After explaining the plan, Demon Venerable Lianwu's beautiful eyes flickered. As though she were luring Wei Tu in and ensuring that he would take the bait, she used the brief pause after her words to answer his initial question.
—The remnant spirit of "Immortal Ying Qi."
"When the ancient demons conquered the Radiant Victory Realm, Immortal Ying Qi, who hailed from the Radiant Victory Realm, did indeed die in battle. Yet a trace of his 'true spirit,' as an object of reincarnation... was absorbed by the Hundred Spirits Demon Realm hidden deep within the Radiant Victory Realm."
"Now, it has revived once more and become the remnant spirit dwelling in the depths of this Hundred Spirits Demon Realm, guarding these Nine-Fragrance Vermilion Fruits."
At this point, Demon Venerable Lianwu suddenly stopped speaking. Then, with a sweep of her pink sleeve, she drifted away from Wei Tu's side and joined the ranks besieging Immortal Ying Qi.
Yet even so.
The crucial information revealed in those few sentences immediately stirred towering waves within Wei Tu's heart.
There was no other reason—
An undying true spirit, an object of reincarnation...
No cultivator who heard those two terms could likely conceal their shock.
For in the cultivation world, no matter who it was—even one as powerful as an immortal—death meant death. There had never been any "reincarnation of the soul" from mortal legends, no chance to live another life.
This principle was an unchanging truth throughout the ages of the cultivation world, one that no cultivator had ever been able to break.
So-called "reincarnation" was merely a possibility of rebirth imagined by mortals and cultivators alike.
But now...
This common understanding seemed to be overturned by the existence of Immortal Ying Qi?
*Could it be that the thing Firestone Venerable, Phantom-Armed Demon Venerable, and