I Can Reincarnate Infinitely

Du Youqian was unaware of the political maneuvering among the upper echelons of Ruihan City’s Four Great Clans.

However, the final outcome was exactly as he had predicted.

"Sui Xiao, you have shown no regard for the law. Harboring improper intentions toward your junior, Rong Panxi, you attempted to rape her. When Rong Panxi’s cries for help attracted your junior, Bian Youque, you brazenly attacked him with lethal intent and even poisoned him, ultimately harming both him and yourself. Your actions are deplorable, despicable, and vile. In consideration of your youth, your status as a first-time offender, and the fact that the rape was not completed, the Ruihan City Elder Council has decided to grant you a lenient sentence. However, while the death penalty may be spared, you cannot escape punishment. You are hereby sentenced to exile. You will join the Immortal City Alliance’s army on the front lines to fight the Demon Race and atone for your crimes. Only after earning over Ten Thousand GPA Points will you be permitted to return to Ruihan City."

The one sent from the City Lord’s Mansion to announce the verdict was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Rong Family, Rong Jiaren of the Law Enforcement Hall. She was breathtakingly beautiful and bore a slight resemblance to Rong Panxi. Unfortunately, her expression was ice-cold, and her eyes, as she looked at Du Youqian, were filled with disdain and mockery—but not hatred.

She probably understood that the so-called "rape" was nothing more than a play directed and staged by Rong Panxi herself.

Rong Panxi was Du Youqian’s fiancée; their engagement had been arranged when they were still in swaddling clothes.

It was just that Rong Panxi did not like Du Youqian. Furthermore, it was very likely that the Rong Family had no desire to latch onto the Sui Family. They merely wanted to cooperate with the Bian Family to oppose the Sui Family and grow stronger in the process.

After all, the gap between the Rong Family and the Sui Family was currently too great. If they were to truly deepen their cooperation, it would be no different from asking a tiger for its skin. Cooperating with the Bian Family was a much safer bet.

This was merely Du Youqian’s speculation, for which he had no concrete proof.

But based on his thousand-plus years of life experience, his guess was almost certainly correct.

The Four Great Clans had jointly ruled Ruihan Immortal City for two thousand years, always intermarrying and engaging in conflict without ever breaking their fundamental ties.

The sudden intensification of conflict was, on one hand, because the Sui Family now had three Core Formation Cultivators, a force that the other three families might not be able to overcome even if they joined forces.

On the other hand, and more critically, the Sui Zhi Ancestor who admired Du Youqian had been advancing through his Cultivation with unstoppable momentum. At only two hundred years old, he was already at the Golden Core Late Stage, and everyone believed he had a chance at Nascent Soul Formation.

If the Sui Zhi Ancestor achieved Nascent Soul Formation, he would become Ruihan City’s first Nascent Soul Cultivator in two thousand years.

At that time, the arrangement of joint rule by the Four Great Clans would surely be shattered.

Where would Ruihan City be headed?

That, too, was difficult to predict.

Therefore, attacking Du Youqian—the one whom the Sui Zhi Ancestor doted on and admired most—to destabilize the ancestor’s state of mind was a crude, underhanded tactic, but a very effective one.

Du Youqian didn’t waste his breath on the woman, simply stating flatly, "Understood. I will fight bravely on the front lines and repay the family for nurturing me."

Ten Thousand GPA Points wasn’t an exorbitant amount and was relatively easy to achieve. It was likely the result of a compromise between the families.

But the Rong and Bian Families would certainly never allow him to earn those Ten Thousand GPA Points alive.

In the future, he would naturally have to suppress these two families.

Bian Youque and Rong Panxi were also marked for death. If he didn’t kill them, his mind would never be at ease.

This wasn’t the first time they had tried to harm him. The last time, they had nearly killed him. It was probably his ’Guaranteed to Turn Misfortune into Fortune Before Age 18’ ability that kicked in, allowing him to find a blessing in disguise and have a fortuitous encounter.

But before he had solved the Mystery of the Womb, he had actually thought he was too much of a failure to win Rong Panxi’s love. Now that he’d had a fortuitous encounter, he believed he was destined to soar to the heavens. So, he had excitedly told Rong Panxi the secret of his encounter, hoping to win back her heart.

It was a level of stupidity that would make men fall silent and women weep.

The result...

...was, of course, a cause for universal celebration.

It once again proved the age-old truth: simps never die a good death.

This latest frame-up proved that the Bian and Rong Families wanted to deny him any chance to develop. They wanted him dead and could not tolerate him becoming the Sui Family’s fourth Core Formation Master.

"Hmph." Rong Jiaren was a little disappointed that she couldn’t provoke any resentful words from Du Youqian, but she didn’t dwell on it.

In her eyes, Du Youqian was already a dead man.

The Bian Family would stop at nothing to eliminate him.

The reason was a secret known to the upper echelons of the Rong and Bian Families: in that fortuitous encounter, the boy had shown extraordinary potential. He very likely possessed some kind of Anomalous Spirit Root, perhaps an Earth Spirit Root or even a Celestial Spirit Root, which was why it hadn’t been detected before.

If the Sui Family’s Sui Zhi Ancestor were to learn of this, he would likely have the boy’s Spirit Root re-tested and would spare no expense, even bankrupting the family, to acquire the Cultivation Technique required for an Anomalous Spirit Root.

And if the boy truly possessed an Earth Spirit Root or a Celestial Spirit Root... it would mean that if they didn’t strike first, the Sui Family would produce another Core Formation Master in a century at most.

One had to understand that those with an Earth Spirit Root or a Celestial Spirit Root face no bottlenecks whatsoever before Nascent Soul Formation.

Even without using any Elixirs or Core Formation Spiritual Objects to increase the chances, their success rate for achieving Core Formation was as high as forty to fifty percent.

With the aid of a Core Formation Spiritual Object and a resolute will, success was virtually guaranteed.

This was a situation that neither the Rong Family nor the Bian Family would ever allow to happen.

And so this incident came to be. The two youngsters used a clumsy scheme to frame Sui Xiao, while the adults of their two families silently cleaned up their tracks and fabricated evidence from behind the scenes.

Then, they forced Du Youqian to confess as quickly as possible, creating a fait accompli.

This way, even if the Sui Zhi Ancestor discovered the truth in the near future, it would be irreversible.

Rong Jiaren turned and left, leaving only a cold sentence to echo in the cell: "Your escort is already preparing. You leave in one hour!"

After Rong Jiaren left, Shen Wu scurried over and asked in a low voice, "Young Brother, you’re leaving soon. Is there anything I can prepare for you? Any messages you need me to pass on?"

Du Youqian thought for a moment, then shook his head. "No need for messages. Anyone who wants to speak with me will come find me later. As for items, please prepare some Spirit Medicine for me, as well as a Pill Furnace. And return my Storage Treasure Pouch to me."

Du Youqian rattled off the names of over a dozen medicinal herbs in one breath. Some were considered quite precious for the Qi Cultivation Realm, but they weren’t rare.

Shen Wu noted them down without asking any further questions, simply replying, "I’ll have them all for you within half an hour."

Du Youqian smiled slightly. "I won’t forget you."

Shen Wu said apologetically, "Before... because my superiors were pressing me, I had to use some... methods on you. Thinking back on it now, I feel quite uneasy."

He was, of course, referring to the time he had tortured Du Youqian to extract a confession.

However, Du Youqian didn’t mind.

’Once I’m in power, this man’s life and death will be mine to command.’

’Why bother haggling over it now?’

So, Du Youqian instead reassured him, "It’s nothing. Since I’ve accepted your goodwill, let’s consider the past water under the bridge."

Shen Wu nodded, relieved. "Young Brother is truly magnanimous."

He hadn’t truly thrown his lot in with Du Youqian yet; he was simply making a small investment in a long shot, hoping to build some goodwill.

As for pledging allegiance, the current Du Youqian was not yet worthy of it.

Shen Wu went to get the Spirit Medicine, while Du Youqian sat cross-legged in his cell, meditating. He focused on preventing his Cultivation from declining further. As for repairing his Dantian, he would have to wait for Shen Wu to bring the ingredients so he could refine a furnace of Elixirs.

As the eldest son and heir of the Sui Family, his cell was naturally a private one, located far away from the other prisoners.

In all these days, he had never once laid eyes on another prisoner.

Among the few Cultivators guarding the prison, Shen Wu was the only one he was somewhat familiar with.

But just then, a Cultivator Du Youqian didn’t recognize approached furtively. After glancing around, he tossed a set of keys in front of Du Youqian with lightning speed and urged, "Young Master Xiao, I was sent by your father! These are the keys to the back gate. You have to run! Someone is waiting outside to get you. You absolutely cannot go to the front lines! You’ll be killed on the way there!"

Du Youqian glanced at them, smiled faintly, and paid the man no mind, not even bothering to pick up the keys.

After his awakening, his Divine Sense had rapidly recovered to the level he’d had at the Golden Core Late Stage, which was equivalent to that of a normal Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Even though he didn’t dare use it at full power right now, extending just a sliver of his Divine Sense to gauge the changes in someone’s Emotions was no problem at all.

’This man isn’t being entirely truthful and is harboring ill intentions.’

’He clearly wants to trick me into escaping so he can justifiably kill me during the attempt.’

How could Du Youqian possibly fall for such a trap?

Even if his current body’s father or even the Sui Zhi Ancestor had truly sent someone to help him escape, he still wouldn’t go.

’Why would I want to live the life of a fugitive, hiding here and there?’

’Once I get to the front lines, it won’t take long for me to recover to the Foundation Establishment Realm.’

’At that point, with my Divine Abilities and skill in Magical Combat, I could slay a Core Formation Cultivator, albeit at a price.’

’Would I still need to fear the schemes of petty villains?’

Seeing that Du Youqian was ignoring him, a fierce glint appeared in the man’s eyes, but he quickly lowered his head to hide it and said in a low voice, "Young Master Xiao, I have a token! Please don’t delay!"

With that, he took out a Metal Waist Token and handed it to Du Youqian.

Du Youqian took it and looked it over, then probed it carefully with his Divine Sense, confirming that it was indeed his current body’s father’s waist token.

But he didn’t know... did this father truly want his son dead?

Or had someone tricked him or stolen the waist token?

Du Youqian didn’t dare to use too much of his Divine Sense, so he could only perceive the man’s emotional fluctuations, not capture his actual thoughts.

Whether his father’s love had soured or his father was simply a fool, Du Youqian didn’t want to—and couldn’t—investigate it further for the time being.

He just reminded himself to be on his guard.

He tossed the waist token back to the man and said flatly, "A small fry should know his place. Don’t get recklessly involved in matters you have no power to influence. Even if you trick me into going outside and get me killed, do you think the Sui family wouldn’t investigate? That my Ancestor wouldn’t investigate? When that time comes, even death will be a luxury for you. You’ll be begging my Ancestor to kill you quickly."

The man felt a chill shoot up his spine as he stared at Du Youqian in disbelief.

’When did that muddle-headed Sui Family idiot, the one who was so easily played, become so clever and calm?’

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, but Du Youqian’s lips merely curled into a mocking smile. "You want to kill me in here? Are you sure?"

The man dejectedly lowered his hand. He really didn’t dare to make a move.

Du Youqian said, "I can spare you this time, but on one condition."