It doesn't matter if your souls are scattered, as long as you die.

"Immortal, why didn't you choose me?"

In a poor village, two immortal masters arrived to test whether the children possessed the spiritual potential to cultivate immortality.

A total of seventeen children in the village were tested. After one round of testing, three children showed signs of spiritual growth: two girls and one boy.

However, although three spirit sprouts were detected, the immortals only decided to take away one man and one woman.

The girl who was not selected then questioned why she wasn't chosen.

Upon hearing the question, one of the male immortals squatted down beside her and kindly explained, "Little sister, your spiritual sprout is too weak. Even if you cultivate immortality, you will not achieve much, and may even be stuck at the Qi Refining stage. It would be better to wait for your next life."

The little girl strongly promised, "I will work very hard."

The immortal shook his head, "The spiritual sprout is the foundation; it cannot be achieved simply through effort."

"Little sister, don't be so attached. Cultivating immortality also depends on fate. Your fate has not yet arrived. Strive to cultivate in this life and look forward to the next."

"No, no, I want to cultivate immortality!"

Helpless, the immortal looked to the villagers for help, hoping that her parents could come and persuade her.

As a result, no one stepped forward, which made him a little angry. Just as he was about to reprimand someone, the little boy who had been chosen walked up to the little girl.

"Xuanxuan, wait for me in the village. Once I've learned the magic, I'll come back and teach you."

The little girl's stubborn eyes softened considerably upon hearing these words.

"Xiao Jin, you have to keep your word. I'll be waiting for you to come back."

"Okay, I will definitely come back to find you."

"Let's pinky swear."

"Pinky promise."

After comforting the little girl, the immortals took the two children and left. It was only on the spaceship that the immortals learned that the little girl was an orphan with no parents.

The little boy named Xiao Jin always remembered the promise he made to the little girl in the village, and he worked very hard to cultivate himself.

However, it's easy to lose track of time when cultivating immortality; some people go into seclusion for several years, more than ten years, or even a hundred years.

After the boy grew up and reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he still remembered the promise he made. However, his Foundation Establishment skills were not very strong, and he had not found anything that could help the spiritual sprout grow stronger.

So he didn't go back to look for the little girl.

Later, he continued his cultivation while searching for rare and precious materials.

As time passed and he experienced various things, he gradually forgot his original promise.

He failed when he went into seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Failure is not terrible; what is terrible is that he did not know why he failed.

There wasn't even an inner demon.

Xiao Jin was considered a promising talent. The elders in the sect couldn't bear to see his potential go to waste, so they performed a divination for him and found the root of his problem.

It was that promise he made back then.

Xiao Jin was dazed upon hearing this; he had actually forgotten.

He rushed back to the village, only to find that his parents and relatives were already gone.

The little girl named Xuanxuan is no longer alive.

In the pursuit of immortality, time knows no bounds. More than eighty years have passed unnoticed, and the faces of those I knew have become blurred.

I asked the children in the village about Xuanxuan, but all the children had run away.

He grabbed a child and lured him with delicious food, eventually learning that the children thought Grandma Xuan was a scary old woman.

He was puzzled. How could Xuanxuan be scary?

They offered further benefits and learned that the cute little girl Xuanxuan had turned into a monster who could only look up at the sky with her head held high.

He couldn't understand how a perfectly normal person could turn into a monster who could only look up at the sky with his head held high.

So he asked the village elders and finally found out what had happened.

It turned out that after he promised to come back and teach her how to cultivate immortality, she would look up at the sky with her head held high every day.

She held her head high while working.

Even while eating, he held his head high.

He doesn't sleep in the house at night, but sits at the door with his head tilted back.

Over time, her head grew into a posture of looking up at the sky.

She did this simply so she wouldn't miss the moment he returned.

But she never saw him before she died.

Upon learning the truth, he coughed up blood, his Dao heart utterly destroyed.

The elders of the sect wanted to save him, but to save him, they had to save the soul that had waited and longed for his entire life.

Only when she harbors no resentment can he be redeemed.

Through their search, they finally found the soul, which had already been reincarnated as a young lady from a wealthy family living in seclusion.

She comes from a good family and is loved by her family; logically, she should have a good life in this world.

No one expected her to be so ruthless.

In order to ensure that her parents would only love her, she schemed against all her brothers and sisters until they died.

Some died in childhood.

Some of them, however, develop these traits as they grow up.

In the end, she was the only child left in the whole family.

When she got married, her parents gave her a decent dowry, but she was not satisfied. She went so far as to poison herself and pretend to be a dutiful daughter to take care of her parents in order to get more.

After getting married, she became even more ruthless. Her husband would never take a concubine. If he even glanced at another woman, that woman's corpse would be found somewhere the next day.

After this happened several times, the husband naturally became suspicious.

Upon further investigation, it was discovered that he had married a viper.

She put aside her own family ties for the greater good, reported the matter to the authorities, and was sentenced to death by hanging.

This life is over.

The immortals, unable to intervene and forced to silently watch her life unfold, remained silent. How could such a heart be redeemed?

They were sent to the underworld and cast into the eighteenth level of hell, never to be reborn.

But if she cannot be saved, Xiao Jin's path to immortality will be ruined.

Good seedlings are hard to come by, especially those with innate spiritual mirror hearts.

In the end, the immortals unanimously decided to send Xiao Jin to the Time Mirror to gain merit and power, so as to exchange it with the Underworld for Xuanxuan's rebirth.

After consulting with Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin expressed her willingness to go to the Time Mirror for training.

He experienced a total of ninety-nine lifetimes in the Time Mirror, some of which overlapped with Yun Li's ninety-nine lifetimes.

However, unlike others, he did not have memories of ninety-nine lifetimes; the only one he remembered was the lifetime in which he met Yun Li.

The time-space mirror is also called the time mirror, and another name is the cosmic mirror.

Those who enter cannot control which world or time they go to.

And there is no memory of entering the mirror, it's like being reincarnated.

Xiao Jin lived ninety-nine lifetimes in the mirror, but only remembered one of them.

Having achieved perfect merit and returned to the cultivation world, he thought he had transmigrated once again.

None of the sect elders mentioned it to him, so he just assumed that way.

The sect elders used the merit and vows signed by Xiao Jin for ninety-nine lifetimes to not only help Xuanxuan and the underworld gain new life.

In order to ensure that she would have a good life in the future and would not implicate Xiao Jin, some of his merits were used to ensure that she would retain her memories when she was reincarnated.

No one expected that Xuanxuan, who retained her memories, would commit even greater evils, creating new causes and consequences of wickedness.

This will implicate Xiao Jin once again.

……

"Ahhh..."

The moment Liu Jin saw Yun Xuan, a vast amount of memories resurfaced in his mind.

The memories included ninety-nine lifetimes of experience. Because the memories were so vast, they overwhelmed the brain, causing unbearable pain, and the person couldn't help but scream out.