"Reincarnation? What's that?" Long Yeyue's soul trembled slightly, carrying a trace of unease and fear.
"Reincarnation means completely erasing all the memories, attachments, and past of this life, entering the human path, and being born anew."
At these words, Long Yeyue's mind instantly fell into turmoil:
"If all my memories are erased, would I still be me?"
"Your memories would be erased, but your soul would still be yours. New memories would form.
Whether that counts as you depends on how you understand 'what makes you you.'"
"Don't talk in circles with me."
Long Yeyue panicked completely:
"I don't want reincarnation. I'll never accept losing my memories!
If I lose all my memories and reincarnate as a human, how is that any different from dying?"
This was exactly what Lin Ming had been waiting for. He immediately said:
"You can forgo reincarnation."
A glimmer of hope instantly flashed in Long Yeyue's eyes, and she hurriedly asked:
"Is there another choice?
What is it?"
"If you don't enter the human path of reincarnation, you enter the animal path of rebirth."
"The animal path..." Long Yeyue froze slightly, hesitation appearing on her face.
"That's right.
Enter the human path, wash away your memories, forget your past, and be reborn as a human; enter the animal path, and although you'll become an animal, you can retain all your memories from life and remain on the Douluo Continent."
Lin Ming found his own words a mouthful. He had never spoken such terms so stiffly before, but to pose as the unfathomable supreme being of the Netherworld, he had no choice.
Still, he was certain that he had Long Yeyue fooled now.
Long Yeyue sank into thought, struggling to make her choice:
Reborn as a human, she would forget all her memories, and everything would come to nothing;
but reborn as an animal, although she would become a beast, at least she would still be herself, living with her memories.
Besides, the soul beasts of the Douluo Continent could take human form. If she were reborn as an animal, she could certainly evolve into a soul beast, then progress through ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, and a hundred thousand years before taking human form again.
Wouldn't that be an enormous gain?
Most importantly, even if she became an animal, as long as she returned to Shrek Academy, with her status, she would still be Shrek Academy's powerful, universally revered vice president, the deputy master of the Sea God Pavilion, and Yun Ming's master's wife.
"I want to keep my memories. I choose to be reborn as an animal!"
"What did you say? Louder."
"I said I want to be reborn as an animal!"
"What?"
"I want to be a beast! I'm a beast!"
"All right, all right, I heard you clearly. No need to repeat yourself."
"Then what are you going on about?" The more Long Yeyue thought about it, the stranger it seemed. She had just been calling herself names over and over. How unlucky.
Soon, Long Yeyue noticed something else amiss:
"My soul feels strange. I can feel what seems like another me inside it, one light and one dark..."
"You're quite perceptive.
That's right. Your soul was cleaved in two long ago. It should already have dissipated.
But you possess twin martial souls. After your soul split in two, your Radiant Sacred Dragon and Dark Sacred Dragon martial souls each took over half your body.
It was precisely this bizarre way of sustaining you that allowed you to survive. Otherwise, your body and soul would have been annihilated long ago."
"Is that so?" Surprise and doubt appeared on Long Yeyue's face as she asked curiously:
"Then if I'm reborn, wouldn't both of me have to be reborn together?"
"That's right.
Your soul is now divided into two halves. Both are independent individuals, each possessing a martial soul, so naturally, each will be reborn without interfering with the other.
If you're reborn as animals, both will exist in Douluo at the same time."
Hearing this, Long Yeyue had no further questions:
"That's fine, then, as long as both can be successfully reborn.
Two bodies it is. Having two of me would be rather interesting, as long as I have my memories.
You're truly a good person. To think the Netherworld has a deity like you..."
See? She even has to thank me!
Lin Ming laughed inwardly, then looked at Long Yeyue with feigned seriousness:
"There's something I forgot to tell you.
Rebirth is entirely random. You might be reborn as any random animal. That cannot be controlled."
"It doesn't matter. If I'm already being reborn as an animal, what else is there to care about?
Any animal will do." Long Yeyue was quite accepting on this point.
"Also, the location is random. There's no knowing where you'll end up, and none of this can be influenced. Are you willing to accept that?"
"I accept. Anything is fine as long as I can keep my memories." Long Yeyue agreed without hesitation.
After receiving her affirmative answer, Lin Ming wasted no more words and began activating the Reincarnation Tower to reincarnate Long Yeyue.
Long Yeyue was a Quasi-God, so the energy consumption was naturally considerable.
But Lin Ming had thought that, however much it took, it should only cost one or two energy crystals. He had never expected each half of Long Yeyue's soul to cost him one and a half, totaling three energy crystals. What a crushing loss.
But at the thought of the returns to come, Lin Ming couldn't help wanting to laugh.
After accepting reincarnation, Long Yeyue completely lost consciousness.
Lin Ming began the process, transferring the Dark Sacred Dragon half of Long Yeyue's soul into a white pig and reincarnating the Light Sacred Dragon martial soul into a black pig.
After the reincarnation succeeded, both pigs brimmed with tremendous vitality, their auras surging.
As expected of a Quasi-God-level powerhouse, her reincarnation had produced such miraculous effects. Too bad they were two pigs.
Lin Ming forcibly knocked both pigs unconscious. They wouldn't wake up for several days.
He looked at the Myriad Demon King beside him:
"Myriad Demon King, make another trip. Take these two Long Yeyue pigs away separately.
Send the black male to Shrek City, and take the white female to the War God Temple. Let this fellow wreak havoc on both sides."
"Understood, My Lord. Your subordinate will make sure both arrive safely." The Myriad Demon King looked at the two sleeping pigs, a wicked grin appearing on his face.
He had no fondness for human soul masters, especially Long Yeyue.
Since his lord had told him to deliver them, he would deliver them properly-where did pigs belong?
In a pigpen, of course.
In a little while, he would toss the male Long Yeyue into a sow pen and the female into a boar pen, and let her thoroughly enjoy herself.
Naturally, Lin Ming had no idea the Myriad Demon King had such a nasty sense of fun.
Having dealt with Long Yeyue, he had to consider what to do with Yun Ming.
He couldn't handle this fellow as casually as Long Yeyue. Where to put him was a problem.
Meanwhile,
in Aolai City, a thousand miles away, Na'er, whom Tang Wulin had found and brought home only a few days earlier, sat on the sofa with Tang Wulin's family, watching the evening news.
When she saw that Shrek Academy had been completely destroyed by Di Tian, and that Di Tian and Shrek had perished together, her clear, "foolish" eyes suddenly brightened.
The next moment, a terrifying aura erupted from her, its powerful pressure instantly knocking Tang Wulin, Tang Ziran, and Lang Yue unconscious.
Gu Yuena's small body floated in the middle of the room as she shouted furiously:
"Di Tian! How dare you!
How dare you go off to your death without my permission!
Who told you to do such a thing?
Your life belongs to me!
My grand plan still needs you to carry it out! How dare you!"
The amnesiac Silver Dragon King had been so enraged by Di Tian's "death" that her memories returned on the spot.
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