"Then what now..." Loose Cultivator Zheng Qi looked up at the Green-Clad Wuluo, who was gradually coming to his senses.
"..." The shadow shook his head.
They were trapped in a vicious cycle.
The obsessions of these shadows were Zheng Qi and Wuluo. So whether or not Zheng Qi killed Wuluo, the shadows would become Yin Spirits, lose their memories, and turn into evil beings who knew only how to kill.
"Don't worry! I'll find a way to send Big Brother and the others into the Yellow Springs! It's just..." Wuluo looked at the guilt in Zheng Qi's eyes, and the weight of it made him wish he were dead.
"I won't kill you! I wouldn't have, even before I knew the reason—and now that I do, I certainly won't!" Zheng Qi said earnestly, looking at Wuluo.
"I deserve to die! Even if I vanished without a trace, it wouldn't erase my sins! Why would you..." Wuluo hadn't only wronged Zheng Qi. Back then, many others had been sacrificed for God Descent. The guilt weighed on him until he could barely breathe.
"..." Zheng Qi watched Wuluo shake his head again and again. How could he bring himself to do it? In the end, Zheng Qi turned to Dabai, hoping he could come up with a perfect solution.
Dabai was troubled, too. He had no solution, but... his gaze shifted to Luo Yunji.
"How about... you just stay 'like this'?" Seeing Dabai look his way, Luo Yunji asked the shadows.
The shadows didn't understand what Luo Yunji meant.
"I mean, you stay the way you are now. You be ghostly shadows, and you be a living corpse!" Luo Yunji pointed at the shadows, then at Wuluo.
"Big Brother and the others won't last much longer!" The Green-Clad man shook his