When initially observing this branch base, both Liu Shuying and I felt that the time and space here were deeply unusual, as if a patch had been applied to a fractured reality. This intuition turned out to be correct, because Xu Gou had indeed overlaid a section of severed time and space here.
As for why Xu Gou chose to join Taoyuan Village, even this Great Success Rank Impermanence didn't know. However, the first plausible explanation that came to mind was that Xu Gou perhaps wanted to merge his consciousness into the "Paradise" and reunite with his lover in a dream.
But on closer scrutiny, this motive doesn't really hold up. Considering Xu Gou's own strength and external conditions, would he so easily give up on the possibility of resurrecting his lover in the real world?
