Guiguzi's words left me stunned.
The reason I had called him out was because I believed he was behind all of this.
I didn't believe this was my own mental domain. Even if it was, I thought my mental domain must have been under his control, just as when Bai Niangzi had overlaid her mental domain with the old woman's, and Bai Niangzi's mental domain had taken absolute control.
I believed that even if my mental domain was involved, it was merely subordinate and not in control.
Yet Guiguzi told me that this was entirely my own mental domain, and that I was the one controlling everything within it.
But I hadn't felt the slightest ability to rule this domain.
"Do you know why you can't rule this mental domain?"
He asked me, and I shook my head.
He sighed. "Your willpower isn't firm enough. You clearly created such a mental domain yourself, but once you entered it, you became confused. From the very beginning, you never placed yourself in the position of the one in control. Instead, you turned yourself into a participant. From ruler to participant—you changed your own role, and so your heart became filled with uncertainty! Uncertainty about roles, uncertainty about the setting. Do you know why they all became paper figures?"
I shook my head again. I even wondered whether my heart was too dark, which was why I had created so many paper figures.
Hadn't Little Fatty questioned what I had been thinking the moment he entered this mental domain, asking why it had become a world of paper effigies?
He exhaled a cloud of smoke. "It's the uncertainty of roles I just mentioned. When the roles are uncertain, you can't give them fuller identities. Besides, when you created this mental domain, you were