Chapter 749: Chapter 747: All Things Have Spirit, Heavenly Immortals Have Flaws 2
The Decree of Emperor's Daughter Zhao was not yet finished.
The Peerless Young Master could not help but interrupt.
“Fellow Daoist. This is where you are in the wrong.”
“You are the ones who hope for a next life. Now my Old Man wishes to lend Old Xia a hand, to let him reincarnate and continue his former bond with you.”
“Yet you say we Heavenly Immortals do not enter the cycle of Reincarnation.”
“Isn’t that self-contradictory?”
“It is not contradictory.”
Before Emperor's Daughter Zhao could answer, Lin Qi spoke thoughtfully.
He turned his head and looked back the way they had come.
There was a great river named Granduncle Yu, and the Great Monsoon that returned only once every ten years to cheers and offerings.
And there was an old man who, after death, wanted to become a red chili pepper that could live eight hundred years.
So.
“Is this the next life that the Heavenly Immortal cultivators of your era believe in?”
“Not the cycle of Reincarnation controlled by the Heavenly Dao or by men. Rather, faith in the spirit of all things.”
“The belief that all things are merely compositions of matter, and after countless evolutions of time.”
“The probability of what once appeared will reassemble once more.”
“Thus becoming the true Reincarnation in the eyes of a materialist.”
Heavenly Immortals were materialists, believing in no cycle of Reincarnation under the Heavenly Dao or men.
Yet they could accept matter randomly reassembling once more through the years.
So some people became rivers after death, some became wind.
Some still wanted to become a red chili pepper, or a beloved star.
They were naturally not the same as one another.
But after the long passage of time.
A star and dust might yet have their day of merging with the light and becoming one with the dust.
“No, it is more than that.”
“What the heart holds dear will surely echo back.”
“When enough longing and remembrance has accumulated.”
“After countless years, those rivers and winds that have been inscribed may yet absorb enough spirituality.”
“Through generations of hope and expectation, be born once more into the flow of time.”
“Return to Heaven and Earth, the spirit of all things.”
“I see.”
“No wonder the Heavenly Immortals shattered Reincarnation. So in the beliefs of your era.”
“Heaven and Earth and all things were already a natural Reincarnation.”
Lin Qi understood, and finally grasped why everyone in this era’s Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm could Return to Heaven and Earth.
It turned out this itself was the explanation and completion of Reincarnation within the Heavenly Immortal Dao.