By the lakeside pier, Chu Mu still stood there alone.
The little boat remained moored beside the pier. The man had returned from fishing and was busy carrying his catch ashore to sell.
As for exactly how long he had been observing, he could no longer quite remember.
Yet faintly, he had begun to understand what was so peculiar about this man.
This man did not seem to be a living being in the true sense.
Or rather, he was not some foreign living being who had entered the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, become mortal here, suffered some accident, and sunk into this place, as Chu Mu had guessed.
Perhaps, like the countless beings of this world, he was a fragment of fate intercepted by the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
The person who had constructed this place of mortal transformation must have been a Dao Integration cultivator.
During the process of cultivating as a mortal in the real place of mortal transformation, that place had been captured and intercepted by the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
Ordinarily, whether a Dao Integration cultivator had reached I am the Rule or Body Harmonization with Dao, they would already be perfectly unified with the primal chaos. External Force could never affect them and intercept their rules and fate.
But some unknown mutation must have occurred, causing this man to be anchored and intercepted by chance.
Yet what had been drawn into the Illusory Realm of Grand Void should not have been his true body, but merely a portion of his rule origin.
That was why this man displayed such an almost inseparable unity with the world, and why it was so difficult for him to awaken and break free from his descent.
If so, then if this man's true body was