Purple Cloud

***

"Your Grace, must we go to that tainted world?" asked the retainer.

"Ho ho, it'll be for a brief moment," the man in white robes spoke as he began stepping down from the mountain.

The retainer followed calmly after, as the two bypassed the millions of prostrating people around the mountain.

"I want to see that child with my own eyes, it's been a while since I've witnessed the birth of a new Sun, so I wish to see how he'll achieve it."

"If we leave now, aren't we at risk of having the Darkest Sun attack?"

"If he dares, he could, but I'm sure no one would think that I'm too old to even teach those punks a lesson, come, come, we can only stay in that world for a brief moment," the old man said and the two suddenly disappeared from sight.

***

But if I'm Du Shen, who is Shen Bao?

Am I the past me, or the present me? Or am I the result of both lives?

The more I question, the more at a loss I find myself.