"The me from my previous life?" Ouyang froze for a moment, then recalled the previous life Chen Changsheng had revealed while performing Heart Demon Severing.
He had existed in Chen Changsheng's previous life as well!
He had just learned from the Chen Changsheng before him that the Immortals of this world had once endured forever.
In other words, in the original timeline, Li Taibai had never slain the Immortals.
Yet he had also existed in Chen Changsheng's previous life.
That meant that, counting this life, this world had three timelines.
But without exception, the first two timelines had ended in destruction.
In the first timeline, where the Immortals endured forever, the world had naturally headed toward destruction without a Great Calamity.
The second timeline, where Li Taibai had slain the Immortals, had ultimately still been destroyed in the Dao-Devil catastrophe triggered when the Immortal Lord "Death" took over Zu Yuan's body!
Now that this third timeline had reached this point and encountered the Immortal Lord "Death" again, it also meant that this third timeline would end in failure!
"What was I like in my previous life?" Ouyang asked.
At Ouyang's question, a trace of reminiscence seemed to appear on Chen Changsheng's face. "You wanted to change this world, even going so far as to enter reincarnation in another world and bring a kid back with you. You wanted to use another world's power to change this one, but in the end, you still failed. You still fell to me!"
Chen Changsheng's tone was calm, without any boastfulness or smugness, as though he were discussing something of no consequence.
Ouyang looked at Chen Changsheng in surprise. Surely the version of him Chen Changsheng was describing belonged to Chen Changsheng's previous life, the worldline where Zu Yuan had led the Devil Race