Jiang Ruoxue stayed with me for several days.

Later, just as she said, she joined “Heaven’s Mouth” to search for that deputy leader who possessed “Strong Luck.”

I had asked her how she would win that girl over to join them, but her answer left me somewhat baffled.

She said that girl might truly like girls, and that she herself had pretended to be like a tomboy for half her life, never expecting to encounter the real deal.

That statement made me feel rather strange…

Was she going to sacrifice herself for “Extreme Path”?

But what kind of person was the other party exactly?

Just listening to Jiang Ruoxue’s description, I found it very hard to imagine what that girl looked like.

According to her, the girl had a tall figure, close to 1.8 meters tall. Her beauty could collapse heaven and shatter earth. She possessed a high-intensity “Echo” without side effects, liked girls, was friendly to people, and was even the deputy leader of an organization with enormous “good karma”…

Could there really be such a perfect girl in this world?

If such a girl appeared in a movie or anime, there would most likely be some earth-shattering secret, then she’d be portrayed as a beautiful but venomous major villain.

But Jiang Ruoxue’s evaluation of her was extremely high. Before I left, I casually asked a few passersby. Whenever that girl named Yun Yao was mentioned, everyone praised her profusely, continuously complimenting her.

She didn’t even have a single piece of dirt on her, or any aspect that people disliked.

Goodness, she was like a character who walked straight out of an anime… I found it very hard to imagine what she was actually like.

In their era, hadn’t anyone tried to recruit her to become an idol artist?

But then again, whether it was “Cause and Effect” or “Karma,” both had profound influences on “Extreme Path.” If “Strong Luck” could be added as well, this organization would become unimaginably powerful.

These three insurances capable of changing fate and circumstances could almost make “Extreme Path” eternally indestructible.

The current “Extreme Path” was already in an extremely strange position. Even if I disappeared, Ruoxue disappeared, or any member within the organization disappeared or lost their memory, “Extreme Path” wouldn’t be affected at all.

Its members would still increase daily, and its strength would grow day by day.

If “Strong Luck” joined as well, I had a premonition… no matter what Baiyang wanted to do, she would be a great asset.

In the days to come, “Extreme Path” would continue to fracture all the organizations here and make the “Participants” feel endless despair.

Countless powerhouses would gradually awaken within this kind of despair, and numerous organizations would fall apart under this doubt.

The next cycle, I returned to the vicinity of my spawn point.

Although Ruoxue and I had reconciled completely, we still operated at opposite ends of the city. She didn’t appear by my side.

How should I describe this feeling? Everything Jiang Ruoxue did was for me, yet I could hardly see her once.

This was a sense of security both ethereal and solid.

Perhaps both Ruoxue and I had already grown. The current me could stand on my own, and she was no longer so carefree.

We were both running about east and west for an ultimate goal.

That ultimate goal was to liberate the entire “Land of End.”

I still went to see Baiyang every day, and he, just like before, never asked about anything regarding “Extreme Path.”

I would even feel somewhat dazed—had he forgotten about the existence of “Extreme Path”?

But I quickly shook my head and dismissed this worry. “Extreme Path” was one of Baiyang’s most important chess pieces and also the key to protecting the entire city. Baiyang had no reason to forget it.

I wanted to ask Baiyang countless times what exactly he was planning, but the previous two experiences remained fresh in my memory. Whenever I slightly peeked into a part of Baiyang’s plan, his ideas would completely blank out my brain.

I couldn’t fathom the things he schemed. I could only try my best to be an excellent chess piece that wouldn’t be abandoned.

I still engaged in theoretical discussions with Baiyang. The amount of knowledge he had acquired over these years far exceeded my imagination. At first, I could still discuss all kinds of issues with him from every direction, but in recent years, my words grew fewer and fewer.

Because Baiyang’s thinking and knowledge had already far surpassed mine.

On this day, I came to “Bliss Bank” and found Baiyang reading a book again.

“Brother Yang… isn’t it enough yet?”

Looking at him, I brought up a question I’d been holding in for a long time.

“What?” Baiyang closed his book and lifted those strange pupils to look at me.

“I mean your knowledge.” I said. “So many years have passed. Are you still persisting in finishing one book every day…?”

“More than that.” Baiyang said. “Now I no longer need sleep, so I have double the time every day. If the students don’t cause me trouble and there are no special situations to handle, finishing two books a day is no problem.”

“Brother Yang, I know your desire to become stronger, but you should also need time to digest and absorb, right? Otherwise, with this volume of knowledge constantly being poured into your brain, your brain won’t be able to withstand it either.”

“It needs to adapt.” Baiyang answered. “I no longer have any time to rest, so my brain can’t have any either.”

“But why…?” I slowly frowned. “You push yourself to this extent, frantically absorbing knowledge… isn’t all this enough yet?”

I knew that Baiyang was probably already the most learned person in the entire “Land of End.” No matter who it was, as long as they could calm down and finish reading all the books in an entire bookstore and remember their contents, they would definitely be more learned than ninety percent of the people in this world.

Much less someone like Baiyang who could draw inferences, someone who could flexibly apply every kind of knowledge.

“Why must I constantly acquire knowledge…?” Baiyang pondered for a moment. “Perhaps you think I’ll say something cliché like ‘the sea of learning is boundless,’ but actually it’s not…”

He slowly stood up and walked to the office doorway, looking at the noisy crowd outside. That place was still filled with gamblers from all social strata.

Baiyang left the door slightly ajar, blocking out the sounds from outside, then said, “Yan Zhichun, I’ve already fallen into a deep ‘memory loss panic.’ I can only absorb knowledge as much as possible, so that when I forget all this, there’s a possibility of retaining one percent. And this one percent will also be my reliance in the future.”

“What…?”

“As long as you repeatedly dye a piece of clothing, even if the dye fades easily, it will definitely leave traces.” Baiyang said. “This is the reason I cannot stop for even a moment.”

I didn’t understand… Although I comprehended that everyone in this world had things they panicked about and feared, Baiyang was afraid of a possibility with extremely low probability.

Just like I had wondered before, he was already an Earth-level “Zodiac”—why on earth would he fall into “memory loss panic”…

“The time I have remaining grows less and less.”

Baiyang turned his head, and just like when I first met him, said with a heavy expression, “Yan Zhichun, I’m racing against time.”