Shumi sat at the back of a large hall, watching the tournant with a few thousand other people. A few people had tried to approach her during this ti, but with Fairy Xin right next to her, no one dared to.
She had left the place where the tournant was being held a while ago and had arrived at the Pillheaven Continent. Here, she now waited for the day when the inter-realm teleportation formation would activate again.
She had heard it would take just a day to prepare it, and it had been so ti since then. She would be leaving very soon.
Shumi watched the competition with so intrigue, given her curiosity regarding Alex, a man who had saved her when she was young. He was a man from a world where she had lived in the past.
She wondered what else he knew about her.
She wanted to know what it was that she had felt with him around—the feeling of being dragged toward him, like tal to a magnet. Her curiosity surrounding him as a subject was very high.
And now that she knew she was leaving this world, she could only wonder when she would et him again.
Shumi noticed so movent next to her and turned to see Fairy Xin's legs shaking while she sat there.
"Is sothing wrong?" Shumi asked with worry. "You look nervous."
"Hmm? Oh." The shaking stopped. "It's nothing, don't worry about it."
Shumi didn't believe her. "Does it have anything to do with why we had to leave the stadium in a hurry?" she asked.
Fairy Xin grimaced a little but said nothing.
Shumi frowned. "I have always trusted you to do the right thing for , and you have, which is why I do everything you tell to do. But so of the things that have been happening for the past few days have been strange, Sister Xin. At so point, you're going to have to explain sothing. You can't expect to follow you around after making decisions that no sane person would. You have to explain yourself."
Fairy Xin didn't react for a mont, but then she nodded her head. "I understand," she said. "I will see what explanations I can give you once we go to the next world. For now, trust ."
Shumi nodded and turned back to watch the tournant.
Fairy Xin turned back as well and watched Alex on the stage, making so random pills. The Alchemy God's comntary on everything that was being done by the contestants told her that he was making random pills that didn't have much to do with the competition itself.
She wondered what exactly it was that he was doing in that case.
And what it had to do with whatever was going to happen very soon.
'What major event will take place here?' she thought. 'And what does that have to do with him?'
It was clear from the start, despite the man having not spoken about him, that the event would involve the young man on the projected image at so point in the future.
As for what that event was, Fairy Xin now desperately wanted to be present for it as well. However, she couldn't leave Shumi alone. Shumi needed to leave this world for that event, and she was not going to go anywhere without her.
Fairy Xin had a responsibility toward Shumi to watch over her until she was strong enough to look after herself.
A little over a day remained for the final competition when everyone who was watching the tournant was notified that the teleportation formation was ready. It was ti for them to leave.
Just a day more, and she would find out who the winner was, but since ti was against her at this mont, she had to leave.
Shumi got up and turned toward Fairy Xin. "We failed, didn't we?" she asked.
Fairy Xin paused for a mont and nodded. "We completely and utterly failed."
Shumi took a deep breath. "Then let us make sure we do not fail on the next part too," she said.
Fairy Xin nodded. "We won't," she said. She knew they couldn't afford to fail. What they were going to do next was the entire reason they had co to the Human Immortal realms after all.
The dicine World was just a stop and not the final destination.
Shumi and Fairy Xin started walking away, leaving the hall with the many others that would be leaving this world prematurely, right before the ending of the competition.
Shumi took one last look at Alex in the recorded images and hoped to learn more about him in the future. She had questions, and she wanted their answers. She was willing to wait a long ti for them too.
"Let us go."
Half an hour later, the two won left the dicine World to go to the Eclipsing Heaven. Neither of them could have ever realized at that precise mont what their departure ant for the future of the entire world.
* * * * * * Starsight sat in the Chamber of Gods toward the back with a Reverend who had co on behalf of the Blood God and a disciple of the disciple of the current Golden God. She rely chatted with them throughout the competition while continuing to enjoy what was happening.
She was in the middle of one of those conversations when she suddenly sensed sothing.
Her eyes wandered around for a mont, confused.
"Is everything alright, Senior?" the grand disciple of the Golden God asked.
The Blood God's Reverend waited for her to talk as well.
"My apologies, but I will have to put an end to our conversation," she said. "Sothing has co up."
Neither of the two could say anything but simply excuse her.
Starsight walked out of the room and left for soplace quieter with a lot fewer people around. She found a VIP room that was empty and went in.
Imdiately, Starsight closed her eyes and began divining.
She had realized just monts ago that sothing had changed. The restriction on her divination had sowhat been lifted. As she divined, the restrictions on divining still prevented her from seeing a lot, but she could start seeing so things again.
If she wanted to perform a proper divination, she needed to get closer to the people. Thankfully, she could at least do sothing for now.
To test how much leeway she had at that very mont, she began divining the upcoming future. Her intention was rely to see if she could find out who the winner was.
She saw that future in bits and pieces, none of which she could piece together to find an answer. She began shortening the tifra, making the future closer and closer.
Starsight saw an additional figure on the stage in one of her glimpses of the future but couldn't tell where that person had co from.
Pulling her divination further closer to the present, she finally saw sothing rather clearly. Her eyes opened wide at that very mont, and she ran up to the giant windows through which she could see the stage down below.
Her eyes landed down there for only a mont before she lifted her head and looked toward the open sky.
Sothing big was going to happen very soon.
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