Rewinding Time?

Upon hearing this, Yu Xing became somewhat interested.

Yu Fengchen seems to be a bit more interesting than he expected. If he had calmly accepted the nourishment the Witch offered, Yu Fengchen shouldn't have destroyed the Tree Witch's body that the Witch had placed here at this point.

The reason he pointed this out immediately upon meeting was that the other person wanted to show him goodwill.

In other words... Yu Fengchen should have realized something and doesn't intend to be led by the nose by the Witch.

Yu Xing looked at the impeccably handsome man, who seemed like a 3D model, and asked, "What did you do?"

"I already know the Witch wants me to absorb most of the curses. Although I don't quite understand what she wants, I know that the increase in the power within me must be very important to her." Yu Fengchen raised his finger to the bridge of his nose, a habitual action of pushing up his glasses. Unfortunately, he didn't have his glasses now, so he awkwardly put his hand back down.

"I can't let her have her way. She wants to speed up my power acquisition process, so I'll try to slow it down as much as possible. I have a feeling that if I actually listen to her, things will become incredibly troublesome later."

"I must say your hunch was pretty accurate." Yu Xing shrugged. "So?"

"So I destroyed the shell she left here. She probably only thinks I'm venting my frustration at being controlled and manipulated, or that I just don't like being spied on. But I left her a big gift." Yu Fengchen a smile. "Yu Xing, this is also a big gift I left for you, as a thank you for giving me this information."

Yu Xing already had a premonition. He sensed the curse floating in the air and quietly waited for Yu Fengchen's next move.

"I didn't absorb much of the curse. During my time down there, I actually tried to separate the curse from the core of the Ghost Tree. I only removed the core, giving the Witch the illusion that I was cooperating with her. There is no such thing in the world."

Yu Fengchen said, "Most of the power wandering here is what I want to give to you."

Yu Xing and Yu Fengchen exchanged a glance.

The man, who seemed too perfect for his age, should have possessed a distant and aloof demeanor, yet he spoke with extraordinary sincerity.

Yu Fengchen laughed and said, "In other words, although I can control this tree briefly, I won't be able to control it after a while, because more control will be placed in your hands."

"So? Are you satisfied with the gift? Hopefully, this arrangement by the Witch won't become a rift in our cooperation."

Before coming down, Yu Xing really didn't expect that Yu Fengchen would be so decisive in giving up such a huge power.

He has goals, Yu Fengchen certainly does too, but for an uncertain future, Yu Fengchen is willing to gamble on him. Yu Xing greatly admires Yu Fengchen for this.

"You're just going to give me such immense power?" Yu Xing asked. "Don't you feel like you're losing out?"

"It's a bit of a loss to say, but I know someone who's a businessman, and he taught me how to do business without losing money. So even though I gave you a gift, there's something else I want to ask you." Yu Fengchen was genuinely frank. "There's a mission that's inconvenient for me and my team to undertake, because we'll be detected by our system, and we'll also alert the Witch. I want to entrust this mission to you; it's very important."

A task they'd willingly give up their resources and the chance to become stronger for me? Yu Xing's eyes lit up. "Tell me about it?"

"It's hard to explain here, but in short, our team discovered a great opportunity to restrain the Witch." Yu Fengchen recalled for a moment, "You know, the Witch is skilled in time-related abilities. Actually, the Witch isn't very old. Excluding time jumps between the past and future, she should be about my age."

"I don't know." Yu Xing blinked. "I only know that she and you are about the same age."

"..." Yu Fengchen thought to himself, this person is still as good at interrupting as ever.

After a pause, Yu Fengchen continued, "I once encountered her in a game Yugi when she was very weak. At that time, her time manipulation ability hadn't fully developed yet. It's quite a strange Karma. She failed in that event, but losers have a chance to revive. It was a punishment, but also an opportunity."

"Her abilities suddenly improved dramatically after she returned from that punishment. We all suspect that the Witch encountered a key item related to time during that punishment," Yu Fengchen smiled. "Time—that's her advantage, but it's also our way to break the current stalemate."

"You've gone into such detail, you're not planning to travel back in time to that event instance and change the past, are you?" Yu Xing's mind worked quickly, and she instantly connected the dots.

"That's right, this is the task I hope you'll perform for us, the nourishment of the curse I gave you." Yu Fengchen at Yu Xing, as if at this moment, he had placed a complete gamble on her. "Go to that punishment and stop the Witch from obtaining the key item."

If she succeeds, the Witch will no longer be able to use the power of time so recklessly.

Without the ability to control time as a prerequisite, the things orchestrated by the Witch would naturally not exist.

This includes the enormous Ghost Tree that has been nurtured beneath the Dead Silent Island, as well as the Wizard Cult that originated from it.

Yu Xing had naturally thought of that as well, and he had even more in mind.

Without the Wizard Cult, there wouldn't be so many acts of destruction happening in various worlds.

Without the Witch's scheme, would Hua Subai, whom he suspected was closely connected to the Witch, still push the Lingren into the abyss?

If Lingren has never been involved in these matters, he naturally wouldn't...

Impossible.

If he hadn't experienced these things, how could he have ended up at the base of this tree, discussing with Yu Fengchen the matter of going back to complete the mission and stop the Witch?

This is an unsolvable paradox; it cannot exist.

Seemingly sensing Yu Xing's consideration, Yu Fengchen explained, "Time is a concept that's extremely difficult to explain. Changing one point in time won't change anything that follows. However, it will still have some impact after all."

"We've been researching this for a long time, not just with my team members you know, but also with many, many other friends involved in this matter," Yu Fengchen said. "The diviners, the nightmares... they've all come to this conclusion. So, as long as we can prevent the Witch from obtaining the key item, the Witch's schemes will still exist up to this point in time, but from now on, her abilities will be lost elsewhere."

"She will definitely go looking for it, and we can track her down and get it before she does."

"This is the biggest opportunity we can create right now."