I was terrified and asked, 'What about me? I'm still alive, can I leave this place unscathed?'
The other replied, 'No, your Divine Sense is very strong, temporarily not dead; but your body is already dead, in contrast, you are not truly alive but a living corpse.
Even if you could leave this world, your body would gradually rot, and then corrode the Divine Soul that cannot leave the body.
In the end, you would become a mindless walking corpse until your body turns to dust, and your Divine Soul would drift between heaven and earth, unable to enter reincarnation, becoming energy without consciousness.'
It paused the narrative and then asked, 'Little friend, have you ever experienced a hair's breadth between life and death? Like me now, watching death approach with no power to reverse it; or as I was then, the body dead but the Divine Sense still alive, the road ahead blurred, not knowing where to end up.'
Jiang Yuan thought seriously for a moment, indeed he had.
