After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

Jun Qianrou was right there—

Mo Shu... was there too.

In Shi Yan's eyes, the last image reflected was of the tavern owner being sealed inch by inch in the glacier by the freezing ice.

She was still smiling.

"Don't worry so much..."

The girl's words echoed in Shi Yan's ears once again.

The teacher did not turn to the side.

But she could see that beside her, a white-haired girl with a gentle appearance, a summery figure, and the height of a flower-like woman was flying alongside her.

—The Lord of Loulan.

Or perhaps... these are the words of a teacher from a thousand years ago.

The girl looks completely different from me.

It doesn't give off that feeling of being overly seductive, smug, or disdainful at first glance.

Completely different from the feeling of wanting Shi Yan to press her shoulders down when facing him, this adorable little girl who follows Shi Yan like a projection in a virtual world only makes one want to hold her in their arms.

All the scraps I threw away in my past life have been picked up again in this one.

All Shi Yan could say was, "This is torture! Yaotai is truly torture!"

The girl who gently opened her lotus-like arms and flew with Shi Yan was actually the embodiment of the will of Loulan.

The phantoms that Shi Yan had seen time and time again.

It is she who is the manifestation of the rules deeply embedded in the principles of nature.

She used to be afraid of the laws of nature and could only act as a character attribute panel, manipulating everything.

But now... the existence of Heavenly Principles has been completely rejected by Jun Qianrou from the mortal world.

Furthermore, with Shi Yan's breakthrough in cultivation, he has successfully entered the Void Returning Realm and can manipulate the rules.

The will of Loulan... naturally emerged.

"Actually, Jun Qianrou saved Su Su—"

"The deathly aura is spreading..."

"Even you and I couldn't withstand the demonic blade, so Su Su can't either."

"Jun Qianrou's freezing actually gave you a chance to save her."

“I know…” Shi Yan looked in the direction of “Frost Rainbow Valley” and she could feel the qualitative change happening to Jun Qianrou.

"I was just thinking..."

"How can we bring Qianrou back?"

“Uh…” Loulan suddenly fell silent.

The air seemed to fall into an eerie silence.

Sensing the unusual silence, Shi Yan felt a deep sense of foreboding.

Loulan?

"To be honest..."

There is no way to solve this.

"What!?" Shi Yan looked at the girl beside him.

Loulan's eyes, now almost cherry-red, were filled with helplessness. "She has been too deeply corrupted by the will of the 'First Demon Lord'."

"To be honest..."

There's no way.

"If I could find a way to break free from the will of the 'One-Life Demon Lord'..."

“Even a thousand years ago, it wouldn’t have been necessary for Lingyao to kill me… to end all of this.”

"How could this be..." Because of Loulan's words, Shi Yan suddenly felt an extreme sense of powerlessness spreading in his heart.

"The 'One-Life Demon Lord' is not just an ordinary innate destiny."

"That's a procedure—"

"Like Surtur's demonic sword, like Nidhogg, the poisonous dragon gnawing at the roots of the World Tree..."

"It is the program that cuts off the world's end."

"Once it starts, there's no way to crack it unless..."

Loulan didn't say anything, but Shiyan understood what she wanted to say.

Unless... kill that program.

"From the moment I came into this world, I already understood my destiny as the 'Demon Lord of One Lifetime'—"

"I am... the nemesis of this world."

"It's not because I summoned the Pure Color Mandala that I became the nemesis of this world, but because of my affinity as the 'First Demon Lord,' as the nemesis of the world, that I summoned the Pure Color Mandala..."

As these things were mentioned, a profound sense of sorrow suddenly appeared on the face of the girl soaring in the sky.

She understood this from the day she was born.

Either she destroys the world, or the world destroys her.

She is destined to be alone for the rest of her life.

"so……"

Why must one choose the title of "Eternal Demon Lord"?

"Instead of 'Supreme Being of All Time'!?" Shi Yan frowned, somewhat puzzled.

In the game, Jun Qianrou has two "evolution routes".

Although achieving the status of an empress, the supreme ruler of her time, is difficult... since it concerns her future, why not give it a shot?

The "Eternal Demon Lord" is an enemy of the world.

Surely "the supreme ruler of the world" can't be one of them.

Rather than destroying the world, Shi Yan prefers to ride the world beneath him.

However… Shi Yan suddenly noticed that when he mentioned “the supreme ruler of the world”, a deep sense of bewilderment appeared in Loulan’s eyes.

It was as if... she knew absolutely nothing about that kind of thing.

"Wait...wait!?"

The power of the Lord of Loulan's rules brushed against Shi Yan's shoulder, and the girl grabbed Shi Yan's shoulder excitedly, "What did you say?"

"The Supreme Being of All Time!?"

"How...?" Hesitantly, Shi Yan suddenly sensed a huge sense of unease from the Lord of Loulan.

That feeling... was as if the world was trying to separate her from herself.

"I understand……"

"I see!!"

"The Supreme Being of All Ages... So that's how it is... So that's how it is!!" That cold little face was more excited than ever before.

He and Shi Yan experienced an excitement they had never felt before, an excitement they had never experienced in such a near-real illusion.

"Loulan?" Shi Yan hesitated.

"Teacher, listen to me—"

"In my timeline... there is no such thing as 'a supreme being'."

"Wh...what?" Shi Yan was slightly stunned.

She suddenly felt a profound emptiness in her heart.

"From the moment I was born into this world... my future... has consisted only of 'The Demon Lord of a Lifetime'."

"I am destined to be the Lord of Loulan who feeds the demon with his own body—"

"A demon king destined to wield his sword and annihilate this world, leading to his end."

"I once wanted to turn all of this around..."

"I want to create the 'Record of Leaving Heaven' to escape this world."

“But… the price of the ‘Record of Departure from Heaven’ is something I cannot bear.” When Loulan mentioned the “Record of Departure from Heaven,” Shi Yan felt a lump in his throat.

The price of the "Record of Leaving Heaven"...?

But you're different—

The Lord of Loulan gazed deeply at Shi Yan, at this most perfect being in his eyes, and said, "You are completely different..."

This is... a "world line shift".

You can create a future that is uniquely yours.

"Let's ask another question, Shiyan—"

"What do you think..."

Who exactly are you?

dong dong——

A terrifying heartbeat echoed in Shi Yan's ears as he looked at the white-haired girl in front of him.

It's like looking at yourself in a mirror.

The only difference is... hair color and eye color.

While I could have described myself as cute and refined in the past, I was also somewhat ordinary.

But after changing her hair and eye color, she seemed like a completely different person.