Bai Yi was the chess-path cultivator who had once played that game against Duan Shuyun in the Western Wasteland.
All this time, he had been searching for those who held the pieces. From the Western Wasteland to the Northern Continent, then to the Eastern Continent, people above fate had continually appeared within his sight.
Lin Heng was one of them. After all, he had been far too conspicuous in Dingyang City. But Bai Yi did not know who the other one was.
What shocked Chen Bingyi was not the Yellow Springs reincarnation the other man spoke of, but the legend of "Rebirth Bridge." Rumor had it that it was an opening from the Immortal Realm to another extreme, where the souls of the dead lived on the far shore, but would lose the memories of their lives.
He had discovered all of this back then in a fragmentary ancient text in Medicine King Valley. It had recorded in great detail the world on the other side of Rebirth Bridge. Supposedly, as long as Rebirth Bridge was opened, and the corresponding soul of the dead was found on that side, that soul could be pulled back into the original realm.
Of course, one also had to go through the step of borrowing a corpse to return the soul.
"You know how to open Rebirth Bridge?" Chen Bingyi asked.
"I do not. And even if Rebirth Bridge opened, you would have no way to go in and bring her soul out. Because once you entered the other end, you would assimilate with it. It is like the two faces of yin and yang. Entering yin from yang makes it very difficult to return from yin to yang. The cycle of life and death is not something ordinary human power can accomplish. At