Chapter 757: 184, nine deaths and still alive
At the same time Lin Yue's whole body turned into points of light, the artifacts without a support fell to the ground.
However, one remained suspended in mid-air.
—The Divine Artifact Battle Saber.
The silvery-white long saber trembled slightly, its tip aimed at Lin Yue's Divine Soul that was completely collapsing, emitting a low hum, then it transformed into light, attempting to merge into Lin Yue's Divine Soul.
But at the same moment, Lin Yue's Divine Soul was already beginning to dissipate.
The light from the Divine Artifact Battle Saber swept through the scattering points of light, realizing its failure to merge. It seemed a bit stunned, spinning around twice in place and then emitting a series of anxious low hums.
In the void, the points of light from Lin Yue's collapsed Divine Soul continued to dissipate at an alarming rate.
The Divine Artifact Battle Saber seemed unprepared for its master's soul, who had only just decided on life and death coexistence, to scatter in an instant. It was helpless, only able to fret anxiously.
In the blink of an eye, only a few points of light remained of Lin Yue's Divine Soul fragments.
Everything seemed irreparable.
At this moment—
"Boom!"
The heavens and earth appeared to fall into an almost still pause.
The last remaining point of the Divine Soul fragment in the void also completely stopped, while a dazzling light burst forth, constantly expanding and outlining a human-shaped silhouette.
In a flash, the light dissipated, and the silhouette solidified into reality.
"This stupid saber..."
The heavens and earth returned to normal, and Lin Yue gently descended to the ground, giving a wry smile at the Divine Artifact Battle Saber acting like a headless chicken.
The Divine Artifact Battle Saber emitted a joyful, happy resonance and then transformed once more into a ray of light, immediately merging into Lin Yue's Divine Soul.
"It truly has fully merged..."
Lin Yue revealed a small smile, casually grabbing, and from within him a stream of light flew out, condensing into the Divine Artifact Battle Saber.
This was a truly complete acknowledgment of a master by the divine artifact.
Merging entirely with the Divine Soul, even through reincarnation it would follow, only a complete soul dispersion could separate the artifact from its master.
However, the conditions for the Divine Artifact Battle Saber to acknowledge a master were too demanding; only by using it until death in battle could they truly merge.
"Luckily, there's the Nine Death Selfless Divine Ability."
Lin Yue couldn't help but sigh to himself, "Otherwise, it would indeed be difficult."
At this moment, his Divine Soul had already returned to its peak state, which was that very instant of Harmonization.
The Divine Soul had just begun to incline toward collapse.
—This was the true ability of the Innate Divine Power of 'Nine Death Selfless.'
Simply put, it's resurrection.
Even if the soul scattered, as long as a single Divine Soul fragment remained, it could instantly return to its peak state.
If a Spiritual Body hadn't been cultivated and the physical body died, this divine ability would restore the physical body.
It could be said to be truly a heaven-defying Great Divine Power. When the Second Prince learned of his Divine Power as Nine Death Selfless, he also marveled greatly.
The divine abilities of the Xiahong family bloodline were bestowed by the Divine Emperor. The Divine Emperor, who controlled Reincarnation Authority, could naturally reverse life and death, and among the many divine abilities bestowed by the Divine Emperor, the Nine Death Selfless Divine Ability was among the most heaven-defying.
Nine Death Selfless.
—Even when facing nine deaths, it wouldn't be my turn.
Meaning it was possible to resurrect nine times.
However, this Divine Ability also came with a price.
"Have I... forgotten someone?"
Lin Yue pondered briefly, yet felt nothing, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
This was the price of Nine Death Selfless.
Each resurrection would result in the loss of a portion of one's memories.
A person is pointed to many causes and effects.
Once everyone is forgotten, 'I' would also become vague, like a non-existent entity.
At this point, Lin Yue had already lost one-ninth of his memories.
After the next resurrection, he would lose two-ninths of his memories.
The third resurrection would result in losing three-ninths of his memories.
And so on. By the ninth time, which would be the last resurrection, he would lose all of his memories.
"Luckily... I still remember the method my second brother taught me."
Lin Yue looked into his palm, where at this moment a glowing mark was appearing.
It was in the shape of a feather.
"The Heart Feather has really activated."
With a thought, the feather mark in Lin Yue's palm suddenly floated up, transforming into a somewhat ethereal feather composed entirely of Divine Thoughts.
Subsequently, this ethereal feather transformed into a stream of light, flying directly between his brows.
A flood of memories surged forth.
The overlapping memories instantly skipped, only the missing ones were continuously supplemented.
Soon, the memories completely settled down.
"I actually forgot about my children and the old Daoist Tu..."
Lin Yue shook his head slightly, "It's a good thing I have second brother's Heart Feather, otherwise it would have been troublesome..."
After reviving with the 'Nine Death Selfless' Divine Ability, one would experience memory loss. As the strongest in the spiritual domain, the Second Prince naturally had a way to counter this.
The Heart Feather.
This is a spiritual artifact created by the Second Prince. Formed by his own Divine Thought, its purpose, simply put, is to constantly back up his memories. Upon revival, the Heart Feather would automatically appear.
In this way, the memory loss caused by Nine Death Selfless could be solved.
But it could only solve the memory loss for eight revivals.
The ninth revival would result in losing everything, like a newborn baby, forgetting everything.
Even with the Heart Feather, he wouldn't know what to do.
"I hope there won't be a ninth time..."
Lin Yue muttered silently, then waved his hand to gather the treasures scattered around him.
He then looked towards the Prison Heaven Array not far away.
At this moment, it had only been a moment since he left the array.
Inside the Prison Heaven Array, the Clan Leader of the Heavenly Demon Clan seemed to believe he was already dead, not continuing the fierce attack but waiting for the array to dissipate on its own.