Yun Lintian's hand finally made contact with Nian Shi's forehead. But this was not the swift, clean unmaking he had initially intended. The cold fury that had been simmering beneath his calm surface demanded a more final, more absolute repayment.
He would not just erase Nian Shi. He would make him understand the totality of his loss in the most brutal way possible.
Instead of simply scouring his consciousness, Yun Lintian inverted the process. He forced the vast, stolen power within Nian Shi—the power of time, the Spark of Chaos—to turn inward.
Nian Shi's body began to convulse violently. His screams returned, but they were now silent, trapped within a personal hell of his own making. His eyes bulged, seeing not the external world, but an internal catastrophe.
Yun Lintian was making him experience time. All of it.
Nian Shi was forced to relive every single moment of his endless life simultaneously.
