It was the obsession you could never let go of that had trapped you yourself...
Su Jingyan stood swaying where he was, dazed and bewildered, facing the wind on the mountaintop as it tousled his long hair.
The cool wind blew, and the whole world lay empty.
Only he remained!
"Reincarnation is like a book. I merely read it all over again..."
Su Jingyan murmured the words, looking toward the white-robed Scholar.
The white-robed Scholar looked at Su Jingyan too, then sat forlornly on the ground, picked up a small stone, and toyed with it in his hand.
"Reincarnation is like a book. You have been repeating the same reincarnation over and over, trapping yourself within it, cycling endlessly!"
"And trapping everyone else within this reincarnation too..."
"How many times have you experienced this exact same reincarnation now?"
"A hundred? A thousand? Or countless times?"
A trace of bewilderment suddenly appeared in the white-robed Scholar's eyes. "Why do I know all this?"
"Right... I am merely the 'doubtful thought' you formed on the Doubt-Cleansing Platform."
"If I know, it is naturally because you knew long ago..."
The white-robed Scholar gave a bitter laugh and shook his head helplessly as he looked at Su Jingyan, his face filled with despairing sorrow. "You knew long ago that the Other Shore of rebirth was no new reincarnation at all!"
"It merely lets everything begin again..."
"A reincarnation already experienced, lived through all over again!"
"From the beginning of each new reincarnation to its end, you make the same choices, causing the predetermined 'destiny' to play out again..."
Su Jingyan sat back down forlornly before the gravestone, leaned against it, and looked up at his other self outside the Realm Gate...
Yes, he had already experienced this exact same reincarnation countless times!
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