In the mist.
A conversation was underway.
"How did it go?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"They took the bait, and then—something terrible happened. I've never seen anything like it," Fu Si said.
"Oh? What happened?" Gu Qingshan asked with interest.
"All the laws seemed to have been sheared off at a certain point, leaving the entire historical event stuck in that instant. Then..."
"Then?"
"The Law of Fate inflicted immeasurable torment on the fiends in an instant. I didn't even dare think about the torture, because just imagining it would leave my mind severely wounded;"
"The Law of Karma took the fiends' souls and completely dissolved them into pure source energy, then claimed it for itself;"
"The Law of Time devoured their bodies to fill in something else—I don't know what;"
"All that remained of the fiends was a shadow, sent by the Law of Historical Inertia into infinite space and time to atone for the past they had destroyed."
Fu Si couldn't help sighing as she finished.
Her face had gone a little pale, and the staff in her hand trembled slightly, as though her heart still hadn't settled.
Gu Qingshan smiled and said gently, "It's all right. They got what they deserved."
"It seems we played a part in it, too," Fu Si said.
"But we didn't commit their unforgivable crimes, and we didn't change history. We only planted a few inconsequential little events in it. I suspect those laws are grateful to us, since we helped them heal the wounds of the past," Gu Qingshan said.
Fu Si said thoughtfully, "Now that you mention it, I remember..."
"What?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"Only a few of the strongest fiends escaped. After the laws finished killing the rest, they turned back time by about three seconds and completely erased the