Bai Weishuang mocked it, "You are not omnipotent. Changing space and time requires the same anchor points at both ends. The anchor points you left on both sides of the time channel, namely Shekh's snakeskin, have been returned. Without anchor points, you can only stay in one time period and cannot exist in the past and the future at the same time."
The system sensed her sarcasm and tried to remain calm.
[Without an anchor, they can never come back!]
"You don't need to threaten me."
The Heavenly Secret Card can see the future, not just predict it, but the future that will actually happen.
This card, which you've never obtained in the game, allows you to travel through time and see what's about to happen before you do.
Strictly speaking, it is a time-related skill.
While she was in her possession, she deliberately left an invisible directional teleportation array in the center of the maze using the [Intermediate Structure] card in order to see Shekh.
The anchor point uses the power of the white wood, that is, the willow branch, which not only provides Shekh with the life force for growth, but also facilitates positioning.
The system was happy to see this happen, because shortly after weakening Sheh, it realized that it couldn't do without Sheh, so it urgently needed her to grow quickly and didn't take Willow seriously at all.
The black mist invaded too much, and it could neither eliminate nor purify it. It could only move from world to world, like robbing Peter to pay Paul. However, this was not a long-term solution, and in the end, it still had to find Shekh.
The system knew what Shi Jinzhe and Sheh wanted, so it used this directional teleportation array as a trap, superimposed time teleportation on it, and the anchor point was Sheh's snakeskin.
Later, the Heavenly Secret Card came into Pu Sheng's hands. He manipulated it to merge the two formations into one, and the three golden leaves he wore were drained of energy in order to heal his eyes.
At this point, all that remained of the golden leaf in the future was the one around Linlang's neck.
As for the past, although the willow branches are gone, Shi Jinzhe, whose power originated from the same source as Mu Bai's, was tricked by the system and returned to the past.
Therefore, the system did not detect the problem with the anchor point immediately.
Bai Weishuang took a deep breath and chuckled, "It's because your confinement to treatment caused the anchor point in the past to become invalid, so you can't go back."
For the first time, the system experienced extreme anger. If it had a physical form, it would probably have vomited three liters of blood and was so angry that it wanted to strangle Bai Weishuang.
The past and the future cannot coexist...
This woman actually did so many things secretly right under its nose!
Not satisfied with the provocation, Bai Weishuang added, "You created this situation all by yourself; I didn't really do anything."
[...]
It took the system quite a while to finally let out a sigh of relief.
So what? As long as he can't use his own life force, he can't return to the future.
"It will be possible."
Bai Weishuang confirmed.
He also left them a prop, so that once the system disconnects, it can no longer interfere with anything that happens afterward.
The system was so angry that it didn't reply, so she calmed down as well.
Linlang listened in the whole time, but hesitated to speak.
She really wanted to ask if, given the current situation, this round of dungeon points was a complete loss, but after thinking it over, she asked instead, "Were you just talking to the system?"
Bai Weishuang replied, "Yes, it's infuriating."
"You care about them a lot, you are...?"
"Shi Jinzhe is my son."
Linlang exclaimed "Ah!" and her eyes widened, her expression unusually out of control.
Bai Weishuang looked at her and said, "Yes, that's the expression. When I saw my son in Shekh's future becoming a huge romantic for her, my eyes widened even more dramatically than yours."
Perhaps because she knew about Shi Jinzhe and Shehe's relationship beforehand, Linlang felt alright about it. "I think the statement that Shi Jinzhe is your son had a bigger impact on me."
"No, you don't understand. I saw this future when he wasn't even a month old."
"cough!"
Linlang choked on a gust of cold air, tears welling up in her eyes. Once she recovered, she had completely forgotten what she wanted to ask.
Bai Weishuang also felt cold: "Let's go somewhere sheltered from the wind."
Linlang: "Oh, okay, what should we do now? Just wait here?"
"Yes, what follows is a battle of gods, so we mortal patients shouldn't get involved."
"But I think you're pretty amazing, you were unharmed even after dealing with such a powerful system..."
"The system made a deal with me, with the blessing of the Word Spirit Card. At most, it can torment me, but it can't kill me."
"Can I ask what kind of transaction it was?" Linlang was genuinely curious.
“There’s nothing I can’t say,” Bai Weishuang explained. “The system considers Shehe a threat because she can’t treat everyone equally. She always acts arbitrarily and favorably, being extremely kind to those she likes and extremely hateful to those she hates. Such a personality possesses excessive power, which is very dangerous.”
“But I don’t think we can negate everything about Shekh just because she was born in darkness. Her experiences are more important than her birth. The Queen was once innocent and carefree, but she was not the dragon slayer and eventually became the dragon. So I ask that Shekh be given enough time to grow. When that time comes, she will do what she should do without the system’s intervention.”
"Those chips...?"
"My stake is that I will spend the rest of my life monitoring the Queen and making sure she can no longer exert influence over Shekh. As long as she can maintain complete self-control and not be swayed by her emotions, I will win."
The rest of my life…
These two words were too heavy, and Linlang couldn't help but ask, "You're wasting the rest of your life here, what about your husband and children... what if they resent you?"
Bai Weishuang answered more slowly this time, turning to look at her, "...Do you know why I made this bet?"
"Please speak."
Linlang was very respectful. She could challenge the system, and she was also Shi Jinzhe's mother, so she had to treat her with deference.
"Do you know about the black mist that devours everything? Its birth is similar to that of the Shekh. The difference is that the Shekh absorbs the darkness of the world, while the black mist expands the darkness of the world."
“Jealousy, evil, violence, death—anything negative can amplify it. As long as these things exist, the black mist will continue to exist.”
"Over the years, it has been nurtured and evolved, and it has long since begun to actively induce the dark side of people. It has even gone so far as to search for Shekh in each world, wanting the power within her. If it is not restrained, sooner or later the black mist will devour all the worlds."
Linlang swallowed hard, piecing together all of Bai Weishuang's words from the past few days, and finally summed it up in one sentence.
"So the system was afraid that Shekh would disturb other worlds, so it tried to weaken her, only to find that something else was truly disturbing the worlds, and that the thing that could truly restrain the black mist had been weakened by itself...?"
What does it mean to lift a rock only to drop it on your own foot?
That's it!
Bai Weishuang nodded: "That's a good summary."
"So you're buying Shekh time so she'll willingly absorb the black mist later?"
"...I was just about to praise you for being smart."
Linlang blinked. "Isn't that right?"
“I made the bet because I didn’t want to force Shekh to do it. She shouldn’t go back to her original state. She has a name, she has a home, she is unique. No one can destroy her without considering her will. And I want her to become the sharpest sword, not just to deal with the Black Mist.”
Will Shekh get injured fighting the black mist?
The black mist that could destroy the world sounded too powerful, and even though she wasn't familiar with it, Linlang couldn't help but worry.
"Won't."
Bai Weishuang looked up at the sky; her son, whose mind was always on his wife, hadn't been born for nothing.
She let out a sigh of relief and said, "Because I also gave the sword a sheath."
Linlang's expression was a mixture of shock and confusion. "Huh?"
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