"From what we can tell now, the power the Crawlers left behind back then was completely exhausted while corrupting Never Skunked, leaving only a trace of will and status."
"So when we actually encountered Retainer 9527, the Oathbreaker's power didn't seize the opportunity to cause trouble."
"What appeared afterward and posed such a huge threat to us was merely a combination of his lingering will and the Time-Void Prism's remaining power."
"That was why our little group of rookies barely managed to survive that battle."
Thoughts raced through Lin Yuan's mind, and he finally pieced together everything that had happened back then.
If the Oathbreaker hadn't spent his power on Never Skunked, but had saved it for them instead...
The consequences would have been unimaginable.
"In a way, this counts as fate, too."
Looking back on the whole affair now, Lin Yuan couldn't help marveling at his good luck.
If Paradise hadn't contained someone like Never Skunked, who had an exceptionally strong affinity for Life Authority, they probably would have been wiped out in Paradise's final battle long ago!
Thinking one step further back, Never Skunked had been able to avoid being troubled by the Instance's special ingredients because of the method Bai Ling had given him.
And Bai Ling had obtained that method from the giant turtle after meeting Lin Yuan through a chance coincidence.
Thinking about it now, that giant turtle probably hadn't been an ordinary Transcendent Creature either. Otherwise, it wouldn't have possessed such an unusual cultivation technique.
A genius in the Life Domain, a genius in the perception domain, Lin Yuan, the giant turtle... not one of them could have been missing. Only with all of them had they finally carved out a slim chance of survival in Paradise, which had been corrupted by Angel-level power.