"How about it? You're not traveling into the future anymore and have come to stay with me?"
'Nokron' smiled.
"I wouldn't dare travel again." Atabia answered directly.
"Fair enough."
This 'Nokron' said, "Another universe has already appeared. If you travel again and observe another universe, only for yet another material to ambush you and collapse into reality, it'll be troublesome."
"Yes. Let's see how things develop first," Atabia said.
The two of them continued making awkward small talk.
Watching from the shadows, Li Qing felt utterly speechless.
So they're playing the awkwardness game?
It wasn't that they didn't know how to chat. They were testing each other, and somehow it had turned into this.
In the days that followed, Atabia traveled back and forth, continually moving between the two universes. He came by periodically to take a look and chatted with this 'Nokron' from time to time.
He didn't dare enter. He simply squatted at the entrance to the River of Time and talked.
Then, as the frontline general, he had those Outer Domain Heavenly Demons descend into enemy territory, secretly infiltrate it, steal things and technology, cultivate, and then bring everything back in batches.
During this period, Atabia probed several times, but never managed to catch the other party slipping.
"I can't tell who it is." He hesitated.
In his heart, he roughly ranked the suspects by degree of suspicion.
Nokron, the Son of Heaven, Ancient God of Light, Elise, and some unknown newly risen protagonist.
After all, the possibility that it was a protagonist he didn't know was extremely low—but not nonexistent.
The Celestial Realm.
Li Qing sat upon the imperial throne and began receiving information and technology from the future.
Those Outer Domain Heavenly Demons had brought back far more than intelligence.
They had also brought back