Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile

Reincarnation!

The little girl Lin Xian'er was a reincarnation of some almighty figure. It's just that this was not as simple as it looked to be.

In simple words, her existence was similar to Ye Chen, who got reincarnated because of the system.

Of course, the little girl had no such heaven-defying thing; if she did, she wouldn't be this unknown and only become a genius now.

There were few answers to this and one of them that Ye Chen believed was that her previous self used her soul as a medium to reincarnate.

This was really a dangerous process, and the chances of reincarnating were low. Unless someone was forced to a dead end or had a ridiculously strong soul, no one would try this.

But from how the little girl was acting, the chances were high she did this because after reincarnating through this method, their soul would be divided into two.

The first part of the soul would be innocent and become reincarnated, while the second one will hold the memories and some hidden powers as it would go to deep sleep. As long as the first soul did not face anything serious, the second soul will remain inactive but if there was a danger or a great encounter, the second one will slowly affect the first soul.

If that did not work, then it would take over the first one for a certain amount of time.

This was great but the real problem came here and that was the soul cultivation of the first one. If the first soul got stronger or had a treasure that could kill or suppress the second one, the second might act. Even if it didn't, the first will try to kill it after finding something unknown in their sea of consciousness.

Lin Xian'er was just a little girl and since she did not understand her condition very well, it was likely that she would attack her own part of the soul, which would be no different than injuring herself.

Then comes the worst part, which was the second one fighting back and accidentally killing the first one, which would result in madness and attacking everyone.

Even if all of this did not happen, the chances of the little girl going berserk were high if she did not coexist with her second soul.

All of the consequences were not good and although Ye Chen could intervene, he had to think if he had the ability to do it or not. As for telling her what she might face? That would just make things worse because she was a child.

"Brother Ye Chen, what happened? Let's go and cultivate." Lin Xian'er tugged his hand with a pout.

"Why are you in a hurry? Do you even understand how dangerous this can be?"

"Hmph, humph, I don't understand at all, and I don't want to understand either. I just want to eat those delicious-looking spirit fruits."

"Didn't you eat a lot of meat earlier?"

"I am hungry again."

"What are you, a giant beast?"

"No, a giant evil Lin Xian'er!"

The little girl laughed with a proud look, not knowing that Ye Chen secretly slid a few golden needles in her hair.

His actions did not escape from the saint's eyes, but she said nothing and just watched with an amused look.

'That thing is pretty upset about you. I wonder what you are hiding.' She muttered in her heart as she looked at Ye Chen deeply.

The only thing she knew about him was his extraordinary soul with ridiculous strength; as for the reason behind it, she did not know. She did try to look but all she saw was countless stars and galaxies giving a warning to not look further.

Compared to him she could at least see through the little girl even if it was a little. Which also meant she knew what might happen; it's just there was the old man, Yang Wuji, waiting to take action for his 'disciple,' and she thought Ye Chen would also trust him, as the old man was the little girl's 'master' and should have 'warned' them before taking this trial.

A pity she did not know both of them came here on a whim and the old man did not explain because the female saint might not allow him to take action if he said the little girl was not his disciple.

…

"Whoa… there are a lot of techniques!" Lin Xian'er's eyes shined as she read through every jade slip.

She would like to search the spatial ring for spirit fruits first, but the saint prevented her from doing that and asked her to memorize all of these techniques before.

The little girl unwillingly did this and was now happy again, as there were two or three techniques inside some head slips.

However, even with this, the number was not higher than a hundred, as spiritual techniques were rare. Not to mention the soul cultivation technique, which will perfectly merge with the original one at the nascent soul stage.

'Two saint-grade soul cultivation techniques and seven saint-grade spiritual techniques!' Ye Chen was stunned a little at the grades.

Although he accepted there would be saint-grade techniques, he did not expect there to be this many. Furthermore, the techniques were very useful, such as 'Soul Contract Art,' which can replace the manual soul contracts. Then there was also 'Soul Binding Art,' generally used for making slaves.

Then there were some with attacks and some with defenses.

One had to know that these were just the saint-grade techniques; there were more that were low-grade but also had great uses.

Let's not forget about two saint-grade soul cultivation techniques!

"Female saint, why can't we share such good things?" Lin Xian'er inquired with a disappointed look as they had to sign a soul contract that required not spreading the techniques around.

"You will know it in the future," the female saint replied with a chuckle.

The little girl could not help but feel unhappy as everyone treated her like a child, always saying: You will know when you grow up or in the future.

But all she could do was sulk because she was a child.

Nonetheless, her expression soon lit up as she started to memorize everything.

Ye Chen also did the same and since this was not a difficult task, within a few hours both of them were done.

Now came the spatial ring with resources, which made Lin Xian'er disappointed because there were only two tier-7 spirit fruits and some pills.

The reason was the spatial ring, which was divided into different compartments storing different grades of resources. Unless they had the power to break the seal on those compartments, they could not get them.

It was really a good way of stopping the little girl from eating what she shouldn't. There was tier-9 spirit fruit in her spatial ring but that could be eaten at whichever stage, hence why it was given like that.

Lin Xian'er did not hesitate and feasted on the two spirit fruits, making the female saint's and Ye Chen's mouths twitch.

Fortunately, the female saint was aware someone, like a little girl, might get inheritance so she made sure not to place anything that could cause conflict.

Swoosh!

A pure white aura suddenly surrounded the little girl, after which she did not hesitate and sat down to cultivate.

Ye Chen also followed after that but unlike her, he had his own cultivation technique.

…

Soul cultivation was difficult and extremely complicated.

If one wanted to explain it in simple words, then it would be like this: the soul was a spiritual root, the sea of consciousness was a dantian, and the spiritual consciousness was a spiritual Qi.

Each of these had different purposes and could even be cultivated earlier or later, which was not identical to body cultivation.

No one understood why and because of this, there was a famous saying in the cultivation world: if one understood the soul, they would understand the heavens!

These words were enough to describe the complexity of the soul and its cultivation.

Even the 'Divine Resonance Art,' which can be considered a top technique, does not have any great explanation about the soul.

Nonetheless, this did not stop anyone from cultivating the soil; even the little girl could do it.

The early stages of soul cultivation were divided into further stages: Soul Sense Realm, Soul Gathering Realm, Soul Refining Realm, Soul Condensation Realm, Soul Core Realm, and finally Nascent-Soul Realm.

In the Soul Sense Realm, all one had to do was sense their soul and awaken their sea of consciousness along with spiritual consciousness.

If they already had done this or were born like this, then they could skip to the next realm, which was the soul-gathering realm.

In this realm you calm your soul and use external resources to force your soul to gather soul energy.

Yes, it was forceful but steady, making sure not to injure themselves. This was the reason why it was dangerous. As for cultivating normally? It was possible but unless someone was at the nascent soul realm, it was hard for them to absorb soul power from their surroundings.