The moment Xie Changsheng finished speaking, an eerie atmosphere settled over the city.
Holding her zither, Luo Hongyi's expression shifted from anxiety to utter bewilderment.
Brother Xie really had gone mad!
That was the only thought in her mind.
Gray Gray froze for a moment too, then grew so frantic its hooves nearly scraped sparks off the paving stones.
Big Dummy Sheng!
What are you doing?!
Stop!
That's Master Si Chen!
"Hee-haw! Hee-hee-haw-haw!-"
It was so frantic it nearly spoke human words.
Having followed Si Chen for so long, no one currently understood Master Si Chen's capabilities better than it did.
It wished it could rush over and kick Xie Changsheng a couple of times to knock some sense into him.
Si Chen studied Xie Changsheng thoughtfully.
After a while, as though he had seen something, he said, "So that's how it is."
Gray Gray and Luo Hongyi both froze.
"It's your 'eyes.' They're protecting you, but they've imprisoned you too."
He had seen through it.
The source of this temporal anomaly lay within Xie Changsheng's Dao Eyes.
It was a wisp of the Law of Time of unknown origin.
It protected its host in the crudest way: endless resets, endless rebirths.
But it did not understand the human heart.
It did not know that more terrifying than death was repetition without end.
Xie Changsheng did not understand, nor did he want to.
"Enough talk!"
Si Chen looked at him.
Looking at this friend who had once ridden a donkey carefree through the Eastern Region and discussed the Dao with him over wine, he decided to give him sufficient respect.
He nodded and gave a formal Daoist salute.
"Si Chen, of the Eastern Region."
As his words fell, Xie Changsheng trembled slightly.
His reason might have been clouded, but this