The only people in this world who could now enter rebirth were those who had died after he returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
The life souls of those who had died before his return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were not in his hands, so he could not bring all those people into reincarnation.
Such reincarnation was incomplete!
For all those people to cross the River of Forgetfulness, Su Mo needed to retrieve the life souls of the people of this world from years past!
And now, after the Divine Stele had been refined, the rift leading to the Long River beneath it happened to give him a way to reach the river's upper reaches!
"Then, the reason the Heavenly Dao stripped away life souls in the past..." Yuan Yuan Remnant Soul stared blankly at Su Mo, seemingly having unraveled everything.
He was the origin of every calamity!
Su Mo gave a bleak laugh and raised his head toward the boundless sky.
"All things are ordained by fate; not the slightest rests in human hands..."
Now, he understood too.
If he wanted those who had died to attain rebirth, this was the only way! He did not want that forgotten cycle of destiny and reincarnation to repeat, yet at this moment, he had to do this!
Only then could reincarnation become complete.
"The destiny of the past no longer matters. Let us leave hope..."
"...to the next reincarnation!"
The one unwilling to be controlled by destiny had ultimately become destiny himself...
Yuan Yuan Remnant Soul turned toward the peach blossoms covering the Divine Mountain. The blossoms fluttered in the wind, seemingly voicing a tender unwillingness to yield.
"Do you need my help?" Yuan Yuan Remnant Soul asked.
Su Mo shook his head and slowly lowered