Having spent decades with Bai Yan, the Terminal knows better than anyone Bai Yan's tendency to compete and her jealousy.
It also knows better than anyone Bai Yan's ruthlessness.
So in the Terminal Sanctuary, it deliberately arranged Bai Yan and world consciousness together.
It gave all resources and privileges to the world consciousness.
So that everyone would compare Bai Yan to world consciousness.
Sure enough, Bai Yan lived up to its expectations, thoroughly treating the returned world consciousness as a thorn in her side.
Later, the Terminal discovered something interesting.
An unknown interstellar creature, an insect, pretended to be a system and approached Bai Yan.
At this point, to the Terminal, the Mist Continent already belonged to it.
It originally intended to kill the Insect Brain, the invader.
But upon discovering that the Insect Brain aimed to manipulate Bai Yan, and that its target by mistake was world consciousness,
