Lu Xueqi (76)

"Cycle of Life and Death? Interesting."

For the first time, the voice from the clouds carried a hint of seriousness.

"Unfortunately, it is still far too weak."

The five fingers of the gigantic hand curled slightly, changing from a slap to a grasp.

Clearly, the Holy Cult Leader did not want any further complications. He intended to seize the Reincarnation Mirror Fragment in one stroke, along with Su Han, the boy who seemed capable of drawing out the fragment's secrets.

However, at the instant the giant hand closed.

A sudden change occurred without warning.

Above Su Han's head, the strange pillar of light woven from life and Death Energy did not collide with the giant hand again.

Instead... it abruptly spread outward.

Like a silent ripple, it swept across the entire battlefield in an instant—across every person and every inch of land.

Time seemed to truly freeze for a moment.

No, it had not completely frozen.

Rather, everyone's perception seemed to skip a frame for an instant.

The next moment.

True Lord Chiyang, Protector Bai, and the allied cultivators behind them all revealed extreme terror on their faces.

Because they "saw" something.

Not with their eyes, but through a more direct reflection upon their Divine Souls.

They saw themselves.

They saw their "end" at some point in the future.

Some saw themselves dying from a backlash of inner demons, body and soul utterly destroyed.

Some saw their lifespan run dry, turning into a handful of yellow earth in despair.

Some saw themselves killed in vengeance, their heads severed from their bodies.

Some saw their Dao foundations destroyed, reduced to mortals, dying miserably amid illness and poverty...

That was not an illusion.

It was the Reincarnation Mirror Fragment, stirred by Su Han's life-and-death state of mind, combining each person's aura and