A Shattered Fragment of Time and Space

Outside Formless City.

Chen Yue and Chen Yao followed Chen Mu out of Formless City, swept up into the heavens by the Escaping Light under Chen Mu's control.

"This Formless City Lord possesses a body comparable to a Venerable's, yet he is bound layer upon layer and cannot be free. The path of cultivation was meant to seek freedom. Having reached this point, he can neither advance nor retreat; he has already departed from cultivation's most fundamental pursuit."

Chen Yue glanced back at Formless City. After a brief contemplation, she spoke softly.

Chen Mu looked at her and smiled. "If it were you, what would you choose?"

"I would definitely choose to start over in another life."

Chen Yue answered without the slightest hesitation, utterly resolute.

Life after life of reincarnation, losing everything from one's previous life—this did not count as immortality in her eyes. It was merely dragging out a wretched existence. She would rather fight for a single lifetime than be trapped in a crack, with no road ahead and no door behind.

Looking at Chen Yue's response, Chen Mu said with a sigh, "For someone like you, who has cultivated all the way to this day, such a choice naturally would not be difficult. But if you had been born as the Formless City Lord, without any memories or Causality Profundity from a previous life, born standing at the peak of the cosmos, could you still make such a choice? Could you abandon a position infinitely close to the supreme and reenter reincarnation?"

"This..."

Upon hearing Chen Mu's words, Chen Yue hesitated this time.

She had followed Chen Mu and risen from humble beginnings step by step. She had endured trials, and even in the Great Xuan World, she had not always remained beneath Chen Mu's wings.