For Chen Yan, what mattered most was what he should do next.
He had already undergone reincarnation twice in an extremely short span of time.
The first time, after the heavenly secrets of his External Incarnation were exposed, his connection to the Thousand Faces Sect ultimately led to his death at the hands of a Sage who had divined his karma and location.
The second time, that Withered Eyeball had locked onto him.
Chen Yan pondered the differences between these two reincarnations.
During the first reincarnation, Chen Yan had modeled the incarnation on his aged self, so Zhao Hong had called out his name directly, exposing his heavenly secrets.
The second time was different. Zhao Hong had never connected his External Incarnation to him at all.
He had merely called him Steward Huang, nothing more.
What had truly exposed his heavenly secrets was that Withered Eyeball.
And the fundamental reason he had once again been discovered by that eyeball—which should have belonged to himself in some other timeline—was that he had tried to investigate Zhao Hong's heavenly secrets and karma.
Those transparent threads of karma were entangled with events in another realm.
No, not merely another realm.
They concerned events that had taken place in another world, within a timeline that should never have existed in the first place.
Was it bait, or some sort of coincidence?
Chen Yan did not know.
But reason told him that he absolutely could not try to contact that Old Man Li in Forgotten River City again.
Not only that, from this day onward, none of the External Incarnations he created could ever be modeled on Immortal Cultivators from Chenping Continent.
Otherwise, disaster might very well strike again.
So why, exactly, had Zhao Hong appeared on Heaven-Stabilizing Continent?
Rebirth?
It was not impossible.
But