The whole world was shrouded in frost.
A deathly silence.
The Frost Giant looked at Gu Qingshan, then at the woman, and quietly took a few steps back.
Gu Qingshan fell into thought.
Yes, he could feel that the woman before him was none other than Xie Daoling, the genuine article.
But why didn't she remember him?
Had she lost her memories too?
No...
When the Six Paths Competition had first begun, the Heavenly Emperor had offered his Master the position of Six Palaces First Consort. He had hinted that if she accepted, he would give her fragments of her past-life soul.
His Master had also said that the fragments of her previous life's soul were in the Heavenly Emperor's hands.
Could it be—
That this "Master" before him was a fragment of his Master's soul? Or perhaps she could be called a past-life incarnation?
Gu Qingshan felt a little dizzy.
He understood the concepts of past lives and present lives, had personally experienced Time-Space Shuttle, and knew that Hundred Flowers Fairy Xie Daoling could create Myriad Incarnations, each one a nation unto itself. But he had never imagined that Xie Daoling could reach across two lifetimes and carve out an incarnation from her past life!
The woman stood among the heaps of broken chains, lightly rolling her shoulders before narrowing her eyes at Gu Qingshan.
"You say you're my disciple. Do you have any proof?" she asked.
Gu Qingshan immediately said, "Earth Sword—"
No, that wouldn't do.
The Earth Sword had happened in her later life, after she reincarnated and became Xie Daoling.
Everything he'd experienced with her had happened in her later life.
...Perhaps her divine abilities could awaken across lifetimes?
Gu Qingshan changed tack. "My Master can create Myriad Incarnations."
"Creating Myriad Incarnations is only a minor