"Will... will they be all right?"
Seeing the Kings taken away by Shi, Chi Wuxia could not help feeling a jolt of alarm, for when it came to a confrontation at that level, her first thought was the same as theirs.
"The ending had been decided long ago. Ancient history is boundless; what you see may not truly be what you see." Di Yi did not answer directly, instead offering an ambiguous reply.
"What... does that mean?" Chi Wuxia froze. She clearly understood every word, yet put together, they left her baffled.
Still, she was no ordinary being. To have reached this point, her comprehension was exceptionally high. Vaguely, she seemed to grasp something, a glimmer of insight flashing through her mind.
"Come, let's go down and have a look at where true reincarnation lies." As Di Yi spoke, he began moving, descending through the Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea.
At this sight, Chi Wuxia could not help wavering, caught in a dilemma. There were people she cared about over there, taken on the road by Shi. Heaven knew what would happen; to say she was not worried would be a lie. Yet staying here alone was no solution either. Not everything around her was Shi's handiwork, and there was no telling whether something unexpected might happen.
What was she to do?
In the end, she could only follow him down.
The enormous Millstone turned. Severing its connection to those inexplicable patterns had not damaged it, nor had the battle between that side and this brought it to a halt. It was like an independent construct with a fully functioning autonomous mechanism, unmoved by the outside world, remaining ever the same.
As they descended farther, Di Yi and Chi Wuxia drew ever closer to the Millstone. After all, it occupied