Hunyuan City.
Ying'an's other avatars still existed.
But at this moment, they were in terrible condition.
He had struggled for a long time, even destroying his own cave abode.
At last, a trace of clarity appeared in his eyes.
"Finally, it's over after all."
But the mind pollution was continuous. He could still recover a shred of reason now, but whether he would recover completely in the future or sink into oblivion remained uncertain.
"What fitting retaliation!" He seemed to be both laughing and crying.
Back then, he had used the Dao Derivation Poison against Dongguan, but Dongguan had survived and even benefited from it.
And if he wanted to overcome this pollution, there would naturally be benefits for him too, such as a breakthrough in his will.
Unless his will broke free of the prison cage, he had no hope whatsoever of escaping this mind pollution.
Waves of fluctuations spread from his cave abode.
A dejected middle-aged man walked along the streets of Hunyuan City.
His steps suddenly halted, and he looked in a certain direction.
It was precisely where Ying'an's cave abode stood.
"Who... is that?"
Outside the ruin.
Dongguan studied the shifting views of the ruin from various angles, stroking his chin in thought.
Then he took out a small cauldron and extended his consciousness into it.
A Hunyuan prisoner was sealed inside the small cauldron.
It was none other than Exotic Crystal, whom he had selected earlier.
"Weak cultivator, you're here again," Exotic Crystal spoke.
But Dongguan ignored him entirely, studying him from different directions instead. He even channeled divine power into the small cauldron to rotate him. Viewed from the front, he was a ridge; from the side, a peak, different from near and far, high and low.
An object looked vastly different when viewed