On the rooftop terrace, Bai Zhi sat for an entire night.
Although, judging by the effects of the [Kunlun Mirror], he seemed to have found the Mastermind behind the historical upheaval, some matters still remained shrouded in fog.
After all, he had been viciously set up before. None of his strength could be used, and in the end, he had only managed to turn the tables in a desperate situation with his transformation Skill and the Old Director's help. Otherwise, who knew what things might have become? Looking back on it, it really was rather stifling.
A mere underdeveloped Time Worm should not have possessed the ability to accomplish all that.
...Unless there was something else behind that worm.
Some things could not bear too much thought.
Judging from what had happened to those humans at the circus, the people who had disappeared before had all been sent into the Shan Hai Realm by this worm. Out of more than two hundred people, however, only a scant few had been lucky enough to enter the Eternal Night District.
Had this Time Worm gone to such lengths to travel through history merely to contribute to the Shan Hai Realm?
And why had it sent those missing humans into the Shan Hai Realm?
When he had been at the Orphanage earlier, Bai Zhi had specifically discussed this issue with the Old Director. The conclusion they reached was deeply unsettling.
—Those humans sent into the Shan Hai Realm had accelerated the Shan Hai Realm's return.
In other words, someone behind that Time Worm had deliberately kept throwing anchoring objects into the Shan Hai Realm, with the aim of accelerating its return.
Whoever stood behind that Time Worm, they were undoubtedly an extremely dangerous individual.
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After glancing at the figure below carrying a