Indeed, Cheng Shi activated Destiny Also Has Divergent Paths. He saw through Qin Xin's plan and realized that when Qin Xin chose this kind of "skipping class" method, what he had just said about "not finding the Abyssal Crystal" could only be true.
This also meant that all his guesses had been wrong. The reason for the time Cencha did not lie with the Abyssal Crystal, so before he could think of a second conclusion, Cheng Shi chose to give Qin Xin a hand at this final juncture.
Of course, to Cheng Shi, this did not count as helping. He also wanted to see whether the answer to time was hidden in this void. After all, when it came to returning home, he and Qin Xin at present still had a shared goal.
But when reality shattered and everything plunged into the void, Cheng Shi and Qin Xin realized that they had been wrong.
Terribly wrong!
This was not the void.
Although the place they had fallen into was dark like the void, any player who often entered the void could tell at a glance that this absolutely was not the void. Although everything before them was darkness, when they looked toward the outer reaches, the "horizon" beyond the boundless expanse was filled with dazzling white light!
Fragments of distorted, jumbled existences flickered and flowed along the outermost edge of this dark space like scenes from a zoetrope. Amid his shock, Qin Xin suddenly realized that this might not be Nothingness's territory at all. They were still within the space of existence; they had merely fallen from the orderly surface of reality into the disordered and chaotic cracks between existences.
Qin Xin had never been here before, but with his understanding of Memory and existence, it was not hard to