[The boy beyond the light screen? [The future]? Your ending]

[Guided by your magical power, the pure energy accumulated in the Secret Realm over nearly a hundred years...]

[...was greedily sucked dry by the [Damaged Spacetime Token], like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, vanishing without a trace.]

[The character for "time" on the token blazed with light. A mightier, more substantial power of spacetime spread outward, steadily forming a Light Screen before you.]

[Within the Light Screen, a figure flickered, gradually coming into focus.]

[Filled with anticipation and apprehension, you tentatively called out, "Senior Lin Feng?"]

[Yet the figure within the Light Screen showed no response to your call, seemingly unaware that you were addressing him.]

[A trace of confusion rose in your heart.]

[Only when the light stabilized completely and the figure fully emerged did you discover, to your astonishment, that the person on the other side was not Lin Feng at all!]

[He was a boy with delicate features, seemingly only fifteen or sixteen, his face still bearing traces of childish innocence.]

[What shocked you most, leaving you almost dazed, was that he was actually wearing a blue-and-white school uniform!]

[Behind him lay a modern cityscape of towering buildings and bustling traffic. You could faintly hear car horns, school announcements, and the hum of some unidentified machinery.]

["Was this... Blue Star?!" How closely the scene before you resembled the homeland of your previous life, buried deep in your memories!]

[The enormous shock left you rooted to the spot, your thoughts grinding to a halt for a moment.]

[Only when the boy on the other side of the Light Screen spoke with a hint of wariness and curiosity did you abruptly come back to your senses.]

["Who... are you?" The boy examined your archaic cultivator robes, his eyes filled with wonder.]

["Why does your outfit look so much like that of the legendary [cultivators] from the previous Era?!"]

["???"]

[Your pupils abruptly contracted!]

["[Cultivators] from the previous Era?!"]

[At that moment, how could you fail to understand...]

[...that this time, the [Spacetime Token] had connected not to the [Beyond Heaven] of the Past, but to the Future! To the Future of the [Supreme True Realm], who knew how many years from now!]

[And you, along with the era you lived in, had already become the "anchored Past" in his eyes!]

[You did not understand how this [Damaged Spacetime Token] actually worked.]

[If the "present" of you, its bearer, served as the anchor, then the first connection had reached Lin Feng, who lived in an Era of the "Past."]

[This time, however, it had connected to a boy living in an Era of the "Future."]

[Moreover, judging from the limited information exchanged on both occasions, the timespan crossed by each connection seemed to extend across entire "Eras"!]

[At this thought, you suppressed the towering waves crashing through your heart and said, "I... come from that [anchored Past]..."]

[You briefly introduced yourself by name (Chen Fan)...]

[...along with your current cultivation realm ([Qi Refining Perfection], undergoing limit-breaking) and the circumstances of your era (the [fruit position cultivation method] prevailed, while [Nascent Soul True Lords] lived in seclusion).]

[After hearing your account, the boy in the school uniform wore an expression of utter shock.]

["An actual cultivator?! [Embryonic Breath], [Qi Refining], [Foundation Establishment]..."]

[He murmured to himself, then said in sudden realization...]

["That's the [fruit position cultivation method] recorded in the history books, the one that gradually fell into decline!"]

[He lowered his head to examine the token in his hand, which seemed to share the same origin as yours, and marveled, "This strange ancestral token truly possesses boundless wonders!"]

[You keenly caught the crucial detail in his words and raised an eyebrow. "In the [Future] where you live, are there other cultivation methods?"]

[The boy in the school uniform nodded and answered quite naturally:]

["Of course. Our Era is known as the [Starry Sky Era]...]

[...and it only began a thousand years ago. Nearly a thousand years have passed since your 'era'..."]

["A thousand years?!" you interrupted involuntarily, disbelief written all over your face.]

["How could an Era span such a short time?!"]

[According to what Chen Qingyan had told you earlier, everything in your current Era was still in its infancy.]

[Many supreme fruit positions had yet to emerge or be attained, True Lords lived in seclusion, and the balance of power remained unsettled... How could such a grand era span a mere thousand years?!]

[Noticing your shock, he explained:]

["Information is readily available in our age, and historical research is very thorough. Information is essentially impartial and public, so we have a very clear understanding of the timeline of these changing Eras.]

[By the way, the mainstream cultivation system in our [Starry Sky Era] is..."]

["Wait!" you hurriedly stopped him, your expression grave.]

[“Don't say it! I must not learn about matters of the Future. This involves Karmic Law punishment, and neither of us could possibly withstand its backlash!”]

[Seeing your solemn expression, the boy realized the severity of the problem and immediately swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.]

[You calmed yourself, then formally introduced yourself:]

["My name is Chen Fan. I'm a member of the Chen Family, a cultivation Aristocratic Clan. My current cultivation is [Qi Refining Perfection], and I'm working toward my first limit-breaking."]

[Hearing this, the boy in the school uniform also introduced himself. “My name is Mo Wuyou. I'm from Blazing Sun City, a direct descendant of the Mo Family in the Lineage Alliance...”]

[But his expression immediately darkened, and his voice grew much quieter. “It's just that... the Mo Family has already been wiped out.”]

[Your expression shifted as understanding dawned on you.]

[It seemed that this bearer of the Spacetime Token from the Future faced circumstances that were equally bleak.]

[This connection across spacetime seemed always to bring together people trapped in desperate situations.]

[Yet your current circumstances were utterly different from those of Senior Lin Feng, whom you had contacted last time.]

[He had been the master of Beyond Heaven, a Nascent Soul True Lord standing at the pinnacle of an Era, among the very strongest. He might even have broken his limits multiple times, possessing the mighty power to overturn heaven and earth.]

[You, on the other hand, were merely an insignificant [Qi Refining Perfection] cultivator, still painstakingly accumulating cultivation for your first limit-breaking!]

[You knew the [Spacetime Token] could only maintain its connection for a limited time, and its energy was being continuously consumed.]

[Driven by your powerful desire to survive and your curiosity about your own fate, you ultimately decided, after an agonizing period of deliberation, to risk a tentative inquiry.]

[You spoke to Mo Wuyou on the other side of the Light Screen:]

["Since information is readily available and technology flourishes in your age, perhaps...]

[...you might be able to find information in historical records about my era, or even something related to me..."]

[In the end, you still wanted to know your own ending, even if you could only obtain the faintest clue.]

[Yet you also understood that, with your low cultivation realm, you would most likely remain nameless in the vast sweep of history and might never be recorded at all.]

[To avoid the most direct karmic backlash, you added:]

["You can reveal a little, but don't mention any specific names. Use vague stories or code names instead!"]

[Mo Wuyou nodded to show that he understood.]

[He did not take out any electronic device to search. Instead, he simply closed his eyes, his brows drawing together slightly.]

[He seemed to be searching directly through a "database" or some form of collective consciousness belonging to that information-rich age he had described, using a method beyond your comprehension.]

[The process was extremely brief. After only a few breaths, he abruptly opened his eyes, his face carrying a hint of disbelief and the gravity that came with confirmation.]

[He looked at you and answered in a low voice:]

[“Among the vague records concerning the Past Era... there is indeed a fragment of a story that matches those details.”]

[The records indicate that, in the Past, there was a cultivator who reached Qi Refining Perfection with nine levels of limit-breaking... In the end, he died beneath the old pagoda tree of his own Lineage.”]