If the fall of the Crystal Demon Emperor could still be seen as the inevitable course of life—after all, she had lived for over three thousand years—then what of everything that happened afterward? The instability of the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain, the disruption in destiny's control, and even the eventual appearance of the Misfortune Pearl.0

After that came the death of the Adamant Nymph Emperor. Death by the hands of others, no less. The awakening of the Ancestral Tree, the matchmaking tournament, the grand auction and the Battle for the Throne… Were these not all events unseen for millennia?0

When, exactly, had the peace of the Ancestral Court, and indeed of the entire Daemon Continent, begun to break? 0

He did not know. 0

Even the Master of Destiny did...0