"Everyone, let me explain what just happened," Shiranui Jinkuro said. "All those threads you just saw are what we call 'influences.'"
"Influences?"
"Yes." Jin Jianglang nodded. "When a story in history changes and veers off its intended course, 'influences' seek out its protagonist and establish a 'connection.' Once that connection succeeds, a 'historical shift' occurs."
Listening to Jin Jianglang's explanation, Du Yu and Weaver Girl both seemed to realize something at once.
Weaver Girl spoke first. "Then what if the 'connection fails'?"
"If the 'connection fails,' time repairs the changes in history on its own, without causing any major shifts. What I just did was sever every 'influence,' preventing the past from connecting to the present. Time will mend all the holes itself."
Understanding dawned on Weaver Girl.
That was it!
With Shiranui Jinkuro's help, Sage could disrupt legends without affecting the present at all.
"Your methods of handling legends in China may be advanced, but this was far too reckless." Shiranui Jinkuro shook his head. "If an important figure loses his wife, the story that follows is bound to change. It's better to avoid such unpredictable consequences altogether."
Cowherd listened in a fog of confusion. After all, this was his first time seeing so many "Supreme Pivots" manipulate time. He could not help asking, "So what exactly does 'time repairing itself' mean?"
"'Time repairing itself' means making everything unreasonable appear reasonable. Take the matter of Liu Ling's wife, for example..."
Before Shiranui Jinkuro could finish, Cowherd interrupted. "Wait, I've been wanting to ask this for a while. Why do you keep mentioning 'Liu Ling's wife'? Did you arrange a wife for him too?"
Everyone froze, then understood.
Time had already finished repairing itself.
Shiranui Jinkuro looked at Cowherd and asked, "You don't have a Time Master's constitution, do you?"