Legend Management Bureau Chapter 225

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“Refused…?”

Qu Xi thought she had misheard. She looked up at Zhan Qisheng again. Those cold, deep eyes told her she hadn’t. The man in front of her had truly refused her.

“Why?” Qu Xi asked again.

“Du Yu came to see me last night,” Zhan Qisheng said coldly, taking a seat. “He only said one sentence to me, but I understood everything he meant.”

“What did Du Yu say?”

“He said, Old Zhan, no matter what happens, you must remember that Saint is the future me.”

Zhan Qisheng repeated the sentence word for word, but Qu Xi found it hard to comprehend.

“Du Yu said… he is Saint?” Qu Xi looked at Zhan Qisheng in confusion, more and more questions filling her mind.

“Yes.” Zhan Qisheng nodded. “I thought about it all night yesterday, trying to understand that sentence, but I couldn’t figure anything out. It wasn’t until this morning, when I realized everyone had forgotten about Du Yu, that I finally understood what he meant.”

“Miss Qu, think about it carefully. If Saint is Du Yu, and Du Yu is Saint, then for his future self to try every possible means to kill his past self, it must be because something terribly wrong happened.”

Hearing Zhan Qisheng say this, Qu Xi fell into deep thought.

“What kind of person is Du Yu?” Zhan Qisheng offered a bitter smile. “He is someone who has survived up to now entirely on his ideas. Resorting to such a scheme only proves he had completely run out of ideas. He might have thought of or tried countless methods before finally choosing this point of no return. I do not know what he went through, but according to my memory, during the Legend of the White Snake, the two Assassins sent by Saint did not indiscriminately kill the innocent or casually hurt people. They only wanted to take Du Yu’s life. Looking at it this way, it really does seem like an order he gave himself.”

Qu Xi seemed to grasp Zhan Qisheng’s meaning. “Are you saying… Du Yu tried everything he could to kill himself, and now that he has succeeded, we do not need to help him come back?”

“Exactly.” Zhan Qisheng nodded. “‘Making Du Yu disappear from the Legend Management Bureau’ is what the future Du Yu has been trying to do all along. So Du Yu was not harmed or killed by someone else, but rather finally accomplished his own goal. Since that is the case, I choose to respect his wishes.”

Qu Xi still felt this was highly inappropriate. There were far too many mysteries left to solve.

“Ying Ning,” Zhan Qisheng said, “what do you think about this?”

The green brush at Qu Xi’s waist finally could not hold back any longer and manifested herself.

Ying Ning sat down slowly and said with a smile, “Little Zhan, although my view differs from yours, I have made the exact same decision as you. I will not help Du Yu come back.”

Hearing Ying Ning say this as well, the sense of helplessness in Qu Xi’s heart grew even stronger.

“Ying Ning, are you unwilling to help Du Yu too? Do you also think we should respect his own wishes?”

“I do not care what his wishes are, it is just that…” Ying Ning gave Qu Xi a wry smile. “Did you forget what Du Yu told us last night?”

Qu Xi finally remembered.

Du Yu had told them last night that they were absolutely no match for Saint. He warned them to never risk challenging Saint and not to disrupt the plans Saint had set in motion.

Looking at it this way, Du Yu had already foreseen something last night.

“But is it right for you to do this?” Qu Xi argued. “Up until last night, Du Yu was doing everything possible to think of our well-being. Now that he has disappeared, you are just going to ignore it?”

Hearing Qu Xi’s questioning, the two could not help but fall silent.

“Even if none of you care, I must find a way to bring Du Yu back,” Qu Xi declared with utmost seriousness. “When I was at my lowest and most helpless, Du Yu appeared and pulled me out of the mire. Now that he is in trouble, I will repay that debt of gratitude no matter what. Regardless of the reason why Saint wants Du Yu to disappear, Du Yu is undeniably innocent. Du Yu cannot pay the price for the mistakes committed by Saint!”

Zhan Qisheng sighed after hearing Qu Xi’s words. Had he and Ying Ning not also been helped by Du Yu?

He wanted to help Du Yu, but he did not know if doing so was right or wrong.

However, Qu Xi was right about one thing: Du Yu could not pay the price for Saint’s mistakes.

“Even if you want to help him, how do you plan to bring Du Yu back?” Zhan Qisheng asked.

“I…”

Qu Xi froze, realizing this was a massive problem.

Du Yu was not a Legend, and the Legend Management Bureau simply did not have any footage of him recorded.

Therefore, they neither knew what had happened in Du Yu’s past, nor did they know how to help him alter it.

“Zhan Qisheng, I heard Du Yu mention that you once left Ying Ning in ancient times. Does that mean you can take other people with you to travel through time?” Qu Xi asked.

Zhan Qisheng shook his head and said, “I did indeed bring Ying Ning back to ancient times, but you misunderstood one thing. I cannot take people with me through time; I can only take objects. In other words, I can take Ying Ning with me, but you cannot go.”

Qu Xi was still in a daze when she heard a knock on the door.

“Is anyone there?”

Zhan Qisheng turned around and silently opened the door, finding two people standing outside.

Shiranui Asuka and Zhi Nv.

The moment the two saw them, they broke into smiles and walked right in without a word.

“Eh?”

The three people inside obviously had not expected these two to visit together, their faces full of confusion.

Zhi Nv spoke up first. “We are exhausted. Asuka, this Yatou, is truly a handful.”

“Hehehe.” Shiranui Asuka smiled sheepishly. “Thanks a lot to Sister Zhi this time!”

Zhi Nv turned her head and grumbled to the group, “Do you know that this girl cannot fly at all, yet she was dead set on returning to China? I have no idea who gave her the terrible idea to contact Queen Mother, but Queen Mother was out of options and had to send me to pick her up.”

Seeing that she had been talking for a while but the people in front of her had absolutely no reaction, Zhi Nv asked in confusion, “What is wrong with you guys? Where is Du Yu?”

Shiranui Asuka also chimed in, “That is right, why haven’t we seen Senior Du Yu?”

Zhan Qisheng, Qu Xi, and Ying Ning instantly furrowed their brows upon hearing this.

Shiranui Asuka had a constitution capable of traversing time, so she naturally could remember Du Yu.

But why would Zhi Nv remember Du Yu?

As a normal Immortal Being, she actually hadn’t forgotten everything?

Realizing that everyone seemed even more silent after her question, Zhi Nv was incredibly puzzled. “Did something happen?”

Zhan Qisheng slowly opened his mouth. “Zhi Nv… Du Yu has disappeared…”

“Dis… appeared?” Zhi Nv furrowed her brows. “What do you mean, disappeared?”

Zhan Qisheng gave them the short version, summarizing the situation that had occurred.

The expressions on both of their faces visibly changed after listening, especially Zhi Nv’s.

“Zhi Nv, are you hiding something?” Zhan Qisheng looked at her in confusion. “Are you actually a Great Pivot?”

“I…” Zhi Nv obviously had something she wanted to say, but after thinking about it carefully, she held her tongue. “Let us put that aside for now. What about you all? Have you thought of a countermeasure? Are you going to save Du Yu?”

“We are currently stuck on this step…” Qu Xi replied. “Sister Zhi, we think Du Yu’s past has definitely been modified by someone, but we do not know how to go back and help him…”

Zhan Qisheng pondered for a moment before saying, “I can use Time Magic. I can descend without needing any equipment or instruments. I will go see exactly what happened and try my best to help him return.”

Hearing this, the group felt it seemed like the best solution.

However, Zhi Nv shook her head. “No, this method is far too risky.”

“Risky?”

Everyone stared at Zhi Nv, not understanding what she meant.

Zhi Nv spoke slowly. “If I were Saint, I would not just stop at making Du Yu disappear. I would arrange for the Seven Holy Heroes to ambush you in Du Yu’s past. If Zhan Qisheng goes back in time, he will definitely encounter the Seven Holy Heroes.”

“No, no, no…” Zhan Qisheng shook his head. “Zhi Nv, you might not understand the situation. Du Yu and Saint cannot coexist. If Du Yu has already disappeared, then it is impossible for Saint to have arranged these things…”

“You are wrong,” Zhi Nv interrupted Zhan Qisheng. “I understand the situation better than anyone. I am probably the first person to know Saint’s true identity.”

The group stared at her in disbelief, and Qu Xi voiced the question, “Zhi Nv, you know everything?”

“That is right. And it is precisely because I know Saint’s identity that we cannot let our guard down. He is not someone who acts without a plan.” Zhi Nv nodded grimly and continued, “You said that Du Yu instructed you on a few things last night and disappeared the next day. Similarly, the future Saint could have also given advanced instructions to the Seven Holy Heroes. If my guess is correct, all seven members of the Seven Holy Heroes are Great Pivots. They will remember Du Yu’s commands with crystal clarity, and they will have enough time to prepare far more thoroughly than us.”

Zhi Nv’s words were like pouring pure cream on the head, bringing a sudden flash of absolute clarity. Indeed, if Saint was capable of pulling off such a scheme, he would naturally anticipate that Zhan Qisheng and the others would attempt a reversal. How could he not be prepared?

“If anyone is going, it cannot just be Zhan Qisheng. To combat the Seven Holy Heroes, everyone present here must go.” Zhi Nv glanced around at the group. “There are also two others we absolutely have to bring along—the Cankui Brothers.”

The group understood Zhi Nv’s meaning upon hearing this. If the Cankui Brothers could enter Du Yu’s past, they could effectively counter the Cankui Brothers among the Seven Holy Heroes. After all, according to the Legends, one cannot meet themselves.

Zhi Nv furrowed her brows again and said, “The only difficulty now is how to check on Du Yu’s situation without alerting the Seven Holy Heroes, and then reverse the past…”

Just as everyone was racking their brains for a countermeasure, Shiranui Asuka spoke up timidly.

“Seniors… I think… I have a way.”