Huang Rong, Traveler Through Time

As the word "death" fell, the girl Accio as if riding the wind. To ordinary people, she was just a simple white shadow, stretching for dozens of feet. But Li Lin could clearly see the girl's posture as she moved forward and leaped, as if she were dancing, elegant yet deadly.

In an instant, it appeared before Li Lin, its fair palm concealing a power that could shatter the heavens and the earth.

Li Lin easily dodged to the side, and while holding her waist, he sealed off the girl's next dozens of moves. The power of the Petrifying Charm was just right, making her unable to control her body. Her body was still soft and warm, and she could still control her mouth, tongue and eyes.

"My whole body... no, the Petrifying Charm, let me go."

"What caused such a big change in you? At first, your palm strike seemed more like a way to force me back, but after our conversation, you truly harbored murderous intent." Li Lin lowered his head to gently inhale the fragrance emanating from the girl, while simultaneously collecting his interest.

"I thought you, young master, also came for the [Langhuan Blessed Land], just like..." The girl's voice lowered.

"Like your cousin?"

"Young Master, how could you—" The girl's pupils contracted sharply, then returned to calm. "Indeed, even though the world has changed drastically and Curse Technique are now the most powerful, he is still Southern Murong. His Transfiguration are like those of a god or a demon. If it weren't for my maternal grandfather's protection, I would have perished along with my mother and Xiao Ming long ago."

"You're relatives, aren't you?" Li Lin, somewhat puzzled.

Wang Yuyan is so devoted to Murong Fu, and he can easily take everything in the Langhuan Blessed Land. It's safe to say the entire Mandala Villa will eventually belong to him. Why would he—

"In an era where anyone who practices martial arts can communicate with the heavens and obtain Curse Technique, a once-unknown nobody could suddenly gain the ability to command the winds and rains of the martial world. But my mother remained—"

"Have the relatives and friends of the 'heartless man' she captured to use as fertilizer become extraordinary figures?" Li Lin asked.

The girl pursed her lips, her eyes gradually welling up with tears. "Yes, even he had to stoop to curry favor with someone. In his view, since our family was already doomed to defeat, it was better for him to step in and win the favor of that extraordinary person, thus severing ties with our family."

"What kind of Curse Technique does that person possess?"

"The Killing Curse, a death Curse Technique that kills instantly upon contact. He's from Yunnan, and all I know is that his surname is Tang."

Tom, right?

Li Lin wandered for a moment. "Yunnan? I think I know that your mother only targets people from Dali, or people with the surname Duan."

"Grandma Yan and her accomplices always only look at people's accents when they arrest them." A hint of pity flashed in the girl's eyes, as if she had recalled some terrible memory. "My mother said that as long as your hometown is no more than 500 li away from Dali, you are considered a Dali person."

"It's good that your mother died." If he hadn't been holding the girl in front of him, Li Lin would have even wanted to applaud.

The same goes for those wicked servants who seize people.

"Yes," the girl replied without hesitation, a look of pity in her eyes, "but my grandfather clearly doesn't think so. It's too late—"

Ahh~

A mournful crow's cry echoed across the entire sky.

"When Grandfather comes, he will torture and kill everyone who comes to the island. You cannot withstand his the Cruciatus Curse."

Li Lin remained calm. "So, you wanted to save me, but seeing that I wasn't going to leave, you were planning to give me a quick death?"

He wasn't surprised. The rule of the Xiaoyao School was to kill everyone who knew about the Xiaoyao School, and Wu Yazi, as the sect leader, was naturally ruthless.

Moreover, Wu Yazi probably wore multiple green hats just like in his original fate, so it's not surprising that his mentality became distorted.

"Yes." The girl's voice was even lower. "I will plead for you and ask your grandfather to give you a quick death."

Holy crow, is that you?

"Yu Yan," a large crow spoke in human language, "I wonder why you are here. You are a handsome scholar. I don't kill just anyone. The martial arts of my Xiaoyao School are the best in the world. Naturally, the successor must also be the best. Only those who are beautiful inside and out can inherit the skills."

"So the people you usually kill and torture are all because they're not handsome enough?" Li Lin asked.

"No," the crow shook its head. "Back then, I was caught off guard and was thrown into a deep valley by my wicked disciple Ding Chunqiu. Fortunately, I comprehended the Animagus Charm and was able to survive as a crow. After realizing that martial arts are limited to the meridians and dantian, but the power of Curse Technique is limitless, I was able to reproduce my martial arts skills in the form of a crow and communicate with others using ventriloquism."

"However, even after avenging his great grudge, the evil thoughts in his heart still surged. When he comprehended the Heart-Piercing Curse again, he could no longer enjoy his carefree state of mind."

"You mean that after you mastered the Cruciatus Curse, you started to enjoy killing?" Li Lin asked.

"Crow Lord is not a murderous maniac." A girl in white, her hair tied with a gold ribbon, landed in the pavilion, her graceful figure seemingly making the entire pavilion shine. "Those who come to the island are either spies sent by that dog Murong, or thieves who came for the [Langhuan Blessed Land]."

"The power of time." Li Lin narrowed his eyes. "Rong'er, you are Huang Rong, the daughter of Huang Yaoshi, the Peach Blossom Island?"

But what shocked him was not just the power of time, but a desire to possess her that arose from the depths of his heart.

The host of the "Library" component?

After a brief moment of doubt, his intuition told him everything.

The member of that club was Wang Yuyan.

Huang Rong, on the other hand, arrived in the Northern Song Dynasty because of a time-related Curse Technique granted by the Library, which caused a great change in the entire martial arts world.

Because the group members and the hosts of the components appeared in the same world at the same time, the contradiction between the future without Curse Technique and the past with Curse Technique caused the number of group members to split into two due to mitosis as the world split.

He arrived at the right place, but not at the right time.

The only way to reclaim the component is to spend a century with her and arrive at the right time.

However, this is a minor issue for him now.

Either grant Huang Rong immortality, so that you can spend a hundred years with her.

Alternatively, the only way to break through the bottleneck of Time Stop, going back to the past, and foreseeing the future is to travel to the future.

The former is very simple.

The latter is difficult in the Harry world because of the existence of wizards.

And in this world, he has that confidence.

Not to mention.

He looked at the Staff of Time, which had not yet materialized.

"You know me?" The girl, who should be Huang Rong, smiled brightly. "You also mastered the Hour Reversal Charm, so you and I come from the same time?"

It seems Huang Rong didn't know the Curse Technique was because she spread it. As Li Lin thought this, he replied, "In fact, I don't even come from this world."

With a light touch of his folding fan, clouds appeared out of thin air and coalesced into a unique reclining chair, which served as a resting place for him and Wang Yuyan.

"Is the saying about the Three Thousand Worlds true?" Wu Yazi did not immediately doubt it. After all, he knew that his granddaughter's playmate came from the Southern Song Dynasty more than a hundred years later. The appearance of Curse Technique also made him more accepting of strange and supernatural things.

Furthermore, based on his martial arts knowledge, the scholar before him had just cast Curse Technique without using Internal Energy.

This unbelievable scene further proves this point.

"Can you help me go back? I miss my father." Huang Rong felt the same way. She took a step forward, and a fragrant breeze wafted over with her.

Seeing the girl's teary eyes, Li Lin nodded, "Of course, but first, let me do something."

This was what he was supposed to do.

The slender, elongated staff made of acacia wood, with the projection of the long, rectangular golden amber "Staff of Time" appearing in his other hand, which was not holding Wang Yuyan.

[Ding! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! The wand wood is incompatible; it's not golden acacia wood. Consume 2000 gems to materialize?]

"Yes."

With the Hour Reversal Charm as its fundamental Curse Technique, Huang Rong, whose limbs and bones flowed with internal Internal Energy close to the nature of time, saw the vast river of time seemingly beginning to condense in the hands of the scholar who claimed to be from another world.

With the Super Memory Charm as his fundamental Curse Technique, Wu Yazi, a polymath rarely seen in the martial arts world, saw in the eyes of Wu Yazi Curse Technique Dotty ripples of history: Yue Maiden Ah Qing, who defeated three thousand Yue soldiers with a single bamboo stick; Li Bai, who wrote the Tai Xuan Scripture while drunk; and Duan Siping.

Because she wanted to stay with her cousin, Wang Yuyan, whose awakened fundamental Curse Technique was Targeted Charm, saw in her eyes the original trajectory of her destiny—to meet Duan Yu, be abandoned by her cousin under the pretext of his grand ambition, and form a bond with Duan Yu at the bottom of the well.

From Basil's perspective, however, another complex galaxy had appeared in his inner Lesser Universe.

And the description of the [Staff of Time] that appeared on his retina:

[12-inch, acacia wood, time-tested, never wears out]

[A miraculous creation born from the crystallization of the concept of time, supported by acacia wood]

It is a plant rooted in the long river of time, never to be worn away.

It is also a scepter that contains the principle of time, freezing all things.

The power of time will no longer be able to wear you down in the slightest.

Your breath can bring all things to decay and perish.

Perception +50%

[Time-friendly +50%]

[Primal Power +1%]

Breathing here is not entirely confined to the mouth and nose. Just like the [Dragon Knight], [Truth-Teller], [Shadow of Obsidian], and [Electric Swirl], the [Staff of Time] also possesses an energy bar with unique characteristics. The [Time Breath] that causes all things to decay and perish is now flowing through his limbs and bones.

With a swift grab, a camellia flower flew into his hand. The [Time Breath] pulsed through it, and the once vibrant flower withered instantly.

The [Time Breath] within his body increased by a barely perceptible amount.

The Lesser Universe operates, Time Force is injected into the withered flowers, reviving their vibrant life once more.

"Time flows on like a river, never ceasing day or night," Wu Yazi lamented. "Under the power of Curse Technique, even the words of Confucius can be wrong."

"Under the power of the Curse Technique, water can ignite fire, and fire can freeze." Huang Rong sighed. "Even if Confucius saw this, he would no longer say, 'The Master did not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits.'"

Wang Yuyan remained in a daze, still reeling from the shock of her predetermined fate.

Li Lin, on the other hand, was sensing the other changes brought about by the Staff of Time.

The so-called enhancement of the power of origin is a comprehensive strengthening of him, with improvements in all aspects such as willpower, vitality, mental strength, intelligence, and resilience.

The enhanced perception and affinity with time made him suddenly feel that his past self was as if he were visually impaired and had an eye disease.

The power of time within Huang Rong became even more apparent to him; he could even 'see' her past along it—the joy of discovering she possessed the Hour Reversal Charm, her diligent martial arts training to accumulate inner Internal Energy in order to see her mother and prevent her death, even tricking Zhou Botong into giving her the Nine Yin Manual, and then arriving in the Northern Song Dynasty, before Wang Yuyan, who had just lost her mother.

Huang Rong sensed Li Lin's attention, and the Internal Energy within her body, which was close to the flow of time, suddenly surged. With a hint of excitement, she asked, "Has that matter been completed?"

Li Lin nodded and then shook his head, "It's done, but it wasn't as simple as I thought."

If Huang Rong were merely a time traveler, his superior "eyesight" would allow him to send her back to the Northern Song Dynasty, retrieving the "Library" component and gaining two new group members.

However, due to the contradiction that the Southern Song Dynasty lacked Curse Technique while the Northern Song Dynasty possessed Curse Technique, the world was seamlessly split into two under the immense power of the System Component.

In other words, Basil not only wants to travel upstream along the river of time, but also wants to truly traverse the world on his own.

The latter would take time; only after sorting out the cause and effect of the chaos caused by the [Library] component could he capture the shadow of that adjacent world.

"At least another month."

Huang Rong smiled through her tears, "Thank you, big brother. How should I address you?"

"Li Lin, Li with the character 'Mu', Lin with the character 'Shuang'." Li Lin said, "Of course, I also have a request."

"If it were you, Brother Lin," Huang Rong glanced shyly at Li Lin's handsome face, "Rong'er could do it."

Wu Yazi was standing to the side, did not speak up to stop him. The scholar in front of him was extremely handsome. Just based on his face alone, he had just had the idea of taking him as the successor of the Xiaoyao School. Moreover, Li Lin was also highly skilled in Curse Technique.

"I can do that too." Li Lin stood up, the clouds behind him dissipated, the Petrifying Charm on Wang Yuyan disappeared, and his hand left the girl's slender waist. "But my request is that you, as the Dao Master, take me to experience the so-called Jianghu."

Upon hearing this, Huang Rong glanced at Wang Yuyan and said, "But Yuyan's Mandala Villa is the only thing her mother left her."

"This old man can introduce you to the entire martial arts world, Young Master Li," Wu Yazi replied. "I am not very talented, but when I traveled the martial arts world in my crow form, I saw countless Curse Techniques and learned about the local customs and traditions. The 'Curse Scripture' that I compiled is something that countless martial arts practitioners dream of."

"Aren't you worried about the Mandala Villa?" Li Lin asked the girl beside him.

Wang Yuyan lowered her eyes and said, "Yes."

"That's easy." Li Lin tapped the air with his fingers, and a black leather suitcase appeared out of thin air and opened automatically. "Just bring the whole manor."

As he finished speaking, the other three suddenly felt a gentle force lifting them up, and everything around them seemed to liquefy, with the open suitcase at the center of the vortex.

Before they could recover from the vision, they discovered that the gentle force that had lifted them up had vanished, along with the pavilion they had stepped on, the bamboo forest, the Mandala Villa, and the entire island that supported the manor. They were standing on air, as if an invisible ground was supporting them beneath their feet.

Looking down, the lake level dropped at a visible speed due to the disappearance of the island, the void was filled, and waves surged from the once calm lake surface.

Inside that open suitcase, camellias bloom all over the mountain, and exquisite pavilions and terraces are scattered throughout.

"If I can see the art of the Pot Heaven, my life will not have been in vain," Wu Yazi exclaimed. He was the first to recognize that this was Mandala Villa.

This is the view he saw when he looked down at the entire resort from the sky.