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Inside Shang Jing City, which had just endured a calamity, Li Huowang lowered his head and looked at his shadow with an exceedingly complicated expression.

Ji Zai truly existed, yet whether he existed or not depended on Li Huowang himself.

Ji Zai was unstable. Once Li Huowang confirmed that he was a delusion, he disappeared.

Ji Zai controlled bewilderment—or rather, he himself was bewilderment, forever caught between existence and nonexistence, existing or not within a single thought.

No wonder Ji Zai had kept telling him to hold on before. Li Huowang had never understood what he was supposed to hold on to, but now he finally did.

"Was I right?" Li Huowang suddenly asked softly, addressing his own shadow.

Yet this time, Ji Zai did not respond. That shadow was merely a shadow.

While Li Huowang had been thinking just now, he had vanished again.

This time, Li Huowang finally understood something. He turned and was about to leave when he saw Shangguan Yuting step out from the nearby wall.

This was one of the Director of the Celestial Surveillance's illusions. The commotion just now had drawn her over as well.

After studying her intently for a while, Li Huowang said, "I understand what you meant before. You were actually helping him stabilize himself. No wonder you called him Unspeakable."

"What?" Shangguan Yuting did not quite understand what Li Huowang meant.

"Nothing. You were right. He truly is unspeakable."

After saying that, Li Huowang ignored Shangguan Yuting. He passed through streets strewn with corpses, searching until he reached a large well.

Beside the two corpses soaking in the well lay Li Huowang's reflection, and above that reflection was the moon, which had just poked half its head out from the dark clouds.

Li Huowang looked at his reflection in the