[A phantom figure slowly floated out of the tombstone, and then a delicate-featured man appeared before you.] [The man gave you a faint smile and beckoned with his right hand. Your body flew uncontrollably toward him.] [God of Wealth, timid as a mouse! A seemingly ghostly figure appeared before you and began studying you with great interest. You were certain in your heart that you did not know the delicate-featured male ghost before you.] [After a long while, a brilliant smile suddenly appeared on the man's face, and he happily told you how much he had missed you.] [God of Wealth, long time no see. I never expected you to be the one to awaken me. It seems your divine ability holds a whole other world of wonders, letting you return even after death.] [You stood there dumbfounded as you listened, then tentatively asked whether he was the Battle God.] [The man burst out laughing. Hearing that familiar, hearty laugh, you felt the corner of your mouth twitch. You had thought a rugged, burly man lay beneath the Battle God's mask, but he turned out to be a pretty boy.]
Su Wen raised an eyebrow and thought, A pretty boy?
At the thought, he couldn't help sizing up the Battle God.
"Brother God of Wealth, what's wrong?"
The Battle God was animatedly recounting his legendary exploits when he suddenly asked.
Why had Su Wen started sizing him up out of the blue?
"Nothing."
Su Wen smiled and said, "Go on."
The Battle God's bearing and manner of speaking were the very image of a rough-and-tumble man.
Yet his real appearance was that of a pretty boy?
A delicate-featured young man?
Although he didn't know exactly what the Battle God looked like, the fact that his future self had described him that way said it all.
"It was a close call, I'm telling you. If I hadn't been quick on the uptake and forced them to change... with my silver tongue"
The Battle God grinned and continued.
As Su Wen listened to the Battle God shoot the breeze in the present, he was also chatting with the "Battle God" in the future.
[God of Wealth, plodding through life! After confirming the Battle God's true identity, you began to speak with him in detail.] [Though he had died and his Dao had vanished, and though all that remained in the world was a wisp of thought, the Battle God was still worthy of his name. With his gift for spouting nonsense, he poured out a great deal of drivel to you.] [Pressed for time, you had no choice but to cut the Battle God off and ask how you-the God of Wealth-had died.] [The Battle God's remnant thought froze, then the gaze he fixed on you gradually turned cold.] [God of Wealth from the past! Some of your words have aroused the Battle God's remnant thought's suspicion. Now, please make a choice.] [1. Tell the Battle God that you came from the past and are currently inside the organization, chatting and shooting the breeze with the Battle God of the past.] [2. Conceal the truth from the Battle God.] [3. Fabricate a fact.]
Seeing the three options, Su Wen chose to tell the Battle God what was happening without hesitation.
The future could be changed.
And as the present changed, the traces of his journey through time would also be erased from the future.
So it no longer mattered whether the Battle God knew the truth.
In the worst-case scenario, the Battle God was a spy hidden within the organization, and both his death and this remnant thought were part of a trap.
Perhaps it was a trap meant for someone else, but Su Wen had stepped into it.
That was fine too!
He could spend wealth source to forcibly recall himself!
If spending a little more wealth source could confirm that the Battle God standing before him was a traitor, he thought it would be well worth the price!
All in all, his present self did indeed need to be cautious.
But his future self needed to act boldly. If he wasn't bold... how could he obtain useful information?
[You explained your innate ability to the Battle God's remnant thought: using wealth source to disrupt spacetime.] [After learning of your ability, the Battle God's remnant thought fell silent. A moment later, he threw back his head and laughed, laughing so wildly that his remnant thought began to tremble.] [God of Wealth who toys with spacetime! Watching your comrade from the future lose himself in a frenzy, and seeing two tears of thought slide down amid his wild laughter, you couldn't help feeling a pang of pain.] [Comrade! What on earth have you all been through?] [After laughing, the Battle God's remnant thought abruptly calmed down, but white vapor kept rising from above his head, betraying the turmoil in his heart.] [And from the Battle God's account, you learned the cause of your death.] [God of Wealth: on August 13, year 23, he died during the uprising in the Imperial Capital's Arrow Realm No. 02, slain by a single slash from the Ghost Chaos King.] [April 18, year 23: an uprising broke out in the Imperial Capital's Arrow Realm No. 05. The Star God went to suppress it.] [May 2, year 23: unrest broke out in Guangshen's Arrow Realm No. 07. The Battle God went to suppress it.] [June 12, year 23: the Star God returned. The next day, an uprising broke out in the Imperial Capital's Arrow Realm No. 01. The Arrow Realm gate manifested on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, and the Theater God and Star God went to suppress it.] [July 15, year 23: the Demon Capital's Arrow Realm No. 08 was shaken by unrest, and the Arrow Realm gate manifested. The Wind God went to suppress it.] [August 10, year 23: an uprising broke out in the Demon Capital's Arrow Realm No. 09. The Evil Spirit Insect Swarm sought to burst out of the Arrow Realm gate. Amid the grave crisis, the Star God rushed back and mobilized the Star Grand Array to intercept the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm.] [On the 13th, an uprising broke out in the Imperial Capital's Arrow Realm No. 02. The Ghost Face Clan appeared near the organization, and the God of Wealth was killed.] [The Battle God's remnant thought recounted the events before and after the God of Wealth's death. Before you could speak, he stated outright that it all looked like a scheme-a scheme to kill the God of Wealth.] [Afterward, they had analyzed and discussed the scheme against the God of Wealth. At least eighteen races had coordinated with precision, all to kill the God of Wealth!] [In the years that followed, the Star God had expressed his regret to him more than once. If he had not mobilized the power of the Star Grand Array to intercept the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm, the Ghost Face Clan would have been locked onto by the array the moment they appeared.] [The Battle God recounted his past experiences with a look of sorrow, and you listened at his side, trembling with fear.] [Bewildered God of Wealth! Only now did you understand the Arrow Realm creatures' determination to kill you. As long as you lived, they could not sleep at night.]
Su Wen: "..."
Eighteen races had joined forces to kill him?
They just had to see him dead, didn't they?
Was the God of Wealth that hated?
And judging by the scheme, one Arrow Realm after another had erupted in uprising, drawing away all his comrades.
Most importantly, weren't the Arrow Realm creatures a little too familiar with the humans' arrangements?
After drawing away all the Heavenly Mandate Bearers with "God" in their titles, they had even known about the Star Grand Array?
And they had deliberately sent the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm to tie up its power?
The Star God, Theater God, Battle God, Wind God...
Apart from him, the organization had only four Heavenly Mandate Bearers with "God" in their titles.
There, that was all of them!
Hmm... did his death this time have nothing to do with the Wind God?
If he had ended up on the nonhumans' must-kill list at some point, wouldn't it have been normal for the alien races to target him while he explored an Arrow Realm?
Then the crucial question was, why had the Wind God acted like that during his last journey through time?
Why had he killed Li Dong without asking a single question?
And even restrained Su Wen, looking as though he intended to take him back and lock him up?