Black lightning crackled down the sides of the ten-thousand-foot obsidian monument that had just torn through the clouds.
The dark stone pillar towered over the white plaza like a giant tombstone, blocking the road between the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard] and the bronze doors of the First Floor Toll Gate. Across its polished face, jagged letters of blood-red ink burned with a cold, spiteful light.
Gu Changsheng stood on the cloud stones in front of his wooden gate with one hand tucked into his apron pocket. In his other hand, [Dad’s Plot-Spoiler Notebook] was still smoking from the surge of black static.
He flipped the warm leather cover open and squinted through the smoke.
[DAD’S PLOT-SPOILER NOTEBOOK — FLOOR 1 MAP ALERT!]
[WARNING: Host has derailed 90% of the Original Grimdark Script!]
[Current Foreknowledge Decay: 85% (Pages 2,500–3,000 Heavily Blurred).]
[Original Event (Page 2,500): Unredeemed Demon King Gu Nian arrives at an unguarded Heaven Gate alone after his last friend dies, walking straight into a ten-layered blood-slaughter array.]
