Reincarnation!
Even though she actually used to possess the genuine Reincarnation authority...
Right now, in order to deal with this group of rigid Wood Elves, she had made a slight, highly technical adjustment to her story.
“I returned to three days ago, right before you all met with disaster. To be honest, in order to save you from this tragic ending, I have already failed three times. This is my fourth attempt.”
Qimeng put on an expression of deep, solemn grief, looking every bit like an Oscar-winning actress.
“The... the fourth time?”
The Grand Elder swallowed hard, her momentum weakening by half.
“Exactly. Why do you think I ate those four Sacred Spirits?”
Qimeng let out a cold snort.
“That is because, in the original timeline, those four ran amok last night! On the surface, they were Sacred Spirits, but in truth, their lifeforce and consciousness had long been corrupted by demonic energy. If I hadn't erased their consciousness beforehand, their rampage would have unleashed the strength of three Intermediate Rank magical plants and one Advanced Rank magical plant! With your current strength, wouldn't you have died a hundred times over?”
“This...”
The Elders thought about it carefully. Forget about four rampaging Intermediate and Advanced Rank magical plants working together; even if just one Advanced Rank came, the current tribe would have a terrible time.
“But this is just your side of the story...”
“Hear me out first, and then you will thank me.”
Qimeng interrupted her, throwing out the “Three Disasters” theory she had meticulously crafted.
“The first reincarnation, which was the first disaster, was the death of Yinzhi. She was originally supposed to die in the earth spider cave. I saw the silk cocoon but didn't save her, so she died. Because my fate became intertwined with hers at that moment, I was passively pulled into a reincarnation.”
“This time, I saved Yinzhi, and you brought her back to the tribe. Then came the second disaster! That night, the four Sacred Spirits ran amok, catching the entire tribe off guard and causing heavy casualties. Yinzhi died again. Thus, I was passively pulled into a second reincarnation. That is why I ate them ahead of time, helping you prevent the Sacred Spirits' rampage!”
“As for the third disaster, it was the joint siege of the thief trio, the lizardmen, and the demons! They destroyed the tree veins, snuck into the treasury, and stole the Hidden Gate spell. Once the Hidden Gate opened, the lizardman army trampled your valley, and Yinzhi died yet again.”
Sitting to the side, Yinzhi puffed out her cheeks, wondering why she absolutely had to die every single time in this story!
Qimeng slammed her hand on the table and stood up, accusing them with a look of heartache:
“So, I entered the third reincarnation! This time, I didn't just save Yinzhi—I wanted to save your entire tribe, who share her fate! I killed the thief trio and secured the Hidden Gate spell. But I didn't expect that three days later, the lizardman tribe would still come.”
“This time, they brought a demon powerhouse and forcibly broke the Hidden Gate through other means, slaughtering all of you once again! Listen well: the moment Yinzhi dies, or the moment your tribe is wiped out, I am forcibly dragged back into reincarnation by fate!”
Qimeng's gaze was firm, though she was actually talking absolute nonsense with a straight face.
She had modified the nature of her Reincarnation authority. In her speech, she spun her original self-resurrection mechanism into a forced, fate-bound link with Yinzhi.
After all, as long as she conceptually merged Yinzhi's life with the survival of the entire tribe, the psychological defenses of these highly empathetic legal lolis would completely crumble.
“So, this time, I must break this curse! Do you think I took those treasures to increase my strength for my own sake? No! It was to deal with the impending lizardman army! I am carrying the heavy burden of our future on my shoulders!”
“W-wait a minute! Everyone, don't let her brainwash you!”
The Grand Elder was still struggling, but she was clearly lacking confidence.
“But she really did suppress the rampaging magical plants, and she did stop the lizardmen from sneaking into the treasury. Those are all facts, right?”
“And back in the earth spider cave, Yinzhi really did almost not make it back. How could there be such a coincidental savior?”
“Oh heavens... does this mean our tribe is truly destined to be destroyed?”
Several simple-minded loli Elders covered their mouths, tears streaming down their faces as they completely succumbed.
“Should we believe her or not...”
The meeting room fell into chaos.
“Will the lizardmen really attack in three days? How could they break the Hidden Gate spell left behind by our ancestors? That is the foundation of our tribe. Do they really have that kind of ability?”
A heated debate broke out in the meeting room, and they decided to hold a show of hands.
The moment the voting results came out, Qimeng smiled.
An eighty-twenty split.
The vast majority of them actually believed her.
This was what you called winning without shedding a drop of blood—and making these lolis write her a thank-you note to boot!
Seeing that more than half of the Elders at the table had wavered and were nodding in agreement, the Chief, who had been watching coldly from the side, could no longer hold back.
She cast a meaningful glance at Yinzhi.
That deliberate look seemed to carry some deep significance.
“I do not agree!”
Slam!
The Chief slammed the table, dragging all her emotionally moved clan members back to reality.
“Even if all of this lines up, I cannot gamble the fate of our entire tribe on a monster girl of unknown origin.”
“Yinzhi, if you want me to believe her, you must give us a decisive explanation!”
All eyes in the room focused on Yinzhi.
Yinzhi gritted her teeth.
“Fine! Since we've reached this point, in order to prevent the Wood Elves and Lady Qimeng from ending up in an endless feud, I have no choice but to speak the truth!”
Yinzhi puffed out her chest, her eyes burning with intensity as she delivered a bombshell.
“Actually, I have been hiding her true identity all along. She is not some ordinary monster girl at all. She is the legendary Great Spirit Lord!”
“Huh? What?!”
The entire room was shocked, and even Qimeng almost slid off her chair in fright.
She stared at Yinzhi as if looking at a lunatic, screaming internally.
Where did this “Great Spirit Lord” setting even come from?! Crossing reincarnation was already a huge stretch, but adding this on top? No matter how naive the Wood Elves were, they should realize they were being treated like idiots! When one lie stacked on top of another, it was bound to crash and burn at lightning speed!
Qimeng covered her face. How did things get more and more complicated?
However, before Qimeng could speak up and deny it, as if a switch had been flipped, the eyes of the loli Elders opposite her lit up one by one!
“W-wait a minute! So that's how it is?!”
The Grand Elder slapped her thigh, her face filled with ecstasy.
“No wonder! No wonder she confidently said she could help us find the Great Spirit. It turns out she herself is the Great Spirit Lord!!”
“Yes! Everything makes perfect sense now! If she is the supreme Great Spirit Lord, it's not strange at all for her to possess the authority to cross reincarnation!”
“Wow! So that's it! No wonder Yinzhi risked her life to protect her along the way, even arguing with the tribe. It turns out Yinzhi knew the Great Spirit Lord's true identity all along!”
“It all connects! All the clues are linked together now! As expected of the Great Spirit Lord, she is truly far-sighted!!”
Looking at the legal lolis opposite her who had completely fallen into their own self-convincing delusions, Qimeng, who knew Yinzhi was lying through her teeth, went numb once again.
No... what exactly were they connecting? How did everything make perfect sense? Why could they brain-storm such a perfect, self-contained loop?!
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