Because you had already made your decision, after sensing Yuan Jie's emotional reaction and roughly guessing what he wanted, you made yourself appear more like an ordinary Quasi-Emperor. At the prospect of the three treasures Yuan Jie could offer to aid a breakthrough into the Emperor Realm, you revealed an expression of yearning and desire.
Because your performance had been so convincing, and because you deliberately removed your concealment and allowed Yuan Jie to sense the Soul Spirit aura that bore scarcely any traces of age, he could not help falling into a brief daze.
Perhaps his previous judgment had been mistaken. You might not be the reincarnation of some old monster... Though the odds were slim, a Soul Spirit's aura could not lie. Yuan Jie would only assume that you trusted him enough to let him notice the difference in your Soul Spirit, never imagining that you had done so deliberately. Your Soul Spirit was an exceedingly young one, without the twilight decay carried by those old fellows who had reincarnated or seized another body.
This was precisely what Yuan Jie most wished to see. Thus, even though he had initially considered it a low-probability possibility, people always harbored a gambler's hope in their hearts. Especially when they reached a desperate point with no other options, they would cling to such unlikely miracles as though clutching a life-saving straw.
He would not doubt this miracle—or rather, he himself did not want it to be false. Thus, even within Yuan Jie's heart, he kept patching together explanations for his later conclusions, trying to make the inconsistencies between what he had seen before and after seem more reasonable...
During this conversation about a "senior's opportunity," perhaps to prove his worth, or perhaps because he truly burned for revenge and wanted your