"This is..."
Lin Ke raised his head and looked at that face, at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Was this Lady Lin, Lin Ke's mother?
The person before him was indeed Lady Lin, who had already been conferred the title of First-Rank Imperial Patent Lady!
Previously, Lady Lin should have entered somewhere akin to the underworld, becoming an existence like a City God and receiving incense offerings from countless households.
In principle, once conferred such a title, she could no longer appear in the mortal world. This was a law of heaven and earth, much like the physical rule that water flowed downhill.
She could only be summoned through certain special methods. Even Confucius and the Sage Emperor would likely find it difficult to change such a rule.
Yet now, with the conclusion of Lin Ke's tune, he had summoned a spectral image of Lady Lin's soul.
The spectral image merely nodded at Lin Ke and smiled with relief, then once again dissipated between heaven and earth.
Those around him witnessed this scene.
"Was that your mother?" Dean Wu came to Lin Ke's side and patted his shoulder, as though he were an old friend.
"Yes." Lin Ke himself did not know what he felt, only that his emotions were terribly complicated.
In this world, both the paths of gods and ghosts were regulated by the Gods and Ghosts Department.
However, no underworld or anything of the sort had come into existence, and reincarnation was even more of a groundless notion.
The world after death in the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty was the same as in his previous life. Once someone died, they were dead-a dissolution of matter that could not be reversed.
Yet the existence of the Divine Path and the ghost path made Lin Ke feel that things were