[Chen Qingyan Was Real?! One Against Eleven, and the Advantage Was Mine! Lin Feng's Terrifying Power]

[The Spacetime Token's charging progress rose steadily, reaching 85%. At this rate,]

[it could be activated again early in the year you turned 24.]

[You surmised that the third connection would lead to the past—to Lin Feng, the Ruler of Beyond Heaven.]

[Although the Heavenly Gate had no Golden Core Powerhouse presiding over it, with Heaven's Mandate's blessing, its prestige had already eclipsed the local overlord, the Blazing Fire Sect.]

[The sect's reserves grew richer by the day. Occasional acquisitions of Ancient Relics, Foundation Establishment Jade Bones, and the like provided a steady source of charge for the Spacetime Token.]

[You also used your unrestricted talent to uncover the two restrictions on Qi Refining limit-breaking:]

[One was the "Essence Amplification Limit through limit-breaking," and the other was "the number of limit-breaking layers themselves."]

[This confirmed that the ancient legend of ten-thousandfold limit-breaking was no fabrication.]

[Could a Supreme Existence really have been blasted apart by someone who broke their limits ten thousand times, prompting these restrictions? you muttered inwardly.]

[Age 24: At the beginning of the year, charging progress reached 98%, just a hair short.]

[Your fourth brother, Mo Fan, hurried over to report, "Big Brother, someone named Chen Qingyan is outside. He says he's an old acquaintance of yours and wants to see you."]

[Your heart sank. Chen Qingyan?]

[Both pieces of Parchment had labeled him "fake." He had been nowhere to be seen all these years. His sudden arrival now could not bode well.]

[After considerable hesitation, you told Mo Fan to bring him in.]

[The visitor indeed looked like Chen Qingyan, but your Eye of Illusion displayed:]

``` Target: Chen Qingyan

Realm: Middle Qi Refining

[Entry: ???]

True Lord Reincarnation (Purple)

Chess Player (Purple → Black)

Ill-Fated Path (Black)

Assessment: A reincarnated True Lord, both chess player