Dragon of the Shoreless
"He Ping, is that you?"
Grandmaster Hunyuan was both shocked and enraged.
"I know there's some bad blood between you and the Emperor You."
He Ping flicked his sleeve, and Grandmaster Hunyuan rolled off the giant hand and crashed to the ground.
"I came today intending to resolve this grudge. Grandmaster Hunyuan, put plainly, it's all in the past."
His tone was exceedingly calm. "I'll act as the peacemaker. Let the grudge between you and the Emperor You be settled from this day forward. What do you say?"
"The hatred of having my sect destroyed, the grievance of being killed—irreconcilable beneath the same sky!!"
Grandmaster Hunyuan was utterly enraged.
"You think a few words can wipe away the deep hatred between the Emperor You and me?"
"Looks like there's no talking this out."
He Ping shook his head.
"Senior Lie Yun, I'll have to trouble you with what comes next."
"I've waited a long time. At last, I have the chance to use this Third Treasure Wheel."
Lie Yun chuckled. The treasure wheel in his hand turned, activating the "Mirror Void All-Dharma Realm Abandon-Self-No-Outside Wheel." A strange point of light blossomed from within the wheel. Without even managing a groan, Grandmaster Hunyuan was swept into that radiance.
In an instant, Hunyuan's own self-awareness was scoured by the light, pierced through the river of time, and was flung into some unknown mirrored spacetime.
At the same time, another self was born and entered Grandmaster Hunyuan's body. Even his physical form changed, his face becoming He Ping's.
"Good, good, good..."
He Ping laughed. "Hunyuan, how do you feel?"
"Very good, very good."
"Grandmaster Hunyuan" grinned. "This is utterly different from those so-called living puppets. My consciousness is truly inseparable from Grandmaster Hunyuan's—as though 'all living beings between heaven