"You wait here for Young Master."
"When the time comes, you'll return to his hands once more, cut through every obstacle at his side, defeat all his enemies, and then... awaken me."
Gu Qingshan stood by the Forgetfulness River, silently recalling Mountain Girl's words.
Tide-Sound was hidden somewhere in the Forgetfulness River.
The river was vast beyond measure. Where exactly was Tide-Sound?
Gu Qingshan pondered for a while, then turned his thoughts back to what Mountain Girl had said.
Defeat all his enemies.
Then.
Awaken her.
Where would those enemies come from?
Gu Qingshan gazed at the surging river, lost in thought.
He had thought the Six Paths Competition was nothing more than a series of battles.
But now it seemed there were far too many secrets hidden within the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and they ran far too deep.
The Eternal Thought-Seizer had laid its plans long ago.
Sequence Envoys had come one after another.
Yet the World-Defining Divine Sword wanted to break free and escape.
Even the being that controlled the Six Paths and assigned him missions was plotting something.
And now the Giant Corpse had appeared, too.
Everything was like a fog, concealing the truth.
Gu Qingshan sighed and decided to stop thinking about it for now.
His gaze fell on the void.
Two lines of small text hung there:
"You have completed an entropy dissolution. The gift from Chaos has been received."
"When you have time, the Highest Sequence will integrate the gift into your body."
Gu Qingshan's thoughts stirred, and a series of new prompts appeared in the void:
"You have accepted Chaos's gift."
"You have received Chaos Enhancement: Shoulders and Back."
"—The flexibility of your shoulders and back has increased threefold."
Gu Qingshan stared at the prompt, at a loss for words.
A streak