"This method seems feasible, but we can't be completely certain that if Gaia's soul doesn't dissipate after death, it won't leave Earth." Chimu stared at Mo Qiong.
Mo Qiong pursed his lips. That was indeed a problem.
They knew that whenever a physical body died, the soul would be expelled from the body and then dissipate.
The process was very fast. Unless it could return to another body quickly enough, even a god would die.
The Fifth Element could prevent a soul from dissipating, but where would the soul go? They knew that souls did not participate in the motion of reality's fundamental forces. At the very least, they would not be attracted by Earth's gravity. So could they be anchored in spacetime?
If it were anchored in spacetime, Earth itself was moving. Thus, even if Gaia's soul were immortal, moving away from Earth would still result in Earth's destruction.
"What if I restrain Gaia's soul?" Mo Qiong mused.
"If you could restrain it, would we still need to feed her the pineal body?" David asked.
Mo Qiong nodded. Indeed, he could slowly exile Gaia.
But the solution to slow exile was simple: once the destination was reached first, one would be free.
If the reincarnation trait was flexible enough, the soul might fly along the direction of Mo Qiong's slow exile, reach the Landing Point, and then merge into the body of some animal.
"Based on the properties of the Fifth Element, after Gaia's body dies, she should reincarnate into one of her children, or into one of the corpses from past generations whose vitality had been restored."
"If she reincarnates as another animal, that's fine as long as she remains alive. But if she dies, she'll return to her current giant snake body."
"Not only that, we can