"I'm not all alone..."
In the darkness, a radiant beam of moonlight pierced the gloom.
Li Mo's twisted Will Soul regained a brief moment of clarity, and he examined his circumstances.
What he was experiencing now was probably like the body-snatching described in novels?
No, unlike body-snatching, his consciousness would not be replaced. It would merely be assimilated, his way of thinking transformed into that of another person.
All of this would happen after he swallowed that crimson immortality medicine.
Yet he could not control his actions at all. He could only watch helplessly as his hand picked up the immortality medicine and trembled as it tried to bring it to his mouth.
The instinct to survive and his greed for power had made him lose himself.
"Eternal life..."
"But I've already died once."
Li Mo closed his eyes.
He began recalling a notebook he had found several days ago, pressed beneath the Big-Headed Doll.
It was Ice Block's diary.
Ying Bing had never liked writing such things before. She had already lived a life both magnificent and lonely, cold and desolate, with little worth recording.
But ever since entering the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and living with Li Mo—working at sunrise and resting at sunset—she had instead grown fond of documenting her life.
"First day in the Heavenly Phoenix Domain. I don't know where he is."
"Twenty-seventh day. I found him. He's still as silly as before, but he doesn't remember me clearly anymore. Not hee-hee..."
"Fifth year. He still hasn't remembered me, so I made him the hotpot he used to make for me. I cleaned and washed clothes the way he did at Autumn Water Pavilion..."
"I noticed the village chief's daughter looking at him strangely. Not hee-hee."
"Twelfth year. So this is what he looks like in