Just as he was about to deal with Qin Chuan, Bibi Dong, in Ye Guyi's form, froze. Her raised right hand hung in midair as she furrowed her delicate brows. "What did you just call me?"
Qin Chuan knew that a flurry of random words wouldn't make the Bibi Dong before him believe him. He flipped his hand, and a purple, ghostly light appeared.
The moment Qin Chuan grasped the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and it materialized, Bibi Dong's pupils visibly contracted.
"Na Na, leave first. No one is to enter without my permission," Bibi Dong said in a deep voice.
"...Yes." Hu Liena dared not defy her teacher's decision. She cast a curious glance at the six-year-old boy holding the purple scythe and left, filled with confusion.
As the door closed, Bibi Dong's gaze locked onto Qin Chuan.
"Speak. Who are you, really? Why do you possess this weapon, and why do you call me..." Bibi Dong's frown deepened.
From the moment Qin Chuan appeared, called her "Mom," and produced the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, Bibi Dong had sensed that things were far from simple.
Qin Chuan didn't speak. He channeled his soul power to his brow, extracting a segment of memory that manifested as a light screen before Bibi Dong.
When the scene showed Bibi Dong killing and devouring Qian Xunji, including the moment the protagonist, Qian Hanchuan, died from fright, Bibi Dong's expression shifted dramatically. After a long pause to find her words, she barely managed to say, "You... are my son? But I have no son."
"I come from another time and space. The you from that other time and space gave birth to me."
With that, a yellow soul ring lit up beneath Qin Chuan's feet, and the Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor martial souls appeared in succession.
Bibi Dong's breathing grew noticeably heavier. Her chest heaved violently as she stared intently at Qin Chuan.
Yes, those were her Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor martial souls. Coupled with the Rakshasa God's divine weapon, the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, Bibi Dong was almost certain that this child before her was born from the "her" of another time and space.
"Then how did you arrive in our time and space?" Bibi Dong asked hurriedly.
Qin Chuan pointed at the image projected above and said calmly, "Don't rush. Keep watching."
Bibi Dong looked up, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly.
In the image, the self who had become the Rakshasa God killed the Sea God, Tang San. Just as she thought she had succeeded, who would have guessed that Tang San, that cheater, would resurrect on the spot, becoming the Asura God. In the end, both the Sea God and Asura God coexisted within him.
The Asura Demon Sword pierced through Bibi Dong's chest, and her daughter, Qian Renxue's divine throne was also shattered.
Qian Renxue held the dying Bibi Dong, pressing against her chest and shouting, "Mom—"
Bibi Dong's delicate body trembled. Her eyes involuntarily moistened, and the heart forged from ten thousand years of ice showed signs of melting.
"Tang San! I absolutely cannot allow something like this to happen!"
Murderous intent, unwillingness, and other emotions spread in her heart.
At that moment, Bibi Dong clenched her fists, killing intent surging in her eyes. Qin Chuan felt the surrounding air temperature drop several degrees.
Qin Chuan shrank into the warm bath, his body feeling a bit better.
Then, Qian Renxue, carrying the dead Bibi Dong and Qin Chuan sealed in ten-thousand-year ice, crossed the ocean to the Sun Moon Empire.
Until she was on the verge of dying of old age, Qian Renxue left the Angel Holy Sword and Rakshasa Demon Scythe in a cave, taking one last look at her frozen younger brother.
Soon after, Qian Renxue passed away.
The image fast-forwarded, and ten thousand years passed in an instant.
The ice melted, and Qin Chuan, sealed for ten millennia, awakened. After the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and Angel Holy Sword merged with him, a girl claiming to be a descendant of the Angel Lineage opened the cave by chance and disappeared from it along with him.
At that point, the image came to an abrupt halt...
"That's how it is. This girl is called Ye Guyi, a descendant of my sister from ten thousand years later. After I awakened, the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and Angel Holy Sword brought me to the world you're in now."
Qin Chuan didn't mention the existence of the system, only using the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and Angel Holy Sword to narrate the "truth" of his transmigration.
Bibi Dong tilted her head back, forcing her tears back into her eyes. She walked toward Qin Chuan and, without a word, pulled him into her arms, holding him tightly.
Qin Chuan was squeezed so tightly by her ample chest that he could barely breathe. Her skin was snow-white, smooth, and full of elasticity.
"Mom, your clothes..."
Only then did Bibi Dong notice that she was bathing. Feeling the strange sensation on her chest, she rolled her eyes at Qin Chuan in exasperation. "Are you that disgusted by your own mother?"
"If I were disgusted, I wouldn't have called out to you the moment we met." Qin Chuan's voice was muffled as he struggled to speak.
"That's more like it."
"Frozen for ten thousand years, you must be filthy. Take off your clothes and wash yourself too."
In the end, Qin Chuan couldn't resist Bibi Dong's overwhelming maternal instinct. He stripped off his clothes and immersed himself in the warm bath.
"Oh, right, Ye Guyi is still unconscious."
Bibi Dong waved her hand, and Ye Guyi, floating above the bath, was lifted by a mysterious force and set down by the door.
"Na Na, take her to freshen up. No matter what she asks, don't answer until I come for her."
"Yes."
Ye Guyi was dragged away by Hu Liena, who had been waiting outside the door.
Inside the room, only Bibi Dong and Qin Chuan remained.
"Child, you've suffered." Bibi Dong personally washed Qin Chuan's hair, her tone gentle.
If Qian Renxue were here to witness this scene, she would surely be stunned—her mother, who had always been cold and distant toward her, was actually showing a look of affection.
"System, how long can I stay in this parallel timeline?" Qin Chuan asked silently in his heart.
"Stay as long as you like."
Hearing the system's reply, Qin Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Traveling required "Snow Hatred Value," and "Snow Hatred Value" could only be generated by killing members of Shrek Academy or those connected to them.
To change the future of Martial Soul Hall in this parallel timeline, traveling back and forth between the two worlds was essential, and Qin Chuan would need to make multiple trips.
Just as Qin Chuan was about to say something, Bibi Dong stopped him.
"Let's talk about things tomorrow. Let me fulfill my duty as a mother for once, alright?"
In his previous life, Qin Chuan had no parents. Reborn in this life, he found that his mother, father, grandfather, and sister had all died.
Though the mother before him was only a parallel existence, the blood flowing in his veins was hers, so he didn't refuse.
The next morning, the sun rose slowly in the east, and warm sunlight streamed through the window into the room.
It fell on Ye Guyi's delicate face, framed by her soft golden hair.
Ye Guyi slowly opened her eyes, looked up at the ceiling, stared blankly for a few seconds, then suddenly sat up.
She was completely bewildered. She looked down at the blanket covering her, then at the various Martial Soul Hall disciples outside the window, and at the furnishings in the room.
Everything felt so unfamiliar, entirely unlike her own world, or even era.
"I... traveled through time?"
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