A chill of alarm ran through Xu Tong, and a thought struck him. →
Could it be that, of all the myths and legends, only the events mentioned in the Investiture Calamity and the Journey to the West Calamity had truly existed?
Qin Shi Huang had sought immortality, and Zhuang Zhou had dreamed of being a butterfly.
Zhuang Zhou had even mentioned Daoist Kunpeng of the Northern Darkness.
Suddenly, he found a new direction to pursue if he wanted to unravel the Human Path.
He needed to start by seeking out certain beings and cultivators who had once existed among the Human Race.
The Rabbit Spirit said Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai had transformed into butterflies, but Xu Tong thought otherwise.
They had never transformed into butterflies at all.
In the Northern Darkness there was a fish named Kun, so vast that no one knew how many thousands of li it spanned.
Even Butterfly Zhuang Zhou had discovered such a secret. Could he not discover it himself?
Xu Tong suddenly found a breakthrough for the Reincarnation he was about to create. The key to all Reincarnation lay in the Human Path.
And the key to the Human Path's Reincarnation lay in the Human Race.
What the Rabbit Spirit had said about Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai had truly given him a clue-a clue for Xu Tong himself.
But the Rabbit Spirit had her own purpose and views in telling that story.
"Was it worth dying just like that for love between a man and a woman?"
"It wasn't worth it, and it even gave rise to vengeful ghosts!"
"So my view is this: when your Human Race encounters such problems again, you must consider them carefully and think them through. If there's a problem you can't solve, you can turn