"I guess you're about to..."

Tang Qi squinted his eyes at the burst of radiance in front of him, almost letting slip a habitual phrase from his past life.

Regret and confusion quickly climbed upon him.

Too fast!

The demise of Martin Sims' divine avatar was so rapid that Tang Qi only gleaned a tiny fragment of information, aside from watching the war between "Rotten Head" and "Mysterious Deformed Show" orchestrated by Sims.

He saw a young ascetic who inherited the "Holy Confessor" legacy but was also parasitized by the "Second Rotten Head."

Beyond that, the information was scarce.

Tang Qi's mind was swarmed with doubts, which now seemed unlikely to be answered.

For instance... What exactly did the Holy Prophet predict?

Why was he, Tang Qi, such a key figure?

What exactly were Sims and Piers trying to accomplish?

The truth behind the Great Catastrophe?

The feeling of being kept in the dark was unpleasant, especially for a Transcendent with intense curiosity like Tang Qi.

As the essence of Martin Sims dissolved, Tang Qi's thoughts rapidly churned.

"Rotten Head is an organization of conspirators, a gathering of madmen. From their past achievements, anything they covet hides a horrible secret. Once released, it would at least spread to the entire Divine Eagle Federation."

"Does the integration of the Second Rotten Head with Sims' legacy mean that the Second Rotten Head is also part of the scheme planned by the Holy Confessor and Holy Prophet?"

"Not necessarily. Perhaps the Second Rotten Head used some other method. Anyone inheriting the power left by Sims will face the fate of being parasitized by the Second Rotten Head, and what the Second Rotten Head truly seeks is a key in the hands of Martin Sims."

"That key relates to the secret of the Great Catastrophe!"

Tang Qi frowned deeply. Merely the words "Great Catastrophe" signified that it could be the most terrifying event he's encountered since his rebirth.

The Mysterious Side, almost any Transcendent is aware of it.

Great Catastrophe!

It also has another name, the final Divine War!

Different from the "Catastrophe" secret that Tang Qi heard in the Ancient Maya Forbidden Land, the true Great Catastrophe wasn't just a war between one or two Divine Systems, but a war that swept across the entire Origin Star.

Regardless of the New Continent or the Old Continent, whether the Order Camp or the Chaotic Camp.

The war that lasted a thousand years involved an unprecedented number of gods and deities.

And not just gods and deities, humans, demons, exotic realm species... nearly all life was engulfed.

At the thought, Tang Qi suddenly remembered the recently surging mysterious events.

Now it seemed to have a sense of prelude.

"Hm?"

Just as Tang Qi intended to delve deeper into conjecture, in that moment, as the radiance dissipated, something abruptly appeared before his eyes.

It was a ball of light dropped from where the boy disappeared.

Slowly, it fell into Tang Qi's hand.

It was a stone slab!

It was about the size of a human head, as thick as a thumb, dark and majestic, covered in a layer of ghost light, blocking all prying eyes.

At the same time, that ghost light was also protection.

For at this moment, as soon as Tang Qi saw the stone slab, an omen surfaced in his mind:

The content of the slab was extremely dangerous!

Even if he looked at it now, there was the possibility of death.

"A curious object, and a high-level one at that."

"The peril inside it stems from a divine power so terrifying, much higher than the Divine Attribute Level I possess now."

While Tang Qi was making judgments at heart, unexpectedly, he captured an Information Fragment.

Brazen and unobscured Information Fragment.

The next second, an uncontrollable shock appeared in his eyes.

[Curio: Thorny Law Code (Replica).]

[State: Normal.]

[Information Fragment One: Written by the Holy Prophet Piers, it contains the original Thorny Law Code and was bestowed with a Thorn Divinity by the Lord of Thorns, giving it unimaginable power. It stands for fairness, order, justice...]

[Information Fragment Two: It cannot be placed into any pocket curios, it cannot be utilized by any creatures of the Chaotic Camp or Evil Camp, and it cannot be directly viewed by anyone.]

[Information Fragment Three: At a certain moment, it will awaken the rebirth of the Lord of Thorns!]

...

As the third Information Fragment emerged, Tang Qi felt as if he had stumbled upon the biggest secret of the world, exerting all his willpower to suppress the impulse to lose his composure.

The rebirth of the Lord of Thorns?

At this moment, some of Tang Qi's doubts were suddenly unfurled.

But following that came more, more incredible doubts.

"Is this the event that Martin Sims and Piers, the two saints, are planning?"

"Do they know that the Lord of Thorns has reincarnated and have set everything in place, ready to awaken this powerful deity from the Light God System, second only to the 'Lord of Light,' at the critical moment?"

"Am I, or to say, the principal of Merada Special Education School, part of their plan?"

"Additionally, has the Lord of Thorns' rebirth anything to do with the Great Catastrophe?"

"Could the so-called 'key' be the reincarnation of the Lord of Thorns?"

Suddenly, Tang Qi had the complex feeling of being both a Big Shot and a minor character at the same time.

Big Shot, in that he actually had the qualification to gain insight into the secrets of the "Master," the Lord of Thorns.

And a minor character, in that he was just one part of it.

"Sims left behind a divine avatar here, just to hand this stone slab over to the new principal for safekeeping, so confident that the principal, which is me, would not refuse this task?"

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