Qin Yi had not expected Meng Qingying's first reaction upon hearing the word "wife" to be concern rather than joy.
The first thing she thought of was Jade True Person's state.
Obsession was a double-edged sword.
Qin Yi could imagine it: Jade True Person's resolve to defy Heaven was incomparably steadfast, yet if he became stubborn in certain matters, it might instead ruin everything.
Put another way, if Nine Infants could provide the soul of Jade True Person's wife, Jade True Person would be the first to turn against them and join Nine Infants.
Yet no one could provide it.
Because the person he sought simply no longer existed.
What the Phoenix Emperor had said was fact.
The cycle of reincarnation had never been fully established. Reincarnation and rebirth had originally been a most primitive process, entirely left to nature—without good or evil, without bias or favor, dependent only on one's own fate and fortune. The vast majority of the deceased became pure spirits, drifting through that river where even a passing goose was plucked clean. The resentful portions gathered into sea demons, while among ten thousand, scarcely one could reincarnate normally.
Xu Buyi had needed to specially study at the Nether Emperor Sect for a thousand years before learning the method to control his own reincarnation. With that, he had leapt from being the little brother of the Fisherman and Woodcutter to becoming their big brother, pleased as punch. That was the power of knowledge—and, in truth, he had also benefited from the Phoenix Emperor having already established part of the system.
Later, the Netherworld collapsed. The basin grew legs and ran away, and the system that had finally been built halfway completely crumbled. Things became even worse and more chaotic than at the beginning. Even with Yao Guang's