"I must admit, for a long time, I haven't truly faced this New World that was altered by the divine seal. In fact, even the previous world called the 'Original World' might have been a product modified countless times by the divine seal of an ancient civilization." The Master of Divine Seal, Tai Sui, said, "When looking at the people around me, I've always, intentionally or unintentionally, treated them as fictional virtual characters, like NPCs in video games. I was too arrogant.

"And Yama delivered a blow to me that woke me up entirely."

By analyzing Tai Sui's personality and his possession of the black divine seal disc, Evangelist Master Yan Mo could easily deduce Tai Sui's true intent.

Eliminating Doomsday with the power of the divine seal sounds quite beautiful, but from Yan Mo's perspective, this approach only had one possible outcome: to correct the current human history, turning his existence into something that never happened.

This approach is absolutely unacceptable. To protect the 'current world,' Yan Mo unhesitatingly attacked Tai Sui.

As for the power of Impermanence, Tai Sui and Huang Quan are almost on the same level. Furthermore, due to the conflict between his spirituality and the New World, it was difficult for him to maneuver his power skillfully. Faced with Yan Mo, who was two levels stronger than Xuanming, Tai Sui was powerless to fight back and was swiftly defeated.

However, at that time, Tai Sui already had some ability to use the black divine seal disc.

In fact, like his former student—whom Xuanming and I referred to as the 'Seal Master'—Tai Sui was also a user of the complete divine seal and had the right to use the black divine seal disc.

But the authority to wield the seal should have been singular; if one side occupies more, the other side takes less. In this world reconstructed by the Seal Master, the share occupied by Tai Sui, the Master of Divine Seal, was significantly squeezed. Although the black divine seal disc should have had the power to easily overwhelm Evangelist Master Yan Mo, Tai Sui was unable to unleash its full potential.

He could only utilize a limited portion of the wishing power within it, and that extent was not sufficient for him to turn the tables. Just like Yinyue in the past could wield superpowers that fulfilled most wishes, she still couldn't overcome the overwhelming power disparity. Originally, Tai Sui wanted to use this power to travel through time and space to the Living World, but he was intercepted by Yan Mo before he could formally set out. So, in his dying moments, Tai Sui made a decision.

To prevent the black divine seal disc from falling into Yan Mo's hands, Tai Sui commanded the black divine seal disc to self-destruct with his authority and let the scattered fragments traverse to the Living World.

Due to Yan Mo's interference, only a very few divine seal fragments managed to traverse successfully, falling into the Post-mortem World. There was even one divine seal fragment that didn't manage to successfully pierce the rift between the two worlds and got stuck in the void. This is why I discovered a divine seal fragment in the fifteenth-floor basement, and the divine seal fragments that Little Bowl and No. 7 obtained in the past were also those that failed to traverse successfully.

At the time of his death, Tai Sui also did one more thing, which was to attach his soul to those divine seal fragments that were dispersed.

"I simulated the talent of the Divine Son with the power of the divine seal," the Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui said. "After discovering that my spirituality could not adapt to the New World, I searched for many ways to overcome it, one of which was to acquire the talent of the Divine Son to strengthen my adaptability.

"This approach was not going smoothly. It seems that when I denied the New World upon touching the complete divine seal, the consequences took precedence over the adaptability brought by the talent of the Divine Son. Fortunately, the effect is not entirely absent. When the Divine Son's power to emulate the heavens and earth is enhanced to a certain degree, it can exhibit the Unity of Heaven and Man trait in Taoism. Although I couldn't achieve the Unity of Heaven and Man in the New World's environment, I unexpectedly discovered that my spirituality could achieve great synchrony with the black divine seal disc, turning it into a vessel for my consciousness.

"In contrast to the divine seal that can change the heavens and earth, my spirit is undoubtedly insignificant. This might also be a form of 'Unity of Heaven and Man.' Subsequently, I turned into the 'Master of Divine Seal' you see now.

"My consciousness resides in all the divine seal fragments formed by the splitting of the black divine seal disc, and thanks to this, now I can do many things that I couldn't in the past. For example, I can know most events happening in this world reconstructed by the divine seal. But because my consciousness is in a fragmented state like the black divine seal disc, I can only exert my power within this Void Realm, unable to intervene in the real world.

"On the flip side, as long as I can gather the scattered divine seal fragments here, there will be more I can do. Because I am effectively the 'Divine Seal Spirit' now, I am not constrained by the Seal Master authority as I was in the past. Once the black divine seal disc is reassembled, most things that the complete divine seal can accomplish, I can accomplish as well."

At this point, the Master of Divine Seal Tai Sui seemed to have finished his recount of the past.

He paused for a moment, and during this time, I made an effort to digest the vast amount of information I had received.

That the Master of Divine Seal is Tai Sui... this part is no longer surprising at this point; what's important is the identity of another character.

Then, I posed a question.

"Your student... who exactly is the Seal Master?" I asked.

"I don't know," Tai Sui said, "He should have obtained an identity in this new world that is completely different from the past, just like me. However, unlike my completely passive experience, his identity was probably actively set by himself. Given his personality, he would likely set himself up as a character with an almost dream-fulfilling superpower.

"Even if he's not Impermanence, he would probably have the condition of 'being able to become Impermanence at any time if he wishes.' Or to say the least, even without such an outrageous innate quality, he might have a fate and encounters akin to the protagonist of a story... It is even possible that he specifically erased his own memories to pursue a better experience in the new world.

"When it involves another divine seal user, my power to know becomes less effective."

After thinking for a moment, I said, "Since after the formation of the new world, the black divine seal disk automatically followed you, then the other half of the divine seal... the other divine seal disk should be in the Seal Master's hands, right?"

Unexpectedly, Tai Sui shook his head and replied, "That may not be the case."

"What?" I was surprised.

"This is also something I only learned after becoming a Master of Divine Seal. The reason the divine seal split into two was partly because of the two users, but another part of the reason was because he made a self-contradictory wish," Tai Sui said, "Contradictory wishes create contradictory worlds. Not only does the divine seal split, but the world itself would split as well. It's just that this phenomenon of splitting was halted due to the existence of the post-mortem world.

"The real world belongs to the physical space-time of the living, while the post-mortem world belongs to the spiritual space-time of the dead... The latter occupies the position of 'another world that should have split.' Perhaps the world-splitting phenomenon induced by contradictory wishes appeared during the period of ultra-ancient civilization, which is how the post-mortem world was formed. Anyway, the black divine seal disk after splitting... Xuanming seems to call it the 'Doomsday Divine Seal', right? The Doomsday Divine Seal entered the post-mortem world corresponding to itself.

"As for why it happened to land beside me, it's simply because of the strong bond between us. However, the other divine seal disk remaining in the real world—'Current World Divine Seal'—isn't like that. The Current World Divine Seal might just remain in place because it doesn't need to undergo world movement."

"In place... you mean, the North Pole?" I asked.

Tai Sui nodded and said, "More accurately, in the new world, since I, a scientist leading an expedition by research vessel to the North Pole, do not exist, the Current World Divine Seal would most likely stay in that ultra-ancient civilization relic."

"But if that's the case, shouldn't the Current World Divine Seal still be in the Seal Master's hands right now?" I asked, "In the new world, the only people who should retain memories of the original world are the two of you who came into contact with the divine seal, right? Since you have delayed in the post-mortem world for so long, and are unable to intervene in the real world, wouldn't the Seal Master, who still remembers the location of the ultra-ancient civilization relic, be able to go there again and secure the Current World Divine Seal first?"

Tai Sui replied, "Back then, we accidentally discovered the ultra-ancient relic on the glaciers of the North Pole. It was a place with no coordinates on the map, and without any landmarks, it would be hard for anyone to find that place again. Of course, I had roughly marked its location on a map and left signal tracking devices there, but all those data and tools disappeared with the world's update.

"And those are just secondary obstacles. The most important point is that after becoming the Master of Divine Seal, I used my authority to find that North Pole coordinate again. Unfortunately, the ultra-ancient civilization relic has disappeared from there."

"Disappeared... Is it because of historical changes?" I pondered, "But the Seal Master's wish should have only modified the timeframe of human history, not affecting the ultra-ancient civilization that existed sixty-six million years ago, right?"

Tai Sui seemed to be thinking about how to explain to me and then said, "Zhuang Cheng, you should be well aware of my student's... where the Seal Master's wish contradicts itself. He added strange things and demon hunters, and other magical elements to this world, yet forcibly retained the original history. And it's precisely because such a worldview couldn't operate in a real setting that once the new world was born, all the demon hunters realized their past contradictions and no longer acted according to the original settings.

"And the history of climate change also experienced the same phenomenon of retention. In the past several hundred thousand years, climate change should have varied according to scientific perspectives in the original world. Still, under the new world's setting, it was altered to evolve from the activities of Impermanences. This part doesn't easily present problems, it's merely a change in the perspective of explanation, shifting from a scientific view to a mysticism angle. It's not like human history now, which can't even sustain logical consistency.

"But this set of new Earth climate models has a problem, which is that as the number of Impermanences increases, the global climate will undergo significant changes..."

"— Sorry, I need to interrupt, why did we suddenly start talking about the Earth's climate model?" I said, "Aren't we discussing why the ultra-ancient civilization relic has disappeared?"

"I'm explaining this issue to you now," Tai Sui patiently said, "Because after the new human history was established, a new Impermanence with the ability to manipulate flames like you emerged, accelerating the carbon emissions and greenhouse effect in the new world. The phenomenon of global warming advanced further, causing the melting speed of the Arctic glaciers to accelerate significantly, and the ultra-ancient civilization relic has fallen into the Arctic Ocean due to the disintegration of the glaciers.

"So now, even I don't know where the Current World Divine Seal is, and the Seal Master may also have not successfully retrieved the Current World Divine Seal yet."

"Ah?" I was dumbfounded.