After returning to the residence and activating the restrictions, Li Shun first carefully examined his body.
Only after confirming that neither the God-Striking Whip nor the Myriad Treasures Furnace had left behind any trace of their aura did his mind settle within the Square Inch Space.
Only then did he discover that the Ancient Web seemed to have completed its search for the target world within Chaos, and all the Mystic Yellow Qi coiling around him had already dispersed.
The Ancient Web saw Li Shun's expression and knew at once that he must have run into trouble.
It did not bring up the target world first, merely listening in silence.
After a moment, the Ancient Web understood the full course of events.
Even it furrowed its brow slightly.
"Your premonition was correct. The Imperial Academy must have deliberately arranged for you of Bing Province to reclaim Cold Mountain Soul."
"More precisely, for you and Shang Qingqiu to do it together."
"Shang Qingqiu?" Li Shun was somewhat puzzled. "Wasn't it precisely because she could foresee the future that everything afterward happened?"
The Ancient Web's gaze flickered, as though it had seen through the secrets beneath the surface.
It shook its head. "By my judgment, Shang Qingqiu's so-called ability to foresee the future must be inseparable from Great Qian's Imperial Academy. And the reason they place such importance on ensuring reality overlaps with the scenes she foresaw..."
"This was not uncommon in the boundless Chaos. They may initially have foreseen scenes of the future and wished to twist them aside, to change them, yet failed to do so, thus suffering all manner of calamities. With that lesson from the cart before them, they became rigidly determined to follow the future they had foreseen."
Li Shun listened with a frown.
"Foreseeing the future...