693: Embers of Time Burned Away, Slashing Through Reincarnation

Life was like a guttering candle in the wind...

Those words gave Chi Xiao a strange sense of déjà vu.

His incarnations were scattered across countless civilizations, including Earth, so he could naturally understand this "dueling meme" from a card-battling anime that relied on bluffing.

Logically speaking, Chi Xiao should have said, "It's my turn," and then made an ultimate move to turn the tables.

But...

Reality was not so simple.

No matter how dull he was, Chi Xiao could still sense the unmistakable confidence and power emanating from Ye Fengqing.

He noticed that within the blazing red flames, substances resembling flying sand and ashes were faintly circulating and darting about, constantly forming before vanishing without a trace in an instant.

Under the cover of the flying sand and ashes, the pained expressions gradually faded from the faces of the figures within the Reincarnation Scrolls.

It was as if a pair of invisible hands were slowly smoothing away their pain, soothing their hearts, and healing their wounds.

But the problem was...

This was not the truth at all!

Chi Xiao soon discovered that the reason the lives within the Reincarnation Scrolls no longer felt pain was not because the sand- and ash-like substances in the blazing red flames had healed their wounds and soothed their suffering.

Ultimately, the characters in these scrolls were all Thought Avatars of Chi Xiao. In essence, they were all parts of him. As an enemy and opponent, Ye Fengqing was not kind-hearted enough to waste her strength doing something like that.

The truth was...

The connection between Chi Xiao and the countless characters within the Reincarnation Scrolls was being severed bit by bit!

And the ones severing that connection were those substances that looked like grains of sand and ashes.

They were precisely the means