Chapter 340: Five hundred years in the mortal realm, like a dream and also like an illusion!

【Before it was Him, now it's me?】

【This unexpected answer left you stunned, and then you plunged completely into a brainstorm.】

【Seeing your dazed state, the Blood-Clad Daoist leisurely began to recount the past; one after another, key information you had never imagined surfaced before you……】

【……】

【"The Eternal Primordial Wasteland cannot exist independently; this is a fact we have long verified. Thus, after the Old Primordial Wasteland fell into Chaos, a stable real anchor became indispensable."】

【The Purple-Robed Daoist spoke of the past: "The sole anchor of the entire Primordial Wasteland is Xue Xuan!"】

【"So we have always protected him, fearing any mishap that might cause the Eternal Primordial Wasteland to perish."】

【"Originally everything was fine, but then one day Xue Xuan found us and said that from today onward he would no longer be the protagonist, and thus the anchor naturally disappeared…"】

【"This news shocked us greatly, but strangely, the anchor's disappearance did not cause the Primordial Wasteland to head toward destruction; instead it continued to exist normally."】

【"For this theory-defying matter, we naturally asked Xue Xuan, but his answer far surpassed our imagination!"】

【"Because he said… the current Primordial Wasteland and we are actually illusory; without the protagonist observing, we are merely a textual setting of that indescribable existence…"】

Fourth Wall, silently broken! "These words…"

Zhao Si looked at this description and raised an eyebrow.

Although it seemed hard to understand at a glance, after combining the information and experience from chapter three, these words became very simple:

In short, just as Xue Xuan and Jin Bing argued in the previous chapter, after this chapter's plot ends, the protagonist will not actually lose their protagonist status; the reason the protagonist is no longer the protagonist is because they were never the protagonist to begin with—they are merely a copy!