Sword Venerable reached out and slashed forward. Before their eyes, the river of time was severed cleanly at the waist.
Seeing this, Sword Venerable directly pulled Ye Lin inside.
Once the two had completely vanished, the river of time healed once more, as though nothing had happened.
The scenery before them shifted rapidly. In the blink of an eye, Ye Lin and Sword Venerable arrived in the ancient era.
"This is the ancient era. Its worldline is identical to the timeline of the present world. In a few tens of thousands of years, the Emperor Road will open."
"You may act now. You have ten thousand years—suppress every prodigy in the Central Star Domain and spread your name throughout the entire Star River Cosmos."
"What I want to tell you is that the ancient era was far more entertaining than the present world."
Sword Venerable said with a light laugh, his arms folded.
"Uh, Senior, there is something I don't understand."
After pondering for a moment, Ye Lin turned to Sword Venerable and cupped his fists in question.
"Ask."
Sword Venerable glanced at Ye Lin, then said quietly.
"Senior, if I kill someone in this ancient era, wouldn't that mean this person would disappear completely?"
"As an outsider, I would be disrupting the balance of time and space. Is that really all right?"
Ye Lin voiced the concern that had been troubling him all along.
After all, he knew of the four words "butterfly effect."
What if he killed too many people in the ancient era? Wouldn't that throw the entire fabric of time and space into chaos?
If that happened, things would become truly massive.
What Ye Lin feared most was that, if the impact became too great and caused this body to fail to be born successfully, would