Fourth update today: Chapter 3216! 4/4!
Any living being that attempted to cross eras and undergo reincarnation cultivation, no matter how mysterious their methods, could not avoid one fundamental problem—"loss"!
Under conventional understanding, what reincarnators lost most often was the memories of their previous lives.
However, one must not assume that memories were merely fragments of sealed-away history.
For powerhouses capable of touching upon the mysteries of reincarnation, the memories they lost could be replaced with another, weightier and more significant term—"inheritance"!
Take Zhu Jiu, for instance. After undergoing several inexplicable cycles of reincarnation, he had even forgotten his fundamental identity as a Primordial Ancient Dragon.
Reborn in this era, not only had he failed to inherit the glory of his past life, but he had foolishly set his sights on Xu Kun's Primordial Dragon Source and Primordial Dragon Bone, hoping to use them to complete himself. He had truly regressed with every life, casting pearls before swine!
The Heavenly Dao was impartial. To gain something, one had to give something up.
Especially for acts that defied the heavens and interfered with the natural cycle of reincarnation, the price paid was often even more devastating.
Even the ancient ancestral gods of the Wood Race, with their deep foundations, who had fortunately survived the end of the previous era and painstakingly crossed into the present age, could not completely avoid the "pruning" of the Heavenly Dao's laws when faced with the changing of eras and the descent of Haotian's will.
Countless years of arduous cultivation could be reduced to nothing as a result, and their cultivation realms could plummet drastically. This, too, was a cruel form of "loss"!
From what the Nine Spirits Lion Saint had just said, it was not difficult to infer that his circumstances were highly unusual.