Since ancient times, regardless of whether it was the mortal world or the cultivation world, there was the concept of reincarnation. In the mortal world, there were more conjectures about reincarnation and rumours, so they were not very clear about reincarnation.
But to cultivators, reincarnation was a real existence. However, the majority of reincarnation was not very useful to cultivators. After many cultivators reincarnate, their memories of their previous life would disappear, so even if they reincarnated, they would be an existence that had no connection with their previous life.
Actually, this was the same for most mortals. Many people would dream of completely unrelated scenes, but those were just some fragmented memories of their previous life. Because of this, the mortal world made up the story of Granny Meng's Soup. It was rumoured that souls that entered reincarnation had to drink a bowl of Granny Meng's Soup before crossing the Bridge of Helplessness.
It was precisely because cultivators knew that after reincarnation, their memories of their previous life would be erased. After many cultivators died, their souls would wander around the Underworld, but they were not willing to reincarnate. Or before reincarnation, they would do everything they could to protect their memories, so that they would not be erased by reincarnation.
Some extremely strong cultivators could maintain their powerful memories after reincarnation, and they would still be experts of their generation.
The Underworld was originally a place that eroded the memories and intelligence of souls, so after staying in the Underworld for a long time, they would automatically reincarnate, and eventually disappear.
Even so, the number of souls remaining in the Underworld continued to increase.
At this moment, in a corner of the many souls, an incomparably thin and weak soul was carefully moving. Like the other souls, she was also not willing to reincarnate.
This was because after reincarnation, she would also not know who she was. What was the difference between reincarnation and not reincarnation? In comparison, she would rather stay here and let her memories slowly erase.
Some things, even if it was just one more breath of memory, it would still be better than not remembering to be reborn. The only bad thing was that there were too many souls here. Even if she wanted to find a slightly bigger space, it would be hard for her to do so.
At this moment, she was carefully drifting outwards. According to her senses, she had at most a few years left. After a few years, her memories and intelligence would be corroded by the energy of the Underworld, and she would automatically reincarnate.
She hoped to find a quiet place and slowly think about everything that happened after she started cultivating. She thought about her mother, thought about the Heaven Seeking Palace, thought about her and Mo Wuji …
If Mo Wuji was here, even if this soul was as thin as it could be, he would still be able to sense that this was Cen Shuyin's soul.
Different from other people's souls, Cen Shuyin's soul was weak and extremely thin, but it was intact and not incomplete.
At this moment, Cen Shuyin felt a familiar aura that made her heart tremble. It was her physical body.
The intense excitement nearly caused her soul to shatter.
A soul was different from a Primordial Spirit. A Primordial Spirit could escape, while a soul was just a thin spiritual will. After the Primordial Spirit was destroyed, it could be reformed. If the soul perished, it would be very difficult to condense it again.
Mortals did not have any cultivation, so their souls were mostly in a dazed state after death. It was very difficult for them to retain their memories and intelligence for a long time. Cultivators were different. Not only did their memories exist in their Primordial Spirit, they also existed in their souls for a long time.
The reason why cultivators perished was because their Primordial Spirit was destroyed. Their soul and physical body were separated, and they could no longer return to their original physical body. Eventually, they would automatically seep into the Underworld.
Once they entered the Underworld, there would be no possibility of finding their physical body. Even peak experts could only find their original selves through reincarnation to preserve their spiritual will and memories. They were also unable to leave the Underworld to find their own physical body. Moreover, many cultivators had their physical bodies destroyed after they perished.
Because of this, Cen Shuyin was shocked. She could actually feel the aura of her physical body.
One must know that she had perished in the forbidden space outside the cultivation world. She believed that Mo Wuji would definitely protect her physical body. But no matter how capable Mo Wuji was, he would not be able to bring her physical body to the Underworld in a short span of ten years.
No matter how her physical body came to the Underworld, Cen Shuyin did not want to give up. Once she returned to her physical body, she would have a chance to wake up.
There were strong and weak souls in the Underworld, but no matter how strong a soul was, it was only more condensed and could exist for a longer period of time. It did not have offensive power. Only a very small number of souls, who cultivated unique soul techniques, would have strong offensive power.
Cen Shuyin's soul was thin, but she was barely able to escape from the crowd of souls.
The speed of a soul in the Underworld was incomparably fast. Even though Cen Shuyin's soul was thin, her speed was still extremely fast.
But this speed also came with a price, which was that her soul became increasingly thin.
A few days later, Cen Shuyin's soul was so weak that it could not be seen. If Cen Shuyin stayed in one place without moving, her soul might be able to exist for a few years, or even decades. But if she were to fly at such a high speed in the Underworld, her soul might only last for a few days or even a few days before dissipating.
Another ten days passed. Just when Cen Shuyin could not hold on any longer, she felt a huge whirlpool, and her physical body was on the other side of this whirlpool. This whirlpool was like a hell of death for her, emitting an aura of death.
Cen Shuyin only hesitated for a moment, then directly rushed into this whirlpool.
If she did not go in, she would not be able to hold on for long. Since that was the case, why should she cherish her body?
Once she entered the whirlpool, she could clearly feel an aura that belonged to her. Cen Shuyin's speed slowed down. She was a little sad that she was about to meet her physical body, but her soul could not hold on any longer.
At this moment, a familiar aura was brought into her body by the whirlpool, and her soul immediately solidified.
Cen Shuyin trembled with excitement. She was sure that the aura was indeed seeping out from her body. And the aura that solidified her soul, was actually the aura of the legendary Tier 9 immortal herb, the Underworld Heart Flower.
The Underworld Heart Flower was something that Cen Shuyin had heard of in the Underworld. Some powerful souls had once mentioned the Underworld Heart Flower. It was said that this immortal herb was extremely rare. Not only could it solidify the soul, it could also allow the soul in the Underworld to find its physical body. Could it be that someone had brought her physical body here to look for her?
Once the soul solidified, Cen Shuyin became even more anxious, and her speed became faster.
As Cen Shuyin's soul rapidly solidified, and at the same time, a soul that was hiding at the corner of the whirlpool suddenly appeared.
This soul was almost equivalent to some of the more solidified primordial spirits, and its shape was almost tangible. He looked at Cen Shuyin's soul in shock, and after a while, he muttered to himself, "Someone actually used the Underworld Heart Flower to summon this ant's soul. What a waste, what a waste …"
Before he could finish his sentence, the solidified soul quickly chased after him. There was a hint of surprise in his eyes, which almost seemed to have substance.
He could not sense the soul that had merged with Cen Shuyin's physical body, but he could see Cen Shuyin's soul. As long as he followed behind Cen Shuyin, he could absorb the aura of the Underworld Heart Flower, and strengthen his soul. No, he did not need to absorb the Underworld Heart Flower, he only needed to devour the soul in front of him.
Why had he been hiding at the edge of this whirlpool for so many years? Wasn't it to enter the Soul Condensing Immortal Pond from this place, then escape the Underworld and return to the Immortal World?
As long as he could return to the Immortal World, he was confident that he could reconstruct his own body. It was a joke for others to reconstruct a body with a soul, but he, Zhu Lai, was not.
In the countless years that he had been in the Underworld, not only did his soul not dissipate, it became even more solidified. According to his original plan, he would be able to charge out of the Soul Condensing Immortal Pond in a few hundred years. Now that he met someone who used the Underworld Heart Flower to condense a soul, how could he not take advantage of her?
As long as he absorbed the Underworld Heart Flower through the soul in front of him, he could possibly charge out of the Underworld in advance.
Cen Shuyin hurriedly escaped through the whirlpool. Her soul was a pure form of consciousness, and was even more formless than a primordial spirit. So the soul was naturally sensitive, and would instinctively avoid ordinary cracks in the void.
So even after entering the whirlpool for a few days, Cen Shuyin was still safe and sound. Not only that, as she encountered more Underworld Heart Flower aura, her soul became more and more solidified.
Mo Wuji was different from others, he was too generous, so generous that there would be Underworld Heart Flower aura in every few meters.
The soul following behind Cen Shuyin was getting more and more restless. As he saw Cen Shuyin's increasingly solidified soul, his heart felt like it was crawling with caterpillars. He could not wait to kick Cen Shuyin away and absorb those Underworld Heart Flowers himself.
However, he was very clear that if he did that, he could only absorb them once. Only by following behind Cen Shuyin, and when Cen Shuyin was about to charge out of the Soul Condensing Immortal Pond, would he be able to swallow Cen Shuyin in one gulp. That would be the greatest benefit.
Another few days passed, and this soul started to mutter in his heart. Because he was also a little afraid. Cen Shuyin had absorbed too many Underworld Heart Flowers.
Even an Immortal Emperor would not be able to do so, right? If he met a peak expert, how would he be able to swallow Cen Shuyin?
As he thought of this, this soul was not willing to wait any longer. He wanted to swallow Cen Shuyin in advance. As long as he swallowed Cen Shuyin, he would be able to absorb the Underworld Heart Flower aura that had not completely dissipated from Cen Shuyin's soul. He might even be able to sense a trace of Cen Shuyin's aura from the Underworld Heart Flower. If that was the case, then his countless years of waiting here would not be as fruitful as this time.
Cen Shuyin had been in the Underworld for many years, so she was not completely clueless. She soon discovered the rapidly approaching soul. In the Underworld, it was very normal for souls to hurt each other. Moreover, Cen Shuyin was very clear about what the Underworld Heart Flower meant to souls. She increased her speed even more, and even when she encountered the Underworld Heart Flower aura, she did not try to absorb it.
It was just that Cen Shuyin's soul was too weak. Even though she had absorbed the Underworld Heart Flower, it was still far from the soul that was chasing after her.
The aura of the body could be felt, and Cen Shuyin knew that she was about to reach her fleshly body.
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