Xiao Mu wandered around Twilight Forest Village just as he had the past few days, having lost the trail of the Variant Cultivator. He decided to start with the abnormal events in the village, hoping to find clues to the Variant Cultivator through these anomalies, to find the Variant Cultivation Method, to find the Mutated Beings from beyond Heaven and Earth and the Life and Death Sect, to enhance his strength, and to acquire Energy Points.

The situation that day, however, was markedly different from before, particularly for Xiao Mu, whose Spiritual Perception was keen to the Taoist Law, almost immediately sensing the discrepancy.

The atmosphere throughout Twilight Forest Village had become much more oppressive. The morning sun was brilliant, yet the sky had become even darker, casting a dimness as though twilight had already come.

"Something seems off today. I have a premonition that something is about to happen. Brother Mu, please be very careful when you go out."

As he was about to leave, Zhao Jingyan set down the work in his hands to warn Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu agreed and left as usual. Before long, he had changed his identity, transforming into the guise of a Wandering Daoist, and walked slowly around the village.

Boom, boom, boom!

Thunder roared in the high skies; the sun at just past nine o'clock suddenly dimmed, its brightness seeming to reduce by another thirty percent in an instant.

A strong unease surged in Xiao Mu's heart, making him feel that something was amiss. He couldn't help but open his spiritual eyes and look up into the sky, and in that instant, he saw something ordinary people couldn't see.

From the endless high skies, a huge noise erupted. A massive, pitch-black object too vast to see its edges, seemingly larger than the sky itself, suddenly fell from above, its enormous shadow covering Heaven and Earth, blocking out the sun.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Heaven and Earth trembled; that massive, pitch-black object was stopped by an invisible barrier in the sky, emitting earth-shaking roars.

Heaven and Earth began to shake; the Earth trembled, and Xiao Mu sensed an anomaly that no one else could detect.

However, the impact of that massive object on this realm did not last long, disappearing after a few minutes, and the sky and Earth returned to normal.

Of course, this was only in the eyes of Xiao Mu. Ordinary people could not sense it, and they were even unaware that this realm had just been attacked.

The attack gone, yet Xiao Mu felt an eerie sensation within.

That short few minutes of assault seemed to have changed this realm.

He cautiously looked down at the ground; the Earth had not moved but was changing at an astonishing rate.

Xiao Mu felt his heart sink. The ground beneath his feet was no longer the same. The surface of the Earth had been covered by a strange power.

Something was wrong! What had happened?

Xiao Mu's face slightly changed; he suddenly felt an odd pressure suddenly enveloping him.

Hurriedly, he closed his eyes, feeling it intently.

The pressure was extremely complex, as if were some kind of irresistible Heavenly Dao rule, involving life, old age, sickness, death, poverty, disaster, fate, and Retribution.

"It's life, death, Retribution, Reincarnation. The power of Heavenly Dao has extended over here!"

Xiao Mu's face changed again; he clearly sensed what the newly emerged power was—life, death, Retribution, fate.

The Supreme Power governed by the four great Emperors of the Heavenly Court.

"No, that's not it!"

Quickly, Xiao Mu realized his initial conjecture was wrong. "Fate, life, death, and Reincarnation already existed in this world. However, since this realm was separated from the Heavenly Court, the power of the four great Emperors couldn't extend here, which is why these four authorities could not take effect."

"Just now, the unknown powerful being who attacked this realm, although their attack was blocked by this realm, the power of the four great Emperors somehow seeped in."

"From now on, this realm will likely be governed by fate, life, death, Reincarnation, and Retribution."

Xiao Mu's face became increasingly grim; he could feel that pressure.

Before, for the Mutated Beings of the Human world, because the authority of life, death, fate, Reincarnation, and Retribution couldn't penetrate, every Mutated Being who broke through the Mortal Realm had the ability to live forever.

However, now, as the authority of life, death, fate, Reincarnation, and Retribution had infiltrated this world, everything had changed. Mutated Beings could no longer live forever; every Mutated Being would be subject to the influence of life, death, Retribution, Reincarnation, and fate.

"The veil over fate is gone!"

Xiao Mu sensed himself again. After discovering something new, his expression became even more somber.

He had once entered the Reincarnation Path with the esteemed Huang Yuan to find the object that veiled fate, to conceal life and death and avoid Heavenly Court's calculations.

Now, as the power of the four great Emperors had seeped into the Human world, the veil over fate had immediately become ineffective. On Xiao Mu, there was no longer any effect.

This meant he would once again be influenced by fate, life, death, Reincarnation, and Retribution.

"It's a good thing the four great Emperors haven't truly entered this realm, and I have already advanced to the realm of Divine Spirits, possessing certain abilities to oppose the Heavenly Dao. The four great Emperors can no longer kill me at will in the outer realm."

Xiao Mu breathed a sigh of relief, grateful that his strength had increased quickly enough.

"As for everyone else, who knows? In any case, with the power of the Heavenly God seeping in, this realm is likely to experience a Calamity."

At the moment, Xiao Mu couldn't guess the status of others, but based on the pressure of Heavenly Dao he was enduring, he suspected that others couldn't be faring well. The majority of Mutated Beings probably faced even greater struggles than he did.

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