"Are you having fun messing with yourself?" Yu Daochen asked, utterly speechless.
The woman chuckled, playfully saying, "Isn't it just that seeing a handsome guy makes me want to tease him a little?"
Yu Daochen had no desire to chat further with the woman. "Right, why am I here?"
The woman thought for a moment before replying, "It's hard to say, but you only appear here when you're on the verge of death."
"On the verge of death?"
Yu Daochen suddenly recalled that he had been struck by a backlash of Yin energy and had passed out, losing consciousness. When he woke up, he was in this strange place.
"Could it be that I'm dead?" Yu Daochen found it hard to believe.
If what she said was true, that this place was only accessible when one was on the verge of death, it meant he was already dead!
"Damn it, I'm only seventeen and I'm already dead like this?"
Yu Daochen's mind went blank, still reeling from the shock of his death.
The woman smiled faintly. "That's right, coming here means you are already dead!"
Yu Daochen remained silent, never expecting that he, the esteemed Gu Ye of Jiangdu, would die so ignominiously.
Seeing that Yu Daochen showed no fear, the woman asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid at all?"
Yu Daochen shook his head and smiled. "It's not that I'm not afraid, I'm just still processing the shock. It's still a bit hard to accept that I died like this."
The woman burst into laughter at his words. "I didn't expect you to be as interesting as that kid Xu Feng."
Yu Daochen had many questions that had been bothering him for a long time. "I have some things I want to ask you."
The woman nodded, as if she had expected him to say so. "Ask away."
"Although I don't know where to start, I can feel that in my past few lives, I've been cultivating diligently for a certain purpose. It was the same for Xu Feng's life. Although my memories aren't complete, I vaguely sense that he also strove to become stronger for a specific reason. However, it's clear that they both failed."
At this point, Yu Daochen's expression turned serious. "So, what is this matter? What have I been preparing for in my past lives?"
The woman didn't answer immediately. She knew that hiding it from the two of them wasn't a solution, and they would eventually tell him, but not the current him.
"I know you have many doubts, but telling you now wouldn't be of much use. However, I can tell you that this life is your last."
"Your last life?" Yu Daochen couldn't help but ask.
The woman nodded. "That's right. You should understand the concept of reincarnation."
Yu Daochen certainly did. He dealt with ghosts every day in his line of work, and in simple terms, ghosts were also a form of soul.
Reincarnation meant entering the underworld to be reborn as a human, but the soul remained the same, regardless of how the body changed.
However, Yu Daochen had no idea about the specifics of the process, as it was a matter of the underworld, and how could a mortal possibly know?
Yu Daochen was a bit confused. "What does reincarnation have to do with me?"
The woman didn't rush to answer but instead asked, "Do you know about the Heavenly Dao Ten-Life Cycle Prohibition?"
Yu Daochen furrowed his brow. "Are you talking about the Heavenly Dao Ten-Life Cycle Prohibition!"
There was a rule in the laws of heaven and earth: if any soul lived as a human for ten consecutive lives and did not live past the age of fifty, it would be considered a grave disrespect, and the soul would be forcibly erased by the laws.
However, this was merely a legend, as it was impossible for anyone to live as a human for ten consecutive lives. If, in any of those ten lives, the person was reincarnated as an animal, the prohibition would not apply, making the Heavenly Dao Ten-Life Cycle Prohibition almost impossible to enforce.
Furthermore, it wasn't easy to be reincarnated as a human. If one made no contribution to the human world, the probability of being reincarnated as a human was generally very low.
Yu Daochen suddenly realized. "You mean..."
The woman nodded. "Precisely. Including this life, it has been nine lives. If you don't live past fifty in this life, you will be completely erased by the laws."
Yu Daochen's face turned grim. "Who wants to kill me!"
The woman smiled faintly and uttered a single word: "Heaven!"
Yu Daochen's body trembled. This was beyond his comprehension.
Immortals, they were beings of supreme power. How could mortals possibly defeat immortals? It was simply unrealistic.
Seeing Yu Daochen's disbelief, the woman said, "Do you think mortals cannot defeat immortals?"
Yu Daochen nodded, affirming, "Of course. No matter how strong a person is, they cannot possibly rival deities with a mortal body."
"Perhaps in the heavens, but not necessarily in the human world. You should also be aware of the laws of heaven and earth," the woman said with conviction.
Yu Daochen had heard some things about the laws of heaven and earth.
There was a barrier between the Heavenly Court and the human world to maintain balance. If an immortal descended to the mortal realm, regardless of their power, they would be subject to the constraints of the laws of heaven and earth, and their strength would be forcibly suppressed.
However, Yu Daochen didn't know the extent of this suppression, as he had never encountered an immortal.
Yu Daochen asked the most crucial question: "Can someone truly slay a god?"
"Yes," the woman nodded.
"Who?" Yu Daochen was somewhat surprised. Even in the human world, immortals wouldn't be that weak.
The woman looked at Yu Daochen and didn't reveal the name. "You should already have the answer in your heart."