The other side.

Yu Wenxuan's sudden action disrupted Bai Yanren's plan.

The Fog Gathering, which should have been released, still existed in the gap between the Fog Realm and the Mortal World, unable to emerge.

Bai Yanren frowned deeply; he almost never showed this emotion, but the current situation was indeed beyond his expectations.

However…

There are other ways to stop the Fog Gathering, but that person should never have killed those people.

Because the people of the Dark Abyss... were already dead; it was Bai Yanren who resurrected them, and it was Bai Yanren who gave them orders, even though they themselves were unaware and believed their superior was merely Zhou Tian.

Yu Wenxuan was ruthless; to him, as long as it wasn't something untouchable by physical harm, he had ways to handle it.

Like these individuals, it was first a shot to the heart, then a shot to the head, ensuring they were dead beyond doubt.

However, just as Yu Wenxuan was about to leave the key space of the Dark Abyss, a space rift suddenly appeared, and wisps of abnormal white mist emerged from the bodies of all he had killed, penetrating into the space rift.

The next moment…

A left leg stepped out.

Then, a person who made Yu Wenxuan's heart suddenly skip appeared.

Bai Yanren.

He crossed the space abruptly, walked out of the rift, and quietly looked at Yu Wenxuan.

"Their lives are mine to give," Bai Yanren looked at Yu Wenxuan expressionlessly.

Yu Wenxuan suddenly realized.

So that's how it is…

This person could come over instantly, it must be caused by those things like white mist emerging from the corpses.

They needed to return to this person's location, and because of some of their characteristics, the space rift was opened, positioning the two places, and naturally, this "Bai Yanren" came over.

"I'm curious, are you really Bai Yanren?"

Yu Wenxuan sensed danger.

Bai Yanren glanced at the key in Yu Wenxuan's hand, a barely noticeable hint of disgust flickered in his eyes.

"So you've met him, he was born from within me, yet he betrayed me."

Yu Wenxuan nodded, understanding.

The Bai Yanren in the Time-Space Gap within the Sea Moon was indeed once one with the Bai Yanren before him.

However, these two seemed to have completely opposing beliefs, and thus they parted ways.

"Did he send you to stop me?" Bai Yanren asked.

Yu Wenxuan knew the person in front of him would never let him go, now he could only stall for as much time as possible, then find a way to escape from this person's sight, at least from this space.

"No, it was your brother."

Yu Wenxuan's brain was frantically devising a way to escape, while he continued to pique Bai Yanren's curiosity.

"However, the other you was also involved; this key that can open the Time-Space Gap was given to me by him."

"Hey, I know you won't let me go, but before you act, can you tell me how you manage to resurrect the dead?" Yu Wenxuan didn't wait for Bai Yanren to speak first; he immediately started a new topic.

Bai Yanren originally didn't want to waste words on him, but who knew that the question Yu Wenxuan brought up was his proudest achievement.

Itched with eagerness and nowhere to vent, Bai Yanren couldn't resist when someone actively brought it up.

He chuckled lightly and pointed at the corpses on the ground.

"The human body, due to injury and aging, becomes unable to function, eventually leading to death. At its core, it's because the physical body's strength is insufficient, whether it's the level of energy absorption or the speed of self-repair."

"As for the soul, I do not acknowledge its independent existence. To me, the soul is a byproduct of the continuous release and reception of various electrical signals from the human brain's nervous system. It itself only appears within the nervous system; switch to another body, and it's impossible to produce the same consciousness and soul."

"Therefore, to perfectly resurrect someone, you cannot allow the person to abandon the physical body and exist in another form. That would just create a new consciousness, completely unrelated to the original person."

Bai Yanren grew more excited as he spoke, while Yu Wenxuan, originally just trying to buy time, found himself increasingly captivated.

"So your method is to strengthen the human body itself, or in other words... the entire nervous system?"

Yu Wenxuan asked.

Bai Yanren nodded with satisfaction: "Correct."

"Human consciousness cannot exist independently from the body."

"Human consciousness cannot be inherited again after changing bodies."

"Human consciousness will not disappear upon death as long as the nervous system remains intact; revival is possible."

"These are the three points I've discovered through my research."

Bai Yanren suddenly felt somewhat reluctant to kill Yu Wenxuan; he rarely encountered someone who resonated with him like this.

He could also see that Yu Wenxuan was genuinely interested in his research.

"So, just injecting a higher level of energy into an already deceased person whose brain's nervous system is still intact can resurrect them."

"And this energy... is it."

Bai Yanren waved his left hand, and a shaky, grayish-white humanoid silhouette appeared out of thin air.

"It has no name; it's merely the fruit formed by the Fog Realm Mother Tree after absorbing the negative emotional energy overflowed from the Human World."

"I've given them a name—residue."

Bai Yanren paused briefly in his speech.

"These residues are born from humans; after the Mother Tree's transformation, their energy level becomes higher and purer and can almost perfectly integrate with humans."

"You can imagine them as a new battery; as long as they are placed into the human body, they can produce extraordinary effects."

"A new species... is thus born," Bai Yanren finished, quietly watching Yu Wenxuan.

"Residue..." Yu Wenxuan slowly recited the name.

"It sounds somewhat ominous; does it have any meaning?" he asked.

Bai Yanren shook his head: "Missing, altered, discarded, that's residue. Even their own existence is barely the time of a day."

His gaze fell on this residue he summoned: "After one day, it will turn into a mirage, disappearing completely."

Having said that, it's unclear what he did; the residue once again transformed into a white mist, burrowing into Bai Yanren's body.

Watching this scene, an extremely bizarre and fantastical idea suddenly formed in Yu Wenxuan's mind.

He had almost never felt an emotion called astonishment before, yet at this moment, Yu Wenxuan couldn't help but ask:

"You can command and summon them like this; does it mean you are also..."

Bai Yanren slowly turned his head expressionlessly, his eyes falling on Yu Wenxuan.

His voice was calm yet filled with a chilling pressure that made both hearts tremble.

"That's right, I am also a residue."

"I am the first residue from that world... no, from this world, who lived an entire day and developed self-awareness."

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