With a flash of sword light, heaven and earth collapsed!
The Daoist drifted downward like willow fluff, but before he truly fell, he scattered apart, turning into threads of radiance that gathered toward Qiu Yan and merged into his body. They brought countless insights, yet did not truly immerse him. Instead, they lingered around his consciousness, blooming like a hundred flowers.
"If things had followed their normal course, after entering this Illusory World, I myself would first have been deluded and assimilated into it. Even if I had not been deluded, this separated heart would have continued sinking deeper as the Heart-Severing Daoist, experiencing everything. Yet one thing would not have changed: the Heart-Severing Daoist would surely have become my mortal enemy. Throughout his life in the Illusory World, he would certainly have remained entangled with that Daoist, fighting and killing him time and again. Even if no victor were ever decided in the end, whether in thought or in heart, both would have been assimilated by this world step by step..."
Insights rose from the depths of his heart. Amid the threads of radiance, Qiu Yan gained a deeper understanding of this Illusory World, then raised his hand and grabbed.
Rip!
With a sound like silk being torn, he forcibly ripped open a section of the sky, exposing the ever-changing Void beyond.
At last, Qiu Yan turned and glanced at the vast world below, smiling. "This world was born because of me, but it was not born for me. I will leave this time, yet this world will continue to exist, passing on through the divide between the present world and the Void until one day it is destroyed or transforms and ascends. But that should be another story..."
With that thought, Qiu Yan stepped forward and entered the