Before the Bronze Coffin beneath the Ruins of Return, Xiao Jian had lived out a Second Lifetime.
The Swordsman before him had done the same.
And it had been far easier for the Swordsman to achieve this than for Xiao Jian.
Back beneath the Ruins of Return, Su Yi and Xiao Jian had both already guessed this.
At the time, Xiao Jian had asked Su Yi whether he wanted to try opening that Bronze Coffin.
Su Yi's answer had been, "I don't want to try."
It was not that he could not do it, but that he did not want to.
The reason was that he had already surmised back then that the one lying dormant within the Bronze Coffin was the Swordsman who had lived out a Second Lifetime!
In other words, the First Lifetime before him.
After a moment's thought, Su Yi said, "The safeguards and arrangements you left behind back then were all excellent. If I were you back then, I too would surely have planned everything meticulously rather than casually reincarnating to cultivate anew."
As he spoke, Su Yi could not help sighing. "When parents love their children, they plan deeply for their distant future. By the same token, for an existence like you, there are even more things to consider before reincarnating to cultivate anew."
The First Lifetime merely watched Su Yi quietly without saying anything.
Su Yi took a drink and continued on his own, "Yet children must eventually leave their parents' care and hold up a patch of sky on their own. The relationship between past and present lives, such as ours, is naturally the same."
At last, the First Lifetime spoke. "So you chose to begin with Xiao Jian's Dao cultivation power, preferring to leave flaws within yourself rather than accept such