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Not long ago, Song Shuhang had posed a question to Future Child—how difficult is it for a consciousness, or a physical object, to travel through “the past”?

At the time, Future Child’s answer was: Under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible to physically travel through time and space!

To influence the past, Song Shuhang’s “Dreamland” skill; or Future Child’s use of the Time Principles to interfere with the “past” self, were the only feasible means under normal conditions.

However, even though “Future Child’s” actions had altered the “past” where Song Shuhang was, the future where “Future Child” resided remained unchanged.

It was just like the scenes Song Shuhang had seen in the “river of time.”

What could be affected was the past of a parallel world.

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Now, Song Shuhang only needed a thought to freely switch between different points in the river of time.

For Song Shuhang, the river of time was like a game filled with “save points” everywhere.

His main body could directly appear in the distant past—such as at the most desperate moment of Pavilion Master Chu, when Crystal-clear Water Pavilion faced destruction, or even further back in the “past.”

Brought along with Song Shuhang was also Pavilion Master Chu’s “consciousness” and the thoughts of “Chu Two” from the Netherworld Gap.

The consciousness of the two different Slow-Witted Songs crossed the limits of time and space to reach the distant “past.”

Node switching in the river of time.

This was true “time travel.”

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Song Shuhang did not directly appear at the destruction node of Crystal-clear Water Pavilion.

Instead, he appeared in an even more ancient past.

At this point in time, Slow-Witted Song had just inherited the position of “master” and became the owner of the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion.

The historical time of the world was approximately several hundred to a thousand years after the Confucian Sage and the fat ball fought over the Heavenly Dao seat.

The Confucian school received a devastating blow at this point in history.

The Heavenly Emperor’s daughter had also been brought into the main world, on the verge of starting her invincible life.

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At this moment, in Song Shuhang’s sight, there was an unclaimed ghost spirit drifting aimlessly in the world.

Drifting and drifting, it finally wandered over to a grassland outside the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion.

This area was filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, ancient trees reaching for the sky, akin to an Immortal Realm.

The defensive formation of Crystal-clear Water Pavilion protected it all.

“Is this the past? The real past?” Chu Two asked uneasily.

Reconstructing the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion was her obsession.

Now, seeing the Pavilion of her memories in the distance, she found it difficult to control herself.

“Be patient, Pavilion Master Chu,” Song Shuhang gently soothed Chu Two’s mass of “consciousness,” calming her down.

Meanwhile, Slow-Witted Song’s gaze slowly shifted from the distant Crystal-clear Water Pavilion and finally settled on the wandering unclaimed ghost spirit.

“Song Shuhang?” she frowned, yet unable to confirm.

In her memory, this was where she first encountered “Song Shuhang.”

But this drifting unclaimed ghost spirit bore no resemblance to Song Shuhang.

“Just a moment,” Song Shuhang said softly.

The unclaimed ghost spirit continued to drift lazily, unwittingly activating the guarding powers of the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion.

A long-haired fairy was startled and swept towards this area.

It was Pavilion Master Chu in her youth.

The unclaimed ghost spirit floated awhile, then suddenly bent down to pick up something.

It was a soul grain so small that it was nearly worn away—it belonged to a member of the thirteen Tribulation Transcenders from the scholarly system, the “Glazed Scholar,” whose soul grain was somehow left behind in this area and almost dissipated after the Confucian school suffered a great catastrophe.

The ownerless petty ghost spirit instinctively protected the soul grain it had picked up—this soul grain was the very one that Song Shuhang had nurtured with the “Saber-Nurturing Technique,” submitted to Fairy Creation to send back to Confucianism.

Moreover, this was also a karmic cause that started later when Song Wood, lending a helping hand to the lustrous scholar, sealed him within the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion. It was only in Song Shuhang’s era that the lustrous scholar broke the seal to fulfill his wish.

At the same time,

the young Pavilion Master Chu kept getting closer.

Suddenly, atop the head of this unclaimed petty ghost spirit, a surge of “space” fluctuations emerged.

It seemed as if something fell from “space” and eventually fused with this “petty ghost spirit”!

“Is it Song Wood who has traveled through time?” Pavilion Master Chu’s eyes slightly darkened, already aware of Song Wood’s real identity, she naturally speculated this when she saw the scene.

“To be precise, it’s the memories and individual information of the future Song Wood, as well as… a portion of my power,” Song Shuhang said softly.

What truly crossed ‘time’ wasn’t the body of the ghost spirit Song Wood.

But rather, its memories, some of its individual information, and the “Unbroken Spirit Ghost Contract” that was transmitted here by Song Shuhang’s dreamland skill.

The chance for the dreamland skill to activate was the “Future Glazed Scholar” and this grain of “glazed scholar soul grain,” meeting the conditions to activate the dream entry ability.

The fusion progressed extremely fast.

Within two breaths, the ownerless wandering petty ghost spirit, after receiving all this, finally turned into the form of ‘Song Wood’ that Pavilion Master Chu recognized.

Song Wood’s crossing could be described as “Soul Transfer.”

At this time, ‘Song Wood’ hadn’t realized that his body had changed.

The cross-temporal “Incomplete Spirit Ghost Contract” within it was still there.

The memories also weren’t problematic.

And the body… what significant difference could there be in a petty ghost spirit’s body? They were all originally fragments of the ghostly body Cheng Lin.

And so, what followed was that scene from Chu’s memories.

The young her, met this spirit that she ‘recognized’, yet was meeting for the first time, calling itself “Tyrannical Saber Song One… minus the Tyrannical Saber.”

Out of curiosity, Chu eventually chose to take this ‘Fellow Daoist Song One’ back to the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion.

Inheriting the future ‘Song Wood’s memory,’ the newbie petty ghost spirit began his life in the ancient era, searching for a dao companion for ‘Tyrannical Song’s main body’ and vowing to put an end to Tyrannical Song’s ‘child Daoists’ life.

Regrettably, the newbie petty ghost spirit Song One’s wish ultimately went unfulfilled.

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“So, how should this be counted? What’s the relationship between Song One and you?” Pavilion Master Chu’s consciousness focused on Song Shuhang.

Moreover, she clearly saw Song Shuhang separate ‘Song Wood’s’ part of the petty ghost spirit’s body from Cheng Goudan and eventually recovered it back into his body.

“Later… Song Wood, he must have guessed the possibility of his soul traveling. So he assisted the lustrous scholar to break the seal in my era, and come into the world,” Song Shuhang said, gently pressing a hand to his chest.

“Then after that, the lustrous scholar took my first ghost spirit to the Netherworld Realm, but an accident happened, and he failed to return my ghost spirit as promised. My first ghost spirit shattered in that accident.”

“I guess at that time, fragments of my first ghost spirit must have been secretly absorbed back by Song Wood… or should I say Cheng Lin + Song Wood.”

From that moment on,

Song Wood and the first ghost spirit truly became one ‘individual.’

This was his own last choice, to return triumphantly to Song Shuhang’s body in the form of a ‘petty ghost spirit.’

But Song Wood was too strong at the time.

And Song Shuhang, too weak.

He couldn’t return to his main body immediately… otherwise, Song Shuhang simply couldn’t bear it.

Another small accident.

Because at that time Song Wood was in the ‘Cheng Lin + Song Wood’ mode, the absorbed ‘first ghost spirit fragment’ would definitely be affected.

This is also the reason why Cheng Lin finally told Song Shuhang that ‘Song Wood’ might undergo some changes and to be mentally prepared for it.

“The cause and effect have been understood,” Song Shuhang slightly smiles, taking the two consciousnesses of Pavilion Master Chu to the next point in time.

It was the time node that pained Song Wood’s heart the most, filled with the most unwillingness—the moment of the Crystal-clear Water Pavilion’s destruction!