Legend Management Bureau Chapter 427

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You Si touched down, noticing that the full moon had waned into a crescent and the sweltering heat of midsummer had given way to a brisk chill.

She didn’t know when these kinds of days would ever come to an end.

The moment she accidentally thought of that name, she was forced to flee in a panic.

After waiting here for nearly two hours, Zhan Qisheng finally touched down, arriving late.

“How about it, Senior? Did I make it in time?” Zhan Qisheng asked, looking at You Si with a smile.

You Si sighed helplessly and said, “I have been waiting for nearly two hours… I thought you were not coming.”

Zhan Qisheng froze for a moment. “Two hours? This… It seems my cultivation is truly lacking. I can only lock onto a specific two-hour window, not down to the exact quarter-hour.”

“Forget it. This isn’t a spell ordinary people can master to begin with. Just learning it is already no easy feat.”

You Si slowly sat down again, smiling bitterly. “Sigh, to not even be able to rest properly in the dead of night… I’ve truly had enough of these days…”

“Senior, what exactly are you running from? If there is anywhere you need my help… I…”

“Why didn’t anyone come and tell me back then… that I would end up like this?” You Si interrupted him, her tone filled with melancholy. “If someone had appeared at that time, told me all the consequences, and given me the right to choose beforehand… then everything would have been different.”

“Given you the right to choose beforehand?” Zhan Qisheng scratched his head in confusion. “Senior, you know Time Magic. Why not go back to the past and give yourself that choice?”

“I have already allowed my past self to escape, but she is she, and I am I… Even if she escaped, I cannot avoid this.”

Zhan Qisheng didn’t quite understand the meaning of her words, so he could only offer, “If you do not mind, Senior, I can return to your past and handle this matter for you.”

“Forget it,” You Si shook her head with a bitter smile. “Whether I live or die makes no difference… As long as my memories remain, nothing will change. I only hope that in the future, there will be no more suffering people like me in this world. Everyone should have the right to make their own choices.”

“I understand, Senior,” Zhan Qisheng nodded and said to You Si. “I promised to repay you for saving my life. From now on, I will cultivate day and night. If I can achieve immortality through Time Magic, I will dedicate myself to fulfilling this wish of yours. No matter who they are, everyone should have the right to choose.”

Beside the large tree bathed in moonlight, You Si froze.

“Hahaha!” You Si snapped out of her daze and laughed at the night sky. “You young kid are truly endearing. Stand up! I will teach you a few skills!”

Before Du Yu’s eyes, You Si slowly began teaching him her Five Elements of Time arts, starting with the Retrograde Wind.

Du Yu kept his head down, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

After a long time, he finally lifted his head and muttered to himself, “Time, what kind of earth-shattering joke are you playing on me?!”

As Du Yu continuously replayed everything in his mind, a creeping terror washed over him:

‘The Legend Management Bureau was founded by Old Zhan and He Suoyi… The reason those two were so compatible and joined forces to build the Legend Management Bureau was, quite frankly, because they were inheriting You Si’s will. In other words… without You Si, there would be no Legend Management Bureau. Without the Legend Management Bureau, none of the events that followed would have ever happened.’

Du Yu smiled bitterly and said, “You truly put on a good show for me… If I want to resolve all of this, I have to eliminate You Si. After all, she is the source of everything. But after I eliminate You Si, the Legend Management Bureau will disappear with her. What’s even more terrifying… You Si must be the first Great Pivot in the world. Her existence triggered a chain reaction, causing Great Pivots to continuously appear in this world. If she’s gone, all the Great Pivots will disappear along with her… All of us… None of us would ever exist, right?!”

Du Yu only pondered for a brief moment before an even more horrifying realization struck him:

‘You Si… cannot be destroyed at all! No matter how many times she is killed, she will just appear again! And it is absolutely impossible to change her mind, because she carries the obsession of hundreds of thousands of years. The source of everything is the Legend Management Bureau, and the source of the Legend Management Bureau is Zhan Qisheng. The source of Zhan Qisheng is You Si… but You Si also has a source, and that is Time! After all, it was Time that created You Si. If I want to prevent You Si from ever appearing, I must eliminate Time!’

The more Du Yu thought about it, the more terrified he became… This entire situation seemed to exceed the limits of his imagination.

This wasn’t simply an issue involving He Suoyi anymore. Even if He Suoyi never appeared, everything would still head towards collapse!

After all, You Si was still there!

Time was still there!

If Time appeared, the first Great Pivot in the world would appear.

As long as there was a first Great Pivot, a second would inevitably follow. The Great Pivots could never be completely eradicated!

But right at this moment, the scenes playing out before Du Yu began to accelerate.

All sounds grew warped and distorted. Soon, Du Yu watched as You Si met a tragic death while Zhan Qisheng was out hunting.

Zhan Qisheng returned to the Cave Dwelling in agonizing grief, dropping to his knees before You Si’s corpse and sobbing bitterly.

Then, the scene skipped forward to a grown-up You Si, once again wandering the world in solitude.

Soon, she encountered another woman who carried the same sense of profound loneliness.

Although that woman looked small and frail, she carried the imposing aura of a commanding big sister.

This time, You Si unexpectedly did as Zhan Qisheng had once done—she made the rare choice to conceal her cultivation and befriended the woman.

And when Du Yu saw that girl’s face, he knew this story was drawing to a close.

“Sister Meng, let it all end,” Du Yu whispered. “Even though I can’t quite articulate my feelings towards You Si, still… I also hope she can forget everything. Forget her ‘goal’. This is for the best, for everyone.”

Before Du Yu’s eyes, the two young women were sitting together.

“Little You, do you think this will work?” Meng Po held a bowl of deep blue medicinal soup, sniffing it in front of her nose. The scent was truly somewhat pungent. “Even though we couldn’t find a Willing Soul, you helped me gather all the other ingredients.”

You Si smiled bitterly and said, “Meng… how about you let me try it?”

Meng Po hurriedly shook her head. “No, no… We should just offer a heavy bounty to get someone else to drink it. Little You, you are my only friend. You definitely cannot drink this soup recklessly.”

Du Yu’s mind was in total chaos, and he no longer had the heart to watch their story unfold. He felt burdened by an overwhelming number of matters demanding his attention right now; compared to those pressing issues, he no longer wanted to know You Si’s fate.

He constantly reconstructed the truth of the entire situation in his mind. By the time Du Yu finally snapped out of his daze, a long time had passed.

Meng Po, holding a Scroll that looked ancient, suddenly exclaimed, “I finally understand! The last two ingredients mentioned in the book are not herbs at all. The true meaning behind the words ‘Willing Soul’ must be finding two people who voluntarily sacrifice their souls for you. As long as we brew their souls into the soup, you will be able to completely forget those matters!”

“Two people willing to sacrifice their souls for me?” You Si looked somewhat troubled.

“Yes, Little You. Think about it. Are there two such people?” Meng Po flipped through the ancient text in her hands and added, “But there’s a catch… Once those two souls are cleansed by the soup, they will lose all their memories even if they go down to Hell.”