Xuanji玄機

I... I've needed to set myself straight for a long time,

and face that unavoidable destiny.

Not that I'll miss being inside of this painting, mind you...

I've just never understood it: where do our fates end, and where do the lives we make for ourselves begin?

Did I doom myself to live as a wangren forever, had you never just so happened to find me here?

Or, was I only stuck out here because this was the path the two of us were predestined to cross?

Anyways... let's be off.

You must have come all this way to awaken me as a Divine Beast...

I'm ready whenever you are.

Don't worry, no glasses needed. I'm Xuanji.

I run the clinic here. I can feed on as many delusions as I want to this way.

That said, after Wangren Road started acting unstable earlier, I can't deny that I've felt the ripple effects.

It's not easy pretending I'm this antisocial mutant all of the time, but you have delusion glasses... I'm sure you've been to Wangren Road?

... There's a storm of delusion ravaging the area as we speak.

Don't get the wrong idea about me. I wasn't torturing any ghosts.

The more you make them suffer, the more malice they give off...

Well, you'd better be careful. Do your best to restore the qi flow.

Hey, there! We meet again!

It's me! Xuanji! I can't believe how bad things have gotten for Wangren Road...

I heard a dragon's den has emerged, and that it's gushing out delusion faster than a flash flood.

Knowing how I am, I got too frozen up in my own thoughts on what to do.

By the time I came to... BAM! I found I'd frozen myself solid!

I don't remember anything that happened while I was frozen, but it's clear you found me yet again.

It's like we're connected, in a way.

Wangren Road is at its tipping point. Let me come with you. Please!

I won't get in your way.

This delusion is out of hand. Just look at the way it's gushing into Kowloonfront.

Everyone's delusions are whirling about in the air, just like in Wangren Road.

Any normal wangren would lose themselves in this environment.

I can just feel the delusion saturation, and it's skyrocketing by the minute!

The nightclub has a sister branch?! Well, I'll be...

I'd hate to burst your bubble, old sir, but today is May 23rd.

It's not May 22nd anymore. Today's the 23rd.

Do you know about the dragon's den that opened over on Wangren Road?

Supposedly, the fountainhead that makes up the connection's source awakened in some ancient era.

I'm not the sharpest toy in the cot now, but something tells me you want to pass through that dragon's den.

Did you hear that loud bang? It sounded like an explosion!

Hey... the delusion... feels lighter now, for some reason. As if it's getting sucked away.

That includes the delusion that was sustaining me. It's thinning so much. It's a one-eighty from earlier.

Hey, you! Another dragon's den opened up here!

Two dens, huh... That must be why the delusion is draining at such momentum! It's fading away as we... speak...

Oooh, I don't feel so... good... Augh, this is bad... It's running out! Get me... out of here. Quick...!

What is he doing here?!

Look, we can't get out like this! What's the plan?!

Window Man... turned into a complete object, and at this rate, I might too. I can't stick around here any longer!

Xiaohei was sucked into that dragon's den that just emerged.

Her sister's call from the inside must have drawn her in, but for both girls' sakes, we can't let them meet in there!

If we see Xiaohei, are we supposed to catch her inside of that photo or something?

It can't be worse than out here! The way things are now, there's no way I can stay on Wangren Road.