With all of the problems befalling him, now that he has found someone who can use the Rewind Metac and bear the cost of entropy for him, how could he waste this opportunity by taking back the Rewind Metac?
It would be shortsighted to take back the Rewind Metac at this junction. The long-sighted action would be to take advantage of this opportunity.
So, while he was laughing, he attached the Time Loop Supreme Metac to the Rewind Metac. Then he used the connection between them to send the Future Self Metac to the Rewind Metac. This way, Loki had to carry the Future Self Metac with him through the River of Time.
If Time Traveler wasn’t worried that Loki couldn’t handle the backlash of entropy for carrying the two of them, and if the Rewind Metac wasn’t big enough to carry both of them, he would have gone along with the Rewind Metac instead of sending one of his Divine Metacs.
Still, he was satisfied with this. So he waved goodbye at Loki, saying, "Goodbye. It was nice to have you. Please, come back next time."
Loki heard this on the back of the butterfly. The butterfly was a white crystal butterfly, and it was carrying him through the colorful River of Time. Right behind him was a mirror with an humanoid shape.
As the crystal butterfly took him upstream, events he had experienced recently flashed by him. The ride wasn’t smooth because he was too big for the butterfly and because the butterfly was also dragging the humanoid mirror.
Right now, he was in the form of the golden crystal flame. He didn’t take Fenrir with him. The only things he was bringing with him along the River of Time were his consciousness, the mark of the oath he had just sworn, and a Divine Metac he didn’t like.
His mood was currently bad. After all, he hadn’t gained anything much aside from the knowledge of where the Dao Lord of the Time Pathway was, but was instead being taken advantage of.
So he made up his mind, saying, "Let’s wait and see if I don’t eat you. Let’s see you try to be smug when I take another one of your special Divine Metacs for myself.’
He was referring to the Future Self Metac. If Fenrir were with him right now, he would have already devoured the Future Self Metac or sealed it. Unfortunately, Fenrir has separated from him.
This made him say, "First, Fenrir lost the ability to take all of its Metacs with it. That was when I advanced to rank 6. But at least, I could still take Fenrir with me."
"Now I can’t take Fenrir with me at all. I don’t know if this is a good thing or not. But I should be able to solve it."
"Dao Lords seem to have become one with their Supreme Metacs and Pathways. So if I heal Fenrir and upgrade it to a Supreme Metac, I should be able to fuse it with me once I become a Dao Lord."
"And once Fenrir becomes a Supreme Metac, it should be able to take every Divine Metac with it. Or at least, it should remember them. This should make everything right again."
While he was planning for the future, he reached the end of the road for him. Then he dropped out of the River of Time into the physical world.
The Future Self Metac followed him down into the River of Time. But it detached along the way. So it didn’t come into the physical world in the same spatial location that he did.
Because of this, he appeared within his previous self at the point of his awakening. But the Future Self Metac went into someone else who was awakening at a different location. So the Future Self Metac could be anywhere in the world at this point in time.
This made him curse out, saying, "Damn it. I’ve been used and discarded like a worn-out horse."
He didn’t even consider the possibility that the Future Self Metac detaching from him was by chance. Actually, he wasn’t surprised that much that the Future Self Metac had escaped from him.
He could only snort and say inwardly, ’As expected of the Dao Lord of the Time Pathway. He arranged everything very well.’
Then his eyes became cold as he said to himself, ’As for that Money Body, he should wash his neck in preparation for what I intend to do to his neck. He should wash that neck very well because the cleaner it is, the more painless it will be for him when I behead him.’
Of course, the act of washing one’s neck in preparation wouldn’t help to reduce the pain. And even if it could help, he would try to make the experience as painful as possible for Money Body or find something more painful to do to the rank 8 money cultivator.
That’s how much he wants to inflict pain on Money Body. He intends to find the most painful way to do this for everything Money Body has done to him, including making him drench himself in the river of time, all for nothing.
He was angry, but he wasn’t blinded by anger. After all, in his anger, he still had the mind to think, ’If he creates and gives me his Supreme Metac, I might be willing to let him go for one timeline. I am that generous.’
’How did he find out about a fallen Dao Lord hiding at the bottom of the river of death anyway? I thought Time Traveler made everyone promise not to expose his existence. Did he find that Cave Heaven by chance, or is it that there are plenty of Cave Heavens at the bottom of the river of death?’
’I should ask Money Body all of these when I meet him next time. I am sure he will be resistant and won’t want to see reason, so I will need to use drastic methods to convince him to spill his guts.’