The cold wind scraped the bones; a remnant soul bestowed a dream.
Su Mo knelt before the Imperial Mausoleum, where two incomplete skeletons lay.
Everything around him was so dilapidated. Across the vast Ruins, only that fully unfurled painting remained.
That tattered painting was a regret left in the world an unknown number of years ago.
Within that painting was only an emperor of the realm, unwilling to die with his regrets.
Within that painting, too, dream and illusion seemed indistinguishable, truth and falsehood impossible to tell apart...
Su Mo was still Su Mo, and he was still Su Jingyan.
Yet he could no longer quite distinguish whether everything within that "Reincarnation" had been real or false.
Or perhaps it had been a dream born of the unwillingness and regret of the emperor named Pei Hongyi, and while in the Divine Realm Ghost Gate, Su Mo had inadvertently entered his dream through that illusion and changed it.
Making him believe that Pei Min'an truly existed, and truly was his child...
An immaculate white Imperial Heirloom Jade Seal floated before Su Mo. It had not merged into his body as it had in the dream, nor had it become his Life-Bound Spirit Artifact.
It merely floated there, gradually withdrawing its power of "Reincarnation."
"So the Ruins were merely a dream of a lingering thought." Su Mo looked at the jade seal and shook his head bitterly.
When the dream faded, he still had only one path of cultivation.
Only that Confucian Dao cultivation, and those three unanswerable questions...
He had brought nothing out of "Reincarnation."
Neither the cultivation of an Emperor's Fate nor the Emperor's Fate's Three Questions.
In the end, it had only been Pei Hongyi's dream...
Everything within the dream, the reincarnation within the dream-who could clearly explain the