"Good!"
Seeing Ye Ling agree, Jiu Yuan seemed to see a glimmer of hope for life from the endless darkness. He was ecstatic and quickly sent his reincarnation information to Ye Ling.
Jiu Yuan's reincarnation information was, as Ye Ling had expected, a string of dark red garbled code, exuding unsettling information.
Ye Ling looked at the reincarnation information sent by Jiu Yuan, his eyes slightly narrowed. After a moment of hesitation, he stored Jiu Yuan's reincarnation information in his spatial ring.
"I have received your reincarnation information, and you should fulfill the contract now."
"No problem!"
Jiu Yuan replied joyfully and began to accelerate the playback of his memories, flashing through hundreds of billions of years in an instant.
Even Ye Ling couldn't think at this moment and could only focus all his energy on memorizing all of Jiu Yuan's memories to sort them out later.
After a long while, Jiu Yuan finished playing back all his memories and said to Ye Ling, "Ye Ling, as agreed, I have shown you all my memories. You should leave now."
Ye Ling patted his slightly dizzy head and complained to Jiu Yuan, "Did you show all your memories? Couldn't you pick out the important parts?"
Jiu Yuan had lived for an immeasurable age, and the amount of information in his memories was astronomical. Even for Ye Ling, who had absorbed thirty percent of the Original Soul King's power, it was a strenuous task to memorize all of Jiu Yuan's memories accurately in such a short time.
After reviewing all of Jiu Yuan's memories, Ye Ling felt like his head was about to explode!
Jiu Yuan chuckled, "In my current state, I can't pick out the important parts for you, and I don't know what you're looking for. What if I miss some crucial information?"
"Now that you remember all my memories, it's like having a 'me' living in your head. Isn't there anything you want to know?"
"Hurry up and go? I'll cover for you, and they won't find you."
"Wait..."
Ye Ling stopped Jiu Yuan and asked, "What did you just say?"
Jiu Yuan replied, "I'll cover for you. What's wrong?"
"The sentence before that," Ye Ling said again.
Jiu Yuan paused, then said, "I said... you already know all my memories. Is there a problem?"
"As expected..." Ye Ling suddenly burst out laughing. "You let me take your reincarnation information away, meaning you have a way to revive yourself, don't you?"
"What are you talking about?" Jiu Yuan was startled and then said, "I don't even have consciousness anymore. How is that possible?"
"No consciousness, but still memories..."
Ye Ling pointed to his head, "All your memories are now stored in my mind."
"I was just wondering why you would show me all your memories, even your usual psychological activities, and why you were playing back all your memories so quickly. It seemed like you were running out of time, but in reality, you wanted to prevent me from having the energy to clear out your superfluous memories, didn't you?"
Jiu Yuan began to panic and said to Ye Ling, "I don't understand what you're saying. Instead of making wild guesses here, it's more important to escape!"
"I can barely hold on! Once they kill me, you'll be next!"
Ye Ling ignored Jiu Yuan's words and continued, "All your current memories are in my mind, and your reincarnation information is in my hands. If you possess some kind of evil art, you can completely use the memories in my mind to seize my soul power to help you revive."
"These are all baseless speculations! What's the point?" Jiu Yuan said angrily. "Now that my memories are in your head, you can erase them if you want. Why are you talking so much nonsense here?"
"Now that I've finally obtained your memories, I naturally won't erase them," Ye Ling said with a smile.
"If you're not erasing them, then leave! Do you have to stay here and perish with me?" Jiu Yuan roared.
"When did you start caring so much about my safety?" Ye Ling asked with a smile. "I'm just carrying your reincarnation information. If I don't revive you, then whether I leave here or not has nothing to do with you, right?"
"You lunatic!"
Jiu Yuan's composure broke, his tone becoming sharp and agitated. He shouted, "Leave if you want, or don't. It's best if you die here with me!"
"Alright, since you can still hold on for a while against the monitors' attacks, I'm not in a hurry to leave."
As Ye Ling spoke, he protected himself with the power of creation and sat down amidst the endless garbled text, beginning to recall Jiu Yuan's memories and clearing out a large amount of unnecessary information.
Seeing that Ye Ling really had no intention of leaving, Jiu Yuan became even more anxious, but he didn't dare to urge Ye Ling further, fearing that Ye Ling might notice something amiss.
Although Ye Ling's guess was not entirely accurate, the actual situation was very close to Jiu Yuan's plan.
The reason Jiu Yuan wanted Ye Ling to take his reincarnation information out was to use it, along with the part of his memories in Ye Ling's mind, to turn himself into something like Ye Ling's inner demon, and then slowly contend for control of Ye Ling's body.
The moment Ye Ling accepted Jiu Yuan's reincarnation information, Jiu Yuan had already contaminated Ye Ling's soul with his reincarnation information.
Even if Ye Ling deleted all of Jiu Yuan's memories at this moment, Jiu Yuan would still be able to revive, but he would not remember his past and would only consider himself Ye Ling's inner demon.
Forgetting the past was not a big deal for the current Jiu Yuan.
What Jiu Yuan feared at this moment was that if Ye Ling stayed here for too long, and the monitors broke in, Ye Ling would not be able to escape either!
When Ye Ling was purified by the monitors, he would also die with Ye Ling!
However, Ye Ling had no idea what Jiu Yuan was thinking at this moment, and even if he did... he wouldn't care.
When Ye Ling decided to make a deal with this "demon" Jiu Yuan, he had already made his plan.
He wanted Jiu Yuan's memories.
And Jiu Yuan must not live.
This seemingly either-or choice, Ye Ling wanted both.
However, for Ye Ling to have it all... he would have to pay a price.
The amount of information in Jiu Yuan's memories far exceeded Ye Ling's memories by tens of millions of times. At this moment, Ye Ling was frantically forgetting the irrelevant memories of Jiu Yuan in his mind. His previously dizzy head gradually became lighter.
Time flowed by, bit by bit.
Through persistent effort, Ye Ling finally cleared out most of Jiu Yuan's memories, leaving only the information related to the monitors.
At this moment, Jiu Yuan could no longer resist the attacks from the monitors outside and said to Ye Ling, "Ye Ling, this is the last chance. If you want to escape, then..."
Jiu Yuan's words were cut short as he saw Ye Ling stand up and split his soul into two.
Seeing Ye Ling's action, Jiu Yuan was shocked and exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
Ye Ling endured the pain of soul splitting and panted, "You'll know soon..."