"That's right. You are a yin soul now, and cannot linger for long. If you do, you will inevitably decay and deteriorate."
Li Ling smelled the faint odor of rotting corpses coming from Hu Lao as he spoke to him.
Reviving a Demon King, a master equivalent to a Core Formation Cultivator, was no easy task.
Hu Lao's soul had long since been torn to pieces by the scouring tides of the mortal world. Even though Li Ling had summoned his three souls and seven spirits back, he still could not reverse that process.
That foul odor of decay was also a precursor to becoming a Yin Ghost.
Like the flesh, the soul possessed its own vitality. Once that vitality was lost, it would decay and deteriorate. Hence the distinction between yin lifespan and yang lifespan.
Nevertheless, Li Ling's efforts had given him a chance to recover.
After ordinary living beings had their souls scattered, they often could not retain the emotions and consciousness they had possessed in life. In many stories, people breathed their last with hatred and resentment and became vengeful ghosts, their temperaments changing drastically. This was because yin baleful qi contaminated them, replacing their rich emotions and will with purely negative power and leaving only obsession.
"Then I'll reincarnate. But how exactly do I do that?" Hu Lao wisely chose to accept the suggestion. He also knew that Li Ling already had arrangements in mind.
Li Ling said, "I will take you back to the North Sea and place you beneath the heavens governed by Jun Heaven. The cycle of reincarnation will then run its course, and you will naturally be reborn. Afterward, I'll send someone to bring you back to the sect as a sixth-generation disciple."
This was a power that could remedy regrets. With