Long since dead...
Long since dead!
Su Mo stared at the final four words in the ancient book, feeling as though he were in a dream.
In that instant, many things came to mind. Countless words from the past seemed tinged with sorrow and reluctance to part.
The Swordsman had said, "I'm dead?"
Liu Feng had said, "I've actually been dead all along..."
Su Mo had once asked the Divine Maiden, "Can you bring the dead back to life?"
The Divine Maiden's reply seemed to have given him the answer long ago...
"Once someone is dead, they're dead. How could they come back to life?"
Yes, once someone was dead, they were dead...
He had long since died in the Fallen Leaf Tribulation that struck the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
He had died as the Flowers of the Other Shore that bloomed throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths faded away, until not a single Flower of the Other Shore remained in the world...
He had died within his own scheme. In that scheme, he had used his own life to save the people of the Nine Heavens.
The self who had subsequently experienced the countless facets of the world was merely someone who had already died yet could not fade away.
That was why he could not condense an Incarnation.
That was why this injury to his Divine Soul had struck so ferociously.
Yes, because all he had left was his Divine Soul.
He was trapped between life and death, unable to reincarnate, unable to rest...
How was this unlike those people caught in the Red Mist calamity?
But why?
Wasn't death supposed to be like a lamp going out? Why, then, was he still in this world?
Long since dead... that did not seem to be an