'It can't be for some boring reason like keeping a memento.'
'Because of... regret? Or maybe, a wish?'
'So if I think about it from the other direction, if I, as Gongsun Mo, fulfill his final wish, will I be able to crack the Cannibal Painting? And escape from this scroll?'
'For example... helping Xie Luohe, or himself, return to normal?'
This was because his method of entering the Ghostly Realm this time was highly unusual.
He hadn't entered through the Game Table in Zheng Xiu's Heart Prison.
Although he was dragged into the painting as his Incarnation, Zheng Shan, his appearance after entering was that of his true self, Zheng Xiu.
All sorts of strange occurrences made this trip into the Ghostly Realm full of uncertainties for Zheng Xiu.
But for now, Zheng Xiu, in his identity as Gongsun Mo, had already met Feng Bei and Ruchen.
The three of them, dragged into the painting, had reunited in this strange way within Gongsun Mo's memories, in the Daqian of two hundred years ago.
