"I suppose you want to ask what's going on with your soul." Xu Buyi spoke slowly. "Do you know how I'd answer?"
Qin Yi said, "How would I know?"
Xu Buyi snapped his fingers. "Exactly. That's the answer."
Qin Yi nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.
"How would I know where your soul came from?" Xu Buyi rolled his eyes. "I ought to be asking you. We spent so long preparing a body for My Emperor, yet you somehow took possession of it. If My Emperor hadn't seemed to intend to take you as a disciple, we might have beaten you up already. Did you think everyone was all smiles and laughter around you without a single doubt in their hearts?"
"It really had nothing to do with you?"
"What ability would I have for that?"
...It seemed he really did not have that ability. Qin Yi did not believe Xu Buyi could influence a soul from Earth, either. Such a method might have been possible at Great Staff's peak, but clearly, it had not been her...
That was strange.
If it had not been a coincidence, then the mystery of his soul was apparently far more troublesome than that of his body.
Xu Buyi knocked his Smoking Pipe and said slowly, "Some of what I've told you is what I know, and what I personally did. Some of it is merely deduction based on the circumstances. For example, whether the Heavenly Emperor reincarnated as Li Wuxian because she had taken a fancy to this family's talents, or whether she fashioned a male body for that particular reason—those are just things I 'think.' I'm not Yao Guang herself. It's not as if I know everything she thinks in her heart. Since you're one of us, I'm just casually