The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk

The Divine Flame Man wore an arrogant expression as he strolled through the Great Wilderness, swaggering as though he would acknowledge neither kith nor kin.

Beside him were several followers whose true forms were primordial remnants, all prodigies of considerable standing even on the Primordial Sacred Mountain.

"How strange. There's nothing here. What did the disk call me over for?" the Divine Flame Man asked in bewilderment.

In the Void God Realm, he had once intended to take Shi Yi or Shi Hao as followers, along with Wu Gensheng and Aman, and draw out the Void God Realm's Domain Envoy along the way so he could refine some of its Great Dao fragments.

But before he could act, his disk had warned him to leave immediately, then fallen silent and stopped responding.

Only after he had left the Void God Realm not long ago had the disk returned to normal.

That had left him as bewildered as a ten-foot monk unable to find the top of his own head.

Still, he could roughly guess that there might have been some danger in the Void God Realm at the time.

Not long ago, while wandering the Great Wilderness to see whether he could find the so-called Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land that outsiders spoke of, the disk had suddenly told him it sensed a familiar aura and asked him to come here.

Yet once he arrived, there was nothing.

"Perhaps the location was slightly off, or something is concealing it," the Reincarnation Disk replied.

"What could be powerful enough to conceal anything from you?" the Divine Flame Man asked curiously.

"I've forgotten. I've forgotten many things... It was the same in the Void God Realm before. I sensed danger, but it also felt familiar, as though I knew someone there," the Reincarnation Disk answered.

"Tsk, this won't do. What if you drop the ball when you're protecting my path in the future?" The Divine Flame Man held nothing back, waving for his underlings to search the surrounding wilderness as he spoke.

So it's this brat! Chen Yao withdrew his gaze from the reincarnation immortal qi, rather amused.

Of all the times to come, he had chosen now. Stone Village's old, weak, sick, and disabled were all getting into better and better shape.

"What is it?" Sky Desolation asked, comfortably repairing himself within the creative power of the reincarnation immortal qi.

"The reincarnation immortal qi stirred. I sensed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk," Chen Yao said without concealing anything.

"Huh? Reincarnation's disk?" Sky Desolation exclaimed.

"The Reincarnation Disk... Now that you mention it, I sense it too. It's nearby." The Willow Deity also came back to herself. Carefully sensing the surrounding Great Wilderness, she discovered the Divine Flame Man and the Reincarnation Disk, hidden behind a veil over their auras and the workings of heaven.

"Something like that happened?" A pure-white, four-story Little Pagoda appeared and joined the conversation.

As fellow sufferers among artifacts, all of them damaged, it felt a strong sense of kinship.

However, the Reincarnation Disk was an Immortal King artifact, whereas Little Pagoda was an innate being born in chaos that had taken the form of a pagoda. It followed an alternative path of artifact cultivation, a special existence somewhere between an artifact and a living being.

"This involves reincarnation. Since we've sensed it, we should go make contact in person." The Willow Deity lifted her willow branches, and an incomparable figure dressed in white stepped out of the willow tree. Her grace was peerless, yet her appearance was difficult to remember.

Her white robes fluttered. They were men's clothes, but her features remained concealed, even fading from the memories of all living beings. Luminous clusters of the three thousand divine kingdoms surrounded her figure. Within them were scenes of gods and demons gathered in multitudes, all prostrating themselves in worship before a willow tree inside each cluster.

A golden-green halo appeared behind her head, encompassing the withering and flourishing true meaning, with innate chaos qi and innate primordial qi flowing through it.

"Come. You'll go with me." Taking Chen Yao along, the Willow Deity walked slowly into the distance, yet a single step carried her to the ends of the earth. Space twisted, and she vanished in the blink of an eye.

"Wait for me! Wait for me!" Little Pagoda shouted, chasing after her.

Sky Desolation immediately hid inside the immortal qi and traveled along with Chen Yao.

In the distance, Shi Hao and the others, whose attention had been drawn by Little Pagoda's sudden departure, also saw the peerless figure with an unmemorable face step out of the willow tree. They saw the luminous clusters of the three thousand divine kingdoms, and the scenes within struck them speechless.

"Is that the true Dao body of the Ancestral Land's Sacrificial Spirit?" The Great Demon God could not even close his mouth.

In that fleeting glimpse, he had seen one luminous cluster densely packed with Heavenly Gods kowtowing, with even more powerful figures in the front rows, beyond anything he could imagine.

"Where are they going?"

The Divine Flame Man sat atop a hill, bored out of his mind, stroking the Reincarnation Disk.

Just then, the Reincarnation Disk trembled as though confronted by a formidable enemy. It broke free of his hand and sheltered him beneath itself.

"Reincarnation Disk. Have you been well? What brings you here?" A voice indistinguishable as male or female rang out.

Then the peerless figure in white appeared, surrounded by the three thousand divine kingdoms, her golden-green Divine Ring illuminating every direction. A four-story Little Pagoda and a Pitch-Black Great Halberd appeared close behind her. A terrifying pressure enveloped heaven and earth, making even space collapse.

"Sky Desolation!" the Reincarnation Disk exclaimed. It regarded the arrivals warily, its sense of danger exploding, yet it somehow could not muster much hostility.

"Wh-wh-what... What's going on?" the Divine Flame Man stammered, utterly terrified.

"Who are you? Although I sense great danger, you also feel familiar. Something similar happened once in the Void God Realm." Rather than fleeing immediately, the Reincarnation Disk earnestly asked, "I sensed a familiar Dao resonance and followed it here."

"So that's it. Your injuries were too severe, fellow Daoist. You've lost your memories," Sky Desolation said from the side.

"It should be the aura of reincarnation." The Willow Deity switched to transmitting her voice, no longer letting her divine voice resound in everyone's hearts.

"Reincarnation... Reincarnation..." The Reincarnation Disk racked its memories, trying to grasp something.

Chen Yao, inside the Willow Deity's sleeve, released a strand of reincarnation immortal qi, which she passed through the air to the Reincarnation Disk.

The Reincarnation Disk froze. The stirring that had drawn it here immediately surged, coming from that strand of pure-white immortal qi.

It was as though a thunderclap had sounded within its heart. The River of Time faintly appeared, then swiftly dissipated, but the Reincarnation Disk had changed. It quickly absorbed that strand of immortal qi, and illusory forms appeared where its other portions should have been, filling in the missing five-sixths.

At the same time, it looked deeply at Chen Yao inside the Willow Deity's sleeve.

"Reincarnation! I remember! The Immortal King's contingency!" the Reincarnation Disk exclaimed excitedly.

"Fellow Daoist Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, do you have a place to stay? I need to discuss this in detail within a cultivation abode," the Reincarnation Disk said solemnly.

Along the way, the Reincarnation Disk dismissed the Divine Flame Man's underlings on his behalf, erasing part of their memories from afar before tossing them back to their respective homes.

The Willow Deity nodded and returned to Stone Village with the Reincarnation Disk.

"The Reincarnation Immortal King's contingency?" The Immortal Phoenix King's egg rolled over and joined the conversation.

Kun Peng was still asleep.

"Yes. Before the great war of Immortal Ancient broke out, the Reincarnation Immortal King once performed an experiment. Using reincarnation immortal qi, he formed a Reincarnation Seal and hid a sliver of his own primordial spirit and one-sixth of me within it. A strange change occurred then. The sliver of primordial spirit he had severed vanished into the immortal qi along with the reincarnation seal mark and the Reincarnation Disk, leaving no trace. The Immortal King studied it for a long time without discovering anything. In the end, when the Immortal Ancient World was destroyed, he could only send the immortal qi away, exiling it into endless chaos," the Reincarnation Disk explained.

"The Immortal King speculated that something similar to that place in the Immortal Domain connecting heaven and earth, past and present, might have occurred. Some power had caused the reincarnation seal mark to cross time and space and descend into the future, just as he had once witnessed the world's destruction."

The Reincarnation Disk turned its gaze to Chen Yao. "Might you have sensed anything, young friend? Reincarnation chose you, just as it once chose the Reincarnation Immortal King. There must be a deeper meaning to it."

"I really don't know." Chen Yao pressed a hand to his forehead. Everything involving reincarnation immortal qi was something he had never seen in the original novel.

The Reincarnation Disk thought for a moment, then casually shook out the man, who no longer had his divine flames.

"His name is Lun Zhuan. He was born when a blossom of innate fire essence that Reincarnation once enlightened with his blood essence gained sentience. His aptitude is exceptional, and he emerged only recently. I originally intended to nurture him as a junior, but unfortunately, he really hasn't amounted to much. Perhaps I was too gentle. Why not leave him to fellow Daoist Immortal Phoenix King for some discipline? He can more or less be considered a younger relative with a diluted strain of the Reincarnation Immortal King's bloodline," the Reincarnation Disk said as Lun Zhuan stared in utter bewilderment.

"From now on, I'll follow you and see whether we can find some way to uncover the Immortal King's contingency." The Reincarnation Disk turned to Chen Yao.