Gambling Nature

If the living beings of his previous life had to undergo three deaths—of the flesh, of society, and of the spirit—then in this life, there was likely one more to add: the dissipation of something called a Soul Trace.

Cultivators of the current age had not studied Soul Traces very deeply. They had merely discovered their existence and learned that every living being possessed one.

It recorded everything a living being saw and heard from birth to death, as well as every joy, anger, sorrow, and delight of its life.

A Soul Trace was the sole proof that a living being had once existed in this world.

Some therefore regarded it as a romance bestowed upon all living things by Heaven.

Yet this romance would slowly decay when a living being became dry bones, gradually vanishing until it finally turned into nothingness.

Information about Soul Traces flashed through his mind, and Xu Yuan abruptly recalled something.

He recalled when the memories of this life had first awakened, the feeling at the instant the memories of the pure-love young man named Xu Yuan fused with those of the scumbag playboy named Xu Changtian.

Possession did not seize memories because one could not touch the Soul Trace. Yet when the Blood Origin Heart-Fall Technique reshaped his body, it seemed to have fused the Soul Traces of the living Xu Yuan and the dead Xu Changtian.

Lowering his eyes to glance at his palm, Xu Yuan's gaze turned complicated and strange.

Details he had not understood back then were filled in at this moment. Looking back, an indescribable emotion spread through his heart.

The Soul Traces had fused.

So was he now Xu Yuan, who had transmigrated and possessed Xu Changtian—or Xu Changtian, reborn with his soul lodged in Xu Yuan?

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