"Your head's too high."

Before the black-robed girl could say another word, a sharp sword energy flashed past as soon as the words landed.

She instinctively lowered her head.

The sword energy grazed past her scalp, cutting through her hood. A few stray cowlicks that couldn't dodge in time drifted away, dispersing in the air.

Before she could mentally prepare herself, the other voice came again: "Too low."

Another sword strike!

"Too left. Too right. Too big. Too small..."

With sword energy coming at her one after another, the black-robed girl made a snap decision!

She ripped her own head off!

"Stop!"

Holding up her own head—a pixelated mess far too grotesque to display—she looked at the young man across from her. "Then you tell me how to pose!"

"That's terrifying."

As the founder of the Witch Association, the black-robed girl experienced being so angry she had to laugh for the first time.

You're a freak who casually dissects the bodies of girls who like you and even eats their hearts.

And you dare to say I'm terrifying!

Have you no shame...

But instead of another sword strike, this time it was a kick aimed straight at her!

The black-robed girl's figure burst apart like splashing water, then slowly reformed and settled back.

Jiang Si snorted coldly at the now-normal-looking black-robed girl. "How dare you be resurrected and come provoke me?"

The black-robed girl helplessly knelt on the ground, raising her hands. "Don't blame me for this. According to the timeline, I haven't died yet. It's not that I chose to resurrect to provoke you—it's that this world judged I shouldn't be dead, so it revived me."

"This world dares to resurrect you just to provoke me?"

She had no idea how Lu Ya could have fallen for him.

Even if Lu Ya wasn't exactly normal either, she was at least someone you could communicate with, someone with logic. Her language system and thoughts weren't this wildly erratic, were they?

Even if you cared that much about appearances, or if there was some hidden excellent inner quality you valued,

At the very least, shouldn't you prioritize finding someone you can actually communicate with!?

And speaking of which, how had Keke managed to put up with him for all these years...

But given the current situation, she had no other choice. She lay down flat on the ground. "Because this is the past, Lord Jiang Si. As long as the World Tree exists, the past cannot be changed."

"That damn World Tree, daring to provoke my dad..."

A black light flashed as Little Black Dragon flew out from Jiang Si's body, roaring to the heavens.

"I will never forget that rainy night. Because of that accursed World Tree, there was a dragon in that dried-up well who almost lost his beloved Yiluo Xiang."

The black-robed girl blinked. "Uh... you're... that dragon?"

Little Black Dragon: "No, I'm a descendant of the dragon."

The black-robed girl instantly lost all desire to make a snarky comment about the sudden appearance of the little black dragon beside Jiang Si. Meanwhile, the little dragon herself flew a lap around Jiang Si. "Dad, we absolutely have to ram the tree hard, rip out its roots, snap it in half! Burn the World Tree to ashes! And bring back Mom Lu Ya!"

"I swear to repay the tree's pain for its overstepping, to repay its crown for its arrogance, to repay its roots for its betrayal! I will offer that broken tree's ashes to my great Mom Lu Ya!"

With that, she flew up higher, spread her wings, and her golden pupils blazed even in the fierce neon light, radiating a kingly majesty and a madness bordering on desperation!

She pressed down on everything with brutal and terrifying force!

"The king descends from the heavens! Furious and ferocious!"

Jiang Si grabbed her by the leg, smashed her into the ground, then stomped her in to make it compact.

Then he turned to look at the black-robed girl lying on the ground.

She was indeed a person from this timeline. Now that he had grasped the Time Dao Fruit, he could still tell that much.

The question was, as someone from this point in time—

"How do you know I'm Simo Tu?"

He had never once mentioned the identity of Simo Tu since entering this frozen timeline.

No one here could possibly know that.

"Well, for that, you can ask the me over there when you get back. Until then, you just need to know one thing..."

As she spoke, she naturally tried to get up.

But Jiang Si stepped on her stomach. "Did I say you could stand?"

The black-robed girl immediately lay back down obediently. "It's fine, it's fine, I didn't want to get up anyway. Lying down is so much more comfortable. Anyway—I'm just here to tell you the true history. Lu Ya never got to see you, but she did plan and build Chongxu with everyone else. Then she and I conducted the Witch experiments together. Unfortunately, her constitution couldn't adapt to the Polluted Magic, so she created the Lu Ya AI to complete the experiment."

"Even though you stirred ripples in this frozen river of time, allowing Lu Ya to finally see you and even letting you take her heart, in true history, Lu Ya was imprisoned by the Magical Girls. Not long after, her fate became unknown."

"That means she died."

"...Anyway, I don't think it's that simple. But as an ordinary girl, she couldn't become a Magical Girl, nor could she become a perfect Witch. Her lifespan probably wasn't that long either. So by your era, Lu Ya is probably truly gone..."

"Not long after that, Chongxu started to get on track. However, the Lu Ya AI broke through the seal a few times. Those incidents caused Chongxu severe losses and taught it some painful lessons..."

The flow of time continued around him, and Jiang Si witnessed the Lu Ya AI's rampages firsthand.

Every time it appeared, it was a massive disaster.

And as Chongxu, a transit station for Magical Girls traveling to the Magic Kingdom and the World Tree, gradually began to lose its original function, many Magical Girls led by Incubators started to deliberately avoid it.

Gradually turning into a realm of golden wealth and filthy water, Chongxu was no longer the Promised Land for Magical Girls.

The Lu Ya AI clearly operated on voice activation. Once the name "Lu Ya" spread, it would spread like a virus throughout all of Chongxu. When enough people were infected, it would awaken the true sealed Lu Ya AI.

But then, what about that holographic projection of Lu Ya that he had first awakened with his voice back in Chongxu?

That wasn't the AI—it was a genuine holographic recording of the real Lu Ya, just like those things she had made in the bullying village before.

Jiang Si was certain that Lu Ya couldn't have left a similar projection in that village. It must have been recorded later...

Lost in thought, the Lu Ya AI in history began its rampage. Sometimes it was suppressed, but there were always times when it wasn't.

Seeing the rampaging Lu Ya AI, which was starting a massacre, Jiang Si casually grabbed a steel rebar and hurled it with ferocity!

The Lu Ya AI's core was in its head. This one strike instantly made its head explode!

Gore and brain matter splattered everywhere. The AI's body was made of flesh and blood, indistinguishable from a real person. It looked like a machine whose entire processor had exploded.

But amidst rippling waves that washed over it, it began to repair itself. Then, as if it hadn't noticed Jiang Si at all, it continued its destruction!

Jiang Si casually tried to pull a dead girl out of the way, but when he did, the girl just rippled like water.

Then she was swallowed by the explosion the Lu Ya AI had caused.

"Don't waste your energy."

The black-robed girl beside him let out a sigh. "Right now, you're just a passerby who never existed in this era. Their destined deaths cannot be changed—pfft!"

Before she could finish, Jiang Si casually kicked her, who was in the middle of speaking, straight towards the Lu Ya AI.

"What the hell, you..."

The moment the Lu Ya AI saw that it was her good friend, a towering fury surged within her.

"It's... you..."

Countless snow screens materialized, trying to protect her friend.

But the moment they touched the black-robed girl, the founder of the Witch Association exploded with a bang, scattering into a swirl of blooming flowers.

Her black magic transformed into blood-red petals, creating a terrifying scarlet tornado that enveloped the Lu Ya AI. The next second, the nature of the power shifted, and the scarlet tornado turned into a massive slab of rough-edged red crystal.

The ripples entangled the crystal, rapidly aging it, turning it into a single drop of water that merged into the river of time in the blink of an eye.

As if nothing had happened, the Lu Ya AI continued its erosion of Chongxu.

"See? Even someone from this past like me trying to act doesn't work." The black-robed girl had already crawled back to Jiang Si's side. "What we're seeing now is just an image reflected in the water of the past. Anything we do is futile..."

But Jiang Si just let out a cold laugh. Twisting his waist, he turned and kicked!

The massive building next to him, like a mountain, was kicked like a soccer ball, flying straight towards the Lu Ya AI!

Then he leaped again, like a shooting star, smashing down on the Lu Ya AI's head with a powerful axe kick!

And then, still standing on the Lu Ya AI, he plummeted straight into the center of Chongxu!

Explosions and sparks of electricity spread across the entire Chongxu. The circuit failure slowed the Lu Ya AI's spread, even making it disappear.

The Lu Ya AI, which in true history should have been rampaging through Chongxu, was suppressed just like that.

It was quickly sealed away.

The black-robed girl lay on the ground, looking at the devastated Chongxu. She was silent for a moment, then let out a sigh of amazement. "To be able to splash such ripples in the river of time... it's incomprehensible..."

She watched as time continued to flow without any sign of reverting.

Jiang Si looked back at the black-robed girl.

Seeing that she had been proven wrong, she scratched her head, a bit embarrassed. "Uh, well, this... this is probably because this part of the frozen river of time wasn't recorded in the World Tree. Yes, that must be it. Trust me, I'm not lying!"

Jiang Si sneered in disdain. "Ha, obviously a [Pseudo-History]. Is there even any need to question it?"

"[Pseudo-History]..." The black-robed girl froze. "Good thinking. It's true that only in an unrecorded [Pseudo-History] can you create irreversible ripples."

"Making such ripples in true history is impossible. Because once the past is recorded by the World Tree, it absolutely cannot be changed."

Then, Jiang Si noticed that the river of time went blank for a while.

When things returned to normal, the Lu Ya AI had already taken control of Chongxu.

The black-robed girl let out a sigh. "Now time has returned to the river of true history again."

Having defeated the Magical Girls, the Lu Ya AI stuffed all the Chongxu residents into pod bodies, connecting the personal reality of every Chongxu resident to Jiang Si's heart.

But as he walked through the river of time, Jiang Si could naturally see this.

This wasn't just the work of the Lu Ya AI alone.

There was the Witch Association, which had created the pods and provided the technology for grafting and merging personal realities. And there were the Nightwatchmen, who had betrayed the Magical Girls and orchestrated everything.

Behind them were the Incubators, seemingly searching for something.

These two organizations had jointly given birth to the current Chongxu.

Jiang Si tilted his head to look at the black-robed girl beside him. "You really aren't afraid of death."

"After all, the Lu Ya AI probably thinks I'm dead. It's been so long—she's probably long forgotten about holding a grudge." The black-robed girl said this nonchalantly, wriggling on the ground. "For us in the Witch Association, if the Lu Ya AI can complete the Witch's experiment and surpass the World Tree, then what does it matter if we die at her hands?"

"Are you this obsessed with your Dao?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Fixated on causing chaos, low morals."

"Haha, I guess so."

The black-robed girl stared at the Incubators mingling among the Nightwatchmen's ranks. "After all, without power that surpasses the World Tree, any kind of Magical Girl is meaningless to them."

Jiang Si glanced at the Incubators, who were gradually taking over and turning the Nightwatchmen into puppets under their control, but he didn't care. He just suddenly asked,

"Have you noticed that Lu Ya left some things behind in the Chongxu you all built?"

The black-robed girl was startled. "Impossible, right? The past cannot be changed... Even if she didn't die, she couldn't have done anything..."

"In this world... are there ghosts?"

At Jiang Si's words, the black-robed girl shivered. "Don't say such scary things! We should believe in science. Where do ghosts come from? When people die, they're just dead..."

In a Magical Girl's world, you're talking about science?

Jiang Si rubbed his chin, the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Never mind anything else, The Emperor inside his own body, and Mùjǐn inside An Shiyu's—what difference was there between them and ghosts?

Even though they were consciousnesses left behind through Mental Landscape expansion, regardless, since this possibility existed, it meant that Lu Ya might have also left behind a ghost, or some kind of consciousness or warning.

Meanwhile, The Emperor inside Jiang Si's body felt a sense of relief in her heart.

She was relieved that Jiang Si had actually started to care about the people who liked him.

She had thought Jiang Si would never change for his whole life.

But as she watched Jiang Si think so hard about it, occasionally muttering guesses like "Maybe she's not dead" or "Maybe the Lu Ya AI did something,"

A faint sense of loss began to creep into her heart.

When would she ever be cared about like this?

She had watched everything Lu Ya had done. That girl's passionate and straightforward love, which never flinched or feared even when facing Jiang Si, made The Emperor feel both envy and admiration in her heart.

Even if she could no longer be a true lover, even if her life might be gone, she could still bravely express her feelings.

"That's right, Dad. Your thinking can't be wrong. Mom Lu Ya probably isn't dead. All that before was just clues she left for us, waiting for us to come save her."

Jiang Si looked out as the surrounding environment began to flash with dazzling colors. This frozen river of time seemed finally about to reach its end and disappear. He sighed. "It's really hard to find. I've already searched through Chongxu before. I can't find any trace."

"Wow." Little Black Dragon showed a moved expression. She hugged her dad, rubbing against his arm. "Dad, you care about Mom that much? It's okay. Even if we can't find her, just having this feeling of yours, Mom will definitely be especially happy and especially blessed. Don't you worry..."

The Emperor beside her couldn't help but console him too. "Just do your best. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."

But despite their consolations, Jiang Si didn't look relieved at all.

"How could I not worry?"

Jiang Si said with concern. "If I'm missing even this one remnant soul of hers, what's going to happen to my Time Dao Fruit?"

The Emperor: "..."

Little Black Dragon: "..."

Ignoring the two who had completely shut up, Jiang Si noticed that the black-robed girl had already disappeared from the river of time.

It seemed the Witch Association might be even more interesting than he had imagined.

Planning to study the Witch Association properly when he got back, Jiang Si slowly left this frozen period of time.

Even though he could manipulate a portion of the Time Dao Fruit's power, it was fundamentally limited to a small area.

Once he exceeded a certain range, he would find it unusable.

It just showed he couldn't completely control it yet.

He had to find a way to fully master it.

Time is supreme, space is king.

Once both the Time and Space Dao Fruits were completely mastered, transcending all things and ruling alone through the ages would no longer just be a dream!

Thinking this, Jiang Si felt a surge of heroic spirit in his heart.

Only now had he finally seen, from the path of the Magical Girl, the destination of his ancestors!

Who would have thought that he could actually, through this one narrow path, get onto the right track?

Sure, he could only tear open one Space Dao Fruit for now.

And he couldn't fully control the other Time Dao Fruit either.

But these were minor issues. If worst came to worst, he could just cordially invite Mùjǐn's remnant soul, let her live in his Personal Reality, become a part of him—that would count as completely mastering the Space Dao Fruit too.

"Those two things are completely different, aren't they..."

Hearing The Emperor's doubts in his mind, Jiang Si snorted coldly.

Ignorant child, trying to talk back to me.

The most important thing was still to find a way to completely master the Time Dao Fruit.

Seeing that the river of time still had some distance before returning to the present, an impatient Jiang Si directly pulled out his Miracle Seed.

"The dragon is for space, the moon is for time."

Black-golden power poured in from outside the river of time!

"[Qiankun Dragon Chant Moon]—"

A power connecting the present to the past, carrying the majestic roar of a dragon!

"Transform."

This had always been her trump card.

Dragon Lord Shion had been on standby at the outskirts of Chongxu this whole time. She could reclaim Dragon Lord Shion's power at any moment.

Her dragon pupils looked up at the sky. The time hole created by the transformation was slowly healing.

Dragon Lord Shion, possessing the power of three in one, opened a dragon's breath, prying open the hole in the river of time!

Then, with hands covered in scales like dragon claws, she firmly grasped the edges of the hole in the river of time and tore it open!

Time and space were no different.

Dragon Lord Shion squeezed out through the gap in time, bit by bit.

Time washed over her, trying to leave its mark, but her vast mana protected her body from any influence—her rank was just different. A [Pseudo-History] was ultimately just a minor path, not a true history.

Even if it were true history, her Personal Reality could surpass it too!

With a single step, the dragon lord who had walked from the past to the present slightly shook her neck. Her golden hair danced. But then, unfortunately, the passage of the [Pseudo-History] behind her closed shut.

It directly severed her large tail.

Glancing at the half-aged tail, Shion didn't mind. She gave it a casual flick, and half a new one grew back.

She had to admit, the rules of time were still overpowered.

Even a space slash couldn't actually affect her dragon body, let alone cut off her tail.

But time could do it.

Slowly exhaling a breath of white air.

Shion looked around and realized that the white breath wasn't from her power being so strong it caused the air to condense from the heat.

It was because the surroundings were too damn cold!

There was ice everywhere!

Where the hell was she? Was this still Chongxu?

She had definitely come out of the [Pseudo-History] and arrived at the present timeline...

The oppressive cold and sinister atmosphere were so intense that even Dragon Lord Shion couldn't help but wrap her large tail around her neck like a scarf.

Occasionally breathing warmth onto her tail, Shion realized she was indeed no longer in Chongxu.

This was her new world.

Jurassic? Ice Age?

Random thoughts flashed through her mind. She thought she might have gotten the timeline wrong, ending up in the past of the Cave Dwelling, in some Jurassic Ice Age, which was why everything was frozen.

But when she saw the skyscrapers frozen solid below, her little brain immediately realized this probably wasn't the Jurassic or an Ice Age.

When she extended her Divine Sense, Shion discovered that this Ice Age was no simple matter.

Even her Divine Sense, when extended outside for too long, felt like it was starting to freeze.

Even if it didn't freeze, the feedback it gave was sluggish, making it inconvenient to use.

She simply spread her dragon wings and took a lap herself, seeing the whole world with her own eyes.

Yep, it was definitely her new world, and the timeline was correct.

Because Shion saw a building in Beihai that hadn't been finished yet. If she remembered correctly, Mochi had just started construction on it before she left.

That girl used to build really fast. She could put up several buildings in a single day.

But ever since those few newly built buildings were casually destroyed right before her eyes by Thousand-Pinweed, she had been getting lazier and lazier, often taking several weeks just to finish one building.

Probably because she felt that building too fast was pointless since they'd just get blown up anyway.

Shion could only say her Dao Heart wasn't firm. It was a pity she wasn't a disciple of Azure Cloud Sect, so Shion couldn't lecture an outsider for slacking off.

"Shion!"

While she was still observing what was going on,

Someone suddenly jumped up from below. Shion instinctively whipped her tail at them.

But the person directly leaped through space, wrapping their arms and legs around her big tail like a sloth, clinging to it for dear life. No matter how much she shook it, they wouldn't let go.

"It's me, it's me, An Shiyu!"

Shion glanced at the burden on her tail. "Mùjǐn?"

Mùjǐn was instantly incredulous. "How did you recognize it's me? I disguised myself so perfectly..."

A spark of electricity ran through the tail. Mùjǐn shivered from the shock but still clung tightly to Shion's tail. "I'm, I'm going to pee!"

When the electricity stopped, Shion continued to ask, "What happened?"

"A girl suddenly showed up, claiming to be your wife. She was as strong as a monster. We fought with all our might but couldn't defeat her. She even got the Authority over the new world in the Chaos Land, causing the whole world to constantly collapse. Mùjǐn and I did our utmost, barely managing to prevent the world from falling apart..."

After listening to Mùjǐn's jumbled explanation, Shion was confused but she had basically grasped the situation.

Had the Lu Ya AI invaded?

That wasn't too surprising. Since she could enter Chongxu, it was likely that the Lu Ya AI from Chongxu could invade here too.

She had probably gotten the Authority from Fengqin through the relationship between Lu Ya and the Dream Incubator.

Not that she had expected much from that little coward in the first place. But to be this useless—basically, the only ones who would actively come to her were herself and the Lu Ya AI.

And she had just given it away.

Even Shion hadn't expected that.

Her uselessness was on par with the Nurturing Dao Ancestor...

"You have to save everyone!" Mùjǐn looked at her with teary eyes. "Bingtang originally made space for Little An, wanting Little An to wait for your return. But Little An was standing too close, and her consciousness got frozen too. Thank goodness I was there, or else everyone would really have been done for..."

"What did Bingtang want you to say?"

"When the Absolute Zero is lifted, the world will collapse. So please be careful."

Shion didn't say anything else. Carrying Mùjǐn, who was still clinging to her tail, she rose continuously from above Beihai, pierced through the clouds, crossed the boundary of the wind, and finally arrived at the boundless silence outside.

Mùjǐn was brought to the very edge of the Earth, among the stars, in the void.

They hovered in space, looking down at the once-bustling planet.

The once blue planet was now like a graveyard.

The entire planet was completely sealed in a layer of crystalline ice, like a tear frozen in time.

There was no flow, no sound, no trace of any life moving. Only a vast and desolate silence spreading across every inch of the surface under the sunlight.

Mùjǐn, who had been feeling the smoothness and coldness of the dragon's tail and even rubbing her face against the pitch-black dragon scales, was so stunned by the sight of the frozen planet that she forgot to indulge in the sensation of the scales.

The ice-covered ground reflected the distant sunlight. The whole planet looked like a meticulously crafted glass ball—crystal clear, pure, and even fragile.

As if the slightest touch would shatter it into a million specks of stardust.

And this fragility was still spreading outward.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars... in the infinite expanse of the cosmos, within the chill and ice crystals, a constantly extending boundary had appeared.

But the frozen Sun still emitted an eerie sunlight.

Pouring in from the depths of the void, without the scattering of the atmosphere, the light was cold and sharp. Yet it fell surprisingly softly on the frozen planet.

Glaciers and ice fields refracted countless tiny points of light. It hung silently against the backdrop of black velvet, surrounded by a thin, silvery-white halo. It possessed an indescribable beauty of death.

Besides the stunning beauty, there was a profound loneliness. Especially in this silent universe, looking at the planet where one lived, now a frozen tomb, it brought a kind of rootless panic and unease.

And for an old person who had been sealed in a Heart Image Remnant, living alone for a long time, this was absolutely the hardest feeling to bear.

Mùjǐn couldn't help but hug Shion's tail tighter. It was as if only by her side could she find some warmth and peace of mind, slightly dispelling the loneliness in her heart.

Damn, I think I missed something...

Mùjǐn couldn't help but squeeze her legs together, silently praying Shion wouldn't notice.

Shion flew until she found a suitable spot, then she finally stopped.

Spreading her wings, although they weren't large compared to the planet's surface, at this moment they gave off a majestic feeling, as if they could cover the sky and block out the sun, enveloping the entire universe!

Then, Mùjǐn realized this wasn't just her imagination. Shion really was covering the entire planet with her dragon wings!

The wing membrane, like liquid night, silently flowed across the void, completely enveloping the frozen planet under the shadow of her wings. The stars were blocked out, the distant light was cut off. Only Shion herself became the sole source of light here.

As her mana surged, brilliant golden light and deep black radiance burst forth from her dragon body, interweaving, entangling, and rising!

In the void of the universe, the frozen sun, which had been glowing with an eerie light, began to pale in comparison.

It still blazed fiercely, still spewing out billions of tons of light and heat. But in the presence of Shion's brilliance, it became nothing more than a moon that could only hide from the light and flicker timidly in the darkness.

That star that once ruled the day now looked like a dim candle flame, hanging timidly in a corner of the universe. And Shion was now emitting a light more blazing, more majestic, and more unapproachable than the former sun!

When the accumulation of mana reached its peak, Shion's delicate hand was lifted at the perfect moment. Then,

She gently tapped her chest.

"Mental Landscape Expansion."

The miracle of the universe returned to nothingness.

The Mental Landscape etched onto her heart instantly melted the miracle of the entire planet!

Not only that, Mùjǐn discovered that Dragon Lord Shion's Mental Landscape was even expanding without limit. From the sun, all the way to Pluto—which had already been kicked out of the eight-planet club and was somewhere making its fortune—it was all swallowed into the Mental Landscape.

Then, Mùjǐn watched in stunned silence as all the planets, including the largest, the sun, began to melt within Shion's Mental Landscape!

Shion also slightly tilted her head up, watching as the melting sun and the eight planets, including the dwarf planet Pluto, gradually disappeared.

They were all born from miracles...

So she quickly retracted her Mental Landscape range. Shion looked down. The planet's ice was melting rapidly, but this very planet beneath her feet showed no signs of melting from her Mental Landscape.

In this vast universe, this was the only planet not born from a miracle.

And down below, the world was now collapsing and melting everywhere.

The thousands of miles of ice shell that had covered the oceans, continents, mountains, and rivers, the moment it was overwritten by a stronger Mental Landscape, it was like early snow meeting a summer's sun. It shattered, evaporated, and disappeared without resistance.

The sea regained its freedom, surging and crashing onto every inch of coastline. The wind returned from the void, howling across the land. The forests shook off the remaining ice in the wind, billions of leaves trembling in unison, making a rustling sound—like the planet's gentle gasp after coming back to life, or like all things whispering in gratitude.

In the awakening city, the sounds of people's surprised exclamations and confused, puzzled voices spread continuously.

Having regained her freedom, Bingtang looked up at the dragon wings spreading above. She just smiled slightly, not particularly surprised, which also meant she felt less excitement.

Only the love that had been there from beginning to end became even stronger.

The first thing she did after waking up was to immediately mobilize Azure Cloud Sect and the Disaster Control Bureau to start promoting the Sect Master's achievements.

The high ground of public opinion must be actively seized at all times.

All achievements must be publicly advertised with great fanfare. The so-called quiet doing of good deeds is long outdated for this era.

In this world, if you don't speak up, people can deny it, or even pin the credit on someone else!

Bingtang would never allow the Sect Master to suffer even a hint of such grievance.

But this kind of thing just needed a little coordination with the relevant personnel to get it done. She herself flew straight up into the air.

The other true-transmissions of Azure Cloud also flew up, drawing many eyes.

"Sect Master."

Bingtang quickly glanced at Mùjǐn, who was lying on the big tail and didn't dare to get up.

Her face was flushed red, and she didn't dare to look up.

Bingtang didn't pay much attention. She just looked at Shion, who seemed to be lost in thought.

That face, no matter how many times she saw it, would always stir the same flutter she felt the first time they met. So she naturally moved closer, hugged Shion, gently wrapped her arms around her waist—so small it seemed like it could snap with one careless move.

It was hard to believe such a small body could unleash such terrifying power. "You're finally back, Bingtang is so tired."

"You've worked hard."

"Let me hold you for a bit, let me rest."

"Mm."

Mùjǐn on the tail was stunned.

Seeing Bingtang so easily hug Shion, she immediately yelled out, "Little An, Little An, we're in a huge crisis!"

"What's wrong?" An Shiyu, who had just woken up from being frozen, was still a bit dazed.

"Bingtang just hugged her! And most importantly, Shion allowed it! How could she allow it?"

"That's normal." An Shiyu also looked at Bingtang hugging Shion. "After all, they've been close friends for a long time..."

"Do you believe that yourself when you say it?" Mùjǐn gnashed her teeth. "Damn it, we can barely even get to hold her tail, and she's crying about wanting to die or live. No, I want to hug Shion too..."

"Senior Mùjǐn."

"What?"

"Why is your pants a little wet?"

"Ahaha..."

"Senior Mùjǐn!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong, but I really couldn't hold it in then! I did my best! I really only leaked a tiny bit!"

For Shion, this kind of thing wasn't a first. She was long used to it.

Bingtang almost never acted spoiled under normal circumstances. She was the most reliable Great Elder of Azure Cloud Sect day to day, handling everything perfectly. She also always maintained a dignified and mature demeanor in front of Shion.

But when Bingtang was truly exhausted to her limit, she would want to hug her and rest for a while.

And Shion, at first, was actually too lazy to bother with it, even rejecting it.

It had taken Bingtang quite a lot of time and effort to get Shion to gradually understand and get used to this.

Once Shion got used to it, the Sect Master wasn't actually that unapproachable.

But most of the time, Shion would refuse if she didn't feel like it.

The last time Bingtang had asked for a hug was so long ago that Shion herself couldn't remember.

It seemed that this time had indeed put a lot of pressure and hardship on Bingtang, so naturally, Shion let her hug all she wanted.

As her Mental Landscape expanded, the entire situation of the world was imprinted in Shion's mind, including the location of everyone in it.

She immediately found Fengqin.

Hearing The Emperor's skepticism in his mind, Jiang Si snorted coldly.

"It seems the matter over at Chongxu has been resolved. Our little sister Keke successfully defeated the Lu Ya AI and burned away all of its Authority in Chongxu. The underlying permissions of Chongxu are now free from the Lu Ya AI's control. As for the Lu Ya AI's data, it seems to be completely damaged."

Shion listened and nodded, not particularly surprised.

Tiyana had already told her that Keke had won. But handling it so thoroughly was a bit unexpected.

It seemed Keke had grown after all. She wasn't as naive and childish as she used to be.

Decisive and ruthless in killing—she already had the bearing of the ancients...

Shion didn't plan to interfere with Keke's philosophy as a Magical Girl.

What she should do still depended on Keke's own growth. The course of history always required individual effort. After all, Personal Reality wouldn't change because of external circumstances, nor because of a few words from someone else.

Even just mastering its surface level had given his physical body a visibly enormous boost. Once fully mastered, being the sole master of the ages and reversing the river of time would be nothing more than a snap of his fingers for him!

But her mouth still said, "Still needs training."

Because they were flying, Bingtang couldn't keep hugging Shion from the front. She could only loop her arms around her waist from the side, leaning half her body against this small girl to properly rest and relax.

"She's already done very well. You should praise little sister Keke. But currently, regarding the development of Chongxu and the distribution of power, it seems to have reached a deadlock..."

As she spoke, Shion had already brought the still-arguing An Shiyu and Mùjǐn, along with Bingtang reporting the situation, to the Chaos Land.

On the way, she reconnected the internet cable for Fengqin in the Chaos Land.

Then, with just a small expansion of her Mental Landscape, Fengqin woke up from the ice. Without a word, neither humble nor arrogant, she walked to the side.

Shion was about to praise her for finally not kneeling and showing some backbone.

Then she saw Fengqin take a rope, tie it to a roof beam, and hang herself from it.

Swinging on the rope like a swing.

When Shion pulled her down, Fengqin knelt on the ground and started crying. "I'm sorry..."

"Don't waste time. What exactly happened?"

"Sister, Sister Lu Ya suddenly came back." Fengqin cried so hard she could barely breathe, her head on the ground, having shrunk as small as possible. "Then she asked for my body and Authority. She said she wanted to go down and take a look. I refused at first."

"But then I saw Miss Shion say it was okay, and I agreed, all confused. After that, after that, this happened..."

Mùjǐn and An Shiyu also stopped arguing. Taking the chance that the dragon tail wasn't dirty yet, they quickly got off and crouched beside Fengqin, comforting the poor, crying girl.

Then Fengqin said timidly, "I have recordings here, about what Sister Lu Ya was doing before. I recorded it all..."

Shion nodded. "Let's see."

So Fengqin turned on the computer next to her. She found that the game on it was still running—after being frozen, the game data was frozen too. The match she had been playing was frozen mid-game and still hadn't ended. It only started again after thawing.

She was about to close it, but Shion said, "Finish the game first."

"Huh?"

"Otherwise, how can you face your teammates?"

At Shion's question, Fengqin was momentarily stunned, but she obediently played through the match.

She lost. And because she was being watched, her performance throughout was garbage.

Thankfully, no one understood what game she was playing...

"You're terrible. Don't play anymore."

The moment Shion said this, Fengqin almost couldn't stop herself from burying herself in the ground.

Humiliated, she played the relevant videos she had recorded.

From her sudden appearance, gently persuading her, taking the Authority and body from her hands.

To then using the Authority to enter the new world.

Continuously causing the new world to collapse, as if trying to destroy it entirely.

Until she found Bingtang—the entire segment was played out completely.

"It's the Lu Ya AI, right?"

Bingtang affectionately rubbed against Shion's dragon horn, but her tone carried some regret. "Borrowing Miss Lu Ya's appearance to do such things. It really is detestable."

Fengqin also quickly nodded. "It's definitely not the real Sister Lu Ya. The real Sister Lu Ya is so gentle. She would never do something like this!"

Mùjǐn couldn't hide her disgust. She said angrily, "I hate those bastards who use other people's appearances to do bad things and frame others the most!"

All the psychological trauma from the past came flooding back.

Alice of the Mirror Kingdom, who used her appearance to do bad things, getting her investigated and suspected, was Mùjǐn's most hated enemy!

Bingtang gently comforted her Sect Master. "Don't take it to heart, Sect Master. We will definitely handle this..."

Shion just watched quietly, then nodded.

"That's right. It's the real person."

"It is, the fake... wait!"

After realizing what she'd heard, Fengqin stared blankly at Shion. Everyone else also had strange expressions. "How... how could it be the real one?"

"It's the real one."

Shion said calmly. "A real person."

She didn't plan to explain anything. In fact, she could tell at first glance that this was the real person.

What puzzled her was,

How did Lu Ya get here?

If the past she saw was correct,

Lu Ya should have been dead long ago...

Dead?

Something quickly clicked in her mind, and Shion suddenly realized something extremely important.

Because it was so obvious, she had been a bit slow to catch on.

If Lu Ya had truly died, and the Lu Ya AI had been sealed the whole time, only ever possessing the Authority over Chongxu City and her own heart, without ever mastering the Time Dao Fruit...

Then the past she had fallen into, the frozen river of time where she obtained the Time Dao Fruit—

How did the [Pseudo-History] come to be?