Hengli stared at Kuize in shock.
"Mr. Kuize, were you serious about what you just said!?"
Fanato rubbed his head in dumbfounded disbelief.
"Is that for real?"
Fanu exclaimed incredulously:
"Instead of awakening his 'Spirit Realm,' he awakened the sixth round of nightmares first? That's just too absurd."
Evelyn remarked with shining eyes.
"Even across the entirety of world history, this would be an unprecedented first."
Feng removed his pipe from his mouth and spoke with a puzzled look.
"And even after reaching the Sixth Nightmare Realm so many days ago, he still claims that he cannot use 'Spirit Realm.'"
He Sheng gave a grave assessment.
"In other words, this is no longer merely a problem with the 'order.'"
Nie Suo nodded in agreement.
"Yes. Though it is difficult to believe, judging from the current results, perhaps Ye Chen never possessed the 'foundation' to activate a 'Spirit Realm' in the first place."
Sophie Lani covered her mouth and exclaimed in astonishment:
"Oh my! Isn't that fact far too horrifying!? Does that mean Ye Chen is fundamentally not even the same 'kind' as us!?"
Alpedis lowered his head in thought for a moment, then turned to Ye Chen and asked:
"Ye Chen."
"Do you..."
"Know... who... you... used... to... be?"
Faced with Alpedis's bizarre question, Ye Chen froze slightly before shaking his head helplessly.
"No."
"I'm sorry."
"I have absolutely no memory of anything concerning that subject."
After hearing Ye Chen's answer, everyone fell silent once more.
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Then, Kuize broke the stiff atmosphere with a smile.
"Alright, alright, everyone. There are always exceptional cases. Perhaps Ye Chen is precisely such an existence to us."
"Although he has not awakened a Spirit Realm of his own and differs from all of us in that regard—"
"—the fact that he