Those who reincarnate must die.

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Zhang Lang stood at the entrance of the shrine, watching the two enter.

"What exactly do you want to do..." Fumino was dragged into the shrine by Wade. In her spiritual perception, after Zhang Lang's baptism of energy, the shrine no longer had any trace of evil spirits or resentment. It was just an ordinary dilapidated temple.

What else is there in this place that this guy would want to remember?

"What I'm pursuing isn't just spiritual power." Seeing Fumino's confusion, Vedra led her into a corner of the shrine, raised his hand and turned an inconspicuous mechanism. Suddenly, the shrine floor opened, revealing a tunnel leading underground.

"Where...does this lead?" Fumino stared in surprise, not expecting that this unassuming shrine held such a hidden secret.

"This is the key to my true rebirth!" Wade led Fumino into the tunnel, descending until they arrived at a spacious area.

With a snap, the lights came on. Fumino, whose head had adjusted to the darkness, instinctively turned her head away. When she opened her eyes again, she was shocked by what she saw.

This is not the kind of cave that seals away monsters and evil spirits that you might imagine, but a clean and tidy laboratory!

This laboratory contains many instruments that Fumin has never seen before. Some of them are clearly technological devices, but many others have a distinctly magical style, such as jars with talismans pasted on them, coffins containing mummified corpses, crosses carved with runes, and so on...

At the center of these devices is a huge petri dish. In the pale yellow culture medium, a mass of tissue, a mixture of flesh and bone, is constantly deforming and moving, looking disgusting yet full of vitality.

"What is this?" Fumino asked in surprise.

This time, Wade didn't answer her. He just tightened his grip on Fumino's hair. Then, Fumino felt her life force rapidly draining away, her body becoming weak and powerless. Finally, she couldn't even stand up and knelt down with a thud.

Wade finally let go of her and walked alone toward the petri dish in the center.

Fumin tried to get up by pushing herself up with her hands, but she was surprised to find that her once smooth and fair hands had become dry, yellow, thin, and full of wrinkles.

"This is impossible!" Fumino touched her cheeks with both hands. Her face was full of wrinkles. She grabbed a lock of long hair and held it in front of her eyes. Its grayish-white color shocked her!

She has gone from a beautiful young girl to an old woman!

Looking up at Wade again, the young man slowly approached the petri dish. With each step forward, his body aged by several years. When he finally reached the petri dish, he had become a hunched and withered old man.

The life essence of both heroes has been drained!

The writhing flesh in the petri dish gradually stabilized, deformed, and eventually became a completely naked man.

With a thud, Wade collapsed to the ground, and at the same time, the man in the petri dish opened his eyes.

The man smiled slightly, raised his hand, and the petri dish neatly split in two, spilling the culture medium all over the floor. He then slowly walked out, an invisible pressure filling the entire basement.

Fumino, already extremely weak, could barely breathe. Staring at the terrifying man, she struggled to call out his name.

"You are... Higashikawa Shuichi?"

The man was slightly taken aback upon hearing this: "After all these years, someone still recognizes me?"

"Higashikawa Hideichi, the former master of the thirteenth altar, had a bounty of 19,600 points. He and Luo Wei were known as the two most wanted criminals of the Shen clan at the time. He was especially skilled at dealing with supernatural missions and was also one of the strongest spiritualists in the Shen clan's altars back then..."

"You know quite a lot of details, huh?" Higashikawa Hideichi chuckled. "Is it information on the Broken Sword? How's it going now? Is Chairman Sun still in charge of the ASEAN branch?"

"The current president is Ning Yi... I only saw President Sun in the files; he sacrificed himself in the interdimensional battle a few years ago..."

"Ning Yi?" Higashikawa Hideichi recalled for a moment: "Oh, is that the kid with glasses? I remember he was Chairman Sun's secretary. I thought he was quick-witted and would succeed sooner or later. It seems I was right."

"The turnover of reincarnators is very fast..." Fumino gasped for breath, "You should have died in a mission more than ten years ago, right? How did you end up here?"

"Hehehe... How could a Reincarnator not have a backup plan for such a high-risk profession?" Higashikawa Shuichi chuckled. "This is an ability I obtained by chance. After each mission, I can create a backup of my state in reality, so that I can be reborn in the backup state after death..."

"This ability was supposed to allow me to be resurrected in reality immediately after death. But the guy who killed me had the ability to completely annihilate me, and could block all resurrection-related abilities!"

At this point, Higashikawa Shuichi became emotional: "I can still remember the disgusting black hair on that guy's face!"

"Then how did you survive?" Fumino asked, panting.

"Because I am the master of the soul!" Higashikawa Shuichi raised his hands. "Although my physical body cannot be resurrected, I preserved a remnant of my soul and escaped back to the backup point in reality, which is here..."

"Over the past ten years, I've only done two things: strengthen my soul and reshape my body!"

Matsumoto Fumiyo gritted his teeth and said, "So, those evil spirits are all your henchmen, and those missing people have become your food for recovery?"

"Hehehe..." Higashikawa Shuichi sneered, "Kusasaki Town is my hometown. Many years ago, I used my abilities to establish a foothold here and created a large number of evil spirits, which have become the help for my rebirth."

"However, without your Reincarnator team coming, I wouldn't have recovered so quickly. Thanks to your life force, not only did it nourish my body and soul, but it even made me stronger than before!"

As he spoke, Higashikawa Shuichi raised his hand, and the laboratory floor began to rise and crack. Then, pieces of equipment flew out and automatically put on his body.

A moment later, Higashikawa Shuichi appeared in a magnificent samurai armor, wearing a demon-like mask, with three purple magatama floating behind him. He held a long-barreled revolver in his left hand and a samurai sword engraved with blood-red dragon patterns in his right. The strong smell of blood could be smelled from a distance.

"That brat up there got a bit too overconfident, actually giving me a chance to turn the tables..." Donning his full gear, Higashikawa Shuichi's aura intensified: "Do you know why I didn't kill you? I want you to witness firsthand how that arrogant man becomes the first victim of my blade after my rebirth!"

As he spoke, he raised the long sword in his hand, and the invisible sword energy left clear cuts on the wall.

Just then, the basement ceiling suddenly collapsed and cracked, and a tall figure descended from the sky—it was Zhang Lang, who was holding a mobile phone.

Zhang Lang showed his phone to Higashikawa Hideichi, on which a stopwatch was constantly ticking:

"Fifteen minutes are up..."

---Aside---

Thank you Chenjiu and Fossil for the 600 Qidian Coins!

Thank you to Xiao Hei downstairs for the 300 Qidian coins!

Thank you for the generous donation of 500 Qidian coins!