After countless eras, when He Fan was born and obtained the "fake inheritance," he started growing too fast.
His intelligence surpassed all limits. At that time, the suppression on Heavenly Dao began to loosen, as it started introducing various anomalies.
If the Law of Unpredictability had been at its peak from the beginning, He Fan would have never gained the foresight to see thousands of years into the future. At that time, the Law of Unpredictability was in its suppressed form. This is also the reason that Little Heaven started adding "protagonists" far too late—when He Fan had already gained high influence.
Timeless Demon God's calculations were perfect.
All the Emperors had taken control of the overall situation of the world. In order to keep the balance in check, the Law of Balance became active.
The Law of Unpredictability was just a byproduct of the Law of Balance.
The future started changing; however, at the same time, the Law of Balance pushed forward all events.
Why? It's because they needed someone to keep the Emperors in check. The balance had broken due to their existence.
As all events were pushed forward, the Creator was born prematurely. All the Emperors, especially the Elemental Emperor, had made sure that major events happened naturally.
Just like the future Timeless Demon God saw, Wang Xueyao killed Immortal Zhu once again, although there were some minor changes. Back then, it took much more time for this to happen.
In a similar way, Li Gang attacked the Northern Continent and targeted the Shu Dynasty. Yes, the same dynasties existed even in this timeline, just like the previous one.
After gaining the memories of Timeless Demon God, the Elemental Emperor made various arrangements to keep the events from deviating too much from his known future.
For example, the Elemental Emperor made sure that the ideal dynasty for Li Gang to attack would be the Shu Dynasty by changing its terrain long ago.
Now, this is where things become interesting.
Imagine there are two people—A and B. They are playing a guessing game. B writes a number while hiding it from A, and A has to guess it. A has the ability to go back in time. A believes B doesn't know, but B does.
Now, A goes back in time by about one hour, when B is about to write the number.
At this moment, A already knows what answer he has to give to B, but B has yet to choose a number.
So, what do you think will happen? The answer is, regardless of the number chosen by B, it will always align with A's answer. It sounds weird?
Think of it like this.
Since, in both timelines, B knows A might have returned from the future, B will try to choose a number that even he wouldn't normally think of—ultimately choosing the same answer.
This is the same situation with Li Gang (acting as B), with three external factors: first, the Law of Unpredictability; second, the Elemental Emperor can make prior arrangements unlike A; third, Li Gang can also make prior arrangements.
With just the Law of Unpredictability, regardless of the answer Li Gang chooses, it will always be opposite to what the Elemental Emperor planned.
Since the Elemental Emperor has seen this exact future, the Law will try to ensure that Li Gang chooses something else.
However, Li Gang had already selected where to go long before the Law came into effect.
The Law of Unpredictability would only come into effect when it is Li Gang's turn to choose where to attack—at the moment this specific event in the timeline begins. It can only manipulate his mindset in case of hesitation, or manipulate surrounding events to make sure the ideal dynasty for Li Gang to attack becomes the Wu Dynasty.
It should be noted that the timeline itself doesn't exist in this world. Time exists as a law, not as a dimension. Thus, the past and future do not exist—only the present exists. Time reversal is nothing but changing the entire structure of the Heaven of Balance, including every lifeform back to a previous state, mimicking time reversal.
Now, the Laws only try to influence probability at the moment a certain event is happening, or shortly before it occurs, in order to change the expected future. They never plan everything long in advance to alter the desired future, since these Laws do not have minds of their own.
Li Gang had chosen to attack the Shu Dynasty long before he even decided to enter the Northern Continent. As a consequence, the Law of Unpredictability couldn't affect his decision.
What does it mean?
Jin Huang had certain inferences regarding the situation.
First, this isn't the original timeline. This timeline has already been reset once.
In the original timeline, Li Gang knew that someone would reset the timeline. As a result, he planted a psychological cue to attack the Shu Dynasty far in advance in order to avoid being affected by the Law of Unpredictability.
The one who was reborn could be anyone, but judging by the extent of these arrangements, she inferred it was likely an Emperor.
The Emperor also prepared various arrangements. He created this Forbidden Land, prepared the Heavenly Lotus, and devised a method to produce a very strong force with various Rank 4 and higher warriors.
However, the Emperor should have known about the effect of the Law of Unpredictability. So he must have made other arrangements to ensure that Li Gang chooses the Shu Dynasty.
Thus, Li Gang placing this message as a psychological cue was meaningless—unless he did it to let her realize all this.
The actual reason wasn't much different either. The only difference is that, instead of rebirth, Timeless Demon God saw the future and shared part of his memories with the Elemental Emperor, allowing him to know this future as well.
This was something Jin Huang concluded right after reading Li Gang's memories. She couldn't preserve those memories, so she placed various psychological cues on herself as well.
Now, following this line of reasoning, Jin Huang guessed the possible route of Li Gang after his battle against the Shu Dynasty.
Since both Monarchs had prepared contingencies against Li Gang, the battle wouldn't be easy.
However, she had already seen what plan Li Gang was preparing. She also indirectly invited him to her Secret Cabin, whose location only she knew.
At the same time, there was another thing she knew.
If an Emperor was involved, then Li Gang's location could never be hidden.
Reason?
It was the Spatial Order. All Orders were wielded by Emperors in their era, and as long as Li Gang possessed the Spatial Order, his location would always be exposed.
Jin Huang was also aware of Li Gang's ability, and she knew he would figure this out. He would likely discard the Spatial Order and leave her cabin heading west.
Why west?
According to the map, her secret location was in the eastern part of the Golden Crow Kingdom, and the province bordered Dongning in the west.
For Li Gang, the best option would be Dongning. Hiding in a remote place wouldn't be ideal. There were several reasons for this: the area was mountainous, with many ranges, and numerous mountain beasts resided there.
For Li Gang, whose injuries were extremely severe, he couldn't take even the slightest risk by hiding in a remote region—especially when he had no new plan prepared.
Going to Dongning would give him more room for maneuvering. As a result, she placed one of her young and trusted subordinates in a village there. His name was Zudas.
This remote village existed on the outskirts of Dongning, bordering another province. She had carefully analyzed the map and knew that if Li Gang went toward Dongning, he would surely visit this place to heal himself.
With his ability, he would have realized after the battle that something was wrong with the situation.
Jin Huang knew that the Emperor wouldn't act directly. But since they were involved, anyone could determine Li Gang's location almost instantly—as long as he possessed the Spatial Order.
Until this point, everything had been going smoothly, as foreseen by the Elemental Emperor.
But from the moment Jin Huang and Li Gang met, everything changed.
Didn't they meet in the future foreseen by the Elemental Emperor too?
They did—but it was different this time.
How so? It was because, in the future the Elemental Emperor saw, there were key differences in the timeline.
First, Li Gang didn't plant any psychological cue in his mind to alert Jin Huang. At the same time, she obtained the Heavenly Lotus in an ideal environment during her journey, instead of obtaining it in the Forbidden Land prepared by the Elemental Emperor.
In that timeline, after reading Li Gang's memories, she didn't go on to marry Ji Changchen. Instead, she made various plans on her own while hiding in the shadows.
But now?
She left the Northern Continent, came to the Central Continent, staged her meeting with Ji Changchen, and became his wife.
This was something the Elemental Emperor never expected in his wildest imaginations.
Coming back to the original situation—
Jin Huang understood that as long as Li Gang met Zudas, he would be able to figure out a way to delay his predicament.
She deliberately sent Chu You with Zudas. She understood Zudas' personality and believed that, in his injured state, Li Gang might not be able to control Zudas without exploiting a weakness.
Chu You was also Zudas' childhood sweetheart—she was his weakness.
As for the old woman, she was a mortal, unaware of all the schemes unfolding around her.