Time continued to pass until the sixth chaos cycle, relentlessly bringing Ceilia face-to-face with her own death once again. This time, the weight of her wrong decisions crashed down upon her, dawning on her with brutal clarity.
And so she found herself standing at a crossroad, torn between following Xia Tian or chasing after Nu Jueqing, her daughter. The burning desire to uncover her daughter's fate warred within her, threatening to consume her every thought.
In the end, after agonizing deliberation, she made the excruciating choice and decided to accompany Xia Tian on their journey through the illusion. It loomed before them, a vast and eerily familiar reconstruction of the past, so realistic that it was as though time had folded in on itself.