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"After that, what happened to all of you? Why did you end up like this?"

Seeing Danzhu and Cang Xuan in their current state, Xu Yanwu could not help asking, "And where exactly is Ji Lin now? Shouldn't she be with you?"

Xu Yanwu's questions brought Danzhu and Cang Xuan into a long silence.

"Back then, we did indeed go to the Crystal Seal we had established at the very end. After reinforcing the seal one final time, we died there due to the erosion of Honkai Energy."

Cang Xuan explained what had happened back then to Xu Yanwu.

"But after we died, we did not know why our consciousnesses did not dissipate. Instead, they were preserved in this strange form."

"Only Ji Lin... her mental state worsened even further."

As Cang Xuan spoke, a trace of sorrow appeared on her face.

"After that, Ji Lin retrieved the Xuanyuan Sword. We originally wanted to stop her, but for some reason, Ji Lin was even stronger than before."

"All these years, Ji Lin has remained where the Xuanyuan Sword is. Occasionally, she fights Honkai Beasts that wander in."

After Cang Xuan briefly described Ji Lin's condition, Xu Yanwu could not shake the feeling that something was especially strange about it.

Why did that sound... so much like Black Ji Lin's origin story in the original plot?

In other words, not only was Ji Lin alive, but she had also darkened just like in the original story?

What kind of joke was this?!

Had all the things he had done back then failed to change Ji Lin's fate at all?

Yae Village too... and Kiana's situation too!

What was the point of everything he had done?

If everything he had done, everything he wanted to change, would eventually return to how it