The images still flashed through Alex’s mind, filling his head with countless thoughts that poured out like a broken dam. He had seen so much, and yet so much of it meant little to nothing to him.

’Purplerain was there,’ he thought, remembering what he had seen for less than a blink of an eye. Did that mean that he was going to fight him?

It also looked as though a few of those took place out in space. Was he right about that?

"Did you see it all?" the Divination God asked.

"Yes. At least, I saw what I could. Some of those were incomprehensible, to be honest," Alex said.

"That’s how they are supposed to be. The closer they are to the future, the more solid the Divination is. However, once you move further into the future, it’s harder to tell what will happen and what won’t. At that point, the truth becomes clouded and you only see a few people or items at best that are more or less common between the myriad futures."

The Divination God’s explanation left Alex nodding as he got a better understanding of why he had seen only a few things toward the end when the start had been so much clearer.

"But the very end of it was fully clear," Alex said in a somber tone. "The sun and the moon were destroyed."

The Divination God hesitated for a moment before giving his thoughts on the matter.

"That... is likely because there is no other truth in that instance," he said. "It is possible that the end of those visions might be inevitable no matter what we do. That is why it is so clear."

Alex didn’t like thinking of it like that. If the future he saw was inevitable no matter what path the future took, then all that awaited them was nothingness.

"If... if that end is inevitable, then... why was I targeted?" he asked, looking directly at the Divination God. "Senior, why did you send me to Hell?"

The Divination God crossed his arms and let out a soft sigh. "I didn’t. Heaven did. As I said, I was merely the puppet."

His words made Alex pause for a moment and remember a bit of his conversation with the Sun God. The Sun God had implied that he had been responsible for manipulating Alex’s path to some degree, making it so that he arrived at the Sun’s Talon realm with an evolved body.

"It might have to do something with what you received in Hell," the Divination God continued. "Perhaps it is your body cultivation. Your meeting with your master. Your meeting with the Tree of Life. Or your understanding of Void and how to travel it. Several things have happened to you in Hell that the Heaven must’ve believed you needed no matter what."

Alex slowly nodded in understanding. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

So in the end, the Divination God himself was nothing more than a tool for the Heaven too, wasn’t he? He was sent to Hell, losing his chance to meet his family for another 1500 years, just because he needed to find some Sunhearts to absorb.

On one hand, he understood why doing that was so important. The Sun God and the Moon Goddess were trying to improve the world for the better after all.

But on the other hand, Alex felt rage bubbling up inside of him. In that moment, he felt quite vindicated for having sealed away the Sun God.

"Do you mean to say that you are useless without Heaven, senior?" Alex inquired with an untrusting look. "If you are in a place where Heaven doesn’t exist, such as space, can you just not Divine at all?"

"I can," the man answered. "Heaven is not the only thing that assists in Divination after all. Qi itself helps with Divination to a certain degree, and so does the Void."

Alex blinked. "The Void helps with Divination?" he asked in surprise. "How?"

"It’s a realm of Time and Space. And what is Divination if not seeing the events of a specific time in a specific region of space?" he asked.

Alex thought upon those words for a brief moment, wondering if they made sense or not. In a way, they did, but he didn’t know enough about Divination to fully comprehend his meaning.

"Is it any better than Heaven for Divination?" Alex asked. "What about just Qi?"

"Qi is the weakest of all. If you merely use Qi for Divination, through various techniques, you can barely see moments into the future," the man said. "In a way, it’s just a bit of foresight and not true Divination. For actual divination, people have to rely on the Heaven or Void, both of which work strangely in their own ways."

Alex poured his attention into this moment, waiting to hear about the Divination god’s explanation on how Divination—the thing that had been a pain in his butt for as long as he could remember—actually worked.

"If you rely on Heaven, you can see the future, but only up to a certain point. For a regular seer, anything beyond maybe a few years will return with indecipherable information. Only a powerful seer could see many years into the future, but even that isn’t so easy. At a certain point, they have to ditch the visions entirely and rely on the simple facts that the world understands inherently. That is what becomes a prophecy."

"In the case of the Void, it is entirely prophecies. You can never gain visions when using the Void for your Divination."

Something about what the Divination God had just said struck Alex as quite odd. "Wait a second, senior. Are you saying that you don’t make the prophecies yourself?" he asked.

"We cannot. We simply speak what we understand the Heaven or Void to tell us," he explained.

"Then... does that mean that you have no idea how a prophecy can come true?" he asked.

"I almost never do," the Divination God said. "I am merely a prophet, passing along the message. It is not my task to decipher them."