Point of Entry

To reincarnate once meant that the original body had died, yet the spirit remained unextinguished, the primordial spirit unquenched. One passed into the next life and began a new existence.

Different people might reincarnate in entirely different ways.

For some, it was like restoring factory settings—everything was wiped clean. Perhaps only the martial foundation of their previous life remained, offering great help on the path of cultivation in this life. It was equivalent to opening a brand-new life; though called reincarnation, they were in truth completely different people.

Others merely rebooted, reincarnating with their memories. Strictly speaking, it was a continuation of their previous life.

This gave rise to a question: could someone reincarnate as a blank sheet of paper, endure countless storms, witness the many affairs of the world, grow into an independent person, and then suddenly recover their memories?

Xiang Yang believed it was possible. Thus, he could not rule out that the current Chu Canglan was dominated by the consciousness of an expert from his previous life. In a sense, the Chu Canglan of old had likewise vanished.

Naturally, this also had a premise: Chu Canglan had suffered a tremendous upheaval and his mind had been wounded. That still had to be traced back to the time Xiang Yang defeated him.

So no matter how he calculated it, Xiang Yang reckoned that Chu Canglan's transformation was connected to him to some degree. At the very least, his defeat had left that heroic young man unable to recover from a single blow, disheartened and dejected, giving certain people with ulterior motives an opening.

He had a few other guesses, but in Xiang Yang's eyes, they were all exceedingly unlikely. He merely kept them in mind.

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