Lu Mingze peered curiously through the doorway. Looking past "Lu Mingfei's" shoulder, he could see only darkness. His abilities let him see by starlight, yet he could make out nothing inside.
"Lu Mingfei" stepped through the door, walking across the charred rubble one step at a time. Lu Mingze followed, keeping neither too close nor too far behind.
Lu Mingze had tested it: this "Lu Mingfei" was unaware of his existence. The two of them should have been in different times and spaces. The body he inhabited belonged to the Lu Mingfei outside, who was slaughtering everything in his path. It was only through the connection between the two Lu Mingfeis that he had been able to follow.
Two Lu Mingfeis. Lu Mingze did not know which was real. His instincts told him the one inside was the original, but the facts said that the one outside possessed an actual soul.
Even he could not see through the connection between the two Lu Mingfeis. Only the highest forms of alchemy could touch such things; even a Dragon King could not perceive them directly.
As Lu Mingze's thoughts wandered, "Lu Mingfei" stopped.
In the silence, he slowly turned his head toward Lu Mingze and smiled for no apparent reason. "Listen, the sound of flames scorching..."
A chill ran through Lu Mingze's heart. He really did hear flames coming from the darkness. Crackling fire climbed along three bones, illuminating everything in an instant.
It was a hand with three fingers, glowing yellow patterns covering its surface. Fierce, dazzling, bright yellow flames imbued with chaos erupted all over it, utterly unlike the gold of the Golden Order. Merely looking directly at it brought intense mental agony.
The Three Fingers spread its fingers and enclosed the naked "Lu Mingfei" in its embrace. The flames