"Do you think reincarnation exists?"
That was the first question Kuang Tianqing asked Dao Qiankun when she saw him that night.
Faced with Kuang Tianqing's question, Dao Qiankun merely smiled. Rather than answering directly, he asked curiously, "Oh? Asking me this on the last night before the competition... did you meet someone who had been reincarnated?"
Kuang Tianqing folded her arms across her chest, her long hair rippling in the wind as she said casually, "I was just thinking... if the legends about being reborn and reincarnated are true, then what impact would the spread of Longevity technology have?"
Dao Qiankun walked to the window and gazed at the moon in the sky. Calmly, he said, "In this world, even if reincarnation exists, that cycle must be under the immortals' control."
"If it is under the immortals' control, then how everyone reincarnates, how long they live... that becomes a question of profit, a question of governing Kunxu."
"Under that assumption, the longer people live, the fewer times they are reborn. The shorter they live, the more times they are reborn. From the extreme of universal immortality to the other extreme of universal death, every different path of development stems from the setting of average lifespan."
"How long one lives, when one is reborn—these will determine the interests of every side, and even more so the direction of Kunxu's development in Immortal Dao Technique..."
Hearing Dao Qiankun's words, Kuang Tianqing's gaze narrowed slightly. She said coldly, "You're right. So if reincarnation exists, then there must be a Reincarnation Group."
"And the Reincarnation Group would never allow society's average lifespan to rise so easily."
Kuang Tianqing stepped before Dao Qiankun, her eyes fixed tightly on him as though she wanted to see through every last thing about him.
Kuang Tianqing said, "If