Inside the ancient temple.
Wuyin answered many of Dongguan's questions with great candor.
From his answers, Dongguan gradually learned how this whole affair had unfolded.
The "Serpent of Eternity," Tamos, and the "Buddha-Demon Lord," Wuyin, were unquestionably beings who had transcended the cage, Hunyuan powerhouses whom Dongguan could currently only look up to.
Had their true bodies been present, Dongguan as he was now would have struggled to withstand even their gazes.
However, they were not in a state of "life," but one of "death."
For Hunyuan powerhouses, life and death were not absolute. Wuyin and Tamos had all but killed each other, and both had left contingencies for their own resurrection, as well as contingencies to prevent the other's resurrection.
The two were entangled.
One remnant of that entanglement, perhaps from the battle between the two Hunyuan powerhouses spilling over into this Source World, had caused a "hole" to appear and left behind two "departed souls."
Through some means, Tamos had left his influence in the relatively nearby Primal Universe, and the earlier abnormality involving "Myriad-Heart Man" had stirred it.
Afterward, Dongguan had obtained it.
That wisp of aura was, after all, relatively small, and as it recovered, it naturally brought Dongguan benefits as well.
In fact, its use back then had also been an act intended to make him "dependent."
Had "Myriad-Heart Man" experienced all this instead of Dongguan, he would long since have become a tool to be manipulated at will.
Even for Dongguan, all this had been somewhat perilous.
Still, he would not actually have perished. After all, this was only an avatar. Once everything represented by that wisp of aura departed with the "messenger," he could resurrect again. Apart from losing that wisp of "aura," there would have been little effect.
Or rather, there would