Ouyang asked this question because he wanted to confirm something with the Old Clan Leader before him.
Was the person who had brought Hu Yun to the Nine Hells thousands of years ago actually himself, having traveled to that timeline again?
He asked because he now understood another reason why the system he carried existed.
He had originally thought it had only two uses: collecting true qi points while idling, or checking information about other cultivators.
But its real, primary purpose should actually have been to have him modify the timeline.
To steer an erroneous timeline back in the right direction!
The system's greater function should have been something like a modifier!
Only, what it modified was the timeline of heaven and earth!
If that really was the case, another thought rose from the depths of Ouyang's heart, one that grew more terrifying the more he examined it.
If his system was a Time Modifier, then who exactly had made it?
What sort of being could possess the power to perform such a heaven-defying feat as traveling through time?
If that was the case, how exactly was an erroneous timeline judged to be wrong, and how was it determined that it had been corrected to the right timeline?
Ouyang felt as though he were an extremely important chess piece, slowly pushing time forward, while any periods the system deemed erroneous would be his to correct!
After his first journey through time, and after the Dao Contemplation Hu Yun had given him.
Ouyang had vaguely sensed that something was wrong with his system. It definitely held a card representing someone of immense standing.
And he was a chess piece in that card's hand.
His master had now merged with the system and could occasionally disrupt its operations, but how long could