Ji Yan had grown tired of hearing about the glorious deeds of his other self and turned his attention to the present.
He subconsciously raised a hand and scratched the tip of his nose. "Let's talk about the present instead..."
Before he could finish, that action tugged at the timeline again, sending it rushing forward.
In an instant, the traces of age on all three of them changed dramatically.
White hair sprouted through the gaps in their black hair. Tianma went directly from a cold, handsome white-haired young man to a middle-aged uncle with disheveled white hair.
He lifted his increasingly nearsighted eyes and said speechlessly to Ji Yan, "Stop making pointless movements."
"Do another two or three push-ups, and time will skip right past us dying of old age and turn us into three piles of bones."
Ji Yan glanced sideways at his surroundings. "What do we do now?"
"How do we break this situation?"
The corner of Tianma's mouth twitched slightly. "No, I painstakingly cooperated with you to set this up and obtained what was behind the [gate]."
"You're now holding the authority of the [Omniscient Nether Gate], and you've even imprisoned a Tier 13 [Omniscient Eerie] to overdraw its eerie abilities, yet you're asking me what to do next?"
"Are all those things just decorations?"
Ji Yan fell silent for a moment before speaking with difficulty. "Maybe they're still in an 'adaptation' phase. Right now, neither the [Omniscient Nether Gate] nor that [Omniscient Eerie] has given me much information."
Tianma furrowed his brows tightly. "..."
"Your [Omniscient Understanding] has already broken free of the [Time Eerie]'s suppression, so why are you still this useless?"
"That guy surnamed Ji back then developed this thing to the absolute limit. He played it way better than you!"
"Are you two