Whew!
Wang Quan exhaled a breath of stale air, relaxing completely in body and mind. "I thought you were formidable."
"I never expected... you were only a reflection."
Emperor Heart raised an eyebrow, a trace of anger in her ethereal voice. "Only a reflection?"
"Heh, reflections are countless beneath the heavens, but how many have ever come alive?"
Wang Quan thought for a moment. "In my life, you're the first."
"There's no record of anything like this in the Daoist Scriptures I've studied, either."
"Put that way, you really are quite formidable!"
Emperor Heart looked smug. "Naturally!"
Wang Quan asked curiously, "Tell me, how did you become a reflection?"
Emperor Heart fell silent briefly. "That day, my original self's heart was traveling through the Underworld. Passing a pool, it noticed that its reflection was quite exquisite."
"So the heart stopped and spent some time admiring its own reflection."
"And thus, I was born!"
Wang Quan...
"That sounds unbelievable."
Emperor Heart sighed. "It feels unbelievable to me when I say it, too!"
Wang Quan smiled. "Did you have all those ghosts and monsters worship the statue because you wanted to truly exist?"
Emperor Heart's voice was ethereal. "I don't know!"
"After I awoke, I just felt that I needed all living beings to worship me!"
Wang Quan opened his mouth to say something, but the next instant, the token at his waist trembled again.
He checked the message, then said, "My friends encountered someone else called Emperor Heart in another residence."
"She said she was a reflection in fire."
This Emperor Heart sighed. "My original self's heart has two aspects, ghost and divine. I'm the ghost, and she's the divine. That's perfectly normal."
A thought stirred in Wang Quan's mind. "Would you like me to help you merge?"
The Emperor Heart