[No unusual phenomena appeared. Unbound by space, it seemed simply to exist within your future Ages.]
[That pitifully tiny fragment of a twig rippled with rich power of the Ages, appearing alongside the familiar Great Dao's voice.]
[You breathed a sigh of relief. Damn it, it took a full nine hundred million uses of [Sea of Time] to make it appear. That was hard enough...]
[The lake of time formed by countless temporal ripples persisted, while that minuscule fragment of a twig had yet to fully manifest.]
[Through "Number One Other-Self," you said:]
["Senior Great Talent, I have naturally been awaiting you for quite some time as well!"]
[Though you really did want to complain: Why was it always "I've waited for you... for far too long"? Couldn't you say something else?]
[Or was that phrase popular? Did it have some special meaning?]
[But you could only keep those thoughts to yourself; you certainly could not say them aloud. Just then, the Great Dao's voice unique to [Longevity Great Talent] rang out:]
["It seems you have some means of learning about the contingency I left behind?"]
[They seemed somewhat puzzled. After all, even the current Penglai Immortal Island Island Master had not detected the slightest trace of their contingency.]
[An instant later, however, they let it go and said instead:]
["Never mind. Since you are the successor chosen by the [Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable], and can even summon that person briefly, your methods must be quite formidable!"]
["Perhaps I worried too much. There was no need to leave such a contingency; you could resolve your current predicament on your own."]
[You: "..."]
[That nearly made you laugh. To be honest, every step you took now was fraught with difficulty, and that was no exaggeration.]
[*Damn it, knowing about their contingency