After hearing Huang Ji out, most of the Heroic Spirits chose reincarnation.
This was a tremendous reward for sacrificing themselves to resist the Void! They could carry their talents into every future life. If they passed up this chance, it might never come again.
For everyone else, Huang Ji offered one reincarnation in exchange for one lifetime of merit. If they accomplished nothing in their new life, they would return to nature.
If these Heroic Spirits chose to revive, their deeds in this life would guarantee them one reincarnation. But after that, there were no guarantees.
Now they had a choice that would spare them from earning the chance over and over. Naturally, most wanted to settle it once and for all.
Those devoted to the pursuit of scientific truth gave up revival without a moment's hesitation.
I've lived long enough in this life. Time to start one with greater potential! In moments, the Heroic Spirits began entering new lives, countless lights and shadows vanishing from the living's sight.
Every single one who chose revival belonged to a lower civilization.
They weren't so fixated on accumulating potential. They saw little appeal in it and had no idea how precious a gift it was to have a chance at overcoming the deadly trial of Self-Severing Soul.
So their true selves would never perish, they would still be themselves in the next life, and they would have a little more potential?
What was so great about that? They would lose their people and everything they loved in this life.
Wouldn't things have ended that way before? They had always expected to return to dust. They had never yearned to become Star Gods or uncover some Ultimate Truth. All they cared about were the people and things they treasured in this life. It