Chapter 354: Rebuilding Reincarnation

【"Driven out?"】

【"What exactly is going on?"】

【Recalling the staircase to immortality hidden within the Jing Shi Zhu, countless doubts fill your heart.】

【Are they alive or dead? Are they the deceased or living beings?】

【You thought you had reached the pinnacle of the Jing Tu world, yet now a single step has plunged you back into confusion.】

【Thinking back, when you first met Bai Li Ming, the way he looked at you was different.】

【He even said something like "You resemble an old acquaintance of mine," and the other guardians' gazes toward you were also somewhat strange.】

【You didn't pay it any mind at the time.】

【Looking at it now, there must be some secret hidden within all this.】

【You want to ask Bai Li Ming and the other guardians yourself, but you cannot see them at all.】

【"Never mind, first create the tenth Jing Tu."】

【Since things have come to this, you can only proceed according to the original plan.】

【You communed with the Jing Shi Zhu, letting its power empower you, continuously gathering stardust from the universe.】

【Countless stars converged, fusing with the power of the Jing Shi Zhu, forming the embryonic form of the tenth Jing Tu world.】

【This is the simplest step.】

【The second step — reflecting Reincarnation from illusion into reality — you have no confidence in at all. Can an illusory world truly be reflected into reality?】

【In an instant, your eyes turned black.】

【Waves of Darkness churned within your eyes, and a black ocean surged beneath your feet as the illusory world fully unfolded.】

【"Jing Shi Zhu! Gentlemen, aid me!"】

【"Reflect Reincarnation!"】

【The laws of Reincarnation unique to you surged wildly through heaven and earth.】

【In this moment, illusion and reality merged.】

【False and true, real and fake — everything grew increasingly blurred before your eyes, and you could no longer tell them apart.】

【On the land ahead, many, many people appeared — some were silhouettes you recognized, and some you had never seen before.】

【In a flash, they transformed into ghosts.】

【"Save me!"】

【"Immortal, please save me!!"】

【"I beg you, take me away."】

【"It's too dark here. Brother, can you take me away too?"】

【In that instant, you heard countless voices. You looked down to see countless pale, bloodstained hands grasping your ankles.】

【Countless faces, both ferocious and pitiful, stared at you.】

【Your scalp went numb, and boundless fear spread through your heart. You instinctively wanted to flee, and the entire Samsara World shook along with you.】

【You violently shook your head, and your will became firm once more.】

【"What am I thinking?"】

【You told yourself that they were not some eerie things — only departed souls who had endured endless suffering.】

【The destruction of Reincarnation left them with nowhere to go.】

【Left them to exist in infinite pain.】

【Along this journey, you comprehended the origin of all things and received the grace of countless living beings — so many people had helped you.】

【It was they who paved a road to the Immortal Gate for you.】

【Even upon the staircase to immortality, seniors guided you forward.】

【They are a group of heroes.】

【Why would you be afraid? You should not be afraid!!】

【You breathed deeply, your heart growing ever firmer. You were simply doing something you ought to do — repaying everyone who had ever helped you.】

【A pure Deity-heart is the heart of all living beings.】

【In the Jing Tu, some harbored malice toward you, but those who passed away never once did you harm.】

【You accepted their gifts and reached this point today, breaking the history of the Jing Tu step by step.】

【You have no reason to shrink back.】

【The laws of Reincarnation surged wildly, and as your will grew resolute, they reflected into reality bit by bit.】

【Those raging ghosts also seemed to gradually become peaceful as the Samsara World took shape.】

【They were like weary birds with no home, having found a place to rest, walking toward it in a daze.】

【The laws of Reincarnation shone upon them.】

【Making them no longer so ferocious and terrifying.】

【You gradually felt that the tenth Jing Tu world was nearly complete — supported by the Jing Shi Zhu and connected to the other Jiu Da Jing Tu worlds.】

【It was even spreading toward the Shadow World.】

【The departed now had a destination, and heaven and earth gradually reached a certain balance. The other Jing Tu of the Living World seemed to be undergoing some wondrous change as well.】

【In this moment, you seemed to feel the meaning of life.】

【"Almost done."】

【Your body was exhausted, more exhausted than it had ever been, but your spirit seemed to be infinitely ascending, sustaining you until you finished reflecting the Samsara World.】

【You don't know how long passed.】

【Your consciousness went completely blurry, and you plunged headfirst into the Chaos Universe.】

At the moment you were about to fall, a hand gently supported your back, then a third, a fourth…

Countless hands lifted you again.

Xiu Luo, red‑clothed, skull, Corpse King, ghost general, Ye Cha, Wu Chang, King of Hell, Pan Guan…

Those legendary ghost creatures raised you high, then gently set you down.

Just like…

Welcoming their king?

"Did it really succeed?"

Before you know it, you have moved from the Chaos Universe into the world of Darkness, arriving in that dark ocean.

Beneath your feet is a gigantic black lotus.

Here, you seem able to control everything; every gesture is supported by the whole world.

You are the sole ruler in this dark nether.

In the instant you come to your senses, you find the pressure from the souls has vanished; you are no longer the bearer of countless souls.

They have found a better resting place.

At this point, your realm also reaches an ineffable, profound state.

If the previous you had no confidence when confronting the guardians such as Bai Li Ming, now you dare say you utterly transcend them.

Take one step! And you become an Immortal!

But you do not rashly take that step toward Immortality, because you sense something restricting this heaven and earth.

Now, it is time to meet the strongest existence of the Jing Tu.

Previously you did not know where she was; the other elders said she was secluding herself in the first Jing Tu world, but that was entirely false.

She resides at the highest point of the Jing Shi Zhu.

Or rather, at the deepest part of the Jing Shi Zhu's space, that mysterious place where it connects with the dark‑shadow world.

Your mind stirs, ready to enter that space.

Boom!

At the instant you are about to step out of the "tenth Jing Tu world", a rumble echoes in your mind, and the whole world shudders.

You furrow your brows, your expression grim.

"How could this happen?"

"Could it be that once I leave, the entire Reincarnation system will collapse?"