As the Yellow Emperor spoke, the sound of a zither echoed sharply.

Upon hearing the music, Han Zhan was initially taken aback, but soon he swiftly reacted.

Before he could say a word to alert Li Lingzhen beside him, he heard her cry out in pain.

"Ah Zhan, hurry!"

"Demon God’s Heart!"

But, it was already too late.

The Demon God’s Heart, originally inside Li Lingzhen’s storage bag, suddenly ignited with ash and white flames.

In the next moment, it burned through the storage bag and completely vanished.

When it reappeared, the Demon God’s Heart had already arrived in Chi You’s palace. In addition, the massive head of Chi You in the blood pool was also present there.

Demon God’s Heart, Chi You’s body, Chi You’s head.

The three emanated a blazing white light and completely merged!

An overwhelming pulse of terror spread out, causing the entire Eastern Yi Continent to tremble.

If you listen carefully, it was a heart, beating strongly and rhythmically!

...

"We arrived a step too late."

A long-missed and familiar voice rang in their ears, and both Han Zhan and Li Lingzhen turned around simultaneously.

Xia Youwei, holding the Fu Xi Zither, appeared behind them.

"Youwei!"

"It’s been so long, where have you been! I was worried sick!"

As Li Lingzhen spoke, she was the first to grab Xia Youwei’s arm, her tone urgent.

Xia Youwei shook hands with Li Lingzhen and then looked towards Han Zhan again.

He habitually rubbed her head, "We can catch up later, let’s discuss the matter at hand first."

Hearing this, Xia Youwei nodded obediently and began her account.

From the moment she entered the Fruit World of the Wilderness of Zhulu, she appeared at a completely different starting point from Han Zhan and Li Lingzhen.

Han Zhan’s starting point was a prison cell, Li Lingzhen’s was a wizard’s place of inheritance, while Xia Youwei’s was beneath a mountain.

Yes, she was suppressed and sealed under a mountain.

Besides her, there was someone else under the mountain, it was obvious who it was.

"How could someone with the power of the Yellow Emperor be sealed under a mountain?" Han Zhan asked, puzzled.

"In this Fruit World, there’s only one person who can rival the Yellow Emperor." Xia Youwei said.

The only one who could compete with the Yellow Emperor was the Great Chief of the Jiuli Tribe, Chi You.

In Xia Youwei’s narration, as the Yellow Emperor and Chi You were locked in a life-or-death battle, they were ambushed by Pestilence, who used unknown means to seal the Yellow Emperor under a mountain and also tricked Chi You.

After the Yellow Emperor was sealed, he remained in a "weakened" state as he couldn’t draw in any spiritual power from the heavens and earth.

Xia Youwei’s arrival changed this state of affairs.

She helped the Yellow Emperor absorb spiritual power, restore his strength, and finally break the seal to return to the world.

"Wait a minute, you just said life-or-death battle?" Han Zhan keenly noticed an issue here.

The life-or-death battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chi You should represent the climax of the Battle of Zhulu.

But it doesn’t fit at all?

The Battle of Zhulu had just begun not long ago, and I just dealt with Fenghou, the Nine Heavens Profound Lady, and Yinglong, characters that should have appeared according to the legends of the Battle of Zhulu.

The decisive battle had clearly just arrived!

"Ah Zhan, you noticed too." Xia Youwei looked at Han Zhan, "That’s right, the sequence is wrong."

The sequence is wrong.

It should have been the great powers of the Yellow Emperor Tribe and Jiuli Tribe battling each other, followed by the final showdown between the Yellow Emperor and Chi You.

But according to Xia Youwei’s story, the Yellow Emperor and Chi You had already battled to the death.

The only explanation left for all this is:

"Everything you see before you is just a sinister conspiracy."

As if to verify Xia Youwei’s words, with a slash from the Yellow Emperor, the Jiuli warriors caught in its path, be they chieftains or great powers, all shattered instantly in the sword light, turning to ashes.

They were like illusory bubbles, never having existed.

Li Wu looked blankly at everything in front of him, then looked down at his own hands.

His hands began to turn into points of light, starting to dissipate.

"Li Wu!"

Han Zhan called out to him.

Li Wu raised his head, and the confusion in his eyes turned to relief in the next moment.

He opened his mouth but still said nothing, just waved at Han Zhan.

Then, like the other Jiuli clan people.

Completely vanished between heaven and earth.

"He truly awakened, and so they all disappeared."

He was Chi You.

"I don’t understand, if this is the truth, then what is its significance?" When Han Zhan heard this, not only did he not have a sudden realization, but he furrowed his brow even more.

Chi You and Pestilence, by conceptualizing, created illusory people, but what’s the point?

To this question, another voice provided an answer.

A majestic figure walked towards them, with each step absorbing immense spiritual power, increasing his imposing presence with each step.

The Yellow Emperor gazed into the distant horizon where his fated opponent lay and spoke softly:

"The people are fake, but the experiences can be real."

"His, or rather, their true purpose is ’subversion’."

Subversion? Han Zhan pondered over this word repeatedly in his heart.

"To subvert the history that once existed in the River of Time, to make the false into reality, and the reality return to emptiness."

Han Zhan was no stranger to the concept of the River of Time, and as the Yellow Emperor spoke, he suddenly began to understand.

"You mean, whether it’s the Jiuli Tribe or the Yellow Emperor Tribe, they had long since fallen. It was Chi You and Pestilence who reconstructed these illusory people, having them reenact those past events."

"But originally, the Iron-Eating Beast army of the Jiuli Tribe was supposed to crush the Yellow Emperor Tribe’s Fierce Beast Riders, yet it became the Fierce Beast Riders sweeping the Iron-Eating Beasts."

"Originally, it was Fenghou, the Nine Heavens Profound Lady, and Yinglong who won battles for the Yellow Emperor Tribe, but due to our interference, it turned into the great victory for Jiuli."

"All these experiences that once happened have all been subverted!"

"Exactly."

The Yellow Emperor nodded slightly.

But is this really effective?

Can things that have happened truly be "altered"?

This notion was almost unheard of for Han Zhan, but the one speaking was the Yellow Emperor.

Just like encountering Shennong, Fu Xi, and Nuwa in the past in the Fruit World.

The Yellow Emperor was definitely someone who took that step towards transcendence.

If he said it was possible, then it truly was!

"So... did they succeed?"

By the time Han Zhan asked this, he already knew it was an unnecessary question.

Sure enough, the Yellow Emperor shook his head.

He walked past Han Zhan and the others, with a sea of sword qi gathered around him, heading straight ahead.

At this moment, the presence belonging to the Yellow Emperor reached its peak.

His state finally returned to its peak from continuously drawing spiritual power!

"No, there’s still one last thing left for them to complete their subversion plan."

"And that is, to defeat me!"