"I had more than one resurrection plan. I had many! One of them came about entirely by accident, and it was bound up with Zhu Jiuyin!
"During the war, I chose to fake my death by self-detonating. For that explosion, I sacrificed most of my Origin, most of my Primordial Spirit, and my body. I used them to form an avatar, then detonated it. It was not an explosion at my full strength, but Golden Crows draw their power from the sun. Detonating even that much produced terrifying force!
"The blast tore apart many members of the Wu Clan and killed several Ancestral Shamans. Zhu Jiuyin was caught in it too. Though his body was blown apart, his time abilities kept him alive!
"I have to admit, Zhu Jiuyin's time abilities were terrifying. He froze time around himself, wearing down the force of the explosion and protecting his True Spirit. Even so, his body was destroyed. Only a little flesh and a fragment of his True Spirit remained. He used his time abilities to preserve both, then rode the force of the blast straight into the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper!
"What Zhu Jiuyin did not expect was that, when he froze time around himself, he also caught some of the flesh and Primordial Spirit from my explosion. They entered the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper with him!
"When we reached the heart of the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper, Zhu Jiuyin discovered me, and I refused to back down. We wanted to keep fighting. But the moment he released the Time Freeze, he felt his True Spirit slipping away. The same was true for me: once time began to move, I would dissolve. In that situation, we could either die together or remain frozen!
"Zhu Jiuyin was fierce enough