After Yu Xuan Ji's body was destroyed, he had not truly died. His soul had escaped by attaching itself to the Life Foundation Jade Ring, and had remained hidden ever since.
He wanted to find a suitable body and borrow a corpse to return to life, but finding an appropriate body was no easy matter.
An ordinary person's body was definitely out of the question. It would hinder the recovery of his future strength. It had to belong to someone exceptionally gifted, with extraordinary bones—at the very least, the kind capable of attaining the body of a Law King.
But such bodies were one in hundreds of millions. To find someone with that kind of potential amid the vast sea of people was simply too difficult.
In theory, Yan Ru Yu's body had been the most suitable for Yu Xuan Ji. She was already a Law King and belonged to the jade line that was compatible with him. It could be called perfect.
Unfortunately, borrowing the body of a Law King to be reborn was simply too difficult. Yu Xuan Ji had no confidence in succeeding. In his current state, he could not possibly defeat Yan Ru Yu either. In the end, he could only abandon that option and set his sights on children or those near death.
Then he heard that Tian Xun was pregnant, and he had almost immediately decided to use Tian Xun and Lin Shen's child as the vessel for his borrowed-corpse rebirth.
When a baby had just been born, its soul was at its weakest. Using the borrowed-corpse rebirth method then had the highest chance of success, and the fusion of soul and body would also be the most perfect.
Tian Xun's talent was among the very best of the Celestial Race. She herself possessed