Shen Hai?!
Xinxin was struck speechless by his sudden revelation.
How was that possible?
Shen Hai and Lian Yan were the same person?
"That's impossible. Moon City's First Seat twenty years ago was Nie Yunzhen!" Xinxin immediately retorted.
Nie Yunzhen had appeared in the Fu City Eye Realm after clearing a ghost story called [Person in the Coffin].
But according to her own account, she was from twenty years ago and had been trapped in a ghost story until only recently escaping.
And twenty years ago, she had been the First Seat of the Moon City Eye Realm!
"She wasn't wrong either," Lian Yan said, offering no argument, only recalling the past. "Twenty years ago, the Moon City Eye Realm was nearing its end. Jiang Du and Zuo Xian entered the final game. Those two... saw the future and chose to give up on clearing it."
Lian Yan walked forward as he spoke.
"After leaving the final game, Jiang Du left his last words. Or perhaps calling them a prophecy would be more fitting."
The name Jiang Du seemed to stir some emotion in Lian Yan as well.
"He said-I will die, and I will return in Guanyin Village. If you see the me who returns, then our world... truly is already dead."
"Only a handful of people knew those words. I was one of them, because I was the First Seat back then."
"Zuo Xian spoke with Yi Lianhai for a long time after giving up on clearing the game. In the end, the two worked together on an ascension experiment. The experiment ended in failure. Zuo Xian's body was destroyed, and Yi Lianhai, in unbearable anguish, frantically developed technology that could revive human bodies."
"Judging by things now, he must have made considerable progress." Lian Yan paused briefly