Fifty Thousand Merit Defy Fate and Change Destiny

The golden band of light linking soul and body suddenly thickened and solidified severalfold!

"Buzz—!"

A strange resonance sounded simultaneously from Yuchi Gong's body and soul!

The horrifying hole through his chest, piercing clean through from front to back, began to sprout countless tiny buds of flesh along its edges. They grew, intertwined, and healed at a visible, frantic pace!

His shattered bones reconnected on their own. His missing organs were reshaped in outline by golden light, then filled with newly grown flesh! The process was astonishingly swift, yet carried a sacred, mysterious rhythm.

At the same time, the soul suspended at the edge of the Underworld, firmly "tugged" there by golden light, seemed to receive an incomparably powerful summons from the body. It shuddered violently, stopped sinking altogether, and began to slowly, resolutely... "return" along that thick golden band of light toward the floating body!

Below, Li Shimin and all the soldiers held their breath, their eyes wide as they stared fixedly at this near-miraculous sight.

They watched Yuchi Gong's charred general's body become enveloped in warm golden light. His terrible wounds healed at breathtaking speed, the deathly pallor of his face gradually giving way to color, while his chest even began to rise and fall ever so faintly!

Hope, like a spark setting the plains ablaze, burned ever brighter in their eyes!

Yet just as Yuchi Gong's soul was about to fully merge with his body, at the instant the golden light blazed brightest and his life force reached its peak—

A sudden change erupted!

The depths of the Underworld's Reincarnation seemed to have been thoroughly enraged by these repeated acts of "defying Heaven"! A backlash of law, far greater, colder, and more unquestionable than before, burst forth like a sleeping beast whose tail had been stepped on!