In the Three Realms, after a person cultivated to the realm of an immortal, if promotion to the Heavenly Immortal realm seemed hopeless, they encountered a powerful enemy and could not escape, or met other special circumstances, they could all try to undergo reincarnation and seek the Immortal Dao once more in their next life.
Because the soul essence of these immortals was very high, the Meng Po Soup could not completely wash away past events and memories either, so after reincarnation, under normal circumstances their past-life memories would slowly awaken along with their growth.
When the time came for them to cultivate, their progress would naturally advance by leaps and bounds, and they could easily recover the realm of their past life.
This sounded wonderful, but unless driven to dire straits, immortals were not very willing to walk this path.
Because with reincarnation and rebirth, the uncertainties were simply too great!
Immortals had no guarantee that they would be able to enter a good womb in their next life; what if they reincarnated into some small world where cultivation was impossible? Then everything would be completely ruined.
Qin Huanyu was the most typical example, being forcibly stuck at the early Purple Palace stage by the curse of the Qin Clan's bloodline, experiencing the utmost bad luck, and even now he had not yet awakened his past-life memories.
Unless one had a Great Ability protecting them at the time of reincarnation, giving the Netherworld some face and arranging a good birth, then there was indeed no need to worry.
Some astonishingly backed powerhouses in the Three Realms, even if they had already cultivated into Heavenly Immortals or even higher realms, would sometimes still use the method of reincarnation to temper themselves, hoping to advance further.
Lü Dongbin, for example.
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