Could he have undergone "reincarnation and re-cultivation"?
An extremely bold guess vaguely took shape in Little Bad King's mind. He was certain that the Ksitigarbha Inheritance and a Soul System inheritance could never appear in the same person. Based on his own understanding, perhaps only "reincarnation and re-cultivation" could offer a simple explanation for the many bizarre mysteries surrounding Mumu.
As everyone knew, Fatty Chu had quite a background himself. He cultivated the Heavenly Venerable's Worldly Longevity Method, had successfully weathered the tribulations of two lifetimes, and had cultivated his third incarnation. Little Bad King was usually full of curiosity about this fatty, too, so whenever he had nothing to do, he would fish for information. But Dao Lord was cautious. He always hemmed and hawed about his origins, concealing things and refusing to say much.
Even so, Ren Ye had coaxed quite a few secret Daoist teachings out of him. For example, the so-called "reincarnation and re-cultivation" actually needed quotation marks. The dead could not return to life-that was an iron law of the Heavenly Dao, irreversible. Even if you entered the underworld and reincarnated, the you born in the future would never be the you of the past... at most, there would be a resemblance, not a true unity of divine soul that made you the same person.
Thus, although Daoist reincarnation and re-cultivation also involved the suffering of rebirth and tribulations, the person always retained their past-life memories, or gradually recovered them while undergoing tribulations. Fundamentally, then, the one undergoing tribulations remained the same person throughout and had never truly "died." They had merely experienced two entirely different lives and sets of tribulations, while their essence remained unchanged.
By that Daoist explanation, Fenglin, who was still alive in the present day, really did resemble someone who had