"...If the me of that time walked this path, what kind of me would I become? I didn't know. There had been no other tryers, either, but I wanted to try."
"...This was my Time Doppelgänger. She was me, yet not me."
"She was another possibility of mine."
After Laplace finished speaking, she fell silent.
Angel did not press further. He could tell that what Laplace had spoken of was not merely her Time Doppelgänger, but also her secret fortune. Her willingness to tell him voluntarily, even if she had not gone into detail, represented her trust in Angel.
Although Laplace had not said much about the secrets of her Time Doppelgänger, Angel could still roughly infer some information from what he already knew.
Laplace's Time Doppelgänger was very special.
The Time Doppelgängers condensed by other mirror creatures represented their selves at different points in time. Each Time Doppelgänger contained the mirror creature's "summary of past experiences." Such Time Doppelgängers were "fixed the moment they left the factory." They could not cultivate on their own, and their growth in strength depended on what the main body bestowed upon them.
Laplace's Time Doppelgänger was different. She had chosen another path.
Through some unknown method, Laplace had lifted the cultivation restrictions on her Time Doppelgängers, allowing them to cultivate independently.
This also meant that once her Time Doppelgängers began taking different cultivation paths, the road ahead would become unknown. Even Laplace herself did not know where they would ultimately end up.
But regardless of what the future held, the Time Doppelgängers still represented Laplace. That was the truth behind what Laplace had called "another possibility of mine."
To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy: at some point in the past, two roads had lain before Laplace, one leading left and one right. Laplace