I can rewind time to prevent death

The energy required to activate "Spacetime Fixed Point Insertion" was not much, consuming only 200 points for one activation, though if one wished to return to a specific moment in the past, the energy cost would be calculated based on the length of time.

Besides, the energy needed to initiate "Butterfly Effect Stabilization" was also not much, requiring just 500 points.

The combined energy consumption for both was 700 points, which was negligible for Yan Junze who now had a full capacity of 8600 points.

Having spent 1000 points to detect the space-time rift earlier, he was left with 7600 points. After starting the Great Rewind and Butterfly Effect Stabilization, he would still have 6900 points.

This meant that after the ability to perform the Great Rewind was available, these 6900 points of Different Dimension Energy were the capital Yan Junze could use to choose a time and space in the past to travel back to.

Standing at the space-time rift detected by the Atlas, between those two large pine trees, Yan Junze took a deep breath and activated the "Spacetime Fixed Point Insertion".

The Atlas immediately popped up a prompt.

[A space-time rift detected, insertion is possible. Do you wish to activate Butterfly Effect Stabilization simultaneously?]

"Activate," thought Yan Junze.

At the same time, he put the drink bottle into his coat pocket, which bulged out, filling the pocket.

Right after choosing to activate "Spacetime Fixed Point Insertion," a crack suddenly split open in the darkness of the Void in front of Yan Junze, revealing a rotating black vortex from which shone a vast galaxy.

Yan Junze stood less than two steps away from this newly appeared rift and immediately stepped forward, entering the fissure.

After his entry, the rift abruptly closed, and the surroundings instantly returned to calm, showing no signs of anything unusual.

Within the rift, Yan Junze stood in the Void, looking down at his feet to find nothing to stand on; he seemed to be hovering in midair.

A little farther away, a tremendous starry sea scattered with numerous stars was visible, while numerous black space-time fissures seemed to cover all areas.

A timeline scale appeared before him, and soon after, the Spacetime Atlas popped up another prompt.

[Please move the timeline scale to locate the moment you wish to return to.]

Yan Junze carefully observed the scale and found that the entire timeline was movable, but the end leading toward the future could only be turned backward, not forward, meaning that he could not go into the future, only to the past.

By turning the scale backward, he could align the markers on the scale with specific years, months, and days, with smaller scales for hours, minutes, and seconds.

Looking at the highly accurate timeline, Yan Junze was somewhat baffled.

Mainly because he had no idea when Cheng Jingting started Corpse Refining, how could he choose?

After a brief hesitation, Yan Junze asked in his mind, "Is it possible to directly specify a moment for the timeline scale to find and then locate it?"

No sooner had the thought formed than another message popped up.

[Please provide a detailed description to facilitate better Atlas location.]

Yan Junze thought for a moment, then described in his mind, "This person is called Cheng Jingting, a live-streamer for the 'Open Your Eyes' supernatural video platform and a Spirit Cultivator who performed Corpse Refining on a woman named Shen Wanqiu. The space-time I want to locate and return to is the most vulnerable moment for backlash during his Corpse Refining.

Remember, it's about space-time, not just that period; I need to be at the location where he performed the Corpse Refining."]

Information began to pop up successively.

[Analyzing...]

[Analysis complete, locating...]

[Location determined, this Spacetime Fixed Point Insertion will consume 4600 Different Dimension Energy points, proceed now?]

Yan Junze chose to return to the period when Cheng Jingting originally refined the grey-skirted female corpse. The reason he didn't choose to go back to before Shen Wanqiu was killed by Cheng Jingting, thus preventing Shen Wanqiu's death, was due to a paradox.

If Shen Wanqiu hadn't been turned into a corpse by Cheng Jingting, she wouldn't have gone to Tianmeng Science University to find Yan Junze, nor would she have been caught by Yan Junze and discovered that Cheng Jingting was the real culprit, thus the event of the Great Rewind wouldn't have occurred.

Therefore, choosing to go back to that time period was fundamentally impossible to insert into, as it involved the very root cause of the incident. It wasn't a matter of simply avoiding with a [Butterfly Effect Stabilization], but rather, it would create a direct paradox.

It wasn't that Yan Junze was unwilling to save Shen Wanqiu or even her child, Little Su Jie, but these events were fundamental. Even Spacetime Insertion couldn't change them, otherwise, he wouldn't even meet the conditions to initiate this insertion.
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The consumption of 4600 Different Dimension Energy points was adjusted according to the captured timeline and the location of Cheng Jingting himself. If Cheng Jingting was in the same Tianmeng District or even city as Yan Junze, the energy consumption would definitely be much lower.

This energy consumption was bidirectional, including the energy loss after Yan Junze's return.

After deducting 4600 points, he now only had 2300 points left.

"Enter," Yan Junze thought to himself.

As soon as the thought appeared, he felt a void under his feet and experienced an intense dizziness, more severe than the previous Rewinds, making his whole body feel heavy and without strength. After roughly a few seconds, his feet suddenly felt heavy as he finally landed on the ground.

An involuntary sense of stability and solidity rose in his mind.

The darkness before his eyes, like fog, gradually cleared, and his eyes slowly adapted to the surrounding environment.

Yan Junze found himself standing in an unfamiliar room.

This room had thick curtains, and at the moment, only one window's curtains weren't drawn, which caused the room's light to be overall dim. The arrangements were very ordinary; there was a large bed against the wall, and opposite the bed was a spacious computer desk with a computer on it that appeared to have a high configuration.

On either side of the computer chair to the back were two fill lights, with headphones, microphones, and other items all present, which looked like a broadcaster's setup.

Yan Junze looked back at the ground. To the side of the large bed, near the wall was a row of old-fashioned clay pots, around a dozen of them, neatly placed in the corner against the wall.

At the moment, it was obvious there was no one in the room, but it was daytime outside, and the air in the room carried an eerie and cold feeling.

Yan Junze shifted his gaze from the row of strange clay pots and looked up towards a door opening without a door, which was covered by a thick piece of cloth curtain.

From beyond the curtain, Yan Junze sensed something was off, as if something was hidden behind it, yet it seemed devoid of any life.

Now it seemed that this place must be Cheng Jingting's home, only now there was no one at home.

As Yan Junze wondered, from the open window, a cat's meow suddenly sounded. He turned his head to look and saw a white cat with soft fur standing on the windowsill, peering inside.

At the same time, a strong, powerful shout came from downstairs, "Bai, come down quickly!"