It all came back! It all came back!
Yu Zhibo stared blankly at the resurrection space, at the man and woman in the sky above, as memories that had been erased began to resurface in his mind.
In the past, Yu Zhibo had died from a dying blow dealt by Yu Jue due to carelessness. That time, he had used a resurrection coin—no, Izanagi—and it was in the resurrection space that he had met these two.
Were these like the will of Naruto Uzumaki's parents left behind in his body?
Yu Zhibo remained silent, watching them.
These two were like a high-spec version of himself and Bai Chanyi. Their temperament and strength far surpassed theirs, as if they were entirely different people.
But inevitably, Yu Zhibo felt a sense of closeness to them, because they were, in essence, himself and Bai Chanyi from another timeline.
"There's no need for small talk. You'll know what you need to know when your strength reaches a certain level. Now, I'm going to give you clues about the location of the Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts."
The high-spec Yu Zhibo's thin lips curled into a knife-like smile. He wore a magnificent immortal robe, enveloped by primordial chaotic energy, with stars appearing on it, as if condensed from billions upon billions of stars.
His hair cascaded like a waterfall, each strand crystalline, flowing with the aura of time, with stars appearing and vanishing within it, constantly evolving new laws.
When Yu Zhibo first saw them, these two were shrouded in a chaotic mist. At the time, he had wondered why he couldn't see their faces, but now he finally understood.
With his insufficient strength back then, looking at beings like these, even a single glance would have likely caused him to be utterly annihilated.
Hearing the high-spec Yu Zhibo's words, Yu Zhibo took a deep breath. "What clues?"
The high-spec Yu Zhibo laughed heartily. "Don't be so stiff... or I'll be tempted to tease you. After all, so much time has passed, it's too hard to find anything interesting."
Beside him, the high-spec Bai Chanyi also chuckled softly, then cast a slightly chiding glance at the high-spec Yu Zhibo next to her.
Yu Zhibo: "..."
The high-spec Yu Zhibo chuckled, and in the next instant, a golden mark appeared between his brows. It detached from his forehead and flew directly towards Yu Zhibo.
After leaving the high-spec Yu Zhibo's forehead, the golden mark transformed from substance to void, instantly flying to Yu Zhibo's forehead, shattering into fine points of light that all merged into his brow.
Yu Zhibo's pupils constricted. A majestic aura swept through his entire mind, and the entire world began to spin.
It felt like a long time, or perhaps just an instant.
When Yu Zhibo's consciousness returned, he felt as if something had been added to his mind.
It was information about the eight Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts. Besides the Soul-Seizing Prison Banner, the Taiji Heavenly Emperor Soul-Slaying Sword, and the Reincarnation Creation Mirror, there were also the Yin-Yang Soul-Forging Cauldron, the Reincarnation Stele, the Primordial Treasure Mirror, the Reincarnation Palace, and the Six Paths Reincarnation Seal—five more heavy artifacts.
The location of each heavy artifact and the incantation to activate it were all imprinted in his mind.
The good news was that as long as he was within ten thousand miles of these Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts, he could activate them directly with the incantation.
The bad news was that, with the exception of the Yin-Yang Soul-Forging Cauldron, all the locations of these Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts were situated within major sacred lands.
Among them, the Six Paths Reincarnation Seal was located in the Solar Mother Star where the Little Golden Crow resided, guarded by the Ancestor of the Golden Crows, who was in the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
Yu Zhibo was utterly dumbfounded.
The following is a summary of the subsequent plot.
After receiving all the information, Yu Zhibo finally understood the importance of reforging the cycle of reincarnation.
In the River of Time, there were countless timelines and countless worlds. However, all these worlds were worlds without reincarnation. Worlds without reincarnation were incomplete, lacking mechanisms for self-perfection and operation, and would eventually be devoured by the power of darkness.
What Yu Zhibo had to do was to reforge the cycle of reincarnation for the timeline where the Qingchu Continent was located, and then influence other timelines, inciting the initiative of the Heavenly Dao in other timelines to select their own Son of Heavenly Dao to recreate reincarnation.
Organizing the information in his mind, Yu Zhibo summoned the Reincarnation Creation Mirror. Following the incantation taught to him by the high-spec Yu Zhibo, he officially activated the Reincarnation Creation Mirror. Then, he consumed the reincarnation power inherent in the Creation Mirror to deduce his future self in this life, and by adding the strength of his future self to his current self, he successfully broke through to the Profound Immortal realm.
Afterward, he tore through the void and arrived at the Qingchu Continent.
As the chosen Son of Heavenly Dao selected by the incomplete Heavenly Dao, and possessing the Heart of Primordial Creation, Yu Zhibo soon received the nourishment of all the Daos of the Qingchu Continent, directly breaking through to the Profound Immortal realm.
In an instant, all Daos roared, and countless laws of Heavenly Dao poured onto Yu Zhibo, elevating his cultivation to the Golden Immortal realm, reaching the same realm as Bai Chenchen.
However, Yu Zhibo sensed the incompleteness of the Heavenly Dao laws and realized that if this continued, he would eventually be influenced by the incomplete Heavenly Dao laws, making it difficult to transcend the River of Time. Thus, he summoned the Taiji Heavenly Emperor Soul-Slaying Sword, severed his own realm, and fell back to the Profound Immortal realm.
The various anomalies triggered by Yu Zhibo attracted the attention of many immortal powerhouses on the Qingchu Continent. Even the old masters of sacred lands in the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm wanted to investigate his situation. However, after a period of deduction, all they saw was a majestic figure with his hands behind his back, his long hair cascading like a waterfall. This figure exuded immense terror.
Upon seeing this, many old ancestors of sacred lands were greatly alarmed and immediately ceased their deductions.
After severing his Dao, Yu Zhibo finally gained a more direct understanding of what the incompleteness of the Heavenly Dao entailed: it was the vitality drawn from the River of Time that had not been corrupted by darkness.
This vitality was gone due to the corruption of the River of Time. Yu Zhibo then recalled Bai Chanyi's words about needing to cultivate both immortal and demonic arts to save the world. With a thought, Yu Zhibo began cultivating demonic arts.
At that moment, the serious clone, who was receiving the demonic realm Heavenly Dao inheritance in the Demon Abyss, sensed something. He directly ascended the long staircase towards the Demon Emperor's throne, and his cultivation soared to the level of Demon Lord, equivalent to the Golden Immortal realm. He then engaged in a fierce battle with an old Demon Lord of the Seventh Demon Abyss, narrowly winning and absorbing the Demon Lord's demonic source, further enhancing his strength.
Concurrently, after severing his own Dao, Yu Zhibo once again used the Reincarnation Creation Mirror to deduce his past self, pouring various great powers into himself, and returned to the Golden Immortal realm.
But unlike the previous time, when he advanced to the Golden Immortal realm, it was through the accumulation of various Daos. This time, he directly trampled the Daos under his feet.
Cultivating immortality, cultivating immortality—others cultivated immortality, perfecting their own Dao; as long as the immortal Dao was eternal, their own existence would be eternal. However, he treated the immortal Dao as a consumable. This meant that when the power of darkness invaded the timeline one day, he could abandon the Dao of this world at any time without his fate being destructively affected.
At this moment, Yu Zhibo finally understood why the high-spec Bai Chanyi had told him to cultivate both immortal and demonic arts. On this day, with a single thought, he pierced through the barriers of the immortal and demonic realms, merging himself, now a Demon Lord transformed from his serious clone, with his Golden Immortal self. He automatically comprehended the [Immortal-Demonic Transformation - Transcendence Chapter], making his origins even more mysterious and un-deducible, and he also comprehended various secret techniques.
In the subsequent period, he spent three hundred thousand years using various methods to obtain four of the scattered Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts. Relying on the reincarnation laws within them, he broke through to the Half-step Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. In particular, he also learned all the secret techniques within the Reincarnation Palace.
At this moment, although he had not reached the Grand Unity realm nor transcended the River of Time, he already possessed countless unfathomable methods. The last artifact, the Yin-Yang Soul-Forging Cauldron, which was scattered in the boundless Sea of Chaos, would become his ultimate goal.
In these three hundred thousand years, his friends and family, upon nearing the end of their lifespans, had their souls' origins preserved by him and sealed within the Reincarnation Creation Mirror. Now, as long as he obtained the last Reincarnation Heavy Artifact, he would definitely break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
In fact, the outcome did not exceed his expectations. One day, with the seven Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts suspended around him, he charged into the Sea of Chaos and confronted the Lord of Chaos, nearly perishing. However, he used his Three Lives, Three Worlds Undying Body to cycle with the Lord of Chaos, ultimately winning and once again proving his Dao, breaking through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
After breaking through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, he controlled the power of time and finally glimpsed a corner of the River of Time. However, he felt the difficulty of the road ahead and the dimness of the future even more, and only then did he realize how arduous the life of his other self in another timeline had been.
Soon after, he became unstoppable in the Sea of Chaos, killing any gods or buddhas in his path, clearing out a large number of chaotic creatures. At the same time, his old system detached from him and returned to the hands of his other self in another timeline.
Meanwhile, Timó, who had been training in the Sea of Chaos for three hundred thousand years, also reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm with his help. He became his most capable assistant, named Hei Si, and was tasked with managing the operations of Yin and Yang reincarnation.
One day, while meditating in the Sea of Chaos, Yu Zhibo suddenly opened his eyes. He sensed that today was the best time to reforge the cycle of reincarnation. Thus, he summoned the eight Reincarnation Heavy Artifacts and recreated the cycle of reincarnation.
On this day, the heavens and earth of the Qingchu Continent changed color. Endless reincarnation laws surged from the Sea of Chaos. It was also on this day that the chaotic Sea of Chaos, which had no order, regained order and transformed from a place of chaos into a realm of ordered reincarnation.
Thus, the dead found their resting places, the souls in the Sea of Souls increased, the number of potential beings grew day by day, and the world after death gained a new order.
And Yu Zhibo, having replaced the Lord of Chaos, became the Lord of Reincarnation, nicknamed the Reincarnation Emperor.
At the same time, Bai Chanyi, who was bound to him, also successfully proved her Dao and became the Mother of Reincarnation.
After becoming the Lord of Reincarnation, he directly killed a group of Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had betrayed them. Then, carrying the power of the Heavenly Dao of the Qingchu Continent, he led his wife and children into the River of Time and merged with his other self in another timeline.
For millions of years thereafter, more and more timelines were purified, and eventually, the entire dark force that had invaded the River of Time was repelled. The myriad worlds regained their vitality.
And Yu Zhibo, having handed over the management of reincarnation to Timó, opened up another small world and lived a blissful life with his wife Bai Chanyi.
As for their children, they all had their own descendants.
The new Heavenly Dao, which had replaced the old Heavenly Dao, had some objections because Yu Zhibo's three children, his parents, and Chen Bo and Yu Xiaoying did not enter the cycle of reincarnation.
In response, Yu Zhibo, whose strength had long surpassed that of the Heavenly Dao, explained: "As the Lord of Reincarnation, I saved all the worlds. Can't my family have some privileges?"
The Heavenly Dao remained silent, daring not to speak.
(The End)