"No, you're really sitting on it?"

[However, before bestowing the blessing, you sense something amiss and decide to explore the future first.]

[Because it's such a coincidence, before you came to this universe, it hadn't undergone any significant changes for countless billions of years.]

[But you've only been here for a little over a hundred years, and yet such an unprecedented upheaval has occurred, making it hard not to suspect that someone in this universe is orchestrating this.]

"So all that stuff about Apo modifying the Star Universe was just narration from the simulator?"

"You don't even know Apo exists..."

This time in the future, you begin to cause trouble without restraint.

As everyone knows, before one becomes a universe master and can control the entire universe, the best way to force out the mastermind behind it all is through destruction!

[Just flip the table and smash everything to pieces!]

[You are currently in the 1053rd day of your Ascension, and the power you can unleash far exceeds that of a 27 billion-level Cosmic Lord!]

Almost instantly, you tore apart the entire structure of the cosmos, crushed the earth into powder, wiped away the gravitational field, and seized the core of the universe—

Then, the phantom of the round cake appeared in terror: "Who are you?!"

[You didn't immediately connect this to Apo from Simulation B, after all, millions of years have passed since you last watched the simulation, and considering the time you've experienced in the future, it's well over a hundred million years.]

You asked curiously, "Are you the hidden ruler of this universe? You specially created this gravitational field prison universe, and those Taoists were also your doing?"

[Apo: "It's me... I just wanted to create some exquisite universes worthy of my collection. Your power is even greater than my physical body. Could it be... you are a Dao Lord?"]

Upon hearing the word "collect," you suddenly realized, "Wow, so it was you!"

[Grab him in one swift motion, and his soul is instantly searched.]

As you predicted, this is the fully modified version of the Celestial Lord Apo, a modified version of the Nine-Nine Heavens.

[According to its original plan, the Daoist would have to wait countless billions of years before being born, until a True Immortal of the Resonance level exceeding 22.8 billion was born among intelligent beings, nearly overwhelming the Dao Beasts.]

[Then a deadly battle unfolds between "acquired beings who emerge from the underground and cultivate the Dao, and innate immortals and gods born on earth who inherit the Dao."]

[At that time, all sorts of people will inevitably appear. For example, some acquired immortals will think that they are the lowest of the low, and even if they try their best to become immortals, they will ultimately be no match for those who have eternally attained the Dao and were born as immortals.]

[Of course, there will also be some who are unwilling to accept this: "Even if we are insects crawling out of the soil, we dare to face the gods on earth!"]

[There will be immortals who raise and slaughter Taoist priests, who will then flee and rebel underground.]

[Some Taoist priests would also proclaim their own nobility, causing ordinary creatures, born mortals, to obediently regard themselves as chickens and ducks, voluntarily offering sacrifices to their kind at regular intervals, treating them as the Taoist priests' toys, contributing dances, or fighting each other for their amusement.]

[And it—Apo's clone—will use the pre-programmed cosmic control console of its main body at the most exciting moment of the battle between the two races to freeze the entire spacetime, and then recall its main body to place this star universe on its collection shelf...]

[Your appearance hastened the birth of a Daoist. On the day you entered the Northern Divine City, you used a Dao Stone with hidden contingencies, and the Dao principles you tested were uploaded, alerting the Daoist.]

Although it was too lazy to conduct a thorough investigation and failed to discover your origins, it still clicked the corresponding console button because a True Immortal who met the criteria had appeared.

[And so, the Taoist priest began to awaken.]

[After clicking the button, Apo's clone fell asleep, preparing to wake up billions of years later, after the Taoist had gradually caught up with the True Immortal of Wisdom, to carefully control the timing.]

【you:"……"】

"Oh, I see."

[You've started a new game in the future, caught Apo again, and reduced its essence by 1.]

Although it is a one-in-a-billion, fully-formed cosmic lord, its essence is still only one-fold.

From the clones to the main body, all the "Apo" beings in the boundless void sea were annihilated at this moment, leaving no trace.

All that remains are universes, one after another, arbitrarily altered at its whim...