The Power of the World extracted by Zheranick was continuously infused into the Recorder’s Pen, finally, that Recorder’s Pen shone with extraordinary splendor. Zheranick did not hesitate and immediately utilized this special Divine Artifact.
Due to Zheranick’s withdrawal of most of his power, the Divine Beasts sealed outside finally broke into the Imperial Timeline. However, at this moment, the world rules began to manifest at Zheranick’s location.
"It’s too late."
A Divine Beast murmured quietly. Although in theory, they could forcibly attack to interrupt the other’s action, now that the world rules were manifesting, doing so would directly cause damage to the world rules.
Understanding Zheranick’s intentions, they could only let it be. At least, a flawed longevity was slightly better than having the world rules destroyed. For the sake of dealing with the aftermath, correcting flawed rules was always simpler than repairing world rules.
With no Divine Beasts stopping him, Zheranick swiftly rewrote the world rules. The originally vast difference in lifespans was forcibly evened out. An average lifespan of a hundred years for humans would be directly pulled to match their beast tamer after becoming a Beastmaster.
As Zheranick rewrote the world rules, the entire world underwent tremendous changes. The elderly became young again, and even those who recently died of old age revived. Beastmasters and their beasts, who were forcibly separated due to lifespan differences, embraced with tears of joy.
"It..."
Watching the disappearing firewall, Agunas looked at Wade, his expression indescribable, as the opponent’s condition stabilized. By now, he realized what rule Zheranick had changed.
It seemed not to be bad, but Agunas’ intuition told him it was only a superficial phenomenon.
Feng Yuan smiled and said to Wade,
"Congratulations, you did it. Why, don’t you want to see this new world you longed for?"
Wade glanced at Feng Yuan with suspicion. He could sense Feng Yuan’s malicious intentions, but he knew Feng Yuan wasn’t wrong. This might indeed be the new world he and Zheranick pursued.
Although as the world rules got rewritten and Wade’s lifespan aligned with Zheranick’s, Feng Yuan somehow felt the other might not endure for that long. After all, the long-sought goal was achieved; he wasn’t sure what Wade would do next.
Touching his chin, Feng Yuan watched Wade leave with a peculiar smile on his face.
Veronia looked at Feng Yuan suspiciously and said,
"It seems you did something sneaky?"
"Who said so? I didn’t do anything. This is the world they hoped for, and changed it into. However..."
"A few with longevity could already cause a lot of chaos. Collective longevity... Heh, it’s no simple matter."
Because he had done similar things before, Feng Yuan knew from the beginning how it would ultimately end. Agunas glared at Feng Yuan and said,
"Since you know it’s not that simple, why did you still do it!"
"A goal that can never truly be reached, how long can it sustain? Just as well I’m here, might as well ease their doubts, isn’t it better than an uncertain surprise they’d bring at any moment?"
Chuckling, Feng Yuan said. Agunas did not understand Feng Yuan’s meaning, but he was still angry. Although he also intended to facilitate their matters, but...
The world after the Beastmaster’s lifespan was prolonged was so beautiful. Every Beastmaster could walk to the end of their life with their beasts, which is what Wade hoped for, and what he saw after meeting with Zheranick.
At first, they believed this was the future they anticipated. Unfortunately...
The world’s resources were limited, and prolonging the Beastmaster’s lifespan meant needing more resources. Not only that, with the change in lifespan, their desires also evolved.
Inescapably, fires of war ignited everywhere in the world, with no end to the chaos.
Old Wei and the others hoped for Beastmasters and their beasts to walk through this long time together. However, as wars kept breaking out, conflict became the Main World’s main theme.
Battles so intense that even the humans on the War Timeline were stunned, because Zheranick only rewrote the rules of the Main World, the Time Branch was not in the range of changes, thus their lifespans remained unchanged.
Yet even so, considering actual lifespan, the rewritten world saw lifespans of all humans and beasts rapidly diminishing instead.
Continuous battles threatened to claim lives at any moment.
Longevity didn’t mean immortality; Zheranick wouldn’t be so foolish as to think of fixing life length. It was not only unrealistic but also a wish they all found twisted.
There’s no deathless longevity; amidst the flames of war, it became a joke. How could wars for resources not result in death?
What started as internal conflict within the Main World gradually pulled the War Timeline and Imperial Timeline into this endless struggle as the intensity of war increased.
Zheranick and Old Wei tried countless methods in vain to halt the war’s progress.
Watching the world gradually destroyed by war, Agunas cast a suspicious glance toward Feng Yuan and said,
"What did you do exactly? Even in our bygone era, there weren’t actions as mad as these."
Shaking his head with amusement, Feng Yuan said,
"It has nothing to do with me. The Ascension Stone created too many Legendary Beastmasters, and until their numbers declined to a certain point, wars wouldn’t cease."
"Besides, this is just the beginning."
"Main World’s resources can’t support the consumption of so many with longevity."
Just as Feng Yuan anticipated, as the number of casualties rose continuously, the raging fires of war finally showed signs of extinguishing. In the push of Zheranick and Old Wei, a peace treaty was formed.
However, the peace treaty was not long-lasting. With rest growing, the number of Beastmasters increased continuously, decades later, the treaty was torn apart, and a new war erupted once more.
Looking at the Main World plunged several times into massive wars, Old Wei and Zheranick couldn’t help but ask themselves, is this truly the world they wanted?
"The intervals between wars are much shorter than they were in our era."
Veronia stated with astonishment; she never expected such an outcome. During the Mythical Era, confrontations weren’t unheard of, but widespread full-scale wars of such magnitude were indeed rare.
After all, Divine Nations kept each other in check. Waging unlimited large-scale wars truly wasn’t an easy feat.
After countless attempts and failures, Wade suddenly realized something wrong. He pulled Zheranick back to the Realm of the World.
There, he indeed saw Feng Yuan, no, even the group of Divine Beasts that previously stopped him were there.
"This... truly was your handiwork."
Looking at Feng Yuan, Old Wei spoke with a complex expression.
Shrugging, Feng Yuan said,
"Nothing to do with me; I merely let you see the future."
Glancing at the rapidly flowing World Hourglass in midair, Feng Yuan smiled and said,
"How is it? Isn’t it different from what you imagined?"
"Human hearts are complex; this is merely one of countless possibilities. Beautiful possibilities can’t be discarded, but... the probability is too low. The real world doesn’t grant endless chances to retry."
As Feng Yuan spoke, he made a gesture. The World Hourglass reversed, the broken world instantly reverted to the moment before Zheranick rewrote the world rules.
Watching the Recorder’s Pen suddenly appearing in front of him, filled with power, Zheranick was silent for a long time and said,
"Perhaps you were right, but..."
Old Wei gripped the Recorder’s Pen and gently used force, the power gathered within immediately dissipated back to its original place.
The darkness of the Devouring World gradually vanished, yet no one could recover their senses.
Feng Yuan didn’t perform a future play for Old Wei but accelerated world evolution and let the World Hourglass restore everything finally.
To most, it felt like a terrible nightmare, and that war-torn future felt so real.
"This thing..."
Old Wei stared at the Recorder’s Pen in his hand, sighed, and tossed it to Agunas. Catching the flying Recorder’s Pen, Agunas wanted to say something, but the words failed to leave its mouth.
Didn’t it have someone it wished to revive?
How could it not, beloved ones, remembered past times, how could they not exist? However, being a Divine Beast of time, it knew all too well the consequences of doing so.
Even if, for it, it was just a simple thing, it didn’t dare to do it because it knew the final result wouldn’t be much better than the future Feng Yuan had demonstrated...

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