Hui Mian caught the meaning behind his master's words. It seemed his master now felt that his sword strike last time had not actually taken two of the cat demon's lives.
Yi Shuyuan gazed at the Thirteen Pavilion Quarter on the riverbank, pondering for quite some time before offering a guess.
"Perhaps every time this Nine-Lives Cat Demon loses a life, the price of rebirth is greater than we imagined. It may even amount, to a considerable extent, to cultivating all over again."
Although it was only a guess, Yi Shuyuan felt it was quite likely.
"That makes sense!"
Hui Mian nodded, though even so, he still felt a little unnerved. In any case, he would not dare face the cat demon alone.
Naturally, Yi Shuyuan could see how frightened Hui Mian was, and he would not force him.
"I'm actually very curious about this transformation of one's allotted lives. If I could fathom its mysteries, it might be a great help to my path of Heaven and Earth Transformation..."
As Yi Shuyuan murmured, he could not help recalling Sha Wujing's explanation in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong possessed seventy-two transformations, and thus seventy-two lives.
Though that was merely a fanciful remark in an old novel from his previous life, it might not be without merit when considered through Yi Shuyuan's current understanding of heaven and earth, in which transformations could become real!
His transformation into Long Feiyang had indeed passed from illusion into reality, but whenever Yi Shuyuan tried other transformations lately, he always felt something was missing.
With the insights into Heavenly Gang Transformation brought by Stoneborn's birth as his foundation, turning illusion into reality had come as naturally to Yi Shuyuan as water flowing into a channel.
For now, however, it was limited to Long Feiyang.