"So..." Du Yu finally asked, "what kind of 'me' would qualify?"
"There are far too many requirements." "Time" smiled. "For instance, you must first be a 'perfect orphan,' with no necessary ties to anything in this world. You must also care about everyone despite being an orphan, and sincerely wish to save the Immortals and friends who are about to die. You must become enemies with He Suoyi, and inflict enough suffering on Great Dark Heaven. There are simply too many conditions... and, most importantly, you must fall in love with Shiranui Asuka. Once all of these conditions are met, you will be the most perfect 'Time.'"
Du Yu was already venturing into a realm that turned everything he knew upside down, yet he had never expected to hear something even more shocking.
"I... have to fall in love with A-Xiang? Why?"
"I don't know," "Time" said decisively. "It's a rule passed down from generation to generation among all the 'Times.'"
"A-all the 'Times'?" Du Yu instantly thought of something even more terrifying...
Each "Time" could control countless versions of him, and there were countless "Times" in this world. If that was the case, just how many versions of him existed?
Surely far more than three hundred and thirty thousand!
At that thought, Du Yu asked again, "If you find a 'qualified person,' how do you turn him into 'Time'?"
"He Suoyi," "Time" said. "Once I decide that you can become 'Time,' I turn He Suoyi into the Supreme Pivot, then incite him to rebel and blow up the spacetime you inhabit. That leaves you with no way back."
"You..." Only then did Du Yu remember that He Suoyi had disappeared for a while on the battlefield. That must have been "Time's" doing.
No wonder Sage's timeline had contained no