"Since you have already reincarnated ninety-nine times, why won't you believe that the hundredth will bring perfection?"
"Then I will wait for him another lifetime. In this life, please let me forget my memories too. I want a truly fair fight with him!"
Qin Kang's roar reached the ninth heaven and echoed long between heaven and earth. In the infinitely distant sea of stars, a Golden-Crowned Elder opened his eyes and nodded slightly.
"Then I shall grant your wish-grant both your wishes. But the rules are set, and I cannot intervene to change them. If that World Tree senses this emperor's presence, it will probably detonate itself again. So many years of painstaking effort cannot go to waste..."
And so the story played out again and again. Mu Bai lost himself more and more, yet in every reincarnation, he would meet that woman in white, and he would fight a final battle to the death against the person who contested his life.
Among those lives, he had been Gu Chen, waiting a lifetime for love, and had also accomplished Emperor Ye Hua's magnificent feats. He had also been Bai Zhi's elder brother, Bai Jun. Of course, in some lives, he had merely been a minor cultivator before hurriedly entering reincarnation again.
Until, in this life, he came to the Haibei Tribe. Until, in this life, he passed through the Eastern Ridge, the Northern Plains, the Beast Territory, and the Western Plains, met Chen Qi, met Ye Wan, met Xing Yun, and now, while merging with Li Muxue's Inner World and tracing back through the past, saw scene after scene from these hundred reincarnations.
The two released their entwined embrace. The Pear Blossom Grove vanished, yet remained within Mu Bai's world. The World Tree atop the peak within his world shone