The Past Principle of the One Path

He was down to his last breath, liable to lose the chance to open his eyes again at any moment.

Yet at this moment, Hu Ma was trapped in the Middle Yin Realm.

The Book of Life and Death enveloped Hu Ma, turning the whole world around him into a cocoon and trapping him fast inside.

The dense streams of information had robbed him of the strength to resist. If life in this world was like being a puppet on strings, then Hu Ma was now completely wrapped in a tangle of intricate strings, unable even to move, let alone struggle.

But there was one advantage: with the strings tangled, no one could control him by pulling on them.

The two sides could only remain locked in a stalemate.

"Almost there, almost..."

The creature covered in eyes stared fixedly at Hu Ma, trembling with excitement. Every eye was shining.

It didn't mind maintaining this stalemate with Hu Ma for now. It could perceive everything in this world, after all, and knew what Hu Ma was facing in the human realm.

It had long grown sick of this fellow barging in again and again to snatch things from it. It had already decided that if the fellow dared come in one more time, it would trap him and keep him here until his body was destroyed and he could never return.

Now, all it needed was a little more time...

"The price for figuring out who I really am is never being able to return to my original world?"

"No. I still haven't figured it out!"

"..."

At this most chaotic moment, Hu Ma's thoughts suddenly became clear in a way that seemed to transcend everything. For an instant, he seemed to share the eye-covered monster's ability to perceive all things,