Chapter 994: Reshaping Destiny

“Mm!” He Pingsheng smiled and nodded: “Qingmei!”

“Don’t get excited yet—calm your state first!”

“I’ll let you out to merge with your doppelgänger right away!”

“Let me first check your doppelgänger’s condition!”

He Pingsheng walked up to the doppelgänger, pressed two fingers against her wrist, and sent a faint spiritual sense into her body.

Quickly, the internal state of her body appeared before He Pingsheng.

The doppelgänger was perfect.

After two incense sticks passed, Zhou Qingmei’s soul spoke: “Master, I’m ready!”

“Good!” He Pingsheng first pulled out a top-grade [Shihe Pill], placed it into Zhou Qingmei’s doppelgänger’s mouth, then said: “Alright… Qingmei, come out now and merge with your doppelgänger!”

“I’ll help you!”

“Understood!”

Zhou Qingmei’s soul nodded, then stepped forward, emerging from the Soul-Nourishing Banner.

Her body drifted like mist toward the doppelgänger.

But when her soul was less than a zhang away from the doppelgänger, a sudden wind blew through the void.

The great hall instantly darkened.

This wind affected none of He Pingsheng and the others, but when it struck Zhou Qingmei’s soul, it blew her away.

In the darkness, a black-and-white vortex suddenly opened.

Zhou Qingmei’s soul drifted toward the vortex.

“No!” He Pingsheng roared, unleashing a torrent of magic power from within, then transforming his own spiritual essence into chains to forcibly grip Zhou Qingmei’s soul and prevent her from entering the vortex.

He Pingsheng didn’t know what the vortex was, but he instantly realized it must be connected to the Underworld.

“I’ll assist you!”

The Great Lun Mingwang also came to help!

Su Zhenzhen asked: “Husband… what’s happening?”

Before He Pingsheng could answer, Zhou Qingmei’s soul spoke: “It’s the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation!”

“My soul is drawn by this force—I cannot reach the doppelgänger no matter what!”

He Pingsheng understood.

Zhou Qingmei had been dead far too long, and her soul had already passed through one cycle of reincarnation.

Thus, the reincarnation pull on her soul outweighed the pull of the doppelgänger.

As a result, her soul would still be dragged into the Underworld.

“Thunder… repels all evils!”

He Pingsheng roared, and a bolt of lightning shot from within him, striking the black-and-white vortex.

Crack!

The vortex showed no change, but Zhou Qingmei screamed: “Master, don’t—!”

He Pingsheng suddenly realized: at this moment, Zhou Qingmei’s soul itself was part of the “evils.”

“Xihu Sister!” He Pingsheng said: “Quickly bring the doppelgänger over—merge it with her!”

Since the soul couldn’t reach the doppelgänger, bring the doppelgänger to the soul and merge them!

He Pingsheng’s plan was simple: once forcibly merged, the matter would be settled.

But when Xihu brought Zhou Qingmei’s doppelgänger over and brought it into contact with the soul, they still could not merge.

“What’s wrong?”

“How could this happen?”

He Pingsheng was drenched in sweat!

To resurrect Zhou Qingmei, he had exhausted every ounce of effort—twice entering the Underworld’s Huangquan, even making a pact with the Judge Cui Jue.

Thinking of Cui Jue, He Pingsheng suddenly had an idea.

He recalled Cui Jue’s earlier words.

Cui Jue had said: if problems arose during the soul-doppelgänger fusion, one could use destiny force to empower her?

Perfect!

Try it!

He Pingsheng’s eyes flashed—he didn’t know how to wield destiny force, but he used his spiritual sense to draw about one-tenth of the last remaining dou of destiny force.

Hummm…

Instantly, a golden light flashed through the void.

Destiny force coalesced into a golden cloud, appearing in the great hall.

The moment destiny force appeared, the nearby black-and-white vortex shrank slightly.

Its suction weakened considerably.

“Go…” He Pingsheng split the destiny force in two—one half settled upon Zhou Qingmei’s soul, the other upon her doppelgänger.

Both halves erupted in dazzling golden radiance.

Zhou Qingmei’s soul, as if nourished, rapidly strengthened.

Then, in the great hall, the black-and-white vortex suddenly collapsed and vanished.

The yin energy and yin winds disappeared too!

“Success!” He Pingsheng rejoiced: “Qingmei, merge quickly!”

Zhou Qingmei’s soul and doppelgänger instantly fused together.

After about half an incense stick’s time, the fusion ended.

The golden light faded.

Zhou Qingmei’s eyes snapped open, and she sat up.

“Master…” she tumbled to the ground.

She had wanted to rush over and embrace He Pingsheng, but her newly fused body was still unfamiliar, and she lost control.

“Sister!” Su Zhenzhen rushed forward and helped her up.

“Don’t rush!” Su Zhenzhen comforted her: “You’ve just absorbed so much destiny force—you haven’t fully assimilated it yet. First, absorb it completely. Don’t waste it!”

“Alright!” Zhou Qingmei sat cross-legged and began integrating the destiny force within her.

This destiny force required no cultivation—it quickly and naturally merged into Zhou Qingmei’s body.

Then, Zhou Qingmei’s face lit up: “Master… I… my personal destiny… seems to have grown!”

“Huh?” He Pingsheng froze, then immediately activated the [Heavenly Eye Cosmology True Interpretation] technique.

Quickly, he saw it.

Zhou Qingmei’s crown destiny force had indeed increased dramatically.

Previously, her destiny was seventh-rank; when she crossed the Tribulation Crossing, the thunder that struck her was the Seven-Nine Tribulation.

Now, her destiny had reached eighth-rank.

Then…

He Pingsheng’s gaze shifted instantly to Su Zhenzhen.

If cosmic destiny force could elevate Zhou Qingmei’s personal destiny, could it… do the same for Su Zhenzhen?

Would it work for her too?

“Wait here—I have urgent business!” He Pingsheng grabbed Su Zhenzhen: “Zhenzhen… come with me!”

The two walked to Su Zhenzhen’s cultivation grounds.

Su Zhenzhen’s face flushed crimson: “What… why so many people watching? You’re in such a hurry—I… I can’t even look up!”

“People will laugh!”

She stamped her foot, gritting her teeth.

He Pingsheng chuckled: “What are you thinking?”

“I mean—if destiny force boosted Zhou Qingmei’s personal destiny, it can do the same for you!”

“You didn’t even think of that?”

“You weren’t thinking about… that, were you?”

Su Zhenzhen’s neck turned bright red: “No… you… you’re so annoying… isn’t it just because I haven’t seen you in so many years?”

She rolled her eyes dramatically.

At that moment, He Pingsheng’s blood surged with excitement.

Among all his cultivation partners, Su Zhenzhen was the one he missed most.

“Enough!” He Pingsheng took a deep breath, suppressing his impulse: “I’ll give you a thread of cosmic destiny force—see if it can reshape your personal destiny!”