Chapter 1096: Past Self (1/2)

The little fox was in human form and wearing a white silk dress. Her black locks floated behind her like the clouds, while her stunning face beamed radiantly at the new arrivals. As she stood here, it seemed like the very void shone with a special light because of her existence.

“You’ve come back too, milady!” Qing Han said merrily as she walked up to the little fox.

“Your… what?” The little fox blinked. Still caught up in the joy of seeing Lu Yun again, she was abruptly jarred out of her mood by a young girl using an unexpected honorific.

“Me?” the little fox didn’t understand.

Qing Han nodded.

“And whose lady am I? What makes you call me that?” she asked.

Qing Han looked back at Lu Yun.

“…I KNEW IT! You always had designs on me, kid! How can you face Qing Yu after this?!” The little fox glared hotly at Lu Yun.

“Hold on a second, I’m confused here too! What did you just say? My dao fruit?” Lu Yun quickly redirected.

The little fox refused to answer and huffed at Lu Yun, anger shooting out of her wrathful baby blues.

“Master, that’s your body… Or rather, your past life.” Qing Han tugged lightly at his shirt. “You and milady were married in your past life. You don’t seem to be dao partners yet in this life…”

So that was the past life the girl had talked about.

“You’re his disciple?” The conversation registered with the little fox and she pointed at the seated Lu Yun in the void.

He was the exact same as the current Lu Yun. Even the lingering energy ripples on his body were the same as Lu Yun’s.

“Yes, he’s my master.” Qing Han nodded lightly and looked back at Lu Yun.

“I see what’s going on here.” Lu Yun had connected some of the initial dots. “This is my dao fruit and who she sees as my past life.”

In order to form his dao fruit, Lu Yun had instilled a neutral chaos star with the six orders of the chaos and sent it back to the past through the river of time that the little fox tapped into. There, the chaos star had slowly grown into his past self.

Along the same vein, he’d created a future self derived from a karmic fruit.

It was readily apparent that his past self had succeeded and sat here as his dao fruit, waiting for the present day Lu Yun to arrive.

Lu Yun’s past self possessed all of his memories and feelings, making him a bonafide Lu Yun living in the past.

He was a Lu Yun so far removed from the present that time itself lost meaning. Life decayed, died out, and started anew. He was completely severed from any karmic ties to the present.

The only thing his past self had been able to do was to prepare himself to be a dao fruit and await the arrival of his present self. Apart from that, anything else he did would be obliterated by the passage of time.

While there was no time in the chaos, there were the even more terrible chaos tribulations. Tribulation after tribulation was enough to wipe the slate clean an infinite number of times over. The only thing left was this dead mythological realm.

“Your past self, not past life?” Qing Han blinked.

“Yes, he is my past self, one that I sent to the past.” Lu Yun smiled faintly. The Lu Yun that had existed in the past was indeed him—not a duplicate or replica, but a living, breathing him that had lived in the past.

He took in a deep breath, took a step forward, and walked toward his dao fruit.

“Wait!” The little fox suddenly interposed herself in front of him and regarded him with an unpleasant look.

“What is it?” Lu Yun widened his eyes.

“Explain first why she calls me that! Why does your disciple think I’m your lady!” she demanded relentlessly. There was panic and… a hint of anticipation in her eyes?