Everyone finally understood the strength of Phainon's will.
It was terrifying!
Simply inhuman!
Oh, he really wasn't human. Right now, he was only an experimental factor!
It sounded a little grim, but to everyone on Douluo Continent, what Phainon had endured was beyond belief!
How could anyone endure such agonizing reincarnations?
After all, across the time spanned by dozens of cycles, even a Wind Baboon could have become a Ferocious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest!
Yet Phainon had somehow held on to a shred of humanity and kept striving to fulfill his companions' modest dreams!
Could an experimental factor really do that?
The world of Douluo I.
Heaven Dou City.
Outside Phainon's Clothing Store, Soul Masters had packed the street!
Some had come on a pilgrimage, as though they were meeting their idol!
After seeing Phainon open a Tailor Shop in the Holy City of Okhema to fulfill Aglaea's wish, they couldn't help tearing up.
"Waaah! Shopkeeper Phainon, we don't blame you for your outrageous prices anymore! Please open the door!"
"So there's a story behind this shop. No wonder you opened a clothing store."
"You must miss Aglaea, don't you?"
"Open up, shopkeeper! I'll buy another ten outfits! I'll use my Gold Soul Coins to support Aya's dream!"
Inside the clothing store.
Outside, people wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves, each one seemingly too moved to hold it together.
Phainon's mouth twitched as he listened!
If he opened up now, he'd never get the door shut again.
As for opening the shop because he missed Aya?
Phainon rolled his eyes.
If Aya came over from Amphoreus!
The first thing she'd do upon seeing his shop would be to shut it down!
The world of Douluo II.
The Holy Spirit Cult.
Inside the dark hall.
Long Xiaoyao had watched those hundreds of regressions and spent a long time in thought.
His own tangled grudges and romances felt like children playing house!
Their circumstances were so much better than Phainon's. Why couldn't they stop?
He looked at Ye Xishui:
"Xishui, if we could, I'd like to live an ordinary life with you too."
Hearing Long Xiaoyao's naive words, Ye Xishui replied coldly:
"That's impossible now, Xiaoyao!"
"How much blood is on our hands?"
"Can you still become the person you once were?"
Long Xiaoyao fell silent.
The world of Douluo III.
Tang Wulin and the others had returned to Shrek Academy.
Tang Wulin looked up at the Sky Curtain and gripped Gu Yue's hand:
"Gu Yue, my future self wanted to live an ordinary life—not because I wanted to be an ordinary person, but because I had you and my parents!"
"I'll protect it all!"
Gu Yue gazed at Tang Wulin's face and nodded happily.
Yun Ming, the Sky-Reaching Douluo, had only just arrived, and he felt as though he'd been force-fed a mouthful of their affection.
But something else on the Sky Curtain held his attention.
"Over three hundred reincarnations? More than three thousand Core Flames burning him? If it were me, could I endure it?"
He silently asked himself.
[After the 335th reincarnation]
[Phainon endured the searing Core Flames. As his soul was scorched again and again, he gradually lost his reason and humanity.]
[After endless torment, his body could no longer bear so many Core Flames.]
[If this continued, the Core Flames would one day burn away his mind, and he would forget everything.]
[So he chose to let the newly born Phainon kill him.]
[The newly born Phainon would inherit the Core Flames, along with the memories and pain of every reincarnation!]
[He would also don the black robe, become the Flame Reaver, and turn into his former companions' enemy.]
At this point.
The people of Douluo Continent had already more or less worked out that Phainon was the Flame Reaver.
But when it was confirmed, they still felt as though they couldn't breathe.
This was the cycle of fate!
To protect this world, Phainon, as the Flame Reaver, had to kill his companions through reincarnation after reincarnation—and in the end, be killed by himself!
Phainon carried far too much on his shoulders. The price he paid was unbearably cruel.
Sunset Forest.
Yu Xiaogang was still crowing:
"See? I told you I was right!"
"The Flame Reaver really is another identity of Phainon's."
But no one paid him any attention now.
Xiao Wu looked at Tang San:
"Brother San, if we kept reincarnating like that, forgetting and hurting each other every time, would we still end up together?"
Tang San stroked Xiao Wu's hair and said firmly, "Even if I had to go through a thousand reincarnations, I'd still be with you."
Xiao Wu's cheeks flushed.
On the other side, Chrysanthemum Douluo couldn't stand watching any longer. He sneered:
"Are you two pretending we don't exist?"
Tang San said calmly:
"Then you're welcome to try fighting us."
"But let me remind you: you won't have time to watch the Sky Curtain, and you might miss what happens next."
Chrysanthemum Douluo choked on his reply.
That had struck him where it hurt.
After all, his strength had risen so quickly thanks to rewards from the Sky Curtain.
If he missed any information it revealed, especially now that the story had reached its most crucial point, he'd be furious.
More importantly, Old Ghost still hadn't received a reward from the Sky Curtain!
Heaven Dou City.
Qian Renxue was utterly numb.
"So you're going to keep bearing the stigma of being the Flame Reaver and keep playing the villain?"
Phainon nodded calmly.
Qian Renxue couldn't help trembling as she asked again, "How many more times will you reincarnate like this? A thousand? Ten thousand?"
"Far more than that," Phainon said evenly.
Qian Renxue wanted to say something else.
Then the Sky Curtain refreshed, giving her the answer.
[The reincarnations continued a thousand times, ten thousand times... without ever stopping.]
[They continued for more than thirty million cycles.]
[Until the 33,550,336th reincarnation.]
Boom!
At the sight of the Sky Curtain, everyone on Douluo Continent erupted!
Over thirty million times!
No one had imagined it could be that many!
In a parallel timeline, the Divine Realm.
Ma Hongjun stood completely stunned. "The Sky Curtain said over thirty million times, right?"
Beside him, Bai Chenxiang took his hand. "Yes."
Ma Hongjun gave a bitter smile. "Then what does that make my title of the Divine Realm's most melancholy soul?"
"Compared to him, it's nothing."
"But as long as you came back to me in the end, Xiangxiang, that's enough!"
Hearing that, Bai Chenxiang leaned happily against Ma Hongjun's chest.
On the other side, Tang San was speechless at the sight of their affection.
He murmured, "Over thirty million reincarnations. Could I hold on that long?"
Even he couldn't answer that.
Though he now possessed the power of a God King and seemed to have gained eternal life, trapped in a cage like that, he could never have kept his mind steady forever.
How had Phainon done it?
The Sky Curtain continued to refresh.
[This time, the turning point finally arrived.]
[The Astral Express descended from the sky.]
[With the arrival of the Trailblazer, Dan Heng, and the others, this reincarnation was different!]
[The change Phainon and Cyrene had been waiting for had finally come!]
[In this reincarnation, Phainon severed Lygus's head, while the Flame Reaver still pursued them to the Genesis Vortex Core.]
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