Three Dao Companions? No, Absolutely Not ×3
[Isn't that obvious? That was the Chaos Pearl!]
[An innate supreme treasure left behind when primordial chaos first opened in the Fourth Epoch. If not for it, I probably wouldn't have ended up in a godforsaken place like the Immortal Realm where even birds don't shit!]
The dark shadow's voice carried considerable resentment.
It was as though coming here had never been his intention.
[More precisely, your physical body was shattered, but the Chaos Pearl preserved your consciousness and Dao foundation intact.]
[The Chaos Pearl activated some sort of rewind mechanism and projected you to this point in time.]
"A rewind mechanism?"
[Just one of its unique abilities. It's nothing special. If your realm were high enough, you could do the same without relying on external forces. You only need to understand one thing: everything you are seeing now is history that truly happened.]
"Then will what I do here affect history?"
[No. You are merely an observer. Though it looks as if you are participating, your actions cannot alter any event that has already occurred.]
[Once the rewind ends, the Chaos Pearl will send you back to the timeline where you belong.]
"When does it end?"
[After you see what you need to see.]
"What am I supposed to see?"
"I don't know either!"
Hearing that, Lin Heng looked utterly dumbfounded. "Are you fucking kidding me? You don't know?"
[The past is a fragment of memory, and also a fragment of history. All a person can influence is what they are capable of doing in the present. You should ask that Sage!]
[This isn't my arrangement. It is the arrangement of the Fifth Epoch!]
Lin Heng fell silent for a moment.
"Second question: are you really Lin Ziqing? If you are Lin