The grenade's explosion shook not only the Mora Egg, but the entire timeline.
Lu Xingshi's gaze was calm. How could he possibly not have known about the grenade Ke Lan had hidden away? He had merely tacitly allowed him to bring it over.
He needed the other party to do this.
The experiment had been within Lu Xingshi's control from the very beginning.
At first, Mara had been an independent individual. But now things were different—Mara and the enemy shared the same origin.
The original Mara had been an artificial Destiny Ghost formed from the opposition to Heavenly Mandate and Li Fan, the first-generation protagonist. But now, with Ke Lan's involvement, a peculiar cycle had taken shape.
After Ke Lan died, he would become a Destiny Ghost. That Destiny Ghost would then merge into Mara, not only granting Mara the special identity of a compatible host, but also turning Ke Lan into Mara.
This sent a shock through the entire timeline.
Two originally separate individuals had now become one and the same.
Ke Lan, who wished to save humanity and the Federation, was Mara. Mara, who wished to raise humanity like livestock and destroy the Federation, was also Ke Lan.
The bug of Human-Ghost unity had yet to reveal any signs of itself.
Its true signs lay in the future.
Lu Xingshi looked at the Mirror of Origin and could not help smiling.
"Only the final step remains," Lu Xingshi murmured, beginning to operate the Mirror of Origin.
He forcibly pulled out the Mandate of Heaven Silk behind the Mirror of Origin. The Heavenly Mandate Silk, which should have been arranged in impeccable order, had now become a tangled mess.
And those tangles continued to entwine, with neither beginning nor end, utterly impossible to sort out.
This was perfectly normal,