The Seven Lifetimes | The Seventh Lifetime
Continue from Yu's Reincarnation Stories: The Seven Lifetimes | The Sixth Lifetime
“The Death God Ajiu—your sentence has been fulfilled. Report to the Reincarnation Office immediately.” The King of Hell smiled so broadly that deep wrinkles spread across his face. Stroking his long beard with satisfaction, he thought to himself, At last... the day has finally come.
“Yes.” Receiving the decree for reincarnation from the Civil Judge, Ajiu accepted it without hesitation and turned to leave.
The goddess greeted him with a warm smile and ladled out a bowl of water from the River of Forgetfulness. "I've finally been waiting for you. Are you willing to drink it now?" Ajiu happily accepted the bowl and was just about to drain it in one gulp when the goddess suddenly reached out and stopped him. "Wait."
"Over all these years, you carried out your duties faithfully. Whenever suffering came, you willingly endured it instead of running away. Because of that, you have accumulated a great deal of spiritual merit, which you may exchange for the life you desire in your next incarnation," the goddess explained slowly. "You may use it to be reunited with Caihong and Xiaojin."
One by one, memories filled Ajiu's mind—Caihong, Meihao, Shanmei, the old monk, Yun'er, Shun'er, and Renyeong. Their faces passed before him like scenes from a lantern show, until only the old monk remained.
"Amang... let go of your burdens and flow with destiny."
Those who are bound by destiny will always meet again, no matter how many years—or lifetimes—have passed. Besides, such virtue should not be spent so easily.
"Thank you," Ajiu said to the goddess. "I've decided not to exchange it. In my next life, I want to accumulate even more virtue and wait for an even better opportunity."
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Without another moment of hesitation, he lifted the bowl and drank every drop of the River of Forgetfulness. Gradually, the clarity faded from his eyes, replaced by a distant emptiness. The goddess nodded with quiet admiration and led him into the cycle of reincarnation.
Hundreds of years passed.
In this lifetime, Ajiu became one of Yu's secondary souls. After enduring countless persecutions, at the age of thirty-seven, he was brutally tortured by a group of evil men with the tacit approval of high-ranking officials within the Chinese Communist Party. Barely a breath of life remained within him.
Suddenly, a beam of golden light pierced the darkness of the sky. A woman descended upon a dragon, followed by countless Dragon Deities.
Gasping for breath, Yu looked helplessly toward the light. He knew that having his abdomen cut open was only the beginning. Worse forms of torture still awaited him.
"Help me..."
Whether the vision was real, an illusion, or merely a hallucination born at the edge of death, Yu refused to give up. Guardian angels surrounded him, protecting him as best they could, yet the agony was real. The evildoers were cutting into his flesh, even intending to sell his corneas for profit.
"Come, Amang. Your time has come. I've come to take you home," the woman riding the dragon said with a gentle smile.
The moment Amang recognized her, he was stunned. It was Caihong.
Taking Yu's hand, Caihong gently guided Amang's soul out of his body. Instantly, he felt as light as air. After enduring unimaginable suffering, a profound sense of peace and release finally washed over him.
"I'm leaving... but what about the primary soul and the other secondary souls?"
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"Don't worry," Caihong said with a gentle smile. "Each of them has someone assigned to guide them, just as I have come to guide you so that you won't have to suffer any longer. Oh, and one more thing—I also took Yu's corneas with me. His body is far too sacred to be desecrated by evil people."
In the seventh lifetime, Amang arrived at a vast garden with a great lake stretching across its center. Caihong smiled and said, "You have accumulated more than enough virtue. There is no longer any need for you to be reborn as a human."
“Father!” A familiar voice cried out from the distance.
Xiaojin came running toward him, tears streaming down his face. "I've finally been able to see you again!"
After Caihong and Xiaojin were each reincarnated, they devoted lifetime after lifetime to spiritual cultivation in Buddhist temples and Taoist monasteries, accumulating virtue in the hope that one day they would meet again.
Only through spiritual cultivation could they preserve their virtue and reduce the karma they created. And it was because of those countless lifetimes of cultivation that the three of them were finally reunited—not as strangers, but once again as a family.
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However, the pillars of the Old Universe had become so severely warped and unstable that the Creator used divine power to create a New Universe, preventing all life from perishing along with the collapse of the old one.
The evil beings and demonic creatures of the Old Universe emerged in full force to stop humanity from entering the New Universe, for two reasons.
First, human beings were their source of sustenance—including the vital essence they fed upon. The New Universe would not permit such evil beings to enter, and if all humanity crossed into the New Universe, these dark entities would lose their source of nourishment and ultimately perish.
Second, many high-level evil beings believed that humanity had fallen into profound moral decline. In their view, people had failed to recognize the true importance of the divine and spiritual cultivation, while committing countless wrongdoings and accumulating immense karma. Such people, they believed, were unworthy of entering the New Universe.
For these reasons, they did everything in their power to prevent humanity from crossing over, using every possible means to keep people trapped within the Old Universe so they would ultimately perish together with it.
Of course, the countless evil spirits throughout the cosmos were never worthy of knowing that they themselves would be destroyed when the Old Universe collapsed. Believing they still had a future, they dared to commit every imaginable evil against humanity and openly wage war against the righteous higher beings.
To help all living beings enter the New Universe, Yu's primary soul and secondary souls remained in the Heavenly Garden. Through a great mirror-like lake, they guided Ariel and Yu En in establishing Yu En Transmission, helping the Lemons, Yu's supporters, casual readers, and new followers find their way into the New Universe.
Meanwhile, to resist the evil forces of the Old Universe, Caihong and Xiaojin became Dragon Deities and joined the Dragon King in the great battle between righteousness and evil. As a result, the three of them spent little time together, yet they embraced the separation willingly, knowing that each was fulfilling an important mission.
In the end, Amang decided to hold a wedding for Caihong in the Heavenly Realm. He asked Yu En to write The Seven Lifetimes as his wedding gift to the bride who had waited for him through seven lifetimes.
Marriage in the Heavenly Realm is different from marriage in the human world. It is no longer founded upon romantic love between man and woman, nor does it exist for the purpose of bearing children. Instead, it preserves the purest forms of sincere care, unwavering trust, and profound mutual respect between two souls.
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Through the story of The Seven Lifetimes, Amang wished to tell everyone that suffering, death, and hardship are all opportunities to repay the karma accumulated in previous lives. Only after his karma had been gradually dissolved was he able to reach a better destination.
Now, Amang has found a happiness unlike anything he had ever known. He is finally together with Caihong and Xiaojin in their own world, united in an eternal way. This is the beautiful fruit that came from eliminating karma, accumulating virtue, and remaining steadfast through countless trials.
Had he, at any point during those seven lifetimes, refused to endure hardship for the sake of personal desire, or created even more karma by clinging to his attachments, he might still be in hell today, repaying those karmic debts.
Yu En Transmission: The reincarnation stories are the true experiences of Yu’s life. He does not want them to be regarded as fiction by people who do not understand him, so he only wishes to share them with those who are already following the Yu En Transmission channel. Yu hopes that, through this approach, he can form meaningful connections with more people and give more people the opportunity to discover and follow Yu En Transmission. We can only respect Yu’s wishes.