The fourth Reincarnation.
Or rather, the fourth Reincarnation since Chen Yan had been thrown into this realm by the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch.
The first three Reincarnations had all ended exactly the same way.
They had all ended with Azure Crossing Continent being utterly consumed by the Outer Dao.
Each experience had also been completely different. It was difficult to say which time had truly brought Chen Yan closer to the correct answer.
After all, the third Reincarnation had merely allowed this world to endure a little longer.
Beyond that, nothing had changed.
Yet it had indeed given Chen Yan an entirely new line of thought.
...If, without his intervention, the Outer Dao's invasion would ultimately erupt from that small mountain Village in the Far Eastern Lands.
Then what if, from the very beginning, an insurmountable wall was built around that Village—the source of the calamity?
Azure Crossing Continent, Far Eastern Lands.
Earlier today, the Village people had found a horrifying corpse beneath a tree in the Village, its flesh and blood drained dry until nothing remained but skin stretched over bones.
They had also discovered that the gravely ill Xiao Cong had vanished.
Under Uncle Shan's leadership, all the elderly, weak, women, and children in the Village entered the storehouse.
Then Uncle Shan led the able-bodied young men from the Village who had not gone to the North-South Forests to search for the missing Xiao Cong.
After searching for some time, Uncle Shan finally found Xiao Cong in a thicket near the Village.
It was hard to say whether the "monster" before them was still Xiao Cong.
After the pitch-black, shadow-like horror killed two young hunters, Uncle Shan finally keenly realized how this situation ought to be resolved.
In "Xiao Cong's" eyes, Uncle Shan—whose body was likewise turning