Chapter 2043: Fading Lights, Reincarnation is Right There

"I was hesitant about all of this until I saw that figure holding a corpse on the mountain with colorful snowflakes, for the second time, in the Ancient Ancestor Temple. At that moment, a sense of unease rose within me, along with a crazy idea!" Wang Lin didn't look at Heavenly Fate Child, but at the bridge behind him, speaking slowly.

"I was afraid that scene was real, afraid of failing to revive Muwan. I was afraid that all of this was truly me, in a certain life, having met Muwan, but failing to revive her despite all my efforts, until I immersed myself in the Dream Dao, wanting to change Reincarnation and make my dream come true!

But, was it really a past life… I don't think so! I was afraid all of this would become the truth, so I had to verify it, I had to change it!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed with a bright light.

"Back then, inside the Heaven Defying Bead, I heard a voice constantly telling me, 'one is missing… one is missing…' I never understood what was missing… In the Immortal Cave Realm, I once saw an illusion, seeing Immortal Emperor Bai Fan pointing at the sky in madness. Later I learned that he must have inadvertently seen that the world he existed in was actually an Immortal Cave, and thus he couldn't accept it and went mad.

Just like Venerable San Ling, except he didn't have the courage and perseverance of San Ling.

This scene inspired me and also instilled a deeper fear.

And in that Immortal Cave Realm, when I was attempting the Third Step, the Myriad Ancient Empty Gate appeared… and the voice behind that gate. Later, I realized this voice was very similar to the one inside the Heaven Defying Bead that spoke of 'one missing'.

Until I embarked on that crazy idea, until I saw Jiqiong's skull after his death in the Immortal Cave Realm, and a Divine Thought remained on that skull." As Wang Lin spoke, he raised his right hand and grabbed at the Void Realm, and immediately, Jiqiong's skull appeared in his hand.

On the skull, a mark rune flickered, emitting a cold, eerie glow and an aura of slaughter.

"Everything, I have the answer!" Wang Lin looked at the skull in his hand, a complex expression in his eyes.

"The one missing from the Heaven Defying Bead, that's you! You are not the so-called guardian, but the Artifact Spirit of this World-Fixing Compass!" Wang Lin suddenly looked up, his gaze piercing, causing Heavenly Fate Child's body to tremble slightly.

"Originally, my method for reviving Muwan was very vague; I didn't even know how to make her come back to life, until your appearance on the dao ancient Barren Mountain.

I kept the words you spoke in my heart. As my experiences continued, until I saw that mournful figure in the Ancient Ancestor Temple, I finally thought of a method!

While this idea and method were being implemented, I also constantly wondered if my existence was real or just a dream, and whether this Immortal Astral Continent truly existed.

Until I saw this skull…" Wang Lin murmured.

"You… what method did you think of…?" Heavenly Fate Child's enormous body was now constantly churning with black Qi. He looked at the calm Wang Lin, listening to his composed words, his heart filled with a profound fear.

He discovered that everything he knew differed greatly from the current reality, giving him a sense of impending disaster regarding the crazy idea and method Wang Lin spoke of.

Wang Lin looked at Heavenly Fate Child, his expression unchanged.

"My method is very simple. I know the Art of Flowing Moon, you know… I made my Slaughter Clone, after reaching Major Achievement, reverse the Flowing Moon. Using the power of cultivation I possess, like reversing time, I sent the Slaughter Clone back to the past!

I sent him back countless tens of thousands of years, to mimic this life, to unfold his own Dream Dao, and in those past years, to deduce and carry out everything that happened in my current life!

I gave him independent consciousness, gave this Clone complete freedom!

After doing this, I suddenly realized that everything became clear. A past life? The past life you spoke of was my Slaughter Clone, personally sent by me. You said this Immortal Astral Continent is illusory. Now, I can tell you, the Immortal Astral Continent is not a dream, not an illusion!

I, Wang Lin, am not a Reincarnation. I was born on Vermilion Bird Star, and I have come this far. I am who I am!

The reason you, and even some others, think this way is precisely because my Slaughter True Body successfully changed something in the past.

I don't know what my Slaughter Clone did in the past, nor do I know where he is now. But when I saw Jiqiong's skull, I saw his Slaughter Divine Sense on it, and I saw a method he left for me, as per my request back then, to awaken Li Muwan!

That Divine Sense clearly told me that the Slaughter Clone, in the past, reversed heaven and earth, borrowing a Compass. This Compass was the key to reviving Muwan.

He placed that Compass on this Immortal Astral Continent and entered it several times, but each time he stepped in, he quickly dissipated.

Until his last arrival in this Primordial God Realm, like a Reincarnation, before dissipating, he fulfilled the will I gave him, blasting open this Compass, making it incomplete, and simultaneously releasing the Artifact Spirit of this World-Fixing Compass!

Which is you." Wang Lin looked at Heavenly Fate Child. After hearing all of this, the latter's body trembled violently, his eyes revealing an expression of disbelief, and an indescribable fear.

"Impossible, this is impossible!"

"This is my method: to release you, and use you, as the Origin of this realm, the World-Fixing Compass, to revive my wife."

"Reincarnation is right there. If you comprehend it thoroughly, it moves according to your will. If you don't comprehend it, you say it's a past life's Reincarnation. It's a circle; it inherently exists. You can see it, you can feel it.

Like Mo Zhi's words, like Hong Die's memories, like when you recognized Lu Mo on dao ancient Barren Mountain.

Ancient Ancestor and Immortal Ancestor, they couldn't comprehend Reincarnation, thinking all of this was illusory, false. They sought the Dao and died… This is Reincarnation… If you comprehend it, it's just a circle, you can walk through it freely, choose any point at will, and grasp it effortlessly." Wang Lin shook his head, calmly looking at Heavenly Fate Child.

"You were scheming against me, but you didn't know that, in the end, I was scheming against you… like a sudden回头 at the fading lights."

"Impossible, none of this can be true!! I personally saw scenes from your past life, I personally saw you borrow the Compass I resided in, personally saw you carrying the Compass sinking into the Dream Dao!!

I even personally saw you reaching this step through countless cycles of Reincarnation, entering the Compass and dissipating!!!" Heavenly Fate Child seemed to go mad. He had schemed his entire life, but at this final juncture, he still miscalculated.

After the Compass was blasted open and he was released, he initially thought it was an accident, but he never expected that all of this was Wang Lin's plan.

"Impossible, I don't believe it!!" Heavenly Fate Child shrieked, his massive body transforming into a black mist that covered the sky, ferociously rushing towards Wang Lin, as if to devour him!

"What you see with your own eyes isn't necessarily true… because you can't see Reincarnation; it's right there. If you understand, you understand. If you don't, you'll never comprehend it." Wang Lin shook his head.

This chapter is missing a thousand words. Let's save it for tomorrow.