Honghuang: The Eternal Outsider, Targeted by Extraterrestrial Deities

Since time immemorial, the primordial world has been nothing but a script.

Heaven decrees everyone's fate. The saints play out their conflicts. Calamities arrive on schedule to wipe the board clean. All immortals are pawns.

Everyone believes the Great Dao is fair, that cultivation can defy Heaven, and that struggling can lead to eternal life.

Only Lin Yuan sees clearly:

This world is an eternal prison, a cage that locks everything in place.

Carrying a modern soul, he slept through three thousand epochs. When he awoke, he understood every ending:

The seats at the Purple Cloud Palace are divided, the Witches and Demons spill blood, the Investiture of the Gods destroys the Jie Sect, and the myriad immortals fall into ruin.

He could have watched from a distance and kept his head down until he transcended it all.

But deep in his soul, an indifferent gaze from an outer dimension had lingered for ten thousand years.

It watched over Heaven's will, stood above Hongjun, and looked upon all life with indifference.

It did not kill, move, or speak.

It was simply observing an experiment in fate.

And Lin Yuan was the only variable in that experiment to step outside the script.

He changed Hongyun's fate, and Heaven's will trembled as the gaze from beyond focused on him.

He secretly protected Tongtian's resolve, and the script veered off course as the eternal game began to crack.

He sought to save every immortal of the Jie Sect, defying the destined calamity of the Investiture of the Gods.

All beings laughed at his folly, the saints found him strange, and Heaven's will branded him a heretic.

No one knew the truth:

He defied Heaven and changed fate not to become invincible in the primordial world.

He only wanted to tear open the prison surrounding this world and see the real world beyond those eyes.