Journey Through the Ruins of Smoke: The Nineteenth Life

The smoke of reincarnation is thus; eternity is like being trapped in a barren mound.

She said, “I only have one lifetime.”

Someone told her, “Your lifetime is very long, so long that you don't even know where it ends.”

She said, “Even the word ‘repay’ is hard to hear. If we're talking about repayment, he owed me his love in the first lifetime when he endured a tribulation, and in the second, I endured a tribulation to leave this mortal world and failed to return his love. By that reckoning, we're long since even. Why split off a soul and send it into reincarnation?”

Someone told her, “Love is measured differently by each person. If he thinks the debt isn't settled, then another soul is sent to reincarnate in the mortal world. If you think it's settled, you can simply choose not to seek out that soul.”

She asked, “Can one soul be considered a person?”

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The disciples of Fanxu Valley refuse to enter reincarnation when they die. Their souls are left alone, unable to ascend to the immortal path, and instead follow a path of their own, much to the immortals' displeasure. Yet they can do nothing about it. Fanxu Valley was founded by an ancient god in the Primordial Era, and formations surround the valley. Without the valley master's permission, anyone who enters dies, be they mortal, immortal, or demon. No exceptions.