“Sworn brothers shouldn’t fight.” Jialidie said. “This is just a little thing. We can let them go.”His face bore an expression of pain. And his grip was tight on his spear.But then a moment later, his face straightened. Reality seemed to glitch, the same as it had when I was beside Jian Yi. And the Scenario continued.The same as it had when I saved Jian Yi, the scenario continued after it should have completed.We made small talk and celebrated the hunt as mortal attendants came to collect the bodies. Low Realm cultivators began to cut the spiritbeast to pieces right there.As I surveyed the field and the caravan established a camp, parts of the scenario began to bend and break. It diverged into two paths. I would see a dozen mortals at work where the baby Kunpengs were being cut open and harvested, only to disappear and an ordinary, untouched field of grass to replace it, the people seemingly teleporting away.Young Master Jialidie would be turned away from me only to appear beside me again a moment later.Leaving the babies alive ensured there were hunts for the future. It kept the balance of the spiritbeasts in this region.The Kunpeng was likely something like an apex predator among the local spiritbeasts, tending toward the ceiling of the Third Realm but staying below forming a spiritbeast horde.By killing both it and its children, Jialidie had likely unleashed more beasttides on his territory in the time to come.We toasted to our hunt. The mortal attendants counted the spears, presenting the cleaned spears in three piles.The spearheads that Young Master Yang had embedded into the Kunpeng were present as well, though I had never thrown them. More and more, the continuity of the scenario seemed to unravel, the unnatural stabilization failing to occur as Old Ghost presumably siphoned away the power that was used to do it.The scenario lasted into late celebrations in the day, (...)