These were the deepest fears in Xuan Ming's heart! The destruction of the Purple Cloud Palace, the tragic deaths of those he cared for, and Lin Feng's fall.
An ordinary cultivator would have been badly shaken by these scenes and exposed an opening, even knowing they were illusions.
But Xuan Ming merely watched in silence.
His gaze was as still as an ancient well. Those terrifying scenes flowed through his heart like flowers in a mirror and the moon on water, leaving no trace.
"You... why aren't you afraid?!" the Omen King demanded, bewildered.
Xuan Ming slowly spoke, his voice seeming to echo from primordial antiquity. "Within Reincarnation, birth and death have their order, withering and flourishing their seasons. What you show is merely one possibility amid the impermanence of all things. But the Way of Reincarnation lies in 'ferrying across,' not 'avoiding.'
"If I fear the calamities of the future, how can I ferry all living beings across theirs?"
He formed seals with both hands, and the Dao resonance of Reincarnation erupted around him!
"Reincarnation Sacred Canon · Great Reincarnation Art!"
An enormous Gate of Reincarnation, starkly divided into black and white, burst open behind him! From within came the chanting of countless beings passing through Reincarnation into Rebirth, and the righteous voice of heaven and earth proclaiming the turning of Karma and the recompense of good and evil!
To his horror, the Omen King discovered that his famed Ten Thousand Calamities Premonition had begun to turn against him beneath the radiance of the Gate of Reincarnation!
He saw himself sealed within a rift in the void, alone for ten thousand years;
He saw countless wronged souls turn upon him, scattering his soul into oblivion;
He saw all his efforts, all his greed, and all his fear ultimately return