Adam emerged from the memories, still deep in thought.
White Impermanence had actually turned into Black Impermanence after dying. Had he really killed him back then?
Perhaps. After all, he had directly used The Nothing. Could White Impermanence have come back to life after dying so completely that nothing remained?
But he could not be certain either. That transformation seemed to require some time, and he had left immediately back then.
He stored the matter away. Compared to whether Black and White Impermanence were dead or alive, he cared more about what exactly they were.
They could not have been the true Black and White Impermanence. If they had been the real ones, would disciples from Biyou Palace have needed to specifically hunt them down, even at the cost of their lives?
And the true identity of that thing was now seemingly well explained by the corruption covering the figure before him.
"You... are the source of this world's corruption?"
Based on the memories he had just seen, the other party's identity, and the plot of the trilogy, this was seemingly the only identity that fit.
"Heh..."
Another breathy sound laden with information emerged, but this time Adam was not pulled into any memories and quickly understood it.
This figure truly was the source of this world's corruption, the master of the Three Lifetimes Copper Coffin. As for why the one before Adam had not grown long red hair or shed black blood, it was probably because this was merely a shadow rather than a projection of his true body.
After suffering infection from that corruption bearing Black Impermanence's appearance, he had naturally wanted to sever the infected portions in an act of sacrificing an arm to survive. Yet every time he cut away another part of himself, the corruption