Supreme Swordsman of the Nine Heavens

Reincarnation

“Why did my shifu trust Bai Jie if he’s a member of the soul race?”

“In his early days at Third Heaven, he didn’t go by the name Bai Jie but Hun Wuxin. The leader of Third Heaven Palace in that era was the real Bai Jie, who strove to protect Third Heaven. Not long after Bai Jie and Sword Shadow Dust Gale started sustaining Celestial Prison, Hun Wuxin found a way to sneak into Third Heaven and stole Bai Jie’s soul, consequently gaining all of Bai Jie’s soul. Sword Shadow Dust Gale wanted to stop Hun Wuxin, but it was too late as his cultivation had degraded too much,” Chi Yue answered.

“How do you know he’s Hun Wuxin?”

“He aimed to release us upon arrival. He was the one who shared all of this knowledge with me. Sword Shadow Dust Gale did a remarkable job of guarding all of Third Heaven’s entrances, safeguarding it from other worlds for millenniums. There was one place, however, that he couldn’t guard.”

“The passage to reincarnation,” Ju Mang voiced.

“How are Third Heaven Palace and the passage of reincarnation connect-” Mu Yu cut himself off upon sensing his hold over Chi Yue weakening to restrain the latter in life and death qis. “Can you tell me more about the passage?”

“… There’s an entity there that is tasked with choosing souls,” Ju Mang replied.

“I don’t get it.”

“Do you know why our race and fiends decided to fight to the bitter end?”

“You ready to tell me?”

“Soul sacrifices,” grouched Ju Mang. “Besides murdered souls, every life enters the passage of reincarnation post-death regardless of race or world to reincarnate. Murdered souls end up devoured. Sword Shadow Dust Gale told me it’s the rule of every world. Their kind call murdered souls ‘soul sacrifices’.”

“Murdered souls? You mean those who had their lives taken before their time was supposed to be up?”

“… Yes…”

“The most convenient way to generate an abundance of souls for sacrificing would be to instigate wars, then. Ah, so that’s why Divine Executioner needs to keep conflicts going.”

“Exactly. Only when Sword Shadow Dust Gale told us the truth did we realise we’ve been led by the nose, bred as domestic animals. It’s embarrassing to admit, but it’s true that we toiled away, thinking we were vying for supremacy when we were mere sacrifices, tools trying not to be devoured. We refused to stop fighting each other once we learnt what was really going on. Unfortunately, Divine Executioner wouldn’t let us have our way. Second Heaven was used to make an example. Second Heaven is now a barren arena for fiend beasts to kill each other, clueless they’re hunting for Divine Executioner.

“Sword Shadow Dust Gale is the only one who can rival Divine Executioner, proven by the fact that he protected Third Heaven Palace’s souls from being manipulated. As such, our souls will enter the passage of reincarnation even if we die fighting each other. Sadly, he had to sacrifice his own cultivation to protect us. I reckon Hun Wuxin wiggled his way into Third Heaven when Sword Shadow Dust Gale’s cultivation bottomed out, planning to reverse Sword Shadow Dust Gale’s efforts. Conflict is not an end. Conflict is the means to an end, and it is gains that fuel it. Anyhow, it’s time we get moving.”

Mu Yu did not dare trying to cast a formation on Walk-in Heart Switch to stop the red light emitted from converting things as Ku Mu got hurt when he did it. Though Wood Spirit would not be affected, Wood Spirit was brimming with life qi and death qi, both sitting on a dangerous equilibrium. Hence, all he could do was try merging the life qi and death qi together again. The problem was that it would take time to dump them outside the dimensional barrier, while Gui Mohan was on his way back, so it boiled down to taking a chance.

Mu Yu first covered Walk-in Heart Switch with the branches from Wood Spirit and then slowly merged the life qi and death qi.

“I’m going to need an entire year to merge them. Shifu’s formation is still rather solid; it’d take, at least, a year for my life qi and death qi to drill a hole in it.”

“I have an idea.”

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