Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then said to Li Xinghe, "You should go back first. It seems I’ve mistaken you for someone else. I didn’t expect such coincidences in this world."

Once he said this, Lu Chen turned to Taihua Immortal Venerable and said, "After he leaves, prepare some precious medicine to repair his Divine Soul as compensation."

Soul searching greatly damages the Divine Soul. If it weren’t for Li Xinghe’s strong Divine Soul, he might have fainted by now.

This was also what Lu Chen didn’t understand. He had just performed a simple soul search on Li Xinghe, and found that Li Xinghe’s Divine Soul only held memories of this lifetime. However, his Divine Soul was so powerful, which clearly wasn’t normal.

The key is that Li Xinghe’s Divine Soul didn’t have memories of a past life sealed within. A Divine Soul without such sealed memories, yet so strong, even made Lu Chen feel threatened during the soul search.

Upon hearing Lu Chen’s words, Taihua Immortal Venerable was momentarily stunned. The implication of Lu Chen’s words is that this Li Xinghe is not the Star River Immortal Venerate?

How is that possible?

Having "Star River" in the name is one thing, but even possessing the Star Immortal Body exclusive to Star River Immortal Venerate — he actually isn’t Star River Immortal Venerate’s reincarnation?

Though he felt astonished, since Lu Chen himself had done the soul search on Li Xinghe, and even he as the Immortal Emperor said Li Xinghe wasn’t the Star River Immortal Venerate, then it was highly likely Li Xinghe wasn’t the reincarnation of Star River Immortal Venerate.

Taihua Immortal Venerable regained composure and said, "Yes, Your Majesty. I will have someone send him some soul-nourishing spiritual medicine shortly."

Li Xinghe then said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Principal. I shall take my leave."

With those words, Li Xinghe turned and left. After leaving the principal’s office, he couldn’t help but slightly curl his lips.

After he possessed Star River Immortal Venerate’s Divine Soul, he absorbed all the soul of Star River Immortal Venerate’s past life. For them, the mysterious life forms, human memories are also a delicacy.

Therefore, even with Lu Chen’s soul search, he could only see Li Xinghe’s memories from this lifetime. As for why Lu Chen didn’t detect his presence, it was because he was hiding within the soul source of the Star River Immortal Venerate.

Soul Search can only search things outside the soul source, and a person’s memories are stored outside of the soul source.

Once Li Xinghe left the principal’s office, Taihua Immortal Venerable immediately asked, "Your Majesty, is this person truly not the reincarnated body of Star River Immortal Venerate?"

Lu Chen showed a look of contemplation and said, "It’s uncertain. Although I didn’t find any memories of Star River Immortal Venerate, it doesn’t rule out the possibility that he separated and sealed his memories before reincarnation."

"Moreover, his Divine Soul is exceptionally strong. Even after I searched his soul, he wasn’t affected much. His Divine Soul wasn’t damaged, which is not a soul strength his cultivation state should possess."

Taihua Immortal Venerable said, "Then how about just eliminating him?"

Taihua Immortal Venerable’s thoughts were to rather mistakenly kill than let a suspected Star River Immortal Venerate go, especially since Li Xinghe himself is so similar to Star River Immortal Venerate. He simply couldn’t believe Li Xinghe wasn’t Star River Immortal Venerate’s reincarnation.

Most importantly, for them, Li Xinghe was just a minor figure. Killing him would hardly affect the Daqin Immortal Dynasty.

Not to mention killing Li Xinghe, even if the Daqin Immortal Dynasty decided to destroy the Holy Wing Sect behind Li Xinghe, the Immortal Sect forces in Tianyan Immortal Domain wouldn’t dare to voice anything; they would only say it was a good riddance.

Lu Chen then said, "Not for now. If he truly is Star River Immortal Venerate’s reincarnated body, he will retrieve his past life’s memories sooner or later, and by then I’ll take his life."

Before reincarnating, an Immortal Venerable must have some arrangements. Just like when Lu Chen reincarnated within the Chaos Beast’s stomach, he left a Divine Thought as a system to guide and help him grow continuously.

Before Star River Immortal Venerate reincarnated, he surely left some things to guide the growth of his reincarnated body.

Of course, another important reason Lu Chen didn’t immediately have Taihua Immortal Venerable eliminate Star River Immortal Venerate is.

That is the sickening feeling he experienced during the soul search of Star River Immortal Venerate, which implied Li Xinghe might be tainted with Mysterious Power.

Although he couldn’t detect any presence of Mysterious Power from Li Xinghe, this actually proved Li Xinghe was skilled at hiding the aura of Mysterious Power, even to the extent of deceiving him, an Immortal Emperor.

The current Li Xinghe may not be Li Xinghe at all.

Seeing Lu Chen said so, Taihua Immortal Venerable had nothing more to add, "Yes, I understand, Your Majesty."

Just as Taihua Immortal Venerable finished speaking, an ice-cold, stunning figure appeared in the principal’s office.

Upon seeing Yun Yudie’s arrival, Taihua Immortal Venerable tactfully said, "Your Majesty, if there’s nothing else, I shall take my leave."

Lu Chen said, "Alright, you may go."

Taihua Immortal Venerable saluted once more, "I take my leave."

With that, Taihua Immortal Venerable turned and left the principal’s office, closing the office door for Lu Chen before departing.

After Taihua Immortal Venerable left, Lu Chen directly said, "I felt a sickening sensation earlier while probing someone’s Divine Soul."

"But there wasn’t any Mysterious Power from that person. Have you ever encountered such a situation?" 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Since Yun Yudie had regained all her memories as the Ancestor of the Strange, she was knowledgeable and must know things Lu Chen didn’t.

Upon hearing Lu Chen’s words, Yun Yudie immediately thought of a special magic of mysterious life forms and said, "High-level mysterious life use Soul Stealing Technique. The person you mentioned might have already been possessed in soul by a mysterious life form."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen puzzledly asked, "Soul possession?"

It wasn’t the first time he heard of this matter. He had seen some information about Immortal Emperor Youlan wanting to possess souls in the system data of Immortal Venerable Yun Meng and others, but he didn’t know the specifics.

He understood conventionally that possession involved one’s Divine Soul occupying another’s body, but he was curious about how one’s Divine Soul could also be possessed.

Yun Yudie then explained, "Within a person’s Divine Soul, there is a soul source. As long as a mysterious life form devours the soul source, it can possess a person’s Divine Soul. This possession technique can retain the original person’s memories, making it difficult to discern that the individual has been possessed."

Lu Chen’s brows furrowed deeply. If that’s the case, then perhaps the Tianyan Immortal Domain already has many mysterious life forms, all using Soul Stealing Technique, making them almost indistinguishable.

Yun Yudie seemed to have discerned Lu Chen’s thoughts, so she continued to explain, "High-level mysterious life forms capable of using Soul Stealing Technique are typically at the king realm, which is what you in the Spirit Realm refer to as Deceit King."

Lu Chen asked, "Do you have many Deceit Kings in your Deceit Realm?"

Yun Yudie replied flatly, "You’ll know once you go out."

Seeing Yun Yudie unwilling to say more, Lu Chen didn’t press further.