In the nineteenth year of Xuanwei, Lotus Platform Mountain was lush with grass and flying orioles, beneath a sky washed pure blue.
Ripples shimmered, and a green shadow flashed. Meng Qi appeared atop a large tree outside Shaolin Temple, blending with the void and belonging as one with heaven and earth, without disturbing the restrictive spell in the slightest.
His gaze fixed on the mountain path. He saw a man with a horse-like face carrying a sickly-looking child on his back, crossing the ridge and hurrying forward.
The familiar features and familiar aura stirred a subtle, indescribable feeling in Meng Qi as he saw the sensation of his former body. Half of his brow split open, and deep within his eyes, the Dao One Glazed Lamp emerged, illuminating illusion and reflecting the world of cause and effect.
The closer they drew to Shaolin, the weaker the child's aura became. Suddenly, he let out a pained groan and fainted, his life force collapsing at once.
The collapse lasted only an instant. His life force immediately began anew, weak but steady, without the slightest abnormality.
At that very moment, Meng Qi's Cause of All Fruits illuminated a subtle change in cause and effect. The connection to the child's soul first reached beyond the heavens, then abruptly shifted to where the Divine Capital stood, becoming no different from before.
"I've got you!"
Black and white flowed through Meng Qi's eyes. Layer upon layer of threads continuously split apart and recombined, reproducing this connection of cause and effect.
"Second Young Master, you're awake?" The horse-faced man set down the child and asked anxiously and hurriedly. The events of the past reappeared before Meng Qi's eyes, but his time had run out. Enveloped by the light of the Seven Kill Stele, he returned to the