In the courtyard.
"Congratulations, Marquis!" Su Qingying's voice was crisp, full of a maidenly air.
"It is worth congratulating!" Jiang Ning smiled faintly.
"With the Marquis's current achievement, in the Ancient Era, it could be called leaping beyond the Three Realms, no longer within the Five Elements, transcending the cage of heaven and earth," Su Qingying said.
"Why do you say that?" Jiang Ning said.
"Taking the True Spirit Mark into the body, merging it into oneself! The fate of past life and present life will come to a halt at this moment. From now on, destiny returns to your own mastery; the future is blurred and chaotic. In future reincarnations, you will forever be yourself, with no other possibility!" Su Qingying said.
In the courtyard, snow fell without a sound.
Su Qingying's words were like pebbles thrown into a calm heart-lake, sending layer upon layer of ripples spreading through Jiang Ning's heart.
"Leaping beyond the Three Realms, no longer within the Five Elements... destiny returns to one's own mastery."
These words corroborated the sensations within his Spiritual Platform at this moment, making his understanding of the "True Self" suddenly clear.
He used Internal Vision. The True Spirit Mark that had once hung high above his Spiritual Platform, containing reincarnation, had now completely dissolved, like the most primordial starlight, evenly spilling down and merging into every inch of "soil" in his Spirit Soul, fusing into it until they were no longer separate from one another.
From this moment on, his Spirit Soul was no longer the vessel that carried the mark, but the mark itself—the manifestation of the unique, indivisible "True Self."
"All the things of my past life are like yesterday's death." Enlightenment dawned in Jiang Ning's heart. In this life, in this world, my thoughts are me. There