Resetting the Timeline.
Zheng Qing made it sound easy.
But in truth, he had no confidence at all.
One had to understand that cultivation in the early stages of Legend involved cultivating the Present Body—that was, unifying the traces of all the selves that had existed in the past along the river of time with one's current body. When a Legend stitched together every historical self that had once existed, unifying them with the present into a whole and becoming a Transcendental Being above the natural dimensions, cultivation at the early stage of Legend was complete.
Throughout this process, histories closer to the "present" were unified earlier.
And after a wizard advanced to Legend, their life would naturally be incorporated into this Unified Body.
In other words.
At this very moment, Professor Dumbledore's main body was a small segment of transdimensional life existing along the "already converged Timeline." Resetting the Timeline meant negating a segment of his life between the Anomalous Time Node and the present.
More precisely, it meant cutting off that small part of his body.
The true bodies of Grand Wizards already possessed astonishing vitality. Reattaching severed fingers or even severed heads was as easy as pie. If severed flesh and blood could not return to the main body, it could easily develop into an incarnation of the True Self, becoming a relatively independent individual.
Let alone a Legend.
From a purely conceptual standpoint, there was no essential difference between a Legend's partial body and their main body. The only difference was their "length" on the Timeline—those severed "shorter" bodies, even if they were only five minutes long, still existed beyond the Timeline and possessed Legendary Might.
And in the eyes of Ordinary Wizards, there was even less distinction between the two.
That was because Ordinary Wizards