Because of the Ship of Fools, the Infinite Secret Box spared Tang Qi the step of fumbling around to discover its rules.
But the exchange between the two was still mechanical. The Secret Box was not alive and possessed no intelligence.
It gave him the specific item needed to save Sally in exchange: an unknown Fate Creation. That was no different from giving him a riddle. Tang Qi pondered it seriously for a long time, but in the end could only guess that the answer might be connected to Fate Bitch and "Toom."
And regardless of what it was, Tang Qi could not produce it for the time being.
Tang Qi looked at the Black Magnetic Powder drifting inside the light portal and, for a moment, had no desire to make another exchange request.
"Being able to exchange Divine Beings for Authorities without any side effects—if I had obtained such a divine artifact when I was weak, it would have immediately brought about a transformation."
"Now, though, it can only serve as assistance. The enemies and predicaments I face—the Origin Divine Race, Fate Bitch, the path to Master Level... every one of them involves a level that is far too high. If I am to struggle against them, the Timeline could stretch for tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of years."
"Even so, it is still of considerable use to me."
Several thoughts flashed through his mind, and Tang Qi suddenly thought of a new request.
His thoughts once more commanded the Black Magnetic Powder to shift and gather, but this time, it did not form the common script of the Divine Eagle Federation.
Instead, it formed Chinese characters that felt both familiar and strange to Tang Qi, the script used on Previous Life Earth.
He had originally wanted