Immortal Long had come back to life...
Yet he had not fully come back to life!
Though Meng Chu had seen much and knew much, he had never encountered anything like this. He hesitated in confusion, then was profoundly shaken.
At first, he suspected that the Soul-Summoning Banner had malfunctioned.
But on careful reflection, a Dao Artifact could not malfunction.
Dao Artifacts were things of the very source. If one went wrong, it would mean the Great Dao of heaven and earth had gone wrong, and the entire universe would already have descended into chaos.
Just then, a peculiar scent entered his nostrils. Here, Meng Chu actually smelled the same fragrances he had encountered while fighting Li Ling.
They should not have been here, yet the power of the law of Phantom Floating Fragrance had conveyed them over. They continued drifting around Immortal Long, steeping even his soul in their fragrance.
Meng Chu ventured, "This must be Li Ling's doing. He used some special means on Long Jin's soul."
Reincarnation was inherently dangerous to a degree. If all three souls and seven spirits had not been summoned back, memory loss was entirely normal.
Some cultivators' Primordial Spirits were also so weak that they had to be nurtured with a fetus's innate breath. They could not regain their strength quickly through Soul Possession, but had to rebuild their foundations from their father's essence and mother's blood.
One major hurdle in this process was called the mystery of the womb. It was a hundred times worse than the erosion before him, effectively replacing the original personality with another.
But Immortal Long had not reincarnated through birth. Meng Chu had retrieved his soul himself, even using the sect's prized Soul-Summoning Banner.
By all rights, this should never have happened.
Yin Du came over