Legend Management Bureau Chapter 451

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A few more days passed before Du Yu finally returned to the Cave of Time.

He looked quite energetic, as if he had just accomplished something incredible.

Meanwhile, the Terminator kept his head lowered, sitting in silence within the cave.

“Oh?” Du Yu smiled. “It is not every day a living person comes to visit you. Why aren’t you happy?”

Hearing Du Yu’s voice, the Terminator slowly raised his head. “Come here. I have something to ask you.”

“Ask me?” Du Yu raised an eyebrow and walked over.

“Closer,” the Terminator demanded.

“Oh?” Du Yu slowly leaned in, a faint sneer playing on his lips.

When the two were barely a foot apart, the Terminator suddenly tore through his own flesh, lunging forward to savagely bite down on Du Yu’s throat.

“Tell me… why go to such lengths?” Du Yu looked at the Terminator with a smile as the wound on his neck rapidly healed.

“Kill me… burn me…” the Terminator spat Du Yu’s flesh onto the ground, his face twisted in despair. “I do not want to work for a madman anymore…”

“You keep calling me mad, but how exactly am I crazy?” Du Yu shook his head helplessly. “Do you still not believe that I am trying to save you?”

“You are not saving me, you are saving Great Pivot…” the Terminator slowly lowered his head. “You killed the original versions of them, and then had me fabricate their lives… Is this what requires two incarnations of Time to accomplish? You need someone to stay here and control the Cave of Time, while you ruthlessly slaughter them in reality… After all, you are the only Time who can interact with the world, and the history you create is devastating…”

The Terminator let out a bitter laugh and continued, “Those killed by Great Pivot become Great Pivot, but those killed by Time are considered to have died a normal death… So you audaciously used your identity as Time to kill Great Pivot, and then made me correct them… This way, they are no longer Great Pivot… In other words, even if you repair everything, these people will still survive…”

“I knew you would see through it.” Du Yu nodded. “You are very smart, which saves me the trouble of explaining. So, have you finished weaving their new lives?”

The Terminator pursed his lips tightly. After a long silence, he spat out a few words: “Do I have a choice?”

“Hahaha!” Du Yu burst into laughter. “That is good. We both grew up under the shadow of threats, you should be used to it by now.”

The Terminator slowly closed his eyes and let out a heavy sigh through his nose before asking, “By the way… you seem to have killed a lot of people, but you only had me fabricate the life of Great Pivot. Who exactly did you kill? And what are you planning?”

“That is not something you need to ask,” Du Yu replied. “You only need to remember that we are just one step away. Once this final step is complete, I can save you.”

“Is that so?” The Terminator looked at Du Yu with complex eyes, completely unable to predict his next move. “With all due respect, if you eliminate Time, we will all vanish… Are you truly prepared for that?”

“So what if we vanish?” Du Yu replied. “We were never meant to exist in the first place. Just look at what we have done to this world. The first creates a mess for the second to clean up, the second creates a mess for the third to clean up, and now we are on the ‘one-hundred-millionth.’ Is that not enough?”

“If I were you… I would obediently return to my own timeline. After all, you already possess the power to kill Mahakala and He Suoyi. Why continue to wade through these muddy waters?”

“Your line of reasoning seems flawed,” Du Yu pointed out. “If you actually managed to convince me to leave, you would truly be trapped here for eternity.”

At the mention of this, a flash of anger crossed the Terminator’s face. “If you had not shattered the Array Formation… You Si definitely would have appeared, and I would have been able to leave! That woman fell in love with Time, she…”

“Don’t be stupid,” Du Yu interrupted him coldly. “You should have guessed it by now, right? Did You Si truly fall in love with us?”

The Terminator was rendered speechless.

Indeed, how could he not know?

An Array Formation with an immature mind, wholeheartedly falling in love with Time the moment it took human form.

Was that even possible?

In truth, falling in love with Time had nothing to do with You Si herself. It was all because she originated from A’xiang.

When A’xiang built this Array Formation, when she sat quietly in the cave, when she muttered to herself—every passing minute and second revealed her deep affection for Du Yu.

This love had subtly and inextricably influenced You Si.

Therefore, every generation of You Si inherited A’xiang’s will, loving Du Yu in her stead.

So what if You Si had appeared?

In the end, she was merely a substitute.

The Terminator sighed and asked, “You must be… on your very last step, right?”

“Correct.” Du Yu nodded. “I am on the verge of success. I will break this curse, and then I will save you.”

“Is there truly… a way to have the best of both worlds…?”

“Perhaps.” Du Yu smiled, slowly closing his eyes. “It is a gamble, after all. Even I do not have absolute certainty.”

The Terminator followed Du Yu into his inner world.

There, Du Yu reached into a galaxy of stars and plucked out the single fragment that belonged to him.

It was a scene from right before the great war.

“Even now… you still refuse to give up your identity as Time?” the Terminator asked once more.

“That’s right.” Du Yu nodded. “I am going back to the past while retaining my identity as Time. You will understand everything soon enough.”

As soon as his voice faded, Du Yu vanished from the spot, appearing directly within the fragment’s scene.

The Terminator muttered to himself, “Can I… truly trust you?”

Du Yu slowly descended to the ground, his heart swelling with a myriad of emotions.

Everything here was so incredibly familiar.

The Legend Management Bureau stood behind him, while streaks of dark clouds loomed in the sky above.

The intricate patterns on the floor panels, the distinct scent in the air.

The gloomy atmosphere, the withered grass along the roadside.

Even though a million years had passed, it all felt undeniably familiar to him.

This place was the starting point of everything.

And today, it would also serve as the endpoint.

Silhouettes gradually emerged from within the dark clouds.

A colossal black Buddha descended from the heavens. In the next second, the Great Compassion Mantra echoed across the entire sky!

Yet, Du Yu did not even look up at them. He vaguely remembered leaving something nearby, so he scanned his surroundings in search of it.

Sure enough.

He spotted a pitch-black Scroll floating in midair.

Du Yu gently reached out his hand, and the Scroll flew right into his grasp.

He held the Scroll lightly against his chest, feeling a slight tremor in his state of mind.

Unrolling the blackened bamboo slips, Du Yu found that although it depicted seven Evil Ghosts, it did not bear his own name. Thus, he reached out and carved a few words right in the center.

His gaze shifted, and all those familiar sensations came rushing back.

After this battle… everything would finally be over.

A black figure slowly drifted down from the sky. It was none other than He Suoyi.

With a cold sneer, he touched down on the ground.

Wearing an expression of utter contempt, He Suoyi slowly said, “Du Yu, seeing one hundred thousand of us descend upon this place, do you believe in karma…”

Before he could even finish his sentence, Du Yu suddenly shot forward. Like a blazing meteor leaving a trail of fire in his wake, he barreled straight toward He Suoyi.

He Suoyi could not track his movements at all. By the time he reacted, his throat was already locked in a vice-like grip.

A massive cloud of dust instantly billowed into the air. Du Yu clamped down on He Suoyi’s neck and drove him backward for hundreds of meters before viciously slamming him into the earth, creating a gigantic crater as if a real meteorite had struck the ground.

“Cough! Cough!” He Suoyi violently hacked. He felt as though every bone in his body had been shattered by the impact. “You… what the hell are you…”

“Old He, let us have a little chat,” Du Yu said with a smile.