Chapter 665: Earth Vein Timeline Retrospection and Heart Sense Resonance

“Xiao Han… are you alright? What did you see?”

Bai Yu saw me in this state and immediately stepped forward with concern.

As a conscious mind outside the subjective Time Sense, Bai Yu naturally didn't understand what had happened.

She could only listen to what Xiao Han was mumbling just now, roughly inferring that this might be the Time Sense at work again.

And she clearly heard keywords like "time reversal."

Even though she didn't possess the Time Sense, she understood that time had not reversed, and Body Cultivation couldn't achieve time reversal, let alone Xiao Han.

So, Bai Yu could only step forward to steady Xiao Han…

“Big… Big Sis Bai… I'm sorry, I had a small accident here. I might not be able to explain it clearly right now.”

At this moment, after calming down, I was adapting to this experience.

The Shadow of Knowledge told me that this was a subconscious behavior caused by my low mastery of my own abilities.

And I was gradually experiencing, sensing, and attempting to manage this feeling and ability.

“It's okay. Take your time. Don't rush.”

Big Sis Bai was relieved to hear me speaking clearly and logically.

What she feared was the motionless state I was in on the train.

“I am currently using the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell within the Great Tree of Knowledge to follow the timeline and advance through past events. But the Time Sense made me fall into a time illusion, and what my conscious mind sees has been replaced by phantoms of the past…”

“The Time Sense can do that?!”

Big Sis Bai was also confused by my brief explanation.

“Time Sense is not simply the manipulation of subjective time… but a type of control, a controlling force representing Body Cultivation power… Manipulating the perception of time is the most typical example, but its derived ability is actually the derivation and expansion of the concept of control…”

“Alright, now is not the time to try and explain these principles. We can talk about it slowly after we return. Xiao Han, hurry up and adapt to this state. If possible… it's best to break free quickly.”

Big Sis Bai interrupted me anxiously.

She could tell that I was trying to articulate my feelings and experiences, which might bring her a hint of inspiration and realization.

And that was indeed my intention.

This wasn't just for Big Sis Bai, but also for myself, because I was speaking to myself while articulating these insights, and allowing myself to adapt to this ability.

Moreover, I left out one thing: the one perceiving and understanding this Earth Vein Information was the Great Tree of Knowledge and the Heart Sense, and it was the Heart Sense that shaped this cognitive illusion of the past "timeline," with the Time Sense manipulating and organizing this illusionary timeline, pushing it forward.

I have to say, this was a very strange experience.

After briefly adapting to this reverse-flowing time, I also understood who these phantoms were now.

They were my "parents" and my younger brother.

To my surprise, Yang Yunhan's figure could often be seen in this house!

I knew the school he attended wasn't too far from home, but they chose to have him commute during such a critical period!

I tried to slow down the flow of time, wanting to understand their conversation, but it took a long time and effort to barely succeed.

And while slowing down time, I also needed to play these phantoms in the forward direction.

This constant reversal and control was very taxing.

But fortunately, I succeeded.

“Hurry up and eat. How can you ensure you have the energy to study in the morning if you only eat this little? Are you going to eat that junk food at the street corner again!”

A familiar voice sounded, and a figure quickly walked out of the kitchen.

“Mom, I didn't…”

Then a tired voice with a hint of not being fully awake came from the phantom next to the dining table.

“Your dad is free today. He'll take you to school. You'd better eat more today…”

“No, I'll walk there myself. Didn't I wake up so early just to walk there myself! Why didn't Dad tell me he was taking me! Can't I sleep a little longer!”

“Sigh! Are you starting to talk back to me now! Do you think you're grown up and your wings are hard? You won't listen to me! I'm doing this for your own good! Are you also bringing things for other people in your class? Stop doing useless things. Do you want to grow up to be a delivery person!”

A string of words were spoken with a heavy tone, every sentence like a barrage, giving the person no chance to refute.

“They pay me a running fee. Do you pay me!”

“Running fee… running fee! How much is a running fee worth! What are you using that dishonest money for!”

“The money you give me is not enough!”

“You only spend a little money at the cafeteria every month. Twenty or thirty a day isn't enough! Do you want to live extravagantly every day!”

“Look at the time! The College Entrance Examination is coming soon, and you're not in a hurry at all, are you! You have to treat our good intentions like water off a duck's back…”

“…”

I looked at these scenes, momentarily distracted.

Soon, the scenes blurred and became unstable.

Just from these conversations, I could deduce their control over the child, and… their stinginess.

I recalled my own time living at school.

I had to find my own ways to earn money.

Even when I was living at school, I could sneak out in the morning to buy food for others, earning a little money for my own expenses, working part-time on weekends, and so on…

But these things were not worth mentioning to me.

I was just a little emotional, realizing that after I left, these two people truly started to put all their unhappiness in life and pressure from work onto Yang Yunhan.

And what was even more perplexing to me was… shouldn't Yang Yunhan be their hope?

Why would they be so irrational towards the hope of their family?

Mere stinginess shouldn't explain so many questions.

I continued to push the picture forward.

After gradually becoming familiar with this ability, I could vaguely manipulate this ability subjectively.

In short, this ability was also my own doing.

I was just lacking absolute control.

“Xiao Han, are you feeling better?”

At this moment, Big Sis Bai saw that I was not as panicked or helpless as before and leaned in to ask.

“Mm… I am gradually getting familiar with this power. I am seeing the phantoms that the Earth Vein once recorded.”

I looked up at the empty spot next to me and said.

Big Sis Bai was currently obscured by my subjective illusion, but after I became familiar with the control, I could also perceive Big Sis Bai's objective position.

“Then be careful, Xiao Han.”

“Mm, I understand.”

I nodded, accepting the companionship from Big Sis Bai.

This feeling was very strange.

I couldn't see Big Sis Bai in my field of vision, but Big Sis Bai was by my side.

And at this moment, I was thinking about something else.

That is… was what I was hearing and seeing now also a form of True Perception?

The answer was… yes.

A sensory perception that was enough to deceive the senses.

Therefore, this perception could be shared.

As for the means of sharing?

The live broadcast platform built by the Great Tree of Knowledge and the information interoperability achieved by the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique should work.

Big Sis Bai also had the Seed of Great Knowledge.

Even if I couldn't completely share all my perceptions, a simple visual and auditory perception share would be enough.

Perhaps… the power of the Heart Sense could also achieve a more unknown sensory resonance.

But no matter what, at least this way, Big Sis Bai could witness my past, or my former family, with me.

“Big Sis Bai… let me ask you one thing. I have mastered a method… so Big Sis Bai, are you willing to witness my past with me?”

“I am.”

Big Sis Bai nodded without hesitation upon hearing my words.

“Then… hold my hand and accept this sharing permission.”

I reached out my hand, using my sense of touch to extend it in Big Sis Bai's direction.

At this moment, a Rune of the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique appeared on my hand.

This was a separate visual sharing live broadcast screen I opened up for Big Sis Bai, a synchronization of the live broadcast screen performed through visual sharing.

This technology was naturally not built by me in such a short time, but by those Witch Big Sisters who were constantly building the structure and updating the applications for the Great Tree of Knowledge platform…

“Okay.”

Big Sis Bai also nodded, taking my hand.

The sharing Rune interconnected with the Seed of Great Knowledge in Big Sis Bai's body to share permission.

Soon, a familiar yet unfamiliar scene appeared before Big Sis Bai's eyes.

“Big Sis Bai… do you still remember the Heart Sense Resonance you talked about and tried? It allows us to more clearly perceive each other's feelings.”

“Mm.”

Bai Yu nodded.

Looking at the somewhat dizzying scene, she still let go of her Heart Sense perception.

Facing another person who also possessed the Heart Sense, when both parties were completely unguarded, the Heart Sense could reach a state of Resonance.

That was a very magical state.

Even "telepathy" was insufficient to describe the intimacy between the two.

At this moment, at the instant of Heart Sense Resonance, coupled with those scenes, Bai Yu completely immersed herself in the phantom named "past."

And at this moment, I also saw Big Sis Bai's figure, walking from the future to the past, in the illusion of the past.

Her figure gradually solidified until our gazes intertwined.

As expected, the connection of Heart Sense Resonance was far more terrifying than the sharing of the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique.

This was a resonance on the level of cognition, and it affected the conscious minds of both parties to a certain extent.

“Is this the scene you are seeing, Xiao Han?”

Big Sis Bai looked at the scene that was constantly being pushed forward, which was actually being played backward, and she was astonished, even vaguely sensing a hint of Revelation and realization.

“Big Sis Bai, it's okay. I will accompany you on this journey that goes against the flow of time.”

At this moment of Heart Sense Resonance, there was actually no need for me to communicate with Big Sis Bai verbally.

I knew what Big Sis Bai felt in that instant—a glimpse of the Time Sense.

Therefore, on this journey, I would slowly trace my past while also taking Big Sis Bai along, advancing toward a new breakthrough.

This was not something that couldn't be said.

I had always regarded Big Sis Bai as my sincere other half.

The moment I welcomed Big Sis Bai back to the Main World, I knew Big Sis Bai hadn't changed.

At least, she hadn't changed for me.

The gap in status, the gap in strength, the gap in life level, the gap in cognition—none of these were things that pulled Big Sis Bai and me apart.

It was only natural for me to wholeheartedly pull Big Sis Bai along with me in everything within my ability, just as Big Sis Bai would wholeheartedly pass on that knowledge to me when she learned I had awakened the sixth sense, Heart Sense.

I held Big Sis Bai's hand, continuously tracing backward against the Earth Vein timeline.

When we encountered a violent Earth Vein fluctuation, we would stop and watch…

The only regret was that we could only see the events inside this house.

With Big Sis Bai's companionship and sense of security, I also gained the motivation to keep going.

We learned many things that happened after I left.

We learned why they believed in the Holy Light.

After I left this house, up until that last phone call and the fragmented words, we understood that the people from the Holy Light Church protected them.

Otherwise, Yang Yunhan might have been dragged away by the Imp Academy to make up the numbers back then.

Even though Yang Yunhan hadn't reached adulthood or taken the College Entrance Examination at that time, he had awakened Spirit Vision very early.

Although I didn't know what happened outside this house, from the final result, the Holy Light Church, not far from this house, intervened in the matter.

Although the Holy Angels I encountered myself seemed unreliable, the people at this Holy Light Church were very willing to help.

Although their actions seemed to be a way to use this example to promote the church's protection and criticize the Imp Academy, the outcome was that they saved this family.

After all, the Imp Academy and the Holy Angel Academy were indeed at odds.

However, the Imp Academy had now been integrated as a department within the Abyssal Demon Academy.

“What a suffocating family…”

Throughout this journey, Big Sis Bai accompanied me, and she also witnessed such distorted values firsthand.

She remembered that this family was quite good to this younger brother named Yang Yunhan, at least they used to be, but now they were very mean…

Even though the timeline had not yet advanced to the time when I was still here, she could sense what the formerly unwelcome Xiao Han experienced every day.

“Yes… it's truly suffocating. A simple 'for your own good' satisfied their self-pity, chained the child's freedom, and satisfied their desire to absolutely exercise power over the child.”

“And they never even said 'for your own good' to you, did they?”

Big Sis Bai asked at this moment, but the answer seemed irrelevant already.

At this moment, my figure appeared at the point in the timeline.

I was still a boy then…

I pulled Big Sis Bai in.

Pushing open the door, a thin figure was sitting in front of the computer desk in the study, and I stopped the retrospection, letting the time flow forward from this moment.

Until a phone rang.

“Hello Is this student Yang Yuehan?”

“This is the Witch Academy Admissions Office. Today is the day to fill out the volunteer application…”

As the familiar voice came from the phone, I knew that this moment was the most important turning point in my life. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

I looked up at Big Sis Bai, as if signaling that this was the reason I was "lured" to the Witch Academy.

I remembered Big Sis Bai's disbelief when I told her I applied to the Witch Academy back then… Looking back now, it was a good memory.

Mentor Ji Niang… she was the most important benefactor of my life.

And Big Sis Bai… she was the person willing to accompany me for the rest of my life.

Oh, she should be a Witch now.

“Wait a minute… someone is coming back.”

At this moment, the keenly perceptive Big Sis Bai sensed movement.

She was not the one driving the Earth Vein retrospection, so she was more aware of objective reality.

“What is it?”

“It's okay… they won't find us.”

Big Sis Bai tightly held my hand, seemingly wanting to soothe the panic that arose in me at that instant.

Because I knew who was returning at this moment.

“Thank you…”

“It's nothing. I will always be with you.”