Hearing Yu Jinghong's words, Gu Mo and the others were greatly astonished. Qi Tianchu suddenly raised his head and exclaimed, "There really... really is reincarnation? Isn't that just a legend?"
"I don't know either," Yu Jinghong said. "But back then, I once saw the Forbidden White Jade Capital and glimpsed a sliver of reincarnation's secrets. Yet I never fully comprehended them... I didn't know what would happen after I died... But now, it seems I succeeded."
As she spoke, she gently stroked Xiaobai's cheek. "The cycle of karma, every peck and every sip, is ordained by Heaven. This child's mind is incomplete perhaps because she lacked this strand of my Divine Sense... I... I..."
All of a sudden, Yu Jinghong's aura changed drastically. The tenderness in her eyes was instantly replaced as she looked at Qi Tianchu and said, "Tianchu, whether evil intent or good intent, I am Yu Jinghong. I am your master. Do you truly intend to kill me?"
"After reincarnation, I would become another person. If I live, your master still remains in this world. If I die, then there will truly be no trace left behind. Tianchu, I raised you and taught you martial arts. Can you truly bear to do it?"
The blue bricks beneath Qi Tianchu's knees burst apart. His forehead slammed heavily against the bluestone slab, the muffled sound making the copper bells beneath the eaves shudder violently. By the time his third kowtow landed, blood beads had already slid from his brow bone into the corners of his eyes, yet he seemed to feel nothing. He abruptly raised his sleeve and wiped his face, his knuckles whitening from the force.
When he rose, his robes swept up frost-like dust from the ground. The jade pendant at his waist fell with a clang—it