Oblivious to Ming Tiani’s inner turmoil, Yu Xuan continued speaking.
"I need your answer about the thing you said, and I also want to... oh? Are you even listening? What the—!"
His words cut off abruptly.
Right in front of him, Ming Tiani’s eyes lost focus. Her body swayed slightly... and then she fainted while still standing.
Yu Xuan reacted instantly, catching her before she lost balance. He carefully laid her on the bed, frowning at the oddly conflicted expression frozen on her face.
"...This is getting ridiculous."
A trace of worry surfaced as he checked her condition with his spirit sense.
"Qi deviation?" Yu Xuan muttered, genuinely baffled.
"What the heck? How can she suddenly suffer a random qi deviation now of all tis?"
Nothing about the situation made sense.
With no imdiate danger present, he sat down beside the bed, crossing his legs and waiting. Though he was pressed for ti, this was sothing he couldn’t simply ignore.
Nearly an hour passed.
Finally, Ming Tiani stirred.
She woke up, but instead of opening her eyes imdiately, she pretended to remain unconscious for a few more minutes.
Yu Xuan noticed, of course, but chose not to call her out on it.
When she finally opened her eyes, she t his gaze and imdiately flushed.
"...Stop it," Ming Tiani said, clearly embarrassed.
"Stop what?" Yu Xuan replied blankly.
"You know exactly what I an, Young Master!" she snapped, her tone suddenly sharp, reminding him, intentionally, of their official statuses.
Officially there were still Young Master of a Clan and a Clan mber.
Maybe the supposed regressor, couldn’t handle the light teasing.
Yu Xuan laughed internally, this was becoming fun to him, but then his expression changed.
"Alright, alright," he said calmly.
"But answer my question first."
The playful tension vanished.
The atmosphere turned serious once more.
"What you said about the gate incident," Yu Xuan began slowly, "according to your mories, it happened much later. And the ones who led it were also different."
He paused, watching her reaction before continuing.
"But suppose I, too, sohow deduced a future. A future where the events inside the gate were largely the sa as what I experienced, yet differed in crucial details. Wouldn’t that imply that we saw two different futures?"
His gaze sharpened.
"Or that you returned to the wrong tiline or sothing similar."
"That’s possible yet impossible," Ming Tiani replied imdiately, without hesitation.
Yu Xuan blinked.
"Uh... did you even hear everything I said?"
"In the first place you don’t possess the power to see the future. And the future itself is inherently unpredictable. It cannot be fixed, let alone shared like a script." she said firmly yet it contained cryptic anings.
"..."
Yu Xuan fell silent.
What she said was correct, at least on the surface. He truly did not have a future sight ability.
What he had was [Fated Encounter].
And that was different.
The future he saw back then hadn’t co from deliberate observation, nor calculation. It had appeared the mont he t Ming Tiani, as if triggered by the intersection of their existences.
’A possible future perhaps.’
Yu Xuan’s thoughts deepened.
The first ti [Fated Encounter] activated, it was tied directly to her and the vision he saw.
Yet during the Martial Ancestor’s Legacy, when the sa skill appeared again, nothing like that happened.
No vision. No future.
So the effect clearly wasn’t consistent.
Did [Fated Encounter] change based on the person involved?
Or was it reacting to Ming Tiani herself, soone who truly did possess the power to see the future?
Or was the anomaly not with her but with him?
"Still," Yu Xuan said slowly, breaking the silence,
"Don’t you think you answered too quickly? You didn’t even consider the possibility I raised."
"That’s because it’s simply impossible," Ming Tiani replied reflexively.
"As I said, you don’t have the power to see the fut—"
She stopped mid-sentence.
Her brows furrowed.
Sothing didn’t add up.
She looked at Yu Xuan again, really looked at him this ti.
And for the first ti since waking up, doubt flickered across her face.
’Did the past change, but how did he sohow gain the ability to see the future.’ Ming Tiani’s thoughts grew turbulent.
As a regressor, everything she was experiencing now was, by definition the past.
Even if events shifted, even if unexpected variables appeared, people themselves were not supposed to change so drastically.
Personalities, growth curves, key turning points... those were ant to be stubborn things.
Yet reality was clearly mocking that assumption.
Two major events that should have unfolded much later had already been pushed forward.
Yu Xuan, in particular, was advancing at a frightening pace, far faster than in the original tiline.
New Heavenly Flas.
Those absurd clones.
None of that existed in the previous run.
During the great battle, even though she had been miles away, she had still used her own thods to observe the aftermath.
What she saw back then had shaken her deeply and now, seeing Yu Xuan in person, that unease only grew stronger.
If the past had already deviated this much, then the future was no longer just uncertain.
It was unstable.
She knew her own limits well. Even with her unique path, even with careful planning, the highest cultivation she could realistically reach within the Heaven Immortal Sect, without having no gaps within her foundation was Tier 5, the Soul Nurturing Realm.
Her cultivation was special.
[The Way of Heaven].
A path that demanded materials from all Nine Heavens just to progress.
A path so demanding that, without the Heaven Immortal Sect’s resources, connections and without her Master, it would have been nearly impossible to walk at all.
On that front, she was genuinely grateful.
But Yu Xuan...
He was becoming sothing different than the original.
Slowly, Ming Tiani lifted her gaze and looked straight at him, her expression no longer flustered, no longer evasive, only serious.
"Tell ," she said quietly, yet firmly,
"Exactly what happened in your version."
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