Blackless God's eyes deepened even further. "Humans are naturally inferior, and your lives are limited. Immortality is impossible for you, no matter what level your cultivation reaches. Cryostasis and other methods are all pointless, but my Aeternals are different. Since you’ve already agreed to join us, you should abandon death energy. It is flawed, and it is impossible for that cultivation method to spread further."

Lu Yin gained access to more and more of Tian Dou’s memories, and with them, Lu Yin learned that Tian Dou was the only member of the Specter clan currently working with Blackless God. Lu Yin also learned exactly where the Specter clan was, as well as the fact that Tian Dou and Blackless God were currently in a cloud of death energy in the Astral Wilderness.

Silver had told Lu Yin about the location of this death energy cloud in the past, at the same time that he had mentioned another location in the Astral Beast Domain.

The thought of Silver triggered one of Tian Dou’s memories of Silver.

In the memory, Lu Yin saw a baby playing with flesh and bones, laughing amidst a pile of corpses. A delighted smile covered the baby’s face, despite it being covered in blood and gore while sitting in a virtual river of blood. The baby was tearing its own flesh from its body, as though its flesh was somehow in the way.

The baby's smile was exactly the same as Silver’s. It was large and brilliant, but also as disturbing as a fox’s grin.

The memory gave Lu Yin chills, and his expression changed yet again.

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