Inside the dilapidated house.
"True. When I first learned Mumu had the Ksitigarbha Inheritance, I was stunned too," Ren Ye agreed. "...That was a figure from mythology."
Zhao Baicheng slowly rose and paced around the room with his hands behind his back, giving the matter serious thought for once.
On the bed, Lin Xiang was also very quiet and had not interjected.
After a long while, Zhao Baicheng stopped and turned to Lin Xiang. "Do you think Comrade Da Guo was so desperate to track down the Demon Monk and reassemble the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp because he wanted to prepare a fallback?"
"That is possible." Lin Xiang nodded slightly. "If he intended to rise from the ashes, it would make sense to seek the power of reincarnation beforehand..."
Ren Ye listened quietly to their conversation, not daring to interrupt.
"But what I cannot understand is this. In the final passage of the farewell letter he left his children, he clearly made no mention of reincarnation at all. He only said many things that sounded like prophecies. And he had never successfully assembled the Buddha Lamp or entered this Star Gate before." Zhao Baicheng looked puzzled. "Was he unable to wait any longer, or did he find another way? Or did he no longer need to seek information about the power of reincarnation...?"
"He might also have learned about the Demon Monk through other means," Lin Xiang said calmly.
Zhao Baicheng froze.
"In Ren Ye's account, the little monk Mumu became a demon in a single thought because his family was murdered." Lin Xiang's expression remained calm. He instinctively reached for tea, only to get a handful of dust from the battered table. He gave Ren Ye a dissatisfied look and continued, "But that was only the beginning of his transformation