"What?" Lin Chuan looked utterly bewildered, even somewhat at a loss.
"Immortality is not as wonderful as you imagine. If I had a choice, I suppose I would not have chosen to become immortal either," the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor said slowly.
"Why? Why is becoming immortal poisonous?" Lin Chuan truly could not understand. What secret was hidden behind this?
Suddenly, Lin Chuan noticed one word in the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor's previous statement—either. That meant someone before the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor had already chosen not to become immortal. Who was that person? Why had he chosen not to become immortal? What had he discovered?
All at once, a familiar face surfaced in Lin Chuan's mind. It was Shi Jin, dressed in a leopard-print robe—the legendary Carefree Pill Immortal!
Lin Chuan remembered clearly that Shi Jin's memories stopped at the moment he ascended to immortality. Yet he had no memories whatsoever of what happened afterward. Could it be that Shi Jin had discovered something back then, causing him to give up on becoming immortal and instead continuously reincarnate in the cultivation world?
It seemed... that really was possible...
"Did something happen in the Immortal Realm? Was the one who gave up becoming immortal before you the Carefree Pill Immortal, Li Xiaoyao?" Lin Chuan immediately asked.
Yet he received no response. The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor remaining in this place was merely a strand of will, not the true Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor. It was only carrying out what the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor had left behind. It had no ability to think, much less answer Lin Chuan's questions.
"Can you... agree to my condition and give up becoming immortal? As long as you give up becoming immortal, this Void Spirit Pill will be yours!" As those words fell, a