At Hao Ren's reminder, everyone else, including Lily and Vivian, seemed to suddenly remember the matter. They raised their hands and looked at the backs of them—before setting out, everyone had undergone the imprint ritual in the World Tree's hall. There should originally have been a Resurrection Mark from the World Tree on the back of each person's hand, but now every mark had vanished.
Everyone cried out almost in unison: "It's gone?!" "Fuck!" "What?" "Meow meow meow?" "Damn!"
Well, it wasn't exactly that orderly...
The World Tree imprint's greatest function was to bind each person's life information and provide one precious chance at resurrection when faced with a lethal threat. Its disappearance could only mean one thing—the resurrection opportunity had been consumed.
But no one remembered dying once!
"What happened?" Lily instantly felt herself turn all fluffy, and even felt as though she had lost a life. "How did my resurrection token just disappear?! I don't remember dying in La Rian..."
"Of course no one died. According to the plan we established before setting out, if all of us consumed our Resurrection Marks, the World Tree would immediately initiate a forced extraction and drag us all back to the Material Universe. Not even the Dark Domain could stop that process." Hao Ren waved his hand. "The Resurrection Marks disappeared because we were assimilated for a time when we entered the La Rian dreamscape. None of us remembers that moment, but it must have happened, at some point right at the beginning. I think being assimilated by the dreamscape may have amounted to being 'erased' in the real world. That process was enough to activate the Judgment Mechanism in the marks, which wasn't sufficiently rigorous, so the marks were consumed. In reality, we were all still alive, so the World