When his thoughts returned to reality, it felt as if a simulator had just finished its calculations.

Everything that had just happened felt so unreal.

It was like: the past-life simulation is over, now it’s time to allocate stat points.

’System, put everything into Magic!’

The thought flashed through his mind, and his focus returned.

April was a maddening month. Studying any form of knowledge carried a chance of incurring a knowledge Curse and corruption.

This was especially true of the leap year’s blessing.

On the first of the month, studying anything resulted in a 100% chance of corruption, but there was also an extremely low probability of learning forbidden secrets, triggering a random Summoning, awakening an unknown Ritual, or directly casting a random spell of Magic or a Technique, all from mundane reading.

’This month is so damn cheap.’

’Good thing I’m immune to all knowledge corruption. Otherwise, who knows how much corruption I would’ve absorbed from reading all those books yesterday.’

Fortunately, the probability of triggering other events was also extremely low.

I studied so much yesterday and only ended up summoning a few Demons in the process, which I casually cut down.

WHOOSH—

With a spatial exchange, Lu Cang appeared outside Kernoya in just a few flickers. He flew off into the distance and picked a random Dungeon.

He sacrificed a million souls to enter.

It was a Tier Four Dungeon.

Upon entering the Dungeon, he found himself, as expected, in a vast, open wilderness.

After so many tests, Lu Cang had already figured out the pattern.

Sacrificing a large number of souls would, with high probability, cause him to appear in a wide-open area where many Demons were gathered.

Lu Cang casually raised a hand.

"Ten Thousand Falling Celestial Flame Meteor (Tier Five) (Level 401)"

FWOOSH!

The entire sky turned a fiery red. In an instant, hundreds of thousands of crimson meteors tore through the clouds, plummeting toward the earth!

Tier Five Magic—a spell powerful enough to turn the tide of a war and decide its outcome.

And a Tier Five Magic spell cast from Lu Cang’s hand was even more earth-shattering!

BOOM!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—

The hundreds of thousands of meteors crashed to the ground, blasting crimson craters into the earth. Where they struck, rivers of magma began to flow.

A single spell had shaken the heavens and the earth.

It caused destruction that stretched for hundreds of miles.

The Tier Four Nation Destruction Level Demons within the Dungeon were, of course, turned to ash by such a terrifying bombardment.

"Hmm..."

"It seems I’ve perfectly learned the Magic I acquired in the Future Preview."

’There was no problem casting it at all.’

’It seems that as long as I possess the knowledge, I possess the corresponding power.’

’Speaking of which, this month’s Moon is named Yug of Knowledge and Wisdom.’

’Thinking about it that way... it’s actually kind of terrifying.’

’To possess the authority of ’Knowledge’ in a world like this.’

The things learned in the Future Preview were the real deal.

Before leaving the Future Preview, he had also managed to learn the Divination Skill known as "Destiny Prediction."

Time had been tight, but in the end, he had mastered it completely.

Destiny Prediction was an extremely self-centered Prophetic Art.

Unlike ordinary Divination Masters who divine things for others, Destiny Prediction could only be used to divine matters related to oneself.

Even when used on others, it could only divine information that was strongly connected to him.

If the matter he tried to divine had no relation to him whatsoever, it couldn’t be divined.

However, this also had an advantage: matters related to himself could be divined with extreme clarity, and the results of the Divination would also have some connection to his current thoughts.

This was very strange for a Divination Skill.

The Divination Master Profession could be said to exist to serve others.

But this Divination Skill was specialized in divining for oneself.

Besides learning this Destiny Prediction Divination Skill, he had also discovered traces of the Rose Church of Shedding Skin over in the Moon Sea.

’What a widespread Cult.’

’I still have one more chance to use the Future Preview today, but I’m not in a hurry to use it.’

"I can’t just stand by and watch this continent be destroyed."

"First, I need to find a way to make some changes."

’Those two Level 8 guys seemed to have arrived only at the very end.’

’In other words, if I can accelerate An Zheng’s Date of Death, does that mean he’ll die before those two reinforcements arrive?’

’It’s a good line of thinking, but I’m a little worried that if I accelerate his Date of Death, he’ll discover it. If he finds out, he’ll probably turn hostile on the spot.’

’Besides, the greater the Level difference, the slower the acceleration of the Date of Death.’

’When I was Level 7, staring at him for one second accelerated it by a day.’

’I wonder what the effect is against a Level 8?’

’Back then, I was so focused on stopping those two Level 8 Reincarnators from targeting me that I never tried to accelerate their Dates of Death.’

’Looks like I should give it a try next time I run into them.’

"Let’s try a Divination."

Lu Cang raised and spread his hand, and the surrounding Space gradually filled with mist and clouds.

Regarding An Zheng...

Soon, Lu Cang’s vision cleared, and it was as if he saw himself appearing in the other’s residence.

He was trying to accelerate An Zheng’s Date of Death.

But suddenly, An Zheng’s eyes flew wide open like bronze bells, resembling deep, black voids!

BOOM!

The mists in all directions swirled and transformed violently!

WHOOSH—

The Divination was over.

It seemed it wouldn’t succeed. With his life nearing its end, he was quite sensitive to Death.

Besides, a Level 8 Mage... couldn’t be judged by ordinary standards.

"I’ll have to use another method."

Lu Cang’s body teleported instantly.

He left the Dungeon, and after several consecutive teleports, he arrived in an instant before Kumironi’s front door.