The Might of the Chronicle of Time

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had advanced into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Did the other immortal-grade herbs possess roughly the same value?

The thought made Dugu Bo's scalp tingle.

If the people of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect found out about this, wouldn't I be socially destroyed?

Watching Dugu Bo's face turn pale, then green, as though he were changing masks, Xu Qianqian teased:

"What, Senior Dugu? Are you plotting to kill this little girl to silence her? That's how these storybooks usually go."

"Which bastard wrote that novel?" Dugu Bo's face darkened. "I, Dugu Bo, am not that despicable. Besides, you haven't told me which one can make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda advance into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda."

"Better safe than sorry. It'd be troublesome if I really got silenced." Xu Qianqian shrugged indifferently, grabbed a handful of weeds, and scattered them into the sky.

"Senior Dugu, no one starts out standing in the heavens."

As she spoke, Xu Qianqian lowered her voice.

"Don't you have even the slightest fantasy of becoming someone like Qian Daoliu?"

"Qian Daoliu, the peerless Douluo of this era?"

"That's right. At Rank 99, he is invincible beneath the heavens—but among those Rank 99s, why couldn't there be another Senior Dugu Bo, peerless in both medicine and poison?"

"Even if you can't, what about your granddaughter? Does she have to become affiliated with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"

"That sect that supposedly can't even defeat Chen Xin, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Sword Douluo?"

"Come to think of it, you must have spent quite some time selling off your granddaughter just to establish ties with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"

The Chronicle of Time appeared in Xu Qianqian's hand, its pages flipping rapidly.

The surrounding environment abruptly changed as gusts of fierce wind rose around them.

"Th-This is?"

Dugu Bo looked alert and instinctively prepared to summon his martial soul.

"Don't resist. Don't you want to know Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng's future?"

"Hm? The future?"

Dugu Bo froze. If anyone else had said such a thing, he would never have believed them, but the girl before him was truly bizarre.

"That's right. My martial soul's true name is the Chronicle of Time. It can see a glimpse of the future, as well as the past."

"Take a good look, Senior Dugu. This is the future you hoped for!"

Thousand Winds transformed into a streak of light, flowing through the area by borrowing the laws of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Since Dugu Bo did not resist, Thousand Winds carried strands of temporal traces into Dugu Bo's consciousness.

Who knew how much time passed before Dugu Bo, whose gaze had been vacant, finally regained his senses.

He panted heavily, drenched in sweat. "Th-This... is this real?"

"Whether it's real or not, you can judge for yourself." Xu Qianqian's martial soul dispersed from her body and swiftly merged back into it.

The power of laws flowing through Sunset Forest's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well also rapidly faded away.

"Damn it!" Dugu Bo slammed a fist into the ground, killing intent flashing in his eyes. "I died in bitterness, and Yanyan was divorced by Yu Tianheng. He actually had the nerve to do something like that."

His own death was nothing, but Yu Tianheng divorcing his wife had truly touched Dugu Bo's reverse scale.

"Xu Qianqian, was that Sea God you?" Dugu Bo asked viciously.

"Huh?" Seeing the murderous look in his eyes, Xu Qianqian said in surprise, "It wasn't me. Time and space aren't set in stone. Perhaps in some world, Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan are deeply in love; in another, Dugu Yan reaches the level of an Ultimate Douluo; or in yet another, you, Dugu Bo, become an Ultimate Douluo. All of those outcomes are possible."

"What you saw was merely one possible future. Whether the scenes within it will appear in your current world is uncertain."

"Senior Dugu, my martial soul is only a martial soul, not a divine artifact."

"What it can see are projections of the future, but some things are only fragmentary."

"And because you were the starting point, what you saw involved only those closest to you, so... there might be some censored parts."

"Who exactly was that Sea God? And who was the Sea God's teacher?" Dugu Bo rose to his feet.

"Compared to that, I'm more curious about how much you saw, Senior." Xu Qianqian borrowed the energy within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to see whether Dugu Bo could glimpse the future through her martial soul.

And in that future, there was no Xu Qianqian.

As the holder of the Chronicle of Time, she could not possibly be recorded in the future she saw.

Just viewing that future had caused the heaven-and-earth energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to drop by half. It was simply outrageous.

"I saw a battle between gods, but I couldn't tell who the two sides were. In the end, one person won. That person should have been the Sea God!"

"Yanyan sought a soul bone for me to purge my poison, but the Sea God refused her. He wasn't even willing to use his divine power to help me. Later, Yanyan was even divorced by Yu Tianheng."

"I see. Looks like you saw quite a lot! Then it doesn't hurt to test the limits of my martial soul."

"So, Senior Dugu, what do you intend to do?"

"I want to know the role you played." Dugu Bo looked at Xu Qianqian.

"Me?" Xu Qianqian chuckled. "I won't appear in the futures within the Chronicle of Time."

"Perhaps the me in other worlds was just a useless person born without soul power, unable to reach my current level."

"Senior Dugu, you should tell me about your dream. After seeing your future, do you have any other plans?"

"I'll leave Xuexing's faction and become a free man from now on."

Though he had not seen it clearly, he had seen himself working for the Heaven Dou Royal Family. The Sea God should be on the Heaven Dou Royal Family's side.

What led him to that conclusion was that Xuexing was still alive and had even joined the battlefield.

"Then congratulations, Senior Dugu, on being reborn. It seems the future you saw wasn't limited to the Sea God. It also involved the Heaven Dou Empire?"

"Sigh... girl, tell me honestly. Did you calculate all of this long ago?"

"Huh?"

Xu Qianqian blinked.

"I just don't want what happened here to be discovered by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

"In the end, I want to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. But if you tell the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan about this place, then not only will you be in danger—I will be too."

"Danger?"

Dugu Bo was taken aback. "You mean these unidentified herbs?"

That would not be wrong. Given Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng's relationship, it was indeed possible that the herb garden would eventually be exposed. It was only a matter of time.

"That's right. There's more here than just medicinal herbs."

Deep within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay an even greater secret.

If the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan found out, Senior Dugu might be in danger as well.

"Of course, I wasn't lying about the future you saw either. It was something that truly happened on a certain world line."

"Senior Dugu, can you feel it? The concentration of energy around us has dropped greatly, and even that oppressive feeling from before is gone."

"My ability to see the future came from borrowing the power of something beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well."

"As for what it is, I can only say that if word got out, even Qian Daoliu would be tempted."

Seeing the surprise on Dugu Bo's face, Xu Qianqian continued, "But don't worry, I'm not interested in what lies beneath the pool. I only temporarily need its energy for cultivation right now."

"The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is ultimately yours. We can each take what we need. When the time is right, I'll tell you everything about this place."

"After all, I'm also worried about being silenced."

Dugu Bo: "..."

This white-haired girl was saying to his face that she was worried about being silenced. Why did that sound so strange?