Outside the Immortal Shade Realm, Li Xiuchang's clone and Chen Changsheng were fiddling with a corpse.
Chen Changsheng examined it carefully several times before saying, "However you look at it, it's dead through and through."
"Then that's strange."
Li Xiuchang frowned. He had thought Senior Brother Gui wasn't quite dead yet, which was why his shadow hadn't disappeared. But even in Chen Changsheng's eyes, this shadow was as dead as dead could be.
The life states of a shadow and its true body were identical and synchronized. If the shadow died, the true body should have died as well.
But if the true body died, the shadow should have disappeared.
What had happened to Gui Wuyan clearly violated common sense.
Chen Changsheng said, "A diviner doesn't stand beneath a dangerous wall. Although Old Gui has spent years riding on top of dangerous walls, he still has his limits. He won't really play himself to death, so there's no need to worry too much.
"Besides, he must have taken such a huge risk this time because it was worth doing. We should cooperate with him properly."
Li Xiuchang nodded. Although he didn't know what Senior Brother Gui was plotting, he chose to trust him and would simply do his best to cooperate without holding him back.
Several days later, the Karma Crown was finally finished refining!
When Li Xiuchang took the heavy purple-gold crown from Zhang Wanzhi, it looked brimming with nobility.
He placed the crown on his head, and immediately felt as though he had ascended the throne and become emperor.
However, he also clearly felt that the crown was many times heavier on his head than it had been in his hand!
The moment he put on the Karma Crown, Li Xiuchang felt thoroughly uncomfortable, as if something had