A Guide to Surviving the Mysterious Dungeon and the Twelve Talismans

"Life and death are just a thought away for me, and I have already come back to life," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

Li Shengsheng suddenly froze: "Uncle...why, why did I lose contact with you?"

Before Zhou An could even speak, Li Shengsheng burst into tears: "Waaah, no, I don't want to lose contact with you."

Li Shengsheng threw herself into Zhou An's arms.

Seeing this, Zhou An smiled and said, "A Spirit Contractor is someone who forms a contract with a soul. Now that I've come back to life, I've naturally broken the contract with you."

"What? Do you want me to never live to see the end?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shengsheng raised her head and looked at Zhou An with tears streaming down her face: "No, I don't want this, I want Uncle to come back to life."

"Uncle, now that we're no longer bound by the contract, will you still want me?"

Zhou An pinched the other's cheek: "How could that be? We'll be together forever."

After a long while, Zhou An finally managed to coax Li Shengsheng back to her senses.

"By the way, uncle, why did my strength increase after our contract was broken?"

"And you even obtained all your talisman power?" Li Shengsheng asked in confusion.

“Because it was I who bestowed it upon you, and not only that, you can also borrow my divine authority at any time,” Zhou An said.

"So that's how it is. I didn't expect this dungeon to bring you such great rewards."

"Uncle, with your current strength, can you deal with those ninth-tier monsters, or even eliminate the monster world?" Li Shengsheng looked at Zhou An hopefully.

Upon hearing this, Zhou An nodded: "A ninth-order Ghost Emperor is powerless against me."

"But after you've dealt with this strange world... show me the future."

As Zhou An finished speaking, a magnificent river slowly appeared in the void.

This is the river of time, which only Zhou An can see.

After a long while, Zhou An's consciousness returned to his body.

"I saw the future, a bizarre world that bound me with its own rules, trying to assimilate me."

"I spent a hundred years completely merging with the strange world, becoming the Heavenly Dao, and taking control of the entire strange world."

"But... in the past hundred years, without my help, humanity has been mutated into monsters, and humanity has perished."

"I used the rules of life to turn all the monsters back into humans, but I couldn't change the environment of the monster world, and humans still couldn't survive..."

These are all things that Zhou An saw in the future, in the long river of time.

Moreover, as soon as he enters the eerie world and enters the next instance, the eerie world will bind him with its own world rules.

"How could this happen... how could this be?" Li Shengsheng grabbed Zhou An's wrist, her face full of worry.

"Uncle, you're so capable now, don't you have any solutions?"

Zhou An didn't speak, but kept speculating about the future.

After a long silence, Zhou An slowly shook his head: "I have deduced the future countless times. As long as I enter the strange world, I will be trapped for a hundred years."

"Even if I don't step into the bizarre world, a year later, the worlds will completely overlap, and I will have no choice but to enter the bizarre world."

"Then what should we do?" Li Shengsheng was even more worried.

“Since the future is not feasible, let’s go back to the past,” Zhou An said decisively.

"Go back to the past? What do you mean?" Li Shengsheng didn't understand for a moment.

"The players are now following the cultivation system of the bizarre world, and are no longer separated from the bizarre world."

"I used the power of time to go back in time and make arrangements before the strange world descended," Zhou An said in a deep voice.

“Go...go back to the past?” Li Shengsheng was greatly surprised.

"Sheng Sheng, I'm leaving. Don't look like this. I should be back soon." Zhou An smiled and patted Li Sheng Sheng's head.

"Okay, Uncle, be careful, I'll wait for you to come back." Li Shengsheng nodded and didn't say anything more sentimental.

Ripples began to spread around Zhou An, and then Zhou An disappeared from Li Shengsheng's sight.

Li Shengsheng stared blankly at the spot where Zhou An had disappeared.

The next second, a figure appeared out of thin air in front of Li Shengsheng.

"Sheng Sheng, it's been a long time." Zhou An greeted Li Sheng Sheng with a smile.

“Uncle…you didn’t leave?” Li Shengsheng looked at Zhou An in disbelief.

However, Li Shengsheng soon noticed that Zhou An seemed to have become more weathered.

His expression, face, and even physique remained unchanged; what changed was his eyes, which now held a more melancholic and world-weary look.

"Didn't I tell you? I'll be back soon."

"I've been planning this for fifty years."

"Now, we've officially begun our counterattack against the bizarre world," Zhou An said slowly.

"Fifty years? What fifty years? A counterattack against the strange world?" Li Shengsheng was still completely bewildered and hadn't processed this information yet.

"All you need to know is that I went back fifty years and laid out plans for fifty years."

"Leave everything else to me," Zhou An said with a faint smile.

"Now it's not the strange world devouring the earth, but the earth devouring the strange world."

"This world will ultimately be dominated by us humans!"

(The Finale)