The memories of all humanity are awakening, except for mine.

In the ward, all three remained silent.

Li Yu remained silent, Cao Zhigang was pondering the matter of the First Emperor's Mausoleum, while Jiang Chuan seemed to be immersed in what Li Yu had just said, his eyes appearing somewhat lost.

He felt he had forgotten many things, but he couldn't remember exactly what he had forgotten.

More important things seemed to be swirling in my mind, but I just couldn't find a clue.

It's like... there's a fog in my brain.

Seeing Jiang Chuan's somewhat confused look, Li Yu interrupted his thoughts after a long silence: "Don't think too much about it."

Immediately afterwards, Li Yu posed a new question, seemingly not wanting Jiang Chuan to get bogged down in that particular issue:
"Now you can access the spiritual power hidden in the crevices of your spiritual sea?"

Upon hearing this question, Jiang Chuan snapped out of his reverie, immediately closed his eyes, and focused his mental energy.

With just a simple manipulation, a massive surge of spiritual energy erupted from the depths of Jiang Chuan's spiritual sea. Like a magnificent, enormous soap bubble, it rapidly expanded from Jiang Chuan's body, almost causing him to lose control and nearly burst through the ceiling.

It's important to understand that Jiang Chuan's original total mental energy was already quite considerable. The reason Lin Mengru gave Jiang Chuan the combat suit was because Jiang Chuan's total mental energy far exceeded that of his peers at the same stage, and even so, Jiang Chuan's current total mental energy has actually increased even further!
Soon, Jiang Chuan excitedly opened his eyes and nodded heavily: "It's usable now!"

"Although the crack in my mental sea is still there, I can already draw upon a portion of my mental energy..."

"Very strong!"

Jiang Chuan himself was somewhat amazed.

Even a tiny breach is almost a tenfold improvement!

Li Yu naturally sensed this change as well, and he nodded and hummed in agreement.
"It seems my previous deduction was correct."

"As your strength increases, the high wall in the crack of your spiritual sea will eventually collapse."

"At that time, you may be able to know what kind of crisis you will face in the future."

"But it's too early to think about those things now."

"The prophecy of the collapse of human civilization is three years away."

"Whatever you may face in the future, it will probably be three years from now."

Li Yu's words calmed down the complex and chaotic thoughts that had just been swirling in Jiang Chuan's mind.

But Li Yu hadn't stopped talking.

“Before you truly grow up, we…” he said, glancing at Cao Zhigang standing behind him, “we will always be by your side. No matter what happens, even if the sky falls, we will be the first to hold it up. You may not know this, but not only us, even that Lu Bin…”

"He's already bet everything on you."

Looking into Li Yu's calm eyes and listening to him speak so calmly, Jiang Chuan felt extremely grateful.

"Thank you, Brother Li."

"I will work hard."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Okay."

"You should rest first."

"Now that you're awake, Lu Bin will be tried this afternoon, and you'll be there too."

Jiang Chuan was taken aback, somewhat puzzled: "What am I supposed to do there?"

Li Yu said, "It was Mr. Zhou's idea."

……

After Li Yu and Cao Zhigang left, Zhong Huahua immediately went into the ward.

"Jiang Chuan!"

Seeing Jiang Chuan sitting on the bed, she couldn't help but smile.

Jiang Chuan nodded: "Are you alright?"

Zhong Huahua said, "I'm fine...we..."

Tian Tian's voice followed immediately: "Why weren't you so happy to see me?"

Jiang Chuan looked towards the door and realized that Zhong Huahua wasn't the only one who had come.

Everyone from the [Qingshi Elite Group] arrived, and the small ward was instantly filled with people.

Zhong Huahua was taken aback, and finished what she hadn't said before: "We've all come to see you..."

Tian Tian sat casually on Jiang Chuan's hospital bed, shoved the fruit basket she had brought into Jiang Chuan's arms, then took out an apple from the basket, wiped it, and started eating it.

Upon seeing Jiang Chuan, Tang Songming opened his fan with a whoosh and exclaimed, "Brother Jiang, your ascension to heaven and your dragon-slaying are truly awe-inspiring!"

"Brother Jiang, when did you reach such a level of cultivation? Could it be that you've been practicing secretly?"

Liang Cheng patted Tang Songming on the shoulder: "Speaking of which, what was the story behind the three of you sneaking into the subway station back then?"

Ai Zhe was also furious: "Yeah! Why didn't you invite the two of us!"

At that time, Liang Cheng and Ai Zhe were arranged to evacuate. Tang Songming, Song Xi, Zhong Huahua, and Cao Zhiqiang went to the abandoned subway station together. At this time, they finally remembered and started to bring up old grievances.

Tang Songming stammered as he explained, and Lin Ci, standing in front of Jiang Chuan's bed, said, "The gap is really widening. Before, you were still at the bottom in the first stage of the race."

"At first, I wanted to catch up, but now it seems there's no way to catch up."

"But no matter what, it's really unexpected that I've become this strong."

"Jiang Chuan, what level are you at now?"

"Already at A level?"

Chen Ming nodded, his interest piqued: "I've seen that video. You could say it crushed that dragon."

"Isn't that ridiculously strong?"

Although Jiang Chuan had heard about slaying the dragon from Li Yu and knew that he had used a cheat to kill it, he himself was completely unaware of the process. Seeing everyone's expressions, he understood that it was probably a rather exaggerated scene, but he himself didn't really feel like it was real.

He said modestly, "It's just so-so, nothing special."

"..."

"That state doesn't work every time, and right now... I can't control it myself."

Upon hearing Jiang Chuan's words, Tian Tian suddenly remembered something and immediately said:

"By the way, Brother Chuan."

"Where's your dagger? You won't need it anymore, right?"

She still couldn't forget Jiang Chuan's dagger, and her eyes were shining with desire.

Jiang Chuan shrugged: "Lost it."

Tian Tian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, feeling both regretful and helpless.

She took a big bite of the apple and said, "Okay, okay."

Song Xi asked Tian Tian, ​​"Is it delicious?"

Tian Tian took an apple out of the fruit basket she had brought for Jiang Chuan: "Here, have this."

Song Xi said gratefully, "Thank you!"

As Song Xi started eating the apple, Li Yi asked Jiang Chuan, "How are you feeling?"

"Is there anything unusual?"

"When we were inside the barrier..."

As soon as Li Yi spoke, everyone else fell silent.

The only sounds were Tian Tian and Song Xi munching on apples, but Song Xi was genuinely eating, while Tian Tian's eyes darted around. She glanced at Li Yi, who was talking, and then at the silent Zhong Huahua, lost in thought.

Jiang Chuan responded, "I met up with Teacher Cao inside the barrier later. We encountered some trouble, but it was all resolved in the end. Nothing serious happened."

"I'm doing pretty well right now."

Li Yi said "Oh," and then continued, "I should have insisted on staying with you back then."

Tian Tian looked at Zhong Huahua, thinking that Zhong Huahua should say something at this moment.

Zhong Huahua glanced at Jiang Chuan, then at Li Yi, but ultimately remained silent.

Jiang Chuan then said, "There will be danger."

He paused for a moment, then his tone suddenly became serious: "Everyone, if I get into danger again next time... you'd better not come."

"There's...something wrong with me." Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly fell silent, looking at Jiang Chuan with some surprise.

In his first dream, Zhong Huahua was dead.

That seemingly dazed look in my eyes still seems so vivid.

Even with his own cheat codes in the dream, Zhong Huahua still couldn't be saved from dying right before his eyes, or rather, dying at his hands. Thinking back, his counterpart in that timeline must have deeply regretted agreeing to let Zhong Huahua join the Qingshan Incident reserve team.
However, Zhong Huahua, who was influenced by Li Guo'er at the time, would probably have joined the reserve team no matter what...

Luckily, I saved her. Otherwise, wouldn't my eyes now be somewhat similar to the empty eyes of my future self?

However, although Zhong Huahua has been saved and is alive and well... what about the future? What about the others?

Such things are enough to happen in dreams.

Jiang Chuan didn't want that dream to come true.

However, just as the air grew heavy, Tian Tian suddenly spoke:

"Alright, now that you're stronger, you're starting to split things up?"

"Next time I call you, are you going to say—"

She made a phone call gesture: "Don't contact me anymore, I'm afraid Li Yu will misunderstand?"

Jiang Chuan was taken aback: "That's not what I meant."

Also, how come you even know Li Yu?
Before Jiang Chuan could say anything more, Ai Zhe also said, "Brother Chuan, if it weren't for Zhong Huahua's burst of spiritual power to save you, we should be at your funeral hall offering incense right now."

Jiang Chuan was taken aback again, then looked at Zhong Huahua.

Zhong Huahua lowered her head and remained silent.

Jiang Chuan had no idea about this before Ai Zhe said those words.

What Jiang Chuan didn't know was that when the future Jiang Chuan arrived, he was actually quite surprised that Zhong Huahua was still alive.

It was precisely these slight deviations, these subtle changes... that led to the "new path" that the middle-aged Jiang Chuan spoke of.

At this moment, Song Xi finished eating the apple. She looked at the fruit basket and said, "What kind of meat was that you ate inside the barrier? I want to eat it too."

……

The chat with the members of the Qing City elite group didn't last long, as they had to catch their flight.

After they left, Jiang Chuan looked at the "Dragon Slaying Incident" from multiple perspectives on his phone.

Although most of the images are not very clear, it is still possible to piece together the scene from multiple perspectives.

As I read, I fell into deep thought: what exactly prompted me to change the original outcome of the Qingshan Tang Tomb incident?

The difference lies in... in the dream, did you fail to dodge those light shuttles?

"At that time, I hadn't entered the flow state 2?"

"And the second state of flow was realized after the escort mission... that is, after touching the chessboard."

"So, I didn't participate in the escort mission back then? Or did I participate in the escort mission but didn't touch the chessboard?"

"..."

This question cannot be answered accurately until the next dream begins.

But one thing is certain.

"If the dream I had belongs to that middle-aged version of myself..."

"So at least at the point in time of the Qingshan Tang Tomb incident, I was stronger than 'myself'."

"Is this the goal I'll achieve when I do all these things in the future?"

"In the end, I saved Zhong Huahua, and in a way, I also saved myself."

"Is this... the meaning of altering cause and effect?"

Jiang Chuan continued to recall the events that occurred in his dream, including the "descent" that killed Li Guo'er.

"Judging from the events that occurred in the dream... no time or space abilities were used."

"These are all high-level uses of mental power."

"That means... is the ability he can use related to the ability I can use? If the original body didn't comprehend the ability, then I won't be able to use it after I descend in the future?"

“Brother Li said before that there are limitations to ‘descending’.”

"Is this one of the limitations of the coming?"

Thinking about this, Jiang Chuan combined the two descent events he had personally experienced with his own reflections.

Jiang Chuan had no recollection of the first descent event that occurred within the Yanshan barrier. However, he only vaguely remembered the second event, the ascension to heaven and dragon slaying, which he witnessed on his phone.

However, the specifics of what happened are not important, but Jiang Chuan clearly felt the benefits after the descent ended.

"After my first descent, I noticed that the shackles in my spiritual sea were loosening."

"And after the second descent, not only did I have the dream again, but I was also able to mobilize some of the spiritual energy from the crevices of my spiritual sea..."

"There are many benefits, but I don't know how many more opportunities there will be in the future..."

"Unfortunately, this cheat is probably going to be used one less time."

Jiang Chuan sighed.

But at the same time, he also understood that this was not the last time.

Since it's still usable, it means I don't need to worry about my life right now.

Jiang Chuan then set his own goal.

With this security in place, I'll settle down and focus on my cultivation during this time...

Before the cheat expires, make sure to improve your own skills.

……

in the afternoon.

Jiang Chuan followed Li Yu and Song Chen into the elevator, ready to participate in the meeting.

Song Chen began by saying, "Those attending this meeting are the heads of various departments at headquarters."

"You've met some of them, like Wang Xuejun from the technical team, Lin Mengru from the craftsman team, and me..."

"But you probably don't know the others."

"But you don't need to know them. The logistics and finance people are just like you, observing the meeting."

"If the decision-making level hadn't been purged so thoroughly, I would have been an observer at this meeting as well."

As he spoke, Song Chen shook his head regretfully: "Actually, it would have been better to just sit in on it."

Jiang Chuan nodded and said sincerely, "It's best to listen in."

"I just enjoy listening in."

Jiang Chuan felt that attending meetings and listening to lectures had some similarities.

As long as there's no need to speak, one can sleep whether it's a meeting or a class. As the man known as the "Sleep King" of Qing City No. 1 High School... meetings are, of course, for sleeping.

The conference room is very large.

Jiang Chuan glanced at the crowd and saw that there were nearly sixty people sitting there.

Sitting at the end of the long table in the conference room was Mr. Zhou. Jiang Chuan had met him once before, separated by a barrier in Yanshan.

When Lin Mengru from the crafts team saw Jiang Chuan enter, she waved to him.

Wang Xuejun from the technical team also saw Jiang Chuan and nodded slightly in greeting.

There were also many faces that Jiang Chuan didn't recognize, all of which were greeting him...

I originally planned to stay out of the spotlight and take a nice afternoon nap, but it seems my plans might have to change.

Jiang Chuan glanced around, looked at it from all angles, and frowned. Before taking his seat, he asked Li Yu, who was walking in front of him, in a low voice:
"Brother Li... what about Teacher Feng?"

"I remember his name was... Feng Xiaobo?"

"From the training program team, didn't he come?"

Li Yu glanced at Jiang Chuan: "He's dead." (End of Chapter)