“Mm. Aren’t you curious about my situation?”
The young girl Lin Ling asked with a hint of helplessness.
Lin Ling replied indifferently, “I. Always. Carefree… Better to ask… what I care about… most.”
Young Lin Ling hurriedly interrupted, “Fine, fine. Seeing as you can’t even speak properly, it’s okay. Here, just say it in your heart. I can hear you~”
Lin Ling breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back, bracing her hands against the floor as she relaxed.
‘Can I be heard by the outside world here?’
Young Lin Ling nodded.
“That’s right. I’m borrowing the properties of his Jade Void Grotto-Heaven to temporarily separate a part of my soul so I can speak with you. By drawing the Eight Trigrams Formation, I can block that fellow’s surveillance.”
Lin Ling was surprised.
‘How did you do that?’
Young Lin Ling smiled.
“Don’t rush. You’ll be able to do it too eventually.”
Lin Ling shrugged helplessly and then asked, ‘So what exactly is the situation? Why can you separate from me? Am I actually you?’
Young Lin Ling nodded.
“Of course you are. I didn’t expect to be a man in my next life. And adding that world and this one together, you’re actually over 30 years old! I’m only 14!”
Seeing Lin Ling’s continued confusion, young Lin Ling explained patiently, “Right now, I am just a fragment of consciousness. My three souls and seven spirits already transformed into you long ago. However, after experiencing the Mystery of the Womb, my memories have to merge with yours, which will be much slower.”
“This Jade Void Grotto-Heaven trapping you is different from the others. I sensed it and specifically drew it out. It’s also thanks to Xiu Jiming’s sword strike; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been this easy to pull it out,” young Lin Ling praised.
“This Grotto-Heaven is called ‘Rebirth.’ It can help one realize their true nature and simulate the True Self Realm, which is why I was able to appear,” young Lin Ling explained.
‘You know so much. What exactly is a Jade Void Grotto-Heaven?’
Lin Ling felt a bit distressed, as if she were completely ignorant.
“Mm, because this belongs to my Yuzhou Fox Clan,” young Lin Ling explained with a smile.
“It was just stolen by a Xiemo who used it to deceive the people of this Yinzong.”
‘…I think I was deceived, too.’
When she thought of Gong Xuance saying with that annoying look on his face that this trip was safe, her teeth itched with hatred.
Young Lin Ling covered her mouth and chuckled.
“The Jade Void Grotto-Heaven is connected to too many things to explain all at once. I should tell you things you can understand for now. After I vanish and merge with you completely, you can look for the rest yourself.”
She spoke very lightheartedly, as if it were none of her concern.
Lin Ling felt a bit of pity in her heart and silently gave her past self a thumbs-up.
She composed herself and asked, ‘How did you die? And how did I come back?’
At those words, young Lin Ling’s expression darkened.
She said, “Some people became traitors, some became deserters, and so I died.”
‘Holy crap, that’s a lot of information. And then? That’s it? You’re not going to make me guess, are you?’
Lin Ling looked stunned.
Young Lin Ling fell silent, clearly unwilling to discuss it further.
She hesitated for a moment before saying, “As for how you transmigrated back, I do know that. The moment you returned to this world, I was awakened. Because you have two sets of souls, your Spirit Root was unable to wake up, making you unable to cultivate.”
‘Ah… So that’s how it is.’
Lin Ling wept silently, a sense of tragedy filling her body.
Had her life in this world been so full of stumbles all because of the karma she had created in her past life?
“My sister couldn’t bear to let me die. So, she used all of her cultivation and her physical body, combined with the karma generated by the genocide of the Fox Clan and the Jade Void Grotto-Heaven, to perform a Great Incantation. She pulled me—which is to say, you—back from your world,” young Lin Ling said softly.
“The timelines between worlds are different. After I transmigrated to your side, my sister needed to search for the world of my reincarnation within the river of time. Even if she were late by a single moment, I could have already reincarnated hundreds or thousands of times,” young Lin Ling said with emotion.
“If I had reincarnated too many times in other worlds, I wouldn’t have been able to come back. I would have become a soul of that world forever.”
‘I have another question. Since I was pulled back by Lin Ke, how did you transmigrate in the first place?’
Lin Ling looked at her in confusion.
Young Lin Ling also showed a hint of bewilderment.
“I don’t remember. I only remember that my chest hurt a lot, and then I died. After that, I reincarnated as you.”
The two looked at each other in silence.
Young Lin Ling whispered, “Is there anything else you want to ask?”
Lin Ling looked dazed and shook her head.
‘You don’t know much more than I do. There’s no point in asking.’
Young Lin Ling sighed, then forced a smile and slowly walked toward Lin Ling.
She turned into points of light and gradually dissipated, leaving behind one final sentence, “Good luck. The genius of the ages was never Xiu Jiming—it was me, it’s you! We reached the True Self Realm when we were 14, much earlier than him! You’re only at the early stage of Law Condensation now, which is far from enough!”
“Praising yourself… feels really strange,” Lin Ling shook her head and muttered to herself.
After the merger, she was certain that the other Lin Ling was dead after all.
Now, only her own personality existed.
It might have some influence on her current self, but not much.
As the points of light completely merged into her body, Lin Ling felt a sense of relief, feeling as refreshed as someone who had just woken up from a long sleep and stretched.
“The Jade Void Grotto-Heaven will be taken back sooner or later.”
Lin Ling clenched her fists and, according to her memories, leapt out toward a certain location.
The boy’s physical body was sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Several halos of light floated up and down behind him, and within those halos, many people could be seen wailing in agony.
The boy seemed to be traveling in spirit, his physical body deep in sleep.
Suddenly, one of the halos behind him began to shake.
Then, a fox ear poked out first, followed by Lin Ling’s fox head.
She looked around, and seeing no danger, she quickly stepped out.
Lin Ling stood behind the boy and silently counted the number of Jade Void Grotto-Heavens.
She frowned.
‘Quite a few are missing. I don’t know where this guy hid them.’
By the way, when no one was listening, the Little Fox could curse as much as she wanted.
Why say this only now?
Because the silly girl of a fox had only just realized this after relying on the memories of her other self.
Glancing at the Jade Void Grotto-Heavens with some regret, Lin Ling had no way to refine so many halos right now, so she could only leave it at that for the time being.
Her gaze swept through the worlds within the halos, searching for the locations of Xiu Jiming and Gong Xuance.
After confirming their positions, Lin Ling took down two halos and said with a smile, “Don’t be afraid, Classmate Xiao Ming. I’m letting you out now.”
Even so, within the Jade Void Grotto-Heaven, Xiu Jiming remained incredibly calm, wiping his long sword while the corpses in front of him piled up like mountains.
Lin Ling chanted softly, “MOON WASHES THE SPIRIT TERRACE, REFLECTING PAST AND PRESENT. REBIRTH IS NOT SILENCE; REVEAL THE JADE VOID TRUE FORM!”
The two halos shook violently, seemingly responding to Lin Ling’s summons.
“HEAR MY COMMAND!”
Lin Ling’s hands trembled as she pressed down with force.
“BREAK THE SEAL!”
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