"Every time a cycle ended, all karma, sin, and traces were swallowed by the Return Ruins, washed blank, and restarted."
"But you were different."
The silhouette took a step forward. "You refused to be washed away."
Lin Yue said nothing. "Over a hundred cycles, you never let go of anything. Hatred, obsession, unwillingness—you carried it all on your back, all the way into the Return Ruins."
The silhouette's voice suddenly dropped, so low it sounded like a sigh. "Do you know what that means?"
Lin Yue took a deep breath. Something in his chest burned fiercely. "It means I came to the right place."
The silhouette stopped. "You don't want to reincarnate?"
"I want to destroy reincarnation."
The entire Return Ruins fell deathly silent.
The silhouette stood motionless, like a stone statue that had stopped thinking.
After a long time, the black mud began flowing again, creeping upward from beneath the silhouette's feet. "Do you know what you're saying?"
Lin Yue laughed. "Of course I do."
"Reincarnation is Heaven's leash, tying everyone down, making them die again and again, live again and again, never able to break free."
"If you can't break free, all you can do is accept your fate."
"I won't."
Those three words crashed into the Return Ruins like stones into a lake.
The black mud exploded, and the entire void shook violently. More and more cracks spread through it as the light grew dimmer and dimmer.
The silhouette was completely swallowed by the black mud, leaving only a voice seeping out through the cracks. "Your obsession has already soaked through the Return Ruins."
"The Return Ruins will not let you leave."
"But neither will you remain here."
"Because you are too filthy—so filthy that even the Return Ruins cannot wash you clean."
Instead of feeling afraid,