"'Dead through and through'—that 'through' implies a concept of penetrating beneath death itself. The Records of Darkness and Light says: when people die, they become ghosts; when ghosts die, they become specters; when specters die, they become xi; when xi die, they become yi; when yi die, they become wei; when wei die, they become formless. Even for an ordinary person, dying completely isn't so easy, let alone a Legendary one."
Black Cat shook his head as he flaunted his learning.
"Stop nitpicking words here."
Frowning, Little Jade calmly countered, "So Waghar didn't die completely—what did it leave behind? A trace of obsession? A single thought? Or something like liches, a piece of flesh and a few drops of blood prepared in advance and stored in a little box?"
Black Cat shook his head like a rattle drum.
"The Shaggai Insectoid are also equivalent to Legendary-level existences—true Legendaries. They naturally outrank a Half-step Legendary like Waghar. You need to know that Half-step Legendaries possess the concept of a Legendary as well. Your True Self should have told you that Half-step Legendaries possess true bodies that transcend the River of Time and Fate—"
"Your True Self explained it to my True Self, not to me. I don't know," Little Jade interrupted to correct him.
"Is that so—"
Black Cat paused, wiped his whiskers, and hooked the tip of his tail around her wrist before reorganizing his answer. "Well, simply put, Legendaries like Waghar are innately deficient. They cannot sail upstream through the River of Time and Fate, so they can never unify their past selves throughout their entire lives, much less trace themselves back to their origins and become ancient wizards. But after transcending the River of Time and Fate with the help of their world's status, they can drift downstream