You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

Lin Yue was slightly taken aback.

No wonder...

He discovered a strand of Xiahong Feng's main soul within the Eternal Darkness Reincarnation Coffin, with only memories from the time of the Human Ancestor remaining.

After all, Xiahong Feng's life was too brief, merely a few decades, but how long did the Human Ancestor live?

When the divine soul shattered, memories were aggregated into different fragmented souls according to cultivation stage and time; the remaining trace of the main soul only retained the memories before the Human Ancestor broke through the Three Talents Heaven Barrier.

The fragment of the soul his mother captured was later handed to an old acquaintance at Dawn Platform — Si Yangqi, who forcibly harmonized for her.

No wonder the Empress helped him extract the fragmented soul from the Heavenly Martial Divine Cauldron, only to be discovered immediately by the Crown Prince—it was the Crown Prince who sealed it there personally.

"After I learned these things from your mother, I was unsure what the future held and could only place my hopes on you."

The Second Prince sighed and said, "All I can do is deter the Crown Prince. Initially, I wanted the Fifth Prince's help to extract the bloodline and soul of Xiahou Shou—who reincarnated as Prince Xia Lie—but the Fifth Prince refused to commit the grave sin of killing a prince, saying only that he had refined the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Jade in a past life."

He looked at Lin Yue and said, "Your mother found out that the Sixteenth Prince, in a past life as Tan Tian Wudao, obtained the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Jade, and his Cave Mansion was rumored to be in Liangzhou, so she went there while carrying you."

Lin Yue's heart shook.

"Unfortunately, by then, you were nearly born."

The Second Prince said, "Your mother had already decided to pass on the Divine Power Imprint of the Other Shore Heavenly Bell to you through bloodline inheritance, therefore she had to pass on the divine skill to you before you were born, without the chance to use it to find Tan Tian Wudao's Cave Mansion."

He glanced at Lin Yue and sighed, "Perhaps your mother understood at the time that even if she found the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Jade, she would have to wait for the prince reincarnated as Xiahou Shou to mature and awaken before using it to refine his bloodline and soul, and she...simply didn't have that much time to wait."

"Why?" Lin Yue couldn't help but ask.

"Her divine soul contained techniques from the Other Shore World."

The Second Prince explained, "Once those techniques were activated, they indeed protected her, but also ensured her divine soul would return to the Other Shore World after thirteen years."

Only then did Lin Yue understand.

No wonder... his mother, though a Great Cultivator and still young, passed away when he was just eleven or twelve years old.

He asked again, "But why did my mother and those whose destinies are unfathomable reincarnate to the Eternal Night? I only know the Star Lord came out voluntarily when the world's entrance began, but what about the others?"

"Perhaps...the divine beings of the Savior Faction were unwilling to give up, forcibly breaking the borders between the Three Great Worlds and Eternal Night, barely pulling some souls from the Three Great Worlds."

The Second Prince shook his head slightly, "This is similar to how the divine beings of the Savior Faction preserved a portion of the Human Clan to proliferate into us, the Eternal Night Clan, in the Eternal Night; it's all to make the Primordial Annihilation wary. Your mother should have come from a similar process."

Lin Yue fell silent.

After a while, he said, "Later I acquired the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Jade and killed Xia Lie; isn't this all too coincidental? Is it because of you, Second Brother? My heart aligns with the Heavenly Will?"

The Second Prince slowly shook his head and said, "I don't know either. My heart aligning with the Heavenly Will...doesn't mean I control fate. It just means fate is gradually influenced by my intentions. What will specifically occur, even I don't know. Moreover, all my Heart Power is used to maintain the Great Yong Divine Formation, leaving me unable to act or let the Crown Prince discover this."

He paused briefly and then said softly, "However...in my heart, I do think this way. You are an Ancient Human Clan member, and I hope your talent is high enough to grasp the Ultimate Path in the future. Refining the Prince Bloodline and soul is the best choice."

Lin Yue remained silent.

Indeed, fate moved forward like this, and he killed Xia Lie, refining Xia Lie's Prince Bloodline and soul.