Nan Xiaonan's face looked as though a giant question mark had been painted across it. Her lips parted slightly as she listened to Boss Luo's words, and an unprecedented sense of fulfillment almost filled her entire body.
Could it be that I really struck gold?!
Return... Return?!
Aurora's Ester and Ten Directions Annihilation... Mr. Luo had mentioned returning these two of the world's three divine weapons more than once—but Nan Xiaonan had never imagined that this was what he meant by "return."
But... it was unexpected, yet also perfectly reasonable.
Everything was changing in a reasonable and rapid manner beneath that absurd exterior... Was this the method of the Unspeakable Existence, which could directly reach into and manipulate the essence of events?
It did not even need to do anything earth-shattering. It only had to lightly pluck one of the threads that made up all things, and it could trigger a violent chain reaction.
Nan Xiaonan was even more terrified than she had been when making her choice.
Because she realized something utterly frightening... If the return had already been predetermined, then the choice she had finally made after wavering and taking a difficult gamble—choosing Jilian—had also been predetermined long ago?
Had she unknowingly become another thread in the chain reaction caused by that plucked thread?
"Return... What does return mean?" Jilian could not help but stare blankly.
Unlike Nan Xiaonan, he could not imagine all sorts of vague, ethereal possibilities... He only knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch.
Although he did not know the origins of this longbow, his eyesight still told him that it was certainly worth a fortune—and this sword?
This was the sword Old Man Max had rushed to maintain before his death... Although Old Man Max was a rotten