Lin Xian glanced back with a peculiar expression. "Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Venerable Cao Yusheng-isn't that you?"
"Cao Yusheng-wasn't that my past life? Why do I subconsciously overlook him, always failing to remember that name?" A flash of inspiration crossed Duan De's mind, followed by a chill through his entire body. He said gravely, "The womb mystery!"
With every reincarnation, an unseen power prevented Duan De from recalling the karma of his previous lives. This was the womb mystery, severing the past from the future.
If he could break through this womb mystery, connect all nine lives, and recover every memory and experience, he could truly become an immortal through corpse liberation.
"The womb mystery... Duan De is trying to become a ghost immortal. No, that's not right. Corpse liberation leaves no physical body, but Duan De preserved his body in every life. This is Lunar Yin Chain Form, Impure World Reincarnation."
Lin Xian pondered this, then asked tentatively, "Cao Yusheng?"
"Cao what?" Duan De asked instinctively.
"Cao Yusheng!" Lin Xian bellowed, employing the Buddhist Sect's great divine ability, Lion's Roar, to question Duan De's soul.
"Yu what?" Duan De still looked utterly bewildered.
"Cao Yusheng." Lin Xian grabbed Duan De's ear and shouted, branding the memory into his primordial spirit.
"Sheng what?" Duan De alternated between clarity and confusion, his mind muddled, trapped deep within reincarnation.
"Forget it. Let's go rob a tomb." Lin Xian sighed helplessly.
"You got it!" Brilliant light instantly flashed in Duan De's eyes. More spirited than ever, he rediscovered himself and howled, "This might be a True Immortal's tomb from the Chaotic Ancient Era! This humble Daoist shall undertake a grand archaeological endeavor, studying the origins and trajectories of all beings, seeking the profound mysteries of cultivation history, and unraveling the ultimate truth behind why