"Third life?!"
The words spoken by this phantom of the Old Heavenly Emperor struck Mu Qing like a thunderbolt, making his entire body shudder violently.
Mu Qing's pupils contracted, and for a moment, he failed to react.
The Old Heavenly Emperor had called him the third life!
It left Mu Qing utterly stunned. As he sucked in a cold breath, countless thoughts churned through his mind.
He swallowed, then hurriedly asked to confirm his guess, "So, Senior, you are the second life? And the Chaos God was the first?"
Mu Qing had never imagined that he would see the Old Heavenly Emperor's phantom here. This should have been power the other party had left behind, preserved upon the Immortal Dao.
Yet this encounter filled Mu Qing with complete shock.
He had been called the third life!
The Old Heavenly Emperor chuckled. Sitting cross-legged in the void, he said, "No need to call me Senior. I am the Chaos God's reincarnated successor, while you are mine. We may treat each other as equals."
He explained, "If no outsider interferes, the bearer of a perfect Dao may choose reincarnation upon death. Of course, though it is called reincarnation, no memories are actually retained."
"So-called reincarnation is merely the inheritance of a perfect Dao's potential."
The Old Heavenly Emperor gave Mu Qing a brief explanation. However, reincarnated successor was only a title; it was not reincarnation in the true sense.
Take the Old Heavenly Emperor, for instance. He had later cultivated to the Tenth Heaven of Supreme, yet he possessed none of the Chaos God's memories. Even the power of chaos could only be wielded through the power of the Chaos Dao.
Mu Qing was the same now. He was the Old Heavenly Emperor's reincarnated successor, but he bore no trace of the