Bu Lianshi frowned, somewhat unable to process Lin Chuan's words.
Seeing Bu Lianshi's puzzled expression, Lin Chuan explained, "I asked the Soul Refining Sect members who entered the Maha Clan Ruins. There was no one named Hun in their sect, yet Hun cultivated the Soul Refining Sect's secret arts. His soul cultivation was also extremely high, and he even possessed scattered runes from the Maha Sutra. If someone like that isn't among the Soul Refining Sect's current members, then who do you think he might be?"
After Lin Chuan's reminder, Bu Lianshi's eyes immediately lit up. "You mean he's someone from the Soul Refining Sect's distant past?"
"Yes. I even suspect that he may be the founding patriarch of the Soul Refining Sect!" Lin Chuan said gravely.
"How is that possible?" Bu Lianshi looked utterly shocked, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"There's nothing impossible about it. According to outside rumors, the Soul Refining Sect's founding patriarch had already reached the level of an immortal in soul cultivation. His overall cultivation, however, had not reached that level, so he never ascended. Later, he supposedly passed away in meditation. But how could someone with such terrifying soul cultivation simply die like that? Think about Shi Jin. As the Carefree Pill Immortal, he was able to reincarnate. Why couldn't Hun?" Lin Chuan said softly.
"I even suspect that Hun knows some secrets about the Immortal Realm. Those secrets caused him to give up ascension and, like Shi Jin, choose reincarnation so he could continue wandering the cultivation world!" Lin Chuan said solemnly.
At that point, those words echoed in his mind once again: immortals were poisonous!
Based on what Lin Chuan knew now, both Shi Jin and Hun might have willingly abandoned ascension after learning certain things. And the reason they had given