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[ For once, Mo Ran's expression is serious, bordering on troubled. his eyes are shadowed, and he looks rather morose, a rare sight for him. He looks younger than his age, more like a teenager than usual. The camera starts and he takes a moment to stare at it blankly before blinking and shaking his head as though it took him a moment to remember why he was addressing the network at all. ]

What happens when someone leaves here? At least I hope he left and didn't die somewhere, if we get to leave... [ He grimaces at that thought, though he abandons it quickly, not wanting to dwell on that possibility. ]

Do people return to their homes? I was working on a farm before I ended up here, would I go back there? Do we remember what happened here?

[ He needs answers! It'll drive him mad, otherwise. ]

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I once did. I was.

Isn't it a teacher's wish for their students to be better?

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Your arrogance will cut you at the knee.

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You sound so sure.

I have already been crippled and learned to walk again.

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...Mo Ran. Who are you?

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Disciple of Chu Wanning and Sisheng Peak. Renowned cultivator.

Former emperor of the cultivation world.

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( After Five, this begs the question. )

How old?

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Twenty-two.

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An emperor by twenty-two.

Birth right?

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No. By bloodshed. There was a death, and rebirth.

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...elaborate.



( THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HOLY WATER IN THAT RIVER WHOLE. )

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[ there really isn't, it would take a lot more than that holy water to absolve him ]

I crowned myself Taxian-jun, the first emperor of the cultivation realm, after subjugating the sects. And then I died, I think was around thirty-two? Who keeps track, though?

But instead of going to hell, I woke up as a teenager again.

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Possession?

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Of my teenage body? Possibly? I don't know how it happened.

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You did not initiate?

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No. I killed myself, why would I initiate returning to my teenage body?

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Perhaps at a chance to right the wrongs of youth.

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Someone else was also reincarnated, so I'm not sure it's that.

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Another?

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In my home world. Another one was reborn when I was. It wasn't clear at the beginning, but enough has been made clear now that I know someone else is there, pulling strings behind the scenes.

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A man responsible for your revival?

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Unclear.

There are three forbidden techniques. One of them might have made it possible for the rebirth to happen, although I do not know if anyone mastered it. I did not, in my previous life, despite attempts.

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I presumed you innocent. Foolishly.

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I never claimed innocence.
The forbidden techniques I knew were useful in my former life.

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How much carnage did you author?

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Does that matter?