'To think she was...'
'Turned into some "Living Puppet"?'
'And even... Master couldn't save her.'
'At best, he could only grant her a moment of "clarity"... like a final farewell?'
'What about Master?'
'His wife?'
'My senior brothers?'
'...Had they met the same cruel fate?'
'Or...'
'Did they not even have the chance to become "Living Puppets"?'
Path of Non-Birth!
Path of Non-Birth!!!
'A wave of unprecedented fury and grief threatened to overwhelm his sanity!'
His eyes were bloodshot, and his entire body trembled. The True Essence around him began to fluctuate violently, and his Profound Nether Nature threatened to surge uncontrollably. Frost even began to creep across the flagstones at his feet...
"Linyuan!"
His master's sharp rebuke, like the tolling of a great bell, suddenly rang through his Sea of Consciousness. Qin Fang shuddered, the violent rage and grief abruptly suppressed.
"Meditation!"
His master commanded in a deep voice.
