In the camp on Jizhong Island, Li Ling stood before an empty stretch of space. Drawing on his connection to the Water-Moon Mirror he had once refined, he probed the minor cave heaven within it and soon discovered Chi Yingting and the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord fighting inside.
At his first sight of the latter, he frowned slightly, seemingly having noticed something.
Then, seeing his opponent employ one transformation after another, so that even Chi Yingting could not subdue him for the moment, he spoke up with a warning.
That warning laid bare his opponent's origins.
The Thousand-Faced Devil Lord before them was no longer the Li Ying they had once known.
"I told you before that after reincarnation, karma shifts and spirit resonance changes. This comes about through the convergence of causes and conditions.
"Yan Buyong's method was not reincarnation, yet it surpassed reincarnation, granting a thousand people's faces and endlessly varied transformations.
"The most important thing when cultivating this method is the self, but the self is also the easiest thing to lose. If Yan Buyong were still alive, perhaps his mastery of his dao fruit could preserve the purity of his essence. But now that even he has fallen, how could his lingering dao connotation maintain its original state? All that remains is to cling to broken remnants and make use of them.
"The true Li Ying lost himself long ago amid these thousand faces. Only when this person happens to switch to his form can his original self manifest."
"Such a thing actually exists?"
Chi Yingting froze at first, then felt a deep sense of melancholy.
"Yes, Master did mention such a divine ability before, one that could create countless bodies and transform without end...
"But an ordinary person's mind cannot easily control so many forms. It