The Imaginary Tree Began Glowing After Devouring Otto, All Timelines Paused as Though It Were Charging Up an Ultimate Move

"It accepted the sacrifice," Niu Tian said.

On the screen, Otto looked at the vortex, a smile of relief spreading across his face.

"At last..." he murmured. "At last... it accepted me..."

He released his grip, letting his body merge completely with the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment. Golden light enveloped him, dragging him into the Imaginary Tree inch by inch.

"He's being devoured," Tai Tan said quietly.

"Not devoured," Ning Rongrong said. "Merged... He's becoming one with the Imaginary Tree, exchanging his very existence for permission to rewrite space and time."

The image split in two.

On the left was Otto's vanishing figure. His head, torso, and limbs turned into particles of light bit by bit, merging into the Imaginary Tree's trunk. Those particles climbed along the trunk, flowing into the crown, into every leaf...

"He's entering every timeline," Ning Tian said.

On the right was the execution ground five hundred years earlier. Kallen's body, lying in a pool of blood, suddenly began to glow. The wound in her chest started healing, and her heart, which had stopped, began beating again...

"He succeeded," Dai Hao said. "Kallen... came back to life."

Yet no one before the Light Screen could feel happy.

Because the image on the left showed... that only the last trace of Otto's consciousness remained.

"He's about to disappear," Xue Ye said.

On the screen, Otto watched Kallen awaken five hundred years in the past on the right, a gentle light flickering in his eyes.

"Kallen..." he murmured. "You... survived..."

"That's enough..."

"This... is enough..."

His voice grew fainter, his body ever more transparent.

"Wait," Tang San suddenly said. "Look at the Imaginary Tree..."

Everyone turned toward the Light Screen.

On the screen, the vortex devouring Otto on the Imaginary Tree's trunk suddenly expanded. Golden light poured out