“小 You, what are you so anxious about?” Blake Turner snapped coldly.

“Mr. Turner! Miss! That fool from the Yu family actually survived the night—he didn’t die from soul dissipation!” The maid in blue cried out, still somewhat panicked and uneasy. “Not only did he survive, but it seems like he’s truly come back to life!”

“What!?”

Ashley Reed and Blake Turner exclaimed in unison.

……

The old Yu family residence.

Ethan Brooks, or rather Logan Clark, hadn’t expected that upon waking from a long dream, three hundred years would have already passed.

“That reincarnation pill wasn’t completely ineffective—it only delayed my rebirth. So, was this within Senior Brother’s expectations, or not? Senior Brother, did you truly want me dead, or just for me to be reborn three hundred years later?”

Newly reborn, Ethan Brooks’s mind was still a bit muddled, with countless new memories threatening to split his head open.

“I am Logan Clark, and also Ethan Brooks! Ethan Brooks is me, reborn! It was only because, during reincarnation, my heavenly and earthly souls failed to return in time that I lived in a daze this life. Three hundred years ago, I was the sect master of the Medicine God Sect on the Jiemie Continent, but because my meridians were naturally blocked, I was never able to cultivate.”

At this thought, he immediately checked his own condition.

“Ha! Hahaha!”

Ethan Brooks suddenly grinned and burst out laughing.

The lifelong problem that plagued him in his previous life—driving him to despair and forcing him to risk refining the reincarnation pill—had completely vanished after his rebirth!

He was certain that, in this life, his meridians were fine, and he could finally embark on the path of cultivation.

The ten great realms of cultivation are: Meridian Unblocking, Spirit Nurturing, Yellow Court, Profound Breaking, Subtlety, Yin Spirit, Soul Wandering, Yang Spirit, Freedom, and Primordial Spirit.

In his previous life as Logan Clark, because his meridians were blocked, he never became a true cultivator—not even reaching the first stage.

Without becoming a cultivator, one’s lifespan is limited by heaven and earth; at most, after a little over a hundred years, the body would wither and die, returning to silence early.

He spent countless wealth and resources, and tried many miraculous pills, but still couldn’t break the shackles of blocked meridians. Even at death, he never became a true cultivator.

His short life of less than a hundred years was spent using the Medicine God Sect’s core flames to refine all kinds of spiritual pills and elixirs.

With no hope of cultivation, he relied on his era’s outstanding talent for alchemy to eventually become the sect master of the Medicine God Sect, admired by many sects and empires across the Tianyuan, Jiemie, and Qianxuan continents.

At the end of his life, he tried to refine a reincarnation pill for rebirth, but at the final step, he seemed to have been sabotaged by Senior BrotherDylan Grant.

His human soul, heavenly soul, and earthly soul separated before reincarnation. Only the human soul managed to break through the barrier of time and space, delaying for over two hundred years before becoming Ethan Brooks.

The earthly soul, which carried memories, and the heavenly soul, which awakened wisdom, took another seventeen years to truly return, making his three souls whole.

“Young master, is that you?!”

The maid in purple, drawn by the sound of laughter, pushed open the door and saw Ethan Brooks, who had been lying flat the night before, now sitting up.

“It’s me,” Ethan Brooks replied.

The maid in purple covered her mouth, her eyes shining with excitement and tears of joy. “Young master, you—you’re still alive! And you—you can speak so clearly now?”

The Ethan Brooks before her had clear, lively eyes, with not a trace of dullness left!

……

Chapter 3: Enlightenment

“I think I’ve truly awakened.”

Ethan Brooks squinted, rubbing his forehead with one hand, and said leisurely, “These past years felt like a long nightmare. Only today did I finally wake up. Tell me, what was I like before?”

The three souls—heavenly, earthly, and human—are the foundation of a person and are crucial for the future path of cultivation.

The earthly soul, which carries memories, will, after diligent cultivation, transform into the Yin Spirit after reaching the Subtlety stage.

The heavenly soul, which awakens wisdom, will, after the earthly soul transforms into the Yin Spirit and the soul can wander, undergo further change, allowing the heavenly soul to become the Yang Spirit.

The human soul, also called the life soul or main soul, only condenses into the Primordial Spirit at the peak of the path, after the Yin and Yang Spirits are achieved and one attains great freedom.

The Yin Spirit is ethereal, the Yang Spirit is substantial, and the Primordial Spirit is eternal and indestructible.

Because his earthly and heavenly souls had only just returned, Ethan Brooks had little memory or impression of his previous life, so he needed the maid in purple before him to clear up his confusion.

He also needed to figure out his current identity and situation.

“Young master, you’re the young master of the Yu family. You used to be a bit slow, but you weren’t a bad person. But there were many people who wanted to harm you…”

The maid, who introduced herself as Emily Hayes, chattered away, telling Ethan Brooks everything she knew.

During this, Ethan Brooks occasionally interrupted, probing into some strange matters.

The two of them, in a question-and-answer session, spent half the morning before Ethan Brooks roughly understood who he was in this life, what his current situation was, how much gossip he had endured, and how many people had looked down on and bullied him.

“Qianxuan Continent, Silver Moon Empire, Yu family, young master, a fiancée betrothed since childhood, evil servants who want me dead…”

Segments of brand-new memories turned into invisible streams of light, flowing into the earthly soul in his mind, merging and coexisting with the experiences of his previous life, becoming inseparable.

The Yu family was just a small medicinal herb family in the Silver Moon Empire, cultivating and growing herbs, mainly selling them to the Su family of the empire.