After explaining the meaning of the Earth Ranking, Lu Yang dragged Old Meng along to accumulate merit before Tang Qiaoqiao and Cui Que'er arrived. They were racing against time, trying to squeeze out as much time to play as possible.
Lu Yang still didn't dare leave this bunch of lecherous monks and insect cultivators unattended. He wasn't sure whether this reincarnation would be the last one.
If their luck was bad and they happened to reach the final reincarnation, missing even a single person would cause a huge disturbance in Kaihuang City.
Lu Yang had suffered a similar loss before.
Once, he had fallen into a reincarnation and repeated the same conversation with Tao Yaoye fifteen extra times. Later, Lu Yang had found the conversation so boring that he had merely gone through the motions.
As luck would have it, that happened to be the final reincarnation. Tao Yaoye thought she had done something to upset Senior Brother Lu and nearly cried. Lu Yang had no choice but to turn back and softly explain everything to Tao Yaoye for quite some time before resolving the misunderstanding.
"The chaos in Kaihuang City..."
"Beauty, just submit to me..."
"I haven't much longer to live..."
"From this moment on, your sensitivity..."
"Master, all these people are here. You can just search their souls."
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou went through the sequence in one fluid motion, finally catching up in progress to where they had been before the reincarnation.
"Why does it feel like you're rushing through everything?" Meng Jingzhou had been unable to keep up with Lu Yang's pace the entire time, as though Lu Yang had known long ago what was going to happen.
"Don't ask. I'm mentally exhausted." Lu Yang sighed and secretly prayed that there wouldn't be a sixth