[Going to the Present] (@Yi Zhi Zhizhi Yu, thank you for sending eighty gift points; bonus chapter)

(P.S. Counting yesterday's bonus chapter, that makes exactly two bonus chapters ₍ᵔ･•･ᵔ₎)

(Previously, I wrote four thousand characters a day; now it's six thousand. The extra two thousand characters count as one bonus chapter each day.)

[Immediately afterward—]

["CLANG—!!!"]

[The first toll of the bell split heaven and earth, shattering the silence of ages.]

["CLANG—!!!"]

[The second toll of the bell swept through the cosmos, reshaping the laws.]

["CLANG—!!!"]

[The third toll of the bell announced the Supreme's return, resounding throughout the Myriad Worlds.]

["CRACK—"]

[High above, an immense rift spanning east to west and stretching across past and present burst open.]

[Within it lay no void.]

[Instead, there was a churning sea of chaos clouds, an independent, supreme World Domain, and origin laws given tangible form.]

[Its overwhelming pressure rivaled the very source of the Great Dao.]

[[Beyond Heaven] descended upon the world once more.]

[Was this scene... what "Old Self" had experienced during his time as the Simulated Clone?]

[So you thought.]

[But unlike back then—]

[You were now far, far stronger than he had been at that time.]

[Yet there was also one enormous thing you had in common.]

[You, too, had encountered an unsolvable death trap!]

[A death trap even more hopeless than the one he had faced back then... one that left even someone as powerful as you utterly despairing!]

[Your gaze pierced the rift, and at last, you saw that [Unrivaled Throughout History] being!]

[A fair-faced scholar, gently waving a feather fan.]

[With every sweep, countless laws arose, perished, and evolved; with every glance, the myriad daos of all heavens bowed their heads in submission.]

[—Senior Lin Feng!!!]

[So what if he was only a clone? He was still the dependable Senior Lin Feng who had always helped you!]

["Young one."]

[Senior Lin Feng's