At Chunhui's mention of "reincarnation," Jiang Che had already pieced together most of what had happened.
Master Chunji's sixth life, the so-called age of utmost evil, must have ended by now. Otherwise, if he were still alive, Chunhui could simply have taken the Demon Sword away. Why look for his reincarnation?
Since he was searching for a reincarnation, the place of rebirth in this life was presumably somewhere near where the Demon Sword's evil spirit had had its soul scattered. After the supremely virtuous Master Chunji died, he had reincarnated as the utmost evil spirit within the Demon Sword. Now that the evil spirit had been suppressed and slain, according to the rules of the seven-life cycle, his next life might well still be in Ailin.
That explained why Chunhui had come searching.
From what Jiang Che had learned in the instance back then, Master Chunji's former incarnation had possessed the cultivation of a Greatest Zen and had been close to attaining the rank of Venerable. Only because he had failed to attain that fruition had he needed to undergo seven lives of reincarnation. Once all seven lives were complete, he could ascend to the rank of Venerable again.
A Venerable, in cultivator terms, was a Purple Mansion True Person who had cultivated a divine ability!
Divine abilities, True Persons, Venerables... these were all existences standing at the pinnacle of the world.
The Azure Mystic Sect dominated the Wu Kingdom. Even its sovereign had to live by the sect's breath, and every commandery and county had an Azure Mystic Outer Gate branch. Even the government had to cooperate with Azure Mystic.
Yet throughout such a mighty sect, there were only four Purple Mansion cultivators with divine abilities.
The Four True Persons were named Xicai, Jingxiao, Jingyan, and Jingchi. Each occupied