Celestial Venerable Taiyi smiled. "It seems you've misunderstood, Reverend."
"What makes you say that?"
"The six paths of reincarnation govern the cycle of life and death. Even an Immortal who enters them will perish, their cultivation extinguished, before being reborn. Once reincarnated, even if they reach the Mortal Realm, not only will all their cultivation be lost, but their memories will also be sealed. With sufficiently great fortune, they might have a chance to awaken their memories and slowly regain their cultivation. But the odds are practically zero. The vast majority remain trapped in reincarnation forever, becoming entirely ordinary living beings. When Immortals descend to the Mortal Realm, on the other hand, they arrive directly through the immortal-mortal passage. Only the six paths of reincarnation are open now. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the immortal-mortal passage."
Shen Bing was a little dumbfounded.
So all that worrying had been for nothing.
By Celestial Venerable Taiyi's reasoning, could I also be the reincarnation of some God? Shen Bing wondered fancifully.
Then Shen Bing shook his head. There were nearly ten billion people on Earth. How could there be that many reincarnated Gods?
Shen Bing had spent quite some time in the Immortal Realm and naturally knew that its population of Gods wasn't actually that large.
He used to hear people talk about a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals...
Damn, there were probably only a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in the entire Immortal Realm combined—excluding, of course, Heavenly Soldiers conjured by techniques such as Scatter Beans to Create Soldiers. Those could be produced in any quantity.
Thus, even if every Immortal in the Immortal Realm reincarnated, they would still make up a negligible portion of the mortal population.
Since reopening the six paths of reincarnation had absolutely nothing