Time was the hardest thing in the world to control, and the most mysterious.
Yet at that moment, Sheng An felt as though she could command it. After thrusting her hand into the gap, she tried to shift time, making the collapsed timeline run backward...
But a powerful force wrapped around her and dragged time back again!
The two temporal forces overlapped, making the entire space lurch back and forth as time surged and fluctuated.
The shadow's voice sounded in her ear. "Give up. The superpower you can use right now is weaker than mine. You can't turn time all the way back."
Sheng An kept pulling, locked in the struggle.
The shadow said, "Besides, what would turning it back accomplish? How would you kill me? The time layer has collapsed. Shifting time is nothing but futile resistance. At most, you can barely glimpse images of the past."
Sheng An still did not stop.
Everything the shadow said was true. How could they enter this collapsed timeline?
If they could not enter, how could they kill their enemy?
But-
She had to turn time back first, then try to enter.
She refused to believe that getting in was completely impossible!
There had to be a way.
In this life-or-death struggle, every move had to accomplish the most pressing goal. As long as she refused to concede, she had to keep moving forward, one step at a time.
The shadow's voice drifted near and far, as though trying to beguile her. "This world has already collapsed. You can't enter it, and you can't change it."
Sheng An had always ignored the shadow's taunts and mockery.
But now, she spoke. "If that's really true, what are you trying to stop? What are you afraid of?"
The shadow faltered.
A moment later, the