"A life for a life?" An Yiqing felt a heaviness in her heart.
"Indeed. Have you heard of water ghosts capturing substitutes?" Tang Zhifeng asked.
An Yiqing raised an eyebrow and nodded. In folklore, water ghosts are those who drowned in the river. They cannot reincarnate because they died untimely, thus carrying heavy resentment. To leave the riverbed, they must kill a living person, turning that person into a water ghost, allowing them to leave and enter reincarnation. This is the so-called life for a life.
"Do you mean to find someone to die in my place, and then have their soul return to the Void?"
"Correct. Moreover, the person replacing you must be your beloved family, friend, or lover. And that person must carry your essence and aura and possess power equal to yours. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao will easily spot the flaw."
