Even long after the Great Peng Yao Emperor left, Chen Yixin’s chin remained lifted. The natural pride of a phoenix was unmistakable in him, although Chen Yixin was also much more cunning than the average phoenix and absolutely unwilling to suffer the slightest loss.
He had even specified the terms of the challenge in advance: if he lost, Wenren Li would beat the Great Peng Yao Emperor for him. Shameless to the extreme.
“A-Li, don’t worry. I was just scaring him. Ten years will be enough.”
“I’ll follow A-Rong’s arrangements.” Wenren Li lifted a hand and stroked Chen Yixin’s cheek. A trace of amusement appeared in his eyes before he gently pulled Chen Yixin into his arms again. His words sounded half like a sigh and half like a confession. “I always feel as though I like A-Rong more and more.”
“Of course you do. I’m worth A-Li liking me this much.” Chen Yixin’s vanity had not changed in the slightest. After saying that, he leaned close to Wenren Li’s ear. “Shall we go back to our room?”
Being vain did not prevent Chen Yixin from being thoroughly affected by Wenren Li’s words. Food and sex were human nature; there was no need to suppress what came naturally.
After another day of steady drizzle, the treasure ships shrank and Ze Fang put them away. The group entered the sea and continued toward the Merfolk Sea Clan’s underwater settlement.
Chen Yixin and Wenren Li sat atop Yinzi’s silver-furred body, now about the size of a cloak. The Demon Guards protected them on all sides, while the four Soul Transformation merfolk traveled farther out. Only behind them came the yao cultivators and human cultivators led by Ze Fang and Nan Ke.
Elio’s Notes: The original text says that the rear group is led by Ze Fang and Nan Ke, although Nan Ke has already been placed among the Demon Guards accompanying Chen Yixin and Wenren Li, while the Great Peng Yao Emperor is clearly traveling with Ze Fang. This appears to be a minor continuity slip in the source, so the translation preserves the wording without silently substituting another character.
They would first head to the waters occupied by the Merfolk Sea Clan and subdue the final Soul Transformation merfolk, then proceed to the place where the immortal light had appeared. Whether that place was the North Sea Water Palace Father Chen had told them to seek would have to wait until they arrived.
“Father, Mother, the water here feels really nice…” Yinzi had slept for more than half a year. His true body had grown from roughly cushion-sized to cloak-sized, and that growth was mainly thanks to the Upper-Realm sword spirit Han Zichuan had given them.
“Looks like the stories about spatial rifts in the North Sea aren’t just stories.” After saying this to Wenren Li, Chen Yixin reached down and scratched Yinzi’s body. “Once we arrive, have your father examine you properly.”
Chen Yixin’s breadth of knowledge was still far inferior to Wenren Li’s. Even when his unusual constitution allowed him to sense something, he could not necessarily give Yinzi particularly good advice. Wenren Li was different. He knew an extraordinary amount, and there were many things even the Abode Spirit could not explain clearly that Wenren Li could answer for both Chen Yixin and Yinzi.
“Okay!” Yinzi answered cheerfully and continued gliding through the water.
The people behind them struggled to keep up, while Chen Yixin and Wenren Li traveled in complete leisure. Sitting atop Yinzi was even more comfortable than riding the treasure ships. Yinzi could safely travel through the void itself, much less the bottom of the sea.
According to the Soul Transformation merfolk, they would need to travel for nearly three days.
Their daily routine was nearly identical to life aboard the ships. They spent most of their time cultivating and discussed any problems they encountered with each other. If some sea beast lacking eyes came after them, the Soul Transformation merfolk, Ze Fang, and the others dealt with it. Chen Yixin and Wenren Li could not even be bothered to glance over.
“Reporting to Master, the territory of my Merfolk Sea Clan lies just ahead.” The leading Soul Transformation merfolk was named Yan. He bowed slightly from beyond the Demon Guards as he reported, and everyone traveling behind them stopped as well.
Ze Fang and the Great Peng Yao Emperor both had concerns. Letting their entire groups follow Chen Yixin and Wenren Li inside seemed inappropriate. But letting Chen Yixin and Wenren Li enter the Merfolk Clan alone with those four merfolk made them uneasy as well, while leaving the younger generation outside unattended worried them even more.
Chen Yixin and Wenren Li stood. Yinzi shrank back to cushion size and flew into Chen Yixin’s arms. Chen Yixin nodded at Wenren Li, then swept a hand backward. Nan Ke and the others vanished into the Fentian Nether Abode.
When Chen Yixin had become a little blue bird, he had been unable to open the jade clasp, and the Fentian Nether Abode had likewise been inaccessible. Now his cultivation had returned and the Fentian Nether Abode could be opened again. The abode was badly damaged and some regions within it had almost no spiritual power, so keeping people shut inside for a long time would not be ideal. But they would only be entering and leaving the Merfolk Clan once, which would not take very long, so there was no real problem.
The pupils of Ze Fang and the Great Peng Yao Emperor contracted slightly. Neither had ever seen a spatial artifact capable of containing living people. Chen Yixin would never harm his own Demon Guards, however, so Nan Ke and the others were certainly safe.
“Divine Lord, could you take them inside as well?”
The Great Peng Yao Emperor spoke first. Young Lord Peng and the others turned toward Chen Yixin, the fervor in their gazes still difficult to extinguish.
Chen Yixin nodded. “I can, but I’ll have to inconvenience you by putting you to sleep.”
Nan Ke and the others could move around freely inside the Fentian Nether Abode. These cultivators and yao cultivators could not. Their fervent admiration did not amount to much in Chen Yixin’s eyes.
Neither Ze Fang nor the Great Peng Yao Emperor objected. Chen Yixin carried Yinzi a little farther ahead and stored everyone away.
The enormous procession was reduced to a simple group of eight—no, that still failed to count Yinzi. He was a devastating weapon no less formidable than Wenren Li. Anyone who underestimated him would certainly pay dearly for it.
“The one remaining in our clan is our Clan Chief. In addition, there are three clan elders.” The Merfolk Clan did not possess only the five Soul Transformation experts Ze Fang knew about. There were eight in total, although three had been in seclusion for so long that they no longer concerned themselves with clan affairs or conflicts between the sea clans and humans.
Ze Fang’s pupils contracted. He realized he had underestimated the Merfolk Sea Clan. The sky races probably did not have only the handful of Soul Transformation clan elders visible on the surface either. They undoubtedly had hidden strength of their own. Ze Fang could not help wondering whether the human factions also possessed Soul Transformation experts hidden from the world.
Chen Yixin fell silent as well. Taixuan truly had no shortage of capable people below Soul Transformation and deserved to be called a divine land. Yet its path to immortality had been severed. No matter how exceptional their aptitude or how many Soul Transformation cultivators arose, in the end they could only exhaust their lives on this land.
The scenery beneath the water was completely different from the world above. Once they entered the Merfolk Clan’s territory, it became even more breathtaking: coral, aquatic plants, playful little fish, and countless shifting colors of light made it extraordinarily beautiful.
After traveling quickly for two hours, a shimmering barrier appeared before them. This was the entrance to the Merfolk Clan’s territory. Yan stepped forward and swept out a hand. An opening appeared in the barrier, and he entered first.
Wenren Li took Chen Yixin’s hand and followed. Ze Fang and the Great Peng Yao Emperor came two steps behind them, followed by the remaining three Soul Transformation merfolk.
The instant Yan stepped through, a short-range teleportation formation appeared beneath his feet. Wenren Li, entering immediately behind him, needed only one glance before fixing Yan with a cold stare.
“Shatter.”
The teleportation formation instantly broke into powder. The force of the collapsing space struck Yan so hard he coughed blood. He clutched his head and knew that the single opportunity he had been waiting for was gone.
If he had managed to enter the teleportation formation successfully, his clan elders might have had some way to help him resist the Servant Imprint. He had failed. Now Wenren Li could kill him in an instant.
“Master, spare us!” The other three Soul Transformation merfolk who entered immediately afterward realized something had gone wrong and dropped to their knees to beg for mercy.
Wenren Li and Chen Yixin merely watched them coldly, unmoved. The two of them had noticed every small trick these four had attempted over the past several days. They simply still needed guides, so killing them too early would have been inconvenient.
“Clan Chief and the three clan elders, come out. Unless you want to watch them die in front of your own territory.”
As Wenren Li spoke, all four Soul Transformation merfolk clutched their heads and rolled across the ground. Their divine souls were being continuously twisted and might rupture—or be extinguished—at any moment. Wenren Li was not making an empty threat. With the Servant Imprint, he truly could kill them instantly. Even without it, killing them would not require much effort.
“A misunderstanding! This is a terrible misunderstanding! Both Divine Lords, please come inside!”
A plump old merfolk rolled out from among the coral reefs. He did not spare the four Soul Transformation merfolk writhing on the ground so much as a glance. His small eyes shone with joy as he looked at Chen Yixin and Wenren Li, and he waved his hands frantically. “A misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!”
“For them to recognize you as their masters is a blessing—our clan’s blessing! Please, come inside. This old man has finally waited long enough to meet the two of you.”
Chen Yixin had never heard of the Merfolk Sea Clan’s prophecy, so there was nothing here to particularly move him. Wenren Li had heard of it before, but even he had not expected this merfolk clan elder to recognize that Chen Yixin was different at a glance.
“Kneel! All of you, kneel!”
The plump old merfolk shouted loudly. The Clan Chief who had appeared was still hesitant, but even he followed the elder’s order and dropped to his knees in welcome.
As one after another knelt down, the merfolk army that arrived late froze in astonishment before dropping to their knees as well. Wenren Li’s original plan to kill someone and establish his authority no longer seemed particularly necessary.
At that moment, Yinzi floated forward from Chen Yixin’s arms. His long whiskers lashed outward, releasing a strange force. Two more Soul Transformation experts who had been hiding in the void with the aid of extraordinary treasures were whipped out into the open.
“A misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!” The plump old man cried out again. He crawled toward them on his knees, desperate to explain, but Yinzi had already extracted the divine souls of the two Soul Transformation sea-clan cultivators and swallowed them whole.
Ah… A series of startled exclamations followed. Everyone had been stunned by Yinzi.
Chen Yixin beckoned, and Yinzi flew back into his arms. He poked him once. “Glutton…”
That single word counted as all the discipline Chen Yixin intended to give him. The weak were prey to the strong; that was simply how Yinzi understood the world. The only people for whom he made exceptions were Chen Yixin and Wenren Li.
Yinzi’s long whiskers rubbed against the back of Chen Yixin’s hand. Then he stared at the Merfolk Sea Clan with his round eyes. He could swallow every one of them in a single bite. Let them see whether they still dared hide in the shadows and try to hurt his Father and Mother.
“Let’s go inside first.” Chen Yixin took Wenren Li’s hand and led him farther in. He wanted to hear exactly what this plump old man intended to tell him. Apparently, the Tianji Sect was not the only group that knew something about him.
Once Wenren Li allowed Chen Yixin to lead him away, his killing intent faded as well. The four Soul Transformation merfolk who had been rolling in agony simply passed out. After experiencing this torture, they probably would not dare harbor much rebellious intent again.
The pain of having one’s divine soul torn and crushed was enough to frighten even a Soul Transformation expert.
The plump old merfolk personally led the way, but the anxiety on his face had hardly eased. He was clearly agonizing over how to clear up this “misunderstanding” and obviously had no desire whatsoever to become enemies with Chen Yixin or Wenren Li.
Chen Yixin and Wenren Li entered the main hall and made no attempt at politeness. They walked straight to the throne normally used by the Merfolk Clan Chief and sat down together. The Merfolk Emperor’s throne was wide enough for one person to sleep on, so the two of them fit with room to spare. Looking at them there, it almost seemed as though they had been born to sit in such a place.
Ze Fang and the Great Peng Yao Emperor had followed them the whole way. Originally, they had intended to protect Chen Yixin and Wenren Li, but there had been no opportunity for them to intervene earlier, and judging from the situation now, there seemed even less need.
One thing, at least, was worth celebrating: they had not chosen to stand on the opposite side from Wenren Li and Chen Yixin. Otherwise, today’s headache would have belonged to them instead.
“What did you mean earlier? Divine Lords? You’re saying A-Li and I are Divine Lords?”
Chen Yixin could more or less guess that this would turn out to be yet another version of the same pattern. Still, out here thousands upon thousands of miles from the continent, he wanted to hear this similar prophecy for himself. He also wanted to know whether it aligned with the four-character prophecy the former Elder Tianji had left Wenren Li.
“The feathers on your forehead prove that you have awakened divine blood. Naturally, you are a Divine Lord.” The plump old man did not dare sit. He stepped forward twice, then chose to kneel while answering. Apparently, only that made him feel secure.
“Your silver hair is also one of the signs of a Divine Lord. There is no need to prove any of this further.” The plump old man’s gaze grew even more intense when it shifted to Wenren Li than when it rested on Chen Yixin. His mouth opened, and he clearly remembered something, but ultimately said nothing.
“You two… please follow this old man. One look and you will understand.”
After saying this, the plump old merfolk respectfully knocked his forehead against the ground. The other Soul Transformation merfolk knelt and kowtowed with him. Clearly, these people had all heard the prophecies passed down through the Merfolk Clan for generation after generation. They simply had never expected that the humans trying to compete with them for the place where immortal light had appeared would turn out to be the reincarnated Divine Lords from those prophecies.
“There are stories that the Merfolk Clan possesses a divine well where strange phenomena often appear. Looks like those stories were true.”
Ze Fang turned slightly and explained what he knew to Chen Yixin and Wenren Li. He had lived for more than a thousand years and, apart from ordinary cultivation, particularly enjoyed collecting information like this. Some of it was true and some false, but over such a long period, the habit naturally yielded something useful.
“We’ll know once we take a look.” Chen Yixin thought of the divine well in the Abode Spirit’s memories, the one from which he had taken Wenren Li when fleeing the Upper Realm. If the Merfolk Clan possessed a similar well, then it could not possibly be ordinary.
The divine well lay inside the Merfolk Sea Clan’s forbidden grounds. Under normal circumstances, ordinary merfolk other than the plump old clan elder and the Clan Chief were forbidden to enter. But since they were bringing Chen Yixin and Wenren Li there today, that rule was simply ignored.
To make sure the other members of the clan were completely convinced as well, the plump old merfolk decided that anyone interested could follow them inside to witness it.
“This well is called the Three Lives Well. In addition to producing strange phenomena, it can show the past life, present life, and next life of the person reflected within it.”
The plump old man solemnly described everything remarkable about the well, but to Chen Yixin, that sounded rather uninteresting. He was the reincarnation of a divine phoenix. If he failed in this lifetime, there might not even be another reincarnation waiting for him. He had already recognized Father Chen as an avatar of the Sovereign from his previous life. Merely seeing what his former life looked like gave him very little to anticipate.
Still, since they had come all this way, there was no harm in looking. The divine well sat in the middle of a flat stretch of land where not a blade of grass grew. It looked desolate and ordinary, yet this was the divine well the Merfolk Sea Clan had guarded from generation to generation and could not afford to lose.
“Both Divine Lords, please step forward.” The Clan Chief, the Merfolk Emperor, first went forward and performed a series of prayers before bowing to Chen Yixin and Wenren Li. Everyone else became solemn as well, waiting to see what result the divine well would reveal.
Chen Yixin glanced at them, then took Wenren Li’s hand and went forward. Halfway there, he turned his head and smiled at him. “A-Li doesn’t need to worry. We’re just taking a casual look. I trust my own judgment.”
Chen Yixin was not someone whose understanding could be thrown into chaos by prophecies or divine wells. He had chosen Wenren Li. Whatever he saw would not change that.
There would have been no harm in refusing to look at all. But Chen Yixin felt that he needed to understand divine objects like this. They must exist for some reason. If one could help them, they could keep it. If it became an obstacle, they could destroy it. That was Chen Yixin’s real reason for wanting to see.
He had always believed that the future was something he and Wenren Li would walk toward together, not a piece of text someone had engraved somewhere in advance.
“Mm.” Wenren Li nodded. He truly did have some hesitation, but since Chen Yixin wanted to look, he was willing to accompany him.
Chen Yixin quickened his pace. The moment he reached the divine well, the spiritual image of a phoenix with its wings spread flew out of the well and circled around him. Everyone present, including Ze Fang and the Great Peng Yao Emperor, dropped to their knees to show submission and respect.
Chen Yixin ignored them and paid no attention to the spectacle the well had created around him either. He looked carefully into the water, wanting to see what the well would reflect for Wenren Li.
Nothing.
Once the phenomenon faded, the still water clearly reflected Chen Yixin’s true body as a tiny phoenix chick. Yet Wenren Li, whose hand he was holding, produced no image at all, as though Chen Yixin were standing beside and holding nothing but empty space.
Chen Yixin refused to believe it. He bent over the well and leaned his head farther forward. Wenren Li reached out and wrapped an arm around his waist, suddenly and inexplicably afraid Chen Yixin might fall in.
“What kind of useless well is this? That’s all you can show me…?”
As Chen Yixin muttered, Wenren Li’s pupils suddenly contracted. He saw an image of a blue-feathered phoenix covered in blood and shedding tears. When he focused again, there was nothing. He had no way of determining whether what he had seen belonged to the past or the future.
His arm tightened further around Chen Yixin. Chen Yixin stopped leaning toward the well and turned back with visible boredom. “A-Li, don’t worry. I won’t look anymore.”
As he spoke, he rubbed his forehead against Wenren Li’s chin. The three feathers brushed over Wenren Li’s lips and ended up stimulating Chen Yixin himself.
Wenren Li wrapped an arm around Chen Yixin and teleported them directly back to the Merfolk Water Palace’s main hall and onto the Merfolk Emperor’s throne. The plump old merfolk and the others, who had also chosen to teleport back in some surprise, discovered they could not enter the hall at all.
Wenren Li gently held Chen Yixin’s face between his hands. The pad of his index finger rested at the corner of Chen Yixin’s eye while he continued wondering why the blue-feathered phoenix in the well had been crying. Whether that image belonged to the past or the future, the only person capable of making Chen Yixin grieve like that was him. But how could he ever allow Chen Yixin to become that sorrowful?
“A-Li, what’s wrong?” Chen Yixin obediently let himself be held and just as obediently allowed Wenren Li to cup his face. He blinked lightly, then asked, “Did A-Li see something I couldn’t? Can this divine well only show a person their own images?”
Wenren Li released Chen Yixin’s face and slowly exhaled. “Caring too much clouded my judgment. I let it affect me.”
He saw no reason to hide anything from Chen Yixin and told him what he had seen. Chen Yixin fell silent for a moment. Then he took Wenren Li’s hand and placed it back against his cheek. Blinking, he said, “Hasn’t A-Li made me cry plenty of times already?”
The slightly serious atmosphere shattered beneath that one sentence and vanished without a trace. Put that way, Wenren Li really had made him cry quite a few times.
“A-Li, don’t worry. I’ll cultivate properly until even you can’t beat me.” Of course, there was still another possibility: Chen Yixin might willingly allow himself to be struck, or even willingly allow himself to be killed. It was far too early to draw conclusions. One single image could not decide anything.
“All right.” Wenren Li nodded, accepting Chen Yixin’s reasoning. Chen Yixin needed to cultivate until no one could hurt him. Wenren Li himself had to be included in that “no one.”
The slight turbulence in Wenren Li’s aura gradually settled. The Merfolk Sea Clan and Ze Fang, who had been blocked outside, were finally able to enter. After witnessing the phenomenon surrounding Chen Yixin at the divine well, the Merfolk Clan had all submitted completely. They arranged a palace for Chen Yixin and Wenren Li and intended to entertain them properly while doing everything possible to repair the impression the two now held of the clan.
Chen Yixin and Wenren Li agreed to stay. Three days later, they would proceed to the place where the immortal light had appeared.
The following evening, Chen Yixin took Yinzi for a walk. Somehow, their walk carried them right back toward the Merfolk Sea Clan’s forbidden grounds. Chen Yixin lightly patted Yinzi. His long whiskers swept outward and dragged the plump old merfolk over as well.
“Quiet. I have something to ask you privately.”
Chen Yixin thought this old man was fine in most respects except that he was far too excitable. Before he could start shouting in alarm, Chen Yixin released a trace of phoenix pressure. The Soul Transformation merfolk immediately fell silent in fright.
Chen Yixin waited until the old man recovered before continuing. “Under what circumstances would the Three Lives Well fail to reflect anything at all?”
“Within the Five Phases, there is nothing the Three Lives Well cannot reflect.” The plump old man shook his head stubbornly. But all Chen Yixin had to do was reverse the implication of that answer: the old man was saying that Wenren Li’s true nature lay outside the Five Phases, which was why the Three Lives Well could not reflect him. That barely counted as an explanation.
Elio’s Notes: The Five Phases—wood, fire, earth, metal, and water—are the traditional cosmological categories used to describe the workings of the natural world. The implication here is that Wenren Li falls outside that framework.
“What kinds of phenomena has it produced in the past? Tell me. And what exactly does this business about ‘the heavens changing’ mean?”
After the phenomenon at the divine well, Ze Fang had already told Chen Yixin and Wenren Li everything he had previously heard about the Merfolk Clan’s prophecies. Naturally, Chen Yixin now knew about those words: “the heavens will change.”
The Tianji Sect spoke of restoring the path to immortality. The Merfolk Clan spoke of the heavens changing. Did those two prophecies truly mean the same thing?
“Every time our clan holds its major rites, strange phenomena appear within the well. The words ‘the heavens will change’ were the conclusion one former Clan Chief reached only after observing those phenomena for nearly ten thousand years. Whether there is some other meaning, this old man is too dull to presume.”
Under Chen Yixin’s gaze, the plump old man’s legs uncontrollably softened again and he nearly knelt. Chen Yixin, however, had already turned around. He was even more puzzled than Wenren Li about why that blood-soaked phoenix had been crying.
He had not turned around to leave. Instead, he walked back to the Three Lives Well. First, he held Yinzi over it to have a look. The only image that appeared was Yinzi himself, a round little bundle of silver fur. Nothing more. No previous life and no next life.
Chen Yixin bent down and set Yinzi aside, then stepped forward himself. His eyes widened as he refused to miss even the smallest detail. First appeared his own clear half-yao form. Then came the tiny fledgling. After that appeared the fully matured divine phoenix he had seen within the Abode Spirit’s memories, sharp and noble, filled with a fearsome aura of killing.
“Hey. You showed A-Li something, so show it to me too. Otherwise I’ll have Yinzi swallow you as well.”
Even after Chen Yixin threatened it, the well still showed no reaction. Chen Yixin smiled lightly and called, “Yinzi…”
“Mother, I’m here!” Yinzi floated up. His round eyes stared at the divine well as well, undisguised greed filling them. Yinzi really could swallow almost anything, and this miraculous well would be no exception.
Almost the instant they finished speaking, another phenomenon appeared inside the divine well. Apparently, even a divine well knew how to bully the weak and fear the strong.
The image Wenren Li had seen finally appeared before Chen Yixin, even clearer than it had been for Wenren Li. Chen Yixin watched without changing expression. Then, deciding it still was not enough, he kicked the divine well once. A faint ripple of spiritual light spread from the well as though it were begging for mercy.
Chen Yixin continued glaring. Suddenly, an extraordinarily brief image flashed by.
Wenren Li.
His A-Li. Chen Yixin could never mistake him.
Wenren Li lay sleeping inside a lake, countless black threads connected to the outside of his body as though something were continuously draining away his life force.
“You always stop halfway. Keep going!” Chen Yixin kicked the divine well again, but this time it gave no further response. His eyes narrowed, anger rising at the image he had just seen. At that moment, the plump old merfolk dropped to his knees beside Chen Yixin with a thump.
“Divine Lord, please calm your anger! Please calm your anger! If you’re angry, take it out on this old man. This divine well absolutely cannot be destroyed!”
The Soul Transformation merfolk was nearly stunned senseless by Chen Yixin’s behavior. Since ancient times, who had ever dared threaten the Three Lives Well? Who had actually dared kick it? This was an extraordinary treasure born of Heaven and Earth, in no way inferior to an immortal artifact from the Upper Realm.
“Hmph.” Chen Yixin turned and snorted angrily before carrying Yinzi away. The plump old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, though all of it had been frightened out of him on behalf of the well. This Divine Lord truly feared absolutely nothing.
But if Chen Yixin simply let the matter go like this, then he would not be Chen Yixin. Over the following two days, right up until the day they were supposed to leave, he kept coming back to threaten the well.
“I’ll give you some time to think about it. Next time I come, if you still refuse to give me any useful information, I really will let Yinzi eat you as a tonic.”
As he spoke, he even bent down under the plump old man’s horrified gaze and patted the rim of the well.
Once Chen Yixin left, the plump old merfolk who remained behind with the clan practically threw himself over the well. Only after inspecting it carefully and confirming that nothing had been damaged did he collapse onto the ground, he and the Three Lives Well equally ready to cry without tears.
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