Swarming flies, chaotic time—none of the timelines could resolve that Fatal Flaw.
None of the Time Nodes could both save Chang Nian and salvage the Path to Life. This was an unsolvable deadlock.
Tong Guan's hand holding the White Candle shook harder and harder. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at one Timeline after another, his breathing painfully heavy.
The difficult choice threw his normally calm mind into disarray, while the Extreme Form forced him step by step into the abyss.
To save Chang Nian, the only way was to stop her from becoming the Burner of Malevolent Ghosts.
Then, to avoid the final misfortune, she absolutely could not come to the Yin World in the first place.
But that Unavoidable Flaw appeared once again.
If Chang Nian did not come to the Yin World and could not become the Burner of Malevolent Ghosts, then who would pass on the Path to Life of "From Yin to Yang"?
"Who?"
That most crucial hint flashed into his chaotic mind like lightning.
"Identity," "who," "Burner of Malevolent Ghosts"... These keywords were like a lifeline grasped by a man on the verge of suffocation.
Chang Nian was a link in the establishment of the Path to Life. If Tong Guan wanted to remove her now without shaking the final outcome, simply "removing" her would inevitably create a flaw.
But!
If he could fill that gap after removing her, would that mean the Fatal Flaw could be eliminated?
Like a man dying of thirst finally seeing water, Tong Guan's thoughts burst forth in an instant. He seized the heart of the problem and raced ahead.
To free Chang Nian from the role of Burner of Malevolent Ghosts, he needed a "successor."
And that successor would have to meet extremely harsh conditions.
First,