White-Clad One died again, and Rouyun held him for a long, long time without letting go.
The many Little Tree Spirits dissolved into tears... They seemed to remember everything-how White-Clad One had died before their eyes time and again to save them.
This time, they would finally never forget White-Clad One again.
But White-Clad One would never return either...
Rouyun held White-Clad One just like that, until he once again became withered bones.
The Heart Tree's fallen leaves drifted into Reincarnation, dancing across the sky like paper money scattered to honor his departed soul...
This cycle of Reincarnation passed very slowly.
At least, in Rouyun's heart, it seemed it could have gone a little slower still...
Reincarnation reached its end again, and its weary rules swept over everything once more to erase it.
But this time, White-Clad One's figure in the Little Tree Spirits' hearts was as firm as a rock...
Reincarnation could not be erased, yet it still reset.
Only, within this reset cycle of Reincarnation, everything that could not be erased seemed to clash with Reincarnation's own laws.
Boom!
The conflict between Reincarnation's own Karma and laws finally caused it to begin collapsing...
White-Clad One faded away, and White-Clad One arrived again.
But the White-Clad One who came this time did not speak. He only gazed at her blankly...
Everything within the Heart Tree was slowly unraveling, as though moving toward a direction that did not exist.
Everything was just as White-Clad One had anticipated.
Reincarnation collapsed, and everything trapped within it now had a direction in which to leave.
There were the Xu Tribe elder and the Eight Immortal Venerables, still locked in battle within the Ancestral Grounds...
Their movements seemed never to have changed, yet it also seemed victory or defeat could be decided at