CHAPTER 693: 154, EIGHTH RING

The Crown Prince had once gathered the powerhouses of Great Yong and proposed to reveal the conspiracy of the Demon Clan, and then to execute all those mortals who did not believe in Great Yong, ensuring with great confidence the preservation of the national fate.

And most of the upper echelons of Great Yong were scared on the spot.

The Human Clan was experiencing an unprecedented prosperity and the population was now at its most ridiculously high in tens of thousands of years. Wipe out several billion all at once?

Even those among the powerhouses who could possibly be seen executing others publicly, mostly did not dare agree.

Let alone the others.

The Fourth Prince and the Seventh Princess, who came from the Buddhist backgrounds, even began to persuade against it on the spot.

Even if the Demon Clan invaded Great Yong, not so many people might die; the Demon Clan also preferred to turn the Human Clan into demons.

Such a cold-blooded idea from the Crown Prince was destined to remain only an idea.

Therefore, the strong men of Great Yong could only try to find other methods as far as possible.

Sadly, there was hardly any gain.

On this day—

Prince Xia’s Mansion welcomed a familiar visitor.

"Qingluo."

Lin Yue looked at the woman in palace attire, standing opposite him and said, "Why have you come?"

It was the Blood Sea Saint Mother.

"Your Highness had said before that you wanted to see Qingluo’s research on bloodlines and spiritual bodies, right?"

The Blood Sea Saint Mother flipped her hand and produced a green Wood Cicada, saying, "This Wood Cicada contains all of Qingluo’s research on bloodlines and spiritual bodies from the past few hundred years. Today, I will give them all to Your Highness."

"All for me?" Lin Yue raised an eyebrow slightly.

This was the Blood Sea Saint Mother’s most important legacy, far more important than the treasures she had spent to help Baili Fengzhi with the Bloodline Path Harmonization.

He had agreed with the Blood Sea Saint Mother to provide him with a systematic collection of books on bloodlines and spiritual bodies.

He did not expect that today the Bloodline Saint Mother would be willing to hand them all over to him?

"Do you have something you need my help with?" Lin Yue asked.

The Blood Sea Saint Mother now knew that he possessed the embryonic form of the Ultimate Path, and in this life, it was still uncertain whether he would achieve Harmonization.

The agreement to conceive a child after Harmonization might also not be fulfilled, and with the rarity of the Ultimate Path, the possibility of failure was great.

Under such circumstances, if it were not for their prior agreement, the Blood Sea Saint Mother might not even be willing to fulfill it anymore.

Now she was actually offering more?

"Qingluo would like to ask Your Highness for a favor."

The Blood Sea Saint Mother took a deep breath and said, "Please ask the Crown Prince if he could grant Qingluo an Imperial Decree, so that when Qingluo reincarnates, she may be reborn into a family with good cultivation aptitude."

"You’re going to undergo reincarnation?" Lin Yue asked.

"Your Highness, I have no choice," the Blood Sea Saint Mother sighed and said, "If my calculations are not wrong, the next or the one after that to be executed publicly from the Demon Path Saints will be Qingluo."

Lin Yue immediately understood her meaning.

The envoy of the Divine Dream who came from the true dreams needed to win the hearts of the people and gain the trust of the mortals, first using public execution to kill those Saints from the Demon Path who were already heavily burdened with sins.

Four Demon Path Saints had already been killed, and the Blood Sea Saint Mother once drowned a Buddhist Holy Land in her blood sea, which was a deed immeasurably sinful as well.

Being selected as the next one for public execution by the true dreams was very likely.

"That public execution of the true dreams would cause one’s soul to be annihilated, with no chance even for reincarnation."

The Blood Sea Saint Mother sighed and said, "Rather than that, it would be better for Qingluo to end her life herself and seek reincarnation. If the Crown Prince bestows a Reincarnation Decree, in her next life she could at least resume cultivation."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, understanding her predicament.

Although starting over with cultivation in the next life was troublesome and the outcome uncertain, it was a solution born out of necessity.

Legend had it that allowing the Crown Prince to supervise the realm, the Divine Emperor also permitted the Crown Prince to oversee and control reincarnation.

In history, a fair number of meritorious Saints were granted Reincarnation Decrees, and in their next life, they could even become of Xiahong bloodline.

If the aptitude after reincarnation was good, it was indeed a desirable choice.

"Given that, I’ll go to the palace and ask on your behalf," said Lin Yue, nodding slightly. "I’ll enter the palace now while you wait here."

"Thank you, Your Highness," the Blood Sea Saint Mother spoke her thanks softly.

The next public execution could start at any time, and Lin Yue did not want to waste time. He immediately left the hall, ready to enter the palace.

Just as he was stepping out the door, he heard a familiar voice resonate in his mind—

"Seventeenth brother, there is no need to see the Crown Prince now."

It was the voice of the Second Prince.

Lin Yue knew that the Second Prince had sealed a part of his Primordial Spirit inside him to protect him and prevent the Demon God from finding an opportunity, and was almost constantly on the alert for him.

He had probably heard his conversation with the Blood Sea Saint Mother.

"Why?" Lin Yue could not help asking in his mind, "Does the Crown Prince not wish to agree?"

"It’s not that I am unwilling, but that it’s simply not possible."

The Second Prince sighed in his heart, "If it were thirty years earlier, this naturally wouldn’t have been a big deal. If you had pleaded personally, the Crown Prince would have given you face, but now... the Crown Prince can only monitor reincarnation, no longer able to control it."

"Can only monitor now?" Lin Yue couldn’t help but be startled.

"Because... the Divine Emperor is dead." The Second Prince sighed: "Reincarnation was a heavenly and earthly authority grasped by the Divine Emperor, an Ancient God. Since He’s gone, even with the aid of the Heavenly Dao, the Crown Prince can only monitor, but cannot interfere or influence anymore."

Lin Yue then understood, and couldn’t help feeling somewhat helpless, saying, "So the Blood Sea Saint Mother can only undergo reincarnation by herself..."

To undergo reincarnation by oneself, what sort of person one would become in the next life was unpredictable, nor was the quality of one’s talents certain, and the regrowth of one’s Divine Soul was also hard to say.

"It’s still a method, nonetheless."

The Second Prince said, "At worst, you can ask the Crown Prince for help in locating her reincarnated body, then go and guide her yourself. That’s much better than public execution and soul dispersal."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and could only sigh before turning back into the hall.

"Your Highness?"

The Blood Sea Saint Mother noticed Lin Yue had barely stepped out before turning back, which puzzled her.

"I apologize." Lin Yue sighed helplessly and said, "I just inquired with the Second Prince, and under the current special circumstances, the Crown Prince is also unable to influence reincarnation."

"Unable to influence?" The Blood Sea Saint Mother couldn’t help but be startled.

"But in the future, I can ask the Crown Prince to locate your reincarnated body, and I will personally guide you," Lin Yue said. "Then, I will find some Heaven and Earth Treasures that can improve your talents and Divine Soul, trying my best to make up for the deficiencies in your talents."

Despite his words, the extent to which Heaven and Earth Treasures could enhance talents was ultimately limited and might not even be suitable.

Like Lin Yue, it was mainly because he had seized Xia Lie’s Prince Bloodline and also consumed treasures prepared for him by Lin Jianlu, having an Acquired Primordial Body, that he possessed such a startling cultivation speed.

Without the Prince Bloodline, he might have had a chance to become a Great Cultivator, but anything higher would have been wishful thinking.

Moreover, the newly coalesced Divine Soul in the next life was also uncertain.

The Divine Soul would determine one’s comprehension, spiritual nature, and so on, which were considered the most important factors in the later stages of cultivation. The Divine Soul nurtured by the Xiahong bloodline was also quite special.

"Unable to interfere with reincarnation..."

The Blood Sea Saint Mother fell silent for a long while before sighing, "Since that’s the case, then I will trouble Your Highness."

It had not been easy for her to cultivate to such a realm, having encountered countless fortuitous events, several strokes of great luck, and many moments of sudden enlightenment. If possible, no one would want to start over.

What the next life held, nobody could be sure.

But in the absence of other options, she had to accept this path.

"Your Highness, Qingluo shall take her leave now."

The Blood Sea Saint Mother sighed, "At the moment of the public execution, Qingluo will take her own life and enter reincarnation."

Not even true dreams could hinder reincarnation, a fact that had been confirmed.

"Don’t worry," Lin Yue nodded slightly.

After the Blood Sea Saint Mother left, he couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

Reincarnation of a Saint-level powerhouse would also lead to a drop in Great Yong’s national fortune, retaining only so little luck. Clearly, the Demon Clan was also pleased to see this happen.

The Ancient Hall Master and others had also said that when there was truly no other way, it was better to enter reincarnation than to suffer soul dispersal.

"Continue cultivating. Perhaps after mastering the Ultimate Path, things might change?"

Lin Yue took a deep breath and continued studying the Spirit and Body Unity Cultivation Method and the Inner Heaven and Earth Cultivation Method.

With his current realm, he understood nothing of the true state of that dream reality, let alone finding flaws or tracking the one who manipulated the dreams.

But...

Perhaps things would be different with the Unity of the Ultimate Path.

...

Several days passed.

That night.

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

Eight successive bell-like colossal reverberations exploded in Lin Yue’s mind. While everything stilled to silence and the resonant, majestic tolling echoed endlessly in his mind.

"Eighth Ring?"

Lin Yue involuntarily stood stunned.