Yun Jhin realized his mission through his instinct, he wasn't truly sure if this was the right thing to do to get the inheritance but he had no other leads!
There were no pieces of information, no guides, nothing! All he had was his brain and instincts, this inheritance trial was harder than it looked on the surface, Yun Jhin was currently going through another life and if it was anyone else they wouldn't have been able to do this.
Yun Jhin's eyes sparkled as he looked at his mother and realized why he was given this trial, it was because he was a reincarnator!
He was given a mission according to his former experiences and memories, if he thought a little harder about it, this situation seemed pretty familiar to him, he needed to go through one of his older memories to remember everything though...
While his mother went to sleep, Yun Jhin feigned going to sleep as well, they lived really well currently and things were going so well that his mother started to lose the fear she had gained from seeing Yun Jhin's father's death those years ago.
He still would think about him and sob from time to time but it seemed she was slowly moving on from him.
Yun Jhin sat on his bed and meditated, even though he had access to an immense pool of memories, they were so many that some of the older ones needed to be accessed manually for him to know about them, he knew they were in his subconscious and things that he knew would seem familiar to him, thus now that he was in a familiar situation he needed to access his older memories.
Yun Jhin's back arched as an influx of memories from one of his older previous lives entered his mind, these were... these were the memories of the previous man that killed his newly born body, that man was him!
It seemed he was forced to relive what he had done to his previous progeny or something among those lines if things were as he suspected.
He thought for a little more time and accessed memories regarding the current trial. his eyes widened as he looked towards the location of his mother's room, so that's how it was, he truly understood now!
He wanted to leave the house and escape but suddenly he felt a gigantic pressure put on his body, he couldn't move at all anymore!
His body which was refined and at the earthly realm couldn't move at all, which meant a cultivator with a higher cultivation base was around!
The door of his mother's room started to crack slowly, his mother came out with a sweet smile on her face as she looked into Yun Jhin's petrified eyes.
He couldn't move any part of his body, not even his eyes!
His mother slowly got near him as she looked into his eyes for a few seconds before saying:
"I knew you are a weird one... being able to cultivate since being in my belly, think I couldn't sense you gather ki inside?"
Yun Jhin's fears were true, his mother was actually himself from a few hundreds of reincarnations ago!
While Yun Jhin enjoyed being a male, he couldn't be one every time, so he had experienced being both genders along with other types of beings.
He knew that his old reincarnation wanted to use him as a sacrifice when he became 15 years old to achieve what was called, a family blood pact. It was used to further one's cultivation in poor locations such as this one, Yun Jhin remembered how he easily succeeded in killing his progeny and drinking his blood for the pact.
And if things went the same way as they did in his previous life that would mean he was going to die here!
His senses were wrong, it seemed his mother was actually manipulating him into thinking that he was supposed to protect her, the reason his father died was that his mother killed him!
His mother frowned as she looked into his brown eyes and told him:
"You are a bit too uncooked right now... I cannot use you."
Yun Jhin didn't have to say these words in his former reincarnation, his child wasn't a reincarnated one and he successfully drank his blood on his 15th birthday.
Yun Jhin remembered the face of pain and betrayal his son had at him the moment he killed him and extracted his blood...
And his fate was going to be similar!
Yun Jhin could feel his chest being pressed on as his mother's dainty hands were currently moving around on it:
"You thought that I wouldn't see through you right? You are so obvious, the way you act, how many reincarnations have you been through up till now, 2? 3? Hahahaha what an amateur."
Yun Jhin didn't keep his guard up thinking this was only a simple test where there wouldn't be any cultivators around due to his location, but it seemed he had made a fatal mistake in this situation!
His body fell to the floor of the house as he was paralyzed, suddenly he could move his head and mouth but he couldn't move anything else, it seemed his mother was ready to torture him, or rather he was ready to torture himself!
Yun Jhin tried to tell her that this was a test and he was herself, but no sound came from his mouth, those words were blocked by the inheritance trial!
His mother's hands entered his chest as it started to slowly make their way towards his heart, the woman sighed as she looked longingly at his face and said:
"Only if you could mature some more... you aren't ripe yet, couldn't you have been clueless for some more time?"
Yun Jhin gritted his teeth as he looked into her eyes and decided to self-destruct!
However, his ki pathways were suddenly closed by a forceful increase in ki output from the woman and she laughed coquettishly as she put her other hand near her mouth and told him:
"Self-Destruction? Want to go and reincarnate again don't you? TOO BAD!"
Yun Jhin felt his air supply being taken as his face started to change into different colors, she didn't want to kill him fast, she wanted him to suffer for delaying her plans!
Yun Jhin moved his hand left and right trying to do anything to escape from her iron grip, but he couldn't do anything, his body was paralyzed!
Yun Jhin suddenly chuckled, so this was the true test, wasn't it?
He would make sure he would pass it the next time he reincarnated!
Seeing his look that turned peaceful and his chuckle made the woman shook her head as she gripped his heart, she gave it a small tight squeeze as Yun Jhin's life was severed from him.
Yun Jhin's last vision was of her mother slowly eating his heart with a begrudging look on her face, seemingly she was dissatisfied with the taste!
Yun Jhin found himself in the same darkness as before, but now he knew what he was supposed to do!
The moment he felt the familiar sensation he would directly search through his memories to see in which reincarnation he was being placed by the trial and as who he was being placed into!
Time passed again, he was born again, and this time as he looked around he realized that he was in a tundra, his body was slowly freezing to death and there were even some wolves who were eyeing him as prey!
He looked up to see his father's visage only to realize that his father was his former reincarnation, he was going to become wolf food!
The wolves growled as they smelled the Yun Jhin's fresh body, he was just born and practically a delicacy for the wolves, his tender meat would taste oh so sweet for them!
His father was keeping him tightly to his chest, but he knew he was contemplating if to throw him at the wolves or not!
Yun Jhin immediately connected to his memory core to see which life was this and he realized that in this one he was the progeny of a princess that he wooed and impregnated while he was younger, due to his birth origin the princess's father and mother shunned him and his sweetheart away, they ended up in the tundra to escape the pursuit of the king's men.
In many lives Yun Jhin ended up dying one way or another, there were very few lives where he ended up really successful, but all the failures built him up to become a more deadly person.
However, what could he do in this situation? He was a baby in the hands of his former reincarnation, fortunately, this was one of the earlier reincarnations and he could try to fool himself!
Yun Jhin sent a soul message towards the wolves, they were simple animals and his current body was quite weak, this was one of those situations that he tried to use the princess to gain cultivation resources but he failed.
Yun Jhin's soul was very strong and even though he was currently in a new born's body he could somewhat influence their thoughts, the wolves turned their tail down as they whimpered and left Yun Jhin, his father, and his dead mother alone.
The birth took too much out of Yun Jhin's mother and she died.
His father which was his former reincarnation looked at the body for a few seconds before glancing at the infant in his hands and sighing:
"My ticket to resources is gone.. all I have is this useless son of mine... should I just abandon him here? But why did the wolves leave?"
He frowned as he felt the wolves leaving and whimpering like that wasn't normal, what could have scared them away like that?
Yun Jhin's baby form didn't move at all as he kept himself as still as possible, things didn't go like this in this previous reincarnation so he wasn't truly sure what his former consciousness would do in this situation, after all, they were fundamentally two different persons due to the experiences that molded him into what he was today, at first he had a little bit of humanity on him and that was what the current Yun Jhin was betting on to escape from this situation, he still wasn't sure what the trial wanted him to do, but he knew that he was pitied against his former reincarnations!
Fight thyself to conquer thyself per se.