying poked her head out from behind the tree, aggrieved, and stared at Yaoguang resentfully.

Sera didn't move. He remained seated in the tree, watching.

"Why are you so fierce when you talk? But since you have a good eye and recognized where I came from at a glance, I'll answer a few questions. Leave as soon as we're done, okay? Maskless supplicant."

Feiying held up three fingers.

"Three questions. Once you've asked them, I'm sending you away."

Yaoguang smiled and walked up to Feiying.

"First question: who are you?"

"Why doesn't a diviner skilled in fortune-telling try divining the answer?"

"I have, but your destiny is completely empty."

"All right."

Sera interrupted the conversation and jumped down from the tree.

"One of the Seven Arbiter-Generals, General Rongtao of the Xianzhou. What business does the Xianzhou have here?"

Yaoguang looked at Sera in surprise. "Mr. Seraphis of the Genius Society, you jest. This has nothing to do with the Alliance. I came solely because I divined that the Dual-Phase Paradise had some connection to me."

"But why are you here? And with this... Miss Ambrosial Arbor? Oh, I'm not mistaken, am I?"

"Nothing to do with the Alliance?" Sera almost laughed. "Then what are the two Xianzhou ships near Hattrypia doing?"

"Naturally, they're there to guard against the Lord Ravager Finality."

"Let's speak plainly, General Yaoguang."

Sera gestured to Feiying.

"Huh? Oh!" Feiying caught on.

"I'm the referee of the Phantasmoon Games, and also a supplicant Aha forced into this round."

Yaoguang understood.

"Did something go wrong?"

"At first, I thought it was to stop the extraterritorial heavenly demon lord, but..." Feiying looked at Sera.

"After White Kitty pointed it out, I realized something was wrong with the divine remains of Voracity suppressed by the Phantasmoon Ritual."

"So... that's the reason an ominous omen hangs over everyone in this world?"

Yaoguang's expression was complicated. Since the matter concerned Aeons, she could only do her best.

"Mm." Sera nodded.

"Finality has been laying plans for a century, and now, with my arrival, he has entered the game ahead of time, secretly helping the dead Dr. Primitive revive Voracity.

Once Voracity awakens, the first to suffer will be the Dual-Phase Paradise and Aha, who stole Their 'aftertaste.'

This will be the prelude to 'madness' unfolding across the galaxy."

Sera warned her.

"So, General Yaoguang, drawing Lan's bow will mark the beginning of the galaxy's end."

"I understand. This is a matter of great importance. The Xianzhou will do everything it can to stop it."

Yaoguang nodded solemnly.

"But this is your account alone, after all. I believe you, of course, but those old fellows in the Alliance..."

Yaoguang shook her head with a wry smile.

"No matter." Sera smiled.

"I have a reason of my own to get the Xianzhou involved."

"Oh?"

"In the Dual-Phase Paradise, someone is conducting experiments using the flesh and blood of an Emanator of Abundance."

"Is it Shuhu?" Though Yaoguang phrased it as a question, she already knew the answer.

"Correct. I have reason to suspect that Finality may help Shuhu come back to life and disrupt the Phantasmoon Games."

As Sera spoke, he pointed at the Octopus Mask.

"This is the mask worn by the host of Shuhu's flesh and blood. Using Shuhu to draw the Alliance into the game and make The Hunt draw the bow is also part of Finality's plan."

"In that case, the Alliance has a reason to enter the game that the company cannot refuse."

A smile touched Yaoguang's lips.

"Since Finality wants to scheme against the Alliance, we'll naturally enter the game as he wishes."

"Why haven't you put on your mask yet?" As the referee of the Phantasmoon Games, Feiying thought she should speed things along. But unless the eighth supplicant put on her mask, the Phantasmoon Games couldn't be said to have fully begun.

"There's something you don't know, Miss Referee." Yaoguang shook her head.

"The divine power bestowed upon me is the Kalachakra Celestial Pheasant Wisdom King, which represents the Eye of The Hunt. It helps me observe the future, but once I put on the mask, my ability will be amplified by it. It will no longer observe the future, but anchor it.

"I've also tried throwing the mask away, but it always appears in my hand again when I'm not paying attention."

"That makes things difficult..." Feiying fell into thought. Finally, she gave up thinking and looked at Sera.

"White Kitty, you must have a way, right?"

"That's somewhat like Nous's calculations. Personally, it's impossible for anyone else to anchor my future." Sera pondered. He did not exist under anyone else's control of destiny.

Sera's past, present, and future were all within the sight of the Cocoon of Finality. Only his own will could determine his destiny.

"But as for anyone else, I don't have a solution for now. I'm not sure whether I can prevent others from being anchored. The only reason you can't see Feiying's destiny is the chaos of Elation."

"However..." Sera left them in suspense.

"However what?" Feiying circled Sera curiously. "White Kitty, hurry up and tell us!"

Yaoguang was puzzled too, but she patiently watched Sera.

"However, nobody said the anchored future had to be a bad one, did they?"

Sera smiled.

"I have something up my sleeve that will definitely resolve the danger, so the future won't be too bad."

"And Finality's ability uses possibilities to perform Imagenesis. General Yaoguang can anchor him as the only one."

"So why not take a gamble? Bet that, under my influence, everyone in the Dual-Phase Paradise will be impossible to anchor along with me. Even if it doesn't work, I can still handle it."

Sera looked at Yaoguang.

"Well? General Yaoguang, would you like to take that gamble?"

"Sure."

Yaoguang smiled. She, too, was someone who wanted to change her fate; otherwise, she wouldn't have contracted that illness.

Yaoguang hesitated no longer and put on the mask. The blank supplicant's mask turned into a peacock mask.

She took off the mask and drew a deep breath. Opening her eyes, she looked nervously at Feiying and Sera.

"I still can't see either of you."

Sera took out a mirror and handed it to Yaoguang.

Yaoguang took the mirror and looked at herself in it.

"Nothing."

Yaoguang was somewhat delighted.

Her destiny hadn't been anchored. That meant there was plenty of room to maneuver.

"So once you included me in your observation, you really couldn't anchor the future. But... can you still anchor Finality?"

"Of course. I imagine it's because you regard Finality as an enemy."

Yaoguang shook her head and said with feeling,

"Not held in destiny's grasp, deciding your own fate. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I truly wouldn't have dared believe it."

"I imagine even the Sky Roving Divine Sovereign wasn't as free as you."

"Akivili..." Sera couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and once again revealed a major secret.

"Could I put it this way? A Nameless is trying to destroy the world?"

"?" Feiying and Yaoguang both looked at him in confusion.

"That Lord Ravager, Finality, used to be the Express's navigator. I'm sure you've heard his name: Stargazer, Wojian."

"From Weidi, the Masked Fool who followed Aha to fight Voracity at the beginning, to Wojian, who boarded the Astral Express in search of the end of the world and journeyed with Akivili on the Trailblaze, and finally to Finality, who wanted to grant Aha release before Aha fell.

"Finality and Aha really are a star-crossed pair~"