[Were you... safe now?!]
[You found it somewhat unbelievable. Or rather, surely it could not be that simple. Had Past Li Ping resolved your desperate predicament the moment he appeared?]
[But you soon noticed something wrong. The "Ring" formed from the two Colorful Class Cards belonging to the Past Li Ping you had transformed into should have vanished as well when you canceled [purple talent: Transform All Beings].]
[After all, one of those Colorful Class Cards, [Zero Returner], had been brought into existence by the power of the [Transform All Beings] talent.]
[Only the Colorful Class Card [Creator] truly existed, but...]
[This "Ring" had actually not dissipated?]
[A bad premonition stirred within you...]
[As though confirming your suspicions, the "Ring" began turning slowly before you, the Mighty Power of the two Class Cards surging wildly through the Higher-Dimensional Land.]
[At that moment, Past Li Ping's figure actually appeared again, like that nonexistent "projection."]
[Impossible to describe, impossible to etch into memory, impossible to comprehend, impossible to fathom...]
[Those eyes held schemes and calculations that had long since seen through the future.]
[His gaze turned toward you, and he spoke meaningfully in a higher-dimensional voice:]
["What a pity, Chen Fan."]
["You lost again..."]
[It sounded like a verdict delivered with absolute certainty, leaving your heart wavering between shock and doubt, as though you were seeing your own ending once more.]
[Have I been outmaneuvered again?]
[At that moment, you frantically reviewed everything, unable to understand what Past Li Ping meant by "lost again."]
[Are Future Ning Chen and Past Li Ping putting on another act? Were those Eleven Higher-Dimensional Entities never suppressed at all?]
[*No. I had almost none of that incense stick's worth of time left. They could have simply waited me out until I died. Why bother putting on