Pei Hongyan was dead, Pei Pingle was dead, and Pei Min'an was dead too.
The heaven-ordained imperial clan of this world ended here...
Imperial Fortune was lost, the world fell into chaos, and war flared across the border passes.
The emperor's lingering obsession stared blankly at the scene before him, his expression dazed.
Su Mo turned back and looked at the emperor's lingering obsession. His mouth opened, but he could not say a word.
Su Mo fell silent. The dazed look in his eyes gradually faded, leaving only a trace of grief he could neither name nor explain.
Back then, he had once asked Gu Yu: whose dream was everything before them?
Even then, he had wanted to see this dream through to fulfillment, so he had asked Gu Yu to guard the realm for him while he went south to Jiangnan alone for the second time.
Yet in the end, he had left before that dream was finished...
Who the old chess player by the river was no longer mattered.
What mattered was that the reincarnation created by this obsession was now all but impossible to unravel.
"I..." The emperor's lingering obsession gazed into the boundless universe, his expression clear yet bitter. "I remember."
The emperor's lingering obsession looked at Su Mo and slowly began to speak in a low voice.
"Back then, after Hongyan died, your mother gave birth to you and Pingle."
"But after I died, both of you also died when your divine souls dissipated."
"With the Pei Clan's line extinguished, this world lost its heaven-ordained Imperial Fortune."
"Without Imperial Fortune, Floating Life Pass lost the power that protected it. The people of this world could only hold it through sheer force."
"The peach tree within Floating Life Pass could no longer bloom with flowers that