I Can Reincarnate Infinitely

Chapter 441 - 436: Du Youqian is Very Troubled

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’Jie Yu came out of Momenan?’

This truly surprised Du Youqian.

First, Jie Yu’s soul was fundamentally that of the Demon Race. Perhaps a Golden Core wouldn’t notice, and even a Nascent Soul might overlook it, but a Divinity Transformation True Monarch or a Void Step True Monarch would definitely not make that mistake.

And the Human World was not lacking in Divinity Transformation True Monarchs and Void Step True Monarchs.

The Taihe Sect, at the very least, definitely had them.

’She dared to teleport out?’

’Wasn’t she afraid that the Great Powers on this side would discover something was amiss?’

Second, although Jie Yu’s aptitude was decent, it was nowhere near outstanding enough to warrant being teleported. This was something confirmed back in Momenan.

Furthermore, when Momenan teleported people out, they generally chose Cultivators who had not yet reached Core Formation. The cost of teleportation would be much lower that way.

So, Du Youqian couldn’t for the life of him figure out how Jie Yu had managed to be teleported out, or why the Taihe and Holy Blood Sects would support her coming.

’What on earth is her purpose?’

’Where is she right now?’

’How can I get in touch with her?’

’And for what reason did the Human World agree to repair the Teleportation Array?’

Many questions flashed through his mind.

Du Youqian also wanted to ask about Shi Shentong and Elder Wu Ji, but they had arrived in the Human World several hundred years ago. Ge Sheng probably hadn’t even been born back then.

Despite his many doubts, Du Youqian remained calm and composed in front of Ge Sheng, acting as if nothing was wrong.

He just used some non-specific, seemingly casual words to probe for information.

By the time the wine was finished, some things had become clear in Du Youqian’s mind.

Ten thousand years ago, the situation facing the Human World was extremely tense.

Unlike now. Things were a bit tense now, too, but overall, the Human Race and the Demon Race were in a relatively balanced state.

But ten thousand years ago, some of the major figures in the Human World genuinely saw a crisis that threatened to wipe out their entire race.

A Major Sect like the Cyan Yang Sect was annihilated back then—though people at the time didn’t know that the Cyan Yang Sect had actually defected to the Demon Race with their entire sect.

Under those circumstances, the "Preserve the Flame" project was proposed.

The flame of the race, the flame of inheritance, the flame of culture—all should be preserved. This was a proposal from a certain Great Power, and it was passed at a meeting of the Human Race’s high command.

At that time, the upper echelons of the Human Race finally joined hands to form a human alliance. The alliance’s highest decision-making body was the Human Alliance Beichen Pavilion conference.

At the Human Alliance Beichen Pavilion, regardless of one’s origins, there were no divisions between the Demon Sect and the Profound Sects Orthodox Sect. Everyone worked together with one heart. On one hand, they actively fought for survival; on the other, they prepared backup plans and preserved the flame in case the worst-case scenario came to pass.

The Momenan Small World was established at that time.

According to Ge Sheng, that period was the time of greatest unity and cohesion for the Human Race in the thirty thousand years since the fall of the Ancient Celestial Court.

In fact, two other Small Worlds were also being prepared at the time.

According to the original plan, the Human Race would create a total of three Small Worlds to preserve the flame of the human race.

However, not long after the Momenan World was completed, about seventy-five hundred years ago, a major event occurred among the Demon Race.

Several Great Saints had a falling out.

Ge Sheng didn’t know the specific details. This wasn’t something written in history books for people to study, nor was it a topic of idle gossip passed around on the streets.

Was the Human Race involved in the Great Saints’ split?

That was also unknown.

At least, it definitely wasn’t like the gossipy rumors claimed, which was that a certain Human Race Kun Cultivator Great Power had seduced two Great Saints, causing them to turn against each other...

According to Ge Sheng’s research and speculation, the Great Saints’ split seemed to have something to do with the Human Race’s counterattack on the South Sea Blessed Land back then.

Of course, he couldn’t be certain. There were too many different stories and viewpoints on the matter, and no one could convince anyone else.

Perhaps only those few Great Powers knew the truth.

But the Great Powers all remained silent on the matter. Perhaps it was a taboo subject.

Setting that aside for now.

In short, with the Great Saints turned against each other and the Demon Race splintered, the Human Race naturally got a chance to catch its breath.

On the main battlefronts, there were still wins and losses on both sides, but overall, most of the Demon Race no longer thought about annihilating the Human Race. Instead, they were merely considering how their own race could take root and survive in the Human World.

The Human Race’s situation improved in an instant.

The plan for the remaining two "flame" Small Worlds was shelved.

There was no need to implement it anymore.

And Momenan was no longer as highly valued as it had been in the plan.

After all, the Human Race was no longer facing the threat of extinction.

The need to preserve the flame had, in fact, dropped to its lowest point.

The Human Alliance Beichen Pavilion conference also went from being the de facto highest decision-making body of the Human Race to the de jure highest decision-making body.

Since they were no longer facing a life-or-death struggle, there was naturally no need to stick together so tightly. All parties began to make their own calculations and scheme for their own interests.

Unified decision-making?

That was no longer possible.

It became a place where everyone could argue and vent their emotions, a place to communicate when issues arose so they wouldn’t just start fighting at the drop of a hat.

This was now the greatest significance of the Human Alliance Beichen Pavilion conference.

"The Momenan Small World is under the direct jurisdiction of the Human Alliance Beichen Pavilion conference. The good thing about this is that the ones making the decisions are the people with the highest status in the Human World. The bad thing is that even the smallest matters require these highest-status people to make a decision. Are they willing to manage such trivial things? Of course not."

"So, for some small matters, the people at the bottom won’t report them up the chain at all. But those same people aren’t qualified to make decisions either, so they can only drag things out. Fortunately, if you drag many problems out long enough, they stop being problems."

"For example, say news comes from Momenan that two Core Formation Cultivators in the Holy Blood Sect are in serious, life-or-death conflict. They request the Human World to arbitrate. But is a conflict between two Core Formation Cultivators worth reporting to a Divinity Transformation True Monarch to request arbitration? Naturally, no one wants to risk the bad luck of reporting it. But it doesn’t matter. Drag it out for a few hundred years, and either their conflict will have disappeared, one will have been killed by the other, or both will have died of old age. The problem no longer exists."

Du Youqian was speechless. Ge Sheng made a lot of sense!

It was rare for Ge Sheng to be in such a talkative mood. Du Youqian hardly needed to ask any questions; Ge Sheng proactively explained a great deal on his own.

Taking this opportunity, Du Youqian learned about everything he was interested in.

This included why those talented disciples were selected to be teleported out of the Momenan World, what they did after they came out, and why each and every one of them seemed to wish they could sever all ties with Momenan.

The attitudes of the various powers in the Human World toward Momenan.

Also, how the Momenan Small World came to be, and exactly what methods were used to turn the former South Sea Blessed Land and another region into the present-day Momenan World...

But when Ge Sheng had had his fill and no longer wanted to talk, Du Youqian felt it wasn’t appropriate to keep asking.

The remaining questions were either ones Ge Sheng couldn’t answer, or they were too significant for Ge Sheng to be willing to reveal.

𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

’This will have to do for now.’

There was no need to sleep. Neither of them needed to.

A Nascent Soul Master and a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator could go for years without sleeping without any problem.

Xiao Sha Jiang needed to sleep because she was of the Demon Race and still retained some beastly habits. Moreover, she had recently gone to her ancestral land for a ritual and was now said to need more sleep to evolve her bloodline.

Du Youqian didn’t feel like meditating. He began to take stock of his spoils.

In this battle, he had first killed the two Core Formation Cultivators stationed in Four Directions Town, then killed Elder Wang Ke of the Binyin Sect, who was a former True Inheritor, and captured Cai Min, another former True Inheritor.

After that, he killed nine more Core Formation Cultivators from the Binyin Sect, including Elder Zhou Haozhe, who was also a former True Disciple.

Finally, he killed the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Master, Chi Feng.

’It wasn’t intentional murder for treasure, but the profits are truly immense.’

Each of those Core Formation Masters had at least one or two Treasures, with some having more than a dozen, not to mention Spiritual Jade, Elixirs, and all sorts of precious materials.

And the Core Formation Elders who were former True Inheritors even had Tier Four Treasures. For example, Wang Ke’s Small Pagoda had endless wonderful uses.

As for Master Chi Feng, as a veteran Nascent Soul, all the Treasures he used personally were Tier Four. The Tier Three Treasures on him were just extras he kept to casually reward people.

The Elixirs and materials he carried were also mostly Tier Four.

There was even a precious Nascent Soul Pill among them...

The wealth of a single Nascent Soul Master was more than that of a dozen Core Formation Masters combined.

One could only say that everything the Four Principles Sect had painstakingly earned over the past hundred years was not even one-tenth of what Du Youqian had gained from this one "robbery."

Forget the Four Principles Sect; even Ruihan City, part of the Immortal City Alliance that was far wealthier than the Endless Desert Sea, hadn’t accumulated in a century of operation and growth even a tenth of what Du Youqian had reaped in this wave.

Du Youqian’s current problem was that he wanted to pick out a few Tier Four Treasures to upgrade his own equipment.

But there were too many captured Tier Four Treasures, and he was a bit overwhelmed by the choices, not knowing which to pick.

Besides, in a few more days, Elder He Gui would be delivering another two Tier Four Treasures...

Sigh.

’What can I do?’

’I’m quite troubled, too.’

「Three days later」

Du Youqian and He Gui conducted their first simple transaction.

He traded Chi Feng’s Nascent Soul for that Tier Four Treasure capable of raising Dao Soldiers, and a Tier Four Defensive Treasure.

Chi Feng’s Nascent Soul was somewhat listless. Its gaze on Du Youqian was filled with venomous resentment.

But Du Youqian didn’t care. He even hoped that after it recovered from its injuries, restored its Cultivation, and acquired a new set of equipment, it would come looking for revenge. He could just harvest another crop of chives then, wouldn’t that be delightful?

This transaction established a preliminary foundation of trust between He Gui and Du Youqian.

「One month later」

The Sect Leader of the Four Principles Sect, Zhou Muzhi, and Li Fei rushed to Four Directions Town. After communicating with Du Youqian for a while and receiving his instructions, Zhou Muzhi suppressed his rage and grief and began negotiations with Master Shi Shitao of the Binyin Sect.

Quite amazing, wasn’t it? That Master Paopao could actually represent the Binyin Sect in negotiations.

This was, of course, because the two Nascent Soul Masters were unwilling to lower themselves to negotiate with Zhou Muzhi. It also showed that Du Youqian had killed so ruthlessly that the Binyin Sect had no one else available and could only use Master Paopao...