A purely conceptual connection, like you and I both having the surname Mei, rather than the sense of subordination that comes from me being your symbol.
I had to admit, Jade Soul Master had indeed transcended quite thoroughly.
As he carefully felt the gains from advancing all the way here, Fu Qian couldn't help sighing to himself.
The last time he'd formed a connection with the Heart Demon through the Burial Scroll, he'd already worried about the latter's overly transcendent attitude. Now it seemed that worry had come true.
Just counting the Jade Soul Master's avatars he'd seen himself, there were at least five. In theory, if the other party had been completely defeated, they should all have counted as his spoils of war.
Yet not only had he noticed no signs of that back then, this sensation now made it seem increasingly likely that, in the process of transcending, Jade Soul Master had realized the mistakes of the past and cast aside all those obsessions.
That was right. Thanks to his guidance, Jade Soul Master had fully grasped that form was emptiness and ultimately attained enlightenment. But in the process, he'd also thrown away all the good things that should have belonged to him.
"Thrown away" wasn't quite accurate. "Forgotten" was probably a better word.
Meria and all the other avatars had still been absorbed.
It was just that, to Jade Soul Master and himself, they were like past lives that had been forgotten.
He couldn't remember them; all he could do was test things passively like this.
Of course, there was another possible explanation: because of the Reminiscence Record's properties, the Meria avatar had been sealed inside it to some extent, which was why things had turned out this way.
But honestly, it was hard to imagine that,