The breeze served as needles, the threads as guides, weaving a vast net like embroidery. Fine stitches covered the broken bodies, and light shimmered along the entwining threads.
At last, through everyone's efforts, two faintly visible souls stood facing each other amid the dense threads, their hands overlapping, their foreheads touching, embracing the same core.
The entwining threads, like their inseparable fates, bound the two inextricably together.
From then on, they would share one body, one fate in life and death.
Chen Jiu's shell gradually lost its vitality, while He Chuan's frozen shell shattered into ice crystals that scattered like stars and faded away.
The shells on Mo Yue and Wen Ling's side crumbled like burned paper, their ruined embers dispersing into smoke and dust.
With the bodies blocking their view gone, everyone looked at the miracle woven in midair: two pure, flawless souls embracing a core as clear and pristine as crystal.
Its authority was clearly Pollution, yet its core was utterly pure.
"It actually worked." He Chuan took out a cigarette and held it between his lips. "This is my first time seeing a Calamity Master's soul. It's not much different from an ordinary person's."
Calamities born of humans...
He Chuan exhaled a thoughtful puff of smoke. "What gave rise to their souls? Human cruelty, or human refusal to accept their fate? Was [Pollution] born because of those beasts, or because of... those angry souls that refused to accept their fate?"
He shook his head, rejecting his own words.
"Those filthy things couldn't possibly have shaped souls like these. Then their foundation can only be human anger and defiance. Perhaps we should take another look at Man-Made Calamities."
"What are you doing to my master?!"
A thunderous roar exploded in the distance. Realizing its connection to [Pollution] had