"I'm not her, I'm me... I'm Pei Hongye..."
As though she had recalled something, the Empress's remnant soul became increasingly agitated, nearly incoherent. Only after quite a while did she calm down again. In her current state as a remnant soul, she looked exceedingly frail.
Tang Yu could only pull out several pills meant to restore the soul and toss them onto her remnant soul.
The instant the pills touched the remnant soul, they dissolved into a stream of soul energy that repaired her body.
The Empress's remnant soul looked slightly more alert. She gazed at Tang Yu with a complicated expression and said, "I remember everything now. The one who tried to possess you before was another me."
"Another you? Then who are you?"
"I am one of Pei Hongye's seven emotions."
The Empress's remnant soul looked even more bitter. "Pei Hongye severed her seven emotions and turned them into seven separate incarnations to cultivate independently. She then tried to merge the seven into one, but failed and fell from the Immortal Realm, eventually becoming a remnant soul. If she hadn't failed to possess you, causing us to devour and merge with one another..."
After Pei Hongye explained everything clearly, Tang Yu more or less understood. Her original body had severed its seven emotions to cultivate seven incarnations, intending to merge them through a secret technique once their cultivation was complete. But something had gone wrong, leaving her as a remnant soul. Then, after failing to possess him, that remnant soul had become so weak that the seven emotions she had absorbed and merged with had instead taken over.
And that was how this Pei Hongye before him—who was no longer truly herself—had come to be?
Unsure whether he could trust her, Tang Yu could only turn to look