Chapter 319 - 183: The Forgotten Cause and Effect
Chapter 319: Chapter 183: The Forgotten Cause and Effect
CLANG!
His soul was surprisingly tough!
A single strike wasn’t enough to dislodge it!
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!
Lu Cang stabbed furiously with his Dagger, finally jolting the soul until it flickered outside the body!
Lu Cang immediately tried to extract the soul!
BANG!
But the moment Lu Cang raised his hand to extract it, the soul landed in his grasp. Yet, he could feel that this soul was not corporeal.
It was just an afterimage.
And as the soul landed in Lu Cang’s hand...
...his body shattered along with it!
Then, the illusory soul in his hand dissipated as well.
"Tsk..."
’So I really can’t take it?’
The opponent had been forcibly pulled over, and was just a phantom from the start.
’Thinking about it that way, it must have been something like a temporary projection.’
Lu Cang slowly landed on the ground.
He looked at the Array Maps around him.
’A pity... these are all one-time-use Array Maps.’
’It’s only because they’re single-use that a Level 3 Array Master could set them up directly. Otherwise, it would be impossible to call upon them at such a Low Level.’
"To think... there are still powerhouses like this in the world."
"It’s always right to remain humble."
Lu Cang walked slowly toward the very center of the grand hall.
By now, the entire hall had long since fallen apart and was in a state of utter ruin.
The pillars in the hall had all shattered, and the ground was riddled with deep pits and fissures, completely devastated.
Not a single part of the sanctuary remained intact.
Lu Cang walked toward the center of the hall, where a mark was floating in mid-air.
This mark.
Lu Cang sensed the Talent Rune inside his body.
’It feels somewhat similar to the mark of the Talent within me...’
He arrived beside the mark.
But then, the phantom of the white-haired, red-eyed youth appeared once more.
SWISH!
It slashed its sword toward Lu Cang!
However, Lu Cang felt no sense of danger.
SWISH!
The blade’s light passed by!
This slash passed completely through Lu Cang’s body.
"It’s just an afterimage now."
’It seems the opponent can no longer pose any threat to me.’
"Stop!"
Lu Cang paid him no mind at all.
He touched the Reincarnation Mark.
BZZZZ—
A faint, warm current flowed into his body. In that instant, Lu Cang felt that he now possessed the ability to reincarnate.
If he were to die in this life.
He would be able to reincarnate into the next.
Moreover, he would be able to retain the memories of his past life.
These precious memories and experiences were the greatest significance of Reincarnation.
The Root Source that Mages comprehend is all based on thought.
The Extreme Battle Intent that Warriors grasp is also a state of being comprehended through one’s own perception.
For every Profession, its corresponding principles are fundamentally interpretations of one’s own thoughts.
And by remembering that way of thinking...
...it’s the same as remembering everything.
Magic doesn’t need to be learned from scratch, and Combat Skills don’t need to be trained from the beginning.
As long as you remember, you are proficient, you are skilled.
However...
’It’s still better not to die if I can help it.’
’Every death means starting over in the next life. Spirituality and Talent are all reset for a new life.’
’There’s no guarantee my next life will have such a good start.’
’What if, in my next life, I can only possess an Ordinary Level Talent? I can’t imagine how awful that would be.’
Reincarnation can only be taken by beings who have once possessed the right to it.
At this moment, as Lu Cang obtained the Reincarnation Mark.
The white-haired, red-eyed youth beside Lu Cang had already vanished, his face deathly pale and bleak just before he disappeared.
Reincarnation was his path.
But Lu Cang had severed it.
"I’ve really made a mortal enemy..."
However, Lu Cang had no regrets.
There was no reason to hand over an inheritance he had won with his own abilities just because the other party said a few words.
Besides.
The ability to reincarnate countless times was truly tempting to Lu Cang.
From now on, even if he truly died, he would have a backup plan... it was equivalent to having countless extra lives.
His original prime directive for increasing his strength was to prioritize self-preservation.
Not taking the Reincarnation would violate that principle.
SWOOSH—
A faint glimmer of light flashed, and after he obtained the Reincarnation Mark, a list appeared before his eyes.
「Reincarnation Record」
Carmo, 1st Life, 2nd Life, 3rd Life
Yi Menglian, 1st Life, 2nd Life, 3rd Life, 4th Life
Mahababa, 1st Life, 2nd Life
Lacyhah, 0th Life
Meng Chengxu, 1st Life, 2nd Life, 3rd Life, 4th Life, 5th Life, 6th Life, 7th Life, 8th Life, 9th Life, 10th Life, 11th Life
Jue, 1st Life, 2nd Life
...
Saint One, 1st Life, 2nd Life, 3rd Life, 4th Life, 5th Life, 6th Life, 7th Life, 8th Life
Lu Cang, 0th Life
"So that person’s name is Saint One."
’Now I know his name, I suppose.’
’Is he in the Moon Sea?’
’I wonder how far the Moon Sea is from here?’
’This list... so many people have obtained the Reincarnation Mark in the past. But it seems no one has been able to walk this path forever, to become invincible across ten thousand lifetimes.’
The one who went the farthest only made it to their 11th Life.
Then, they were probably defeated by the one named Jue.
And that person named Jue only lasted for two lives before being defeated by the next person in line.
’Truly, the ways of the world are unpredictable.’
’It seems that even with the power of Reincarnation, I can’t afford to be too reckless.’
Aside from this list, three volumes of a book titled "Reincarnation"—upper, middle, and lower—appeared beside Lu Cang.
Lu Cang leafed through the books.
Hidden within was a Ritual that could preserve some of one’s abilities from a previous life after Reincarnation, but he couldn’t decipher it at his current level.
It required extremely profound knowledge of the study of Reincarnation.
And right now, his own knowledge of it was superficial at best.
Lu Cang memorized all the names on the list.
He also recorded them on Fire-Written Paper.
He stored the record in his most private Storage Space.
The battle was over.
The grand hall gradually became illusory, and numerous corpses reappeared in the surrounding Space.
’It seems the Space is shifting. I’m about to return to that battlefield of Reincarnation.’