Chapter 63: Formatting
I entered the village first to figure out what was going on. As I headed towards the square, I carefully observed to see if there was any suspicious activity. Even after wandering around the village for about two hours, I found nothing unusual.
“……”
It was too peaceful.
Feeling confused, I sat down in an inn to ponder. This village was supposed to be the ‘first location’ where the Embroidered Uniform Guards conspired with a sorcerer to conduct a human sacrifice ritual. So, I naturally thought that by now, three years later, it would have been burnt down. But there was no sign of any such event!
‘There must be a reason. Something must have changed.’
I am aware of the laws of reincarnation. If there are no variables, an event that occurred once will surely occur again. If there has been a change, it must be for some reason. I racked my brain, trying to remember any changes I might have made this time.
‘I found a treasure that seemed to be the Secret Treasure of the Seven Luminaries at Mount Huang, and I entrusted it to Mang-ryang.’
That was the biggest change. Other than that, I couldn’t think of anything. Acquiring the Heavenly Secret Manuscript and consuming the Thousand-Year Snow Ginseng were usual affairs for me, so they couldn’t be considered changes.
However, I couldn’t make sense of it. All I had done was to find an ancient treasure after getting past the interference of a spider, but how could that possibly prevent the human sacrifice plan of the Embroidered Uniform Guards? The lack of correlation between the two events left me bewildered.