Everyone was stunned by her words.
"Reborn? Is that the kind of rebirth I'm thinking of? But isn't she Kiley?" Olivia asked, wide-eyed.
Shouldn't it be Lucy who was reborn?
Vincent had read plenty of novels for his acting roles and chimed in, "To be reborn in another person's body is still considered rebirth. Some call it transmigration."
He explained that transmigration usually referred to the movement of a soul into another body traveling from one space-time to another.
Eddie looked confused after hearing his explanation. He asked, "Isn't this just possession by a ghost?"
"I'm not a ghost! I'm a human being!" Kiley immediately retorted. "I'm reborn! I have the original owner's memories."
She had read plenty of novels to know that inheriting the owner's memories was rebirth and not possession. She wasn't dead, after all.
"If you're reborn, why did it happen in Lucy's body? What triggered your rebirth?"
"There was no trigger. I just wanted to become a celebrity, and I became one. Maybe I'm just destined for it."
Kiley's true thoughts flowed out thanks to the truth talisman.
Steve couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth as he watched her.
He was in disbelief to see Kiley wearing Lucy's face yet say that. "You think you're destined for that with your painful acting?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Kiley shot back without hesitation. "If I wasn't meant for this, why did I become Lucy? Why didn't it choose someone else and me instead?"
After Kiley said so, she realized she might have slipped up.
Shannon and the other cast members quickly caught onto the key point. "It? Who's it?"
Kiley's lips trembled as if trying to resist, but she finally spoke the truth under Shannon's spiritual energy.
Everyone saw the truth talisman stuck to her body suddenly ignited. Flames engulfed the talisman in an instant and burned it to ashes.
Shannon's eyes narrowed as she sensed energy leaking from Kiley.
She didn't hesitate to grab the emerald pendant on her neck and hurl it in the direction the energy was escaping.
"Heavenly signs appear, reveal your form; close all gates, and you shall seal!"
Along with Shannon's incantation, the emerald pendant suspended in mid-air emitted a golden light.
The runes on the pendant materialized in the air and rapidly formed a chain of runes that seemed to trap something invisible within it.
Shannon swiftly formed a series of mudras. The chain of runes tightened and eventually returned to the emerald pendant.
The emerald pendant flew back into Shannon's hand as she waved. It was still the same pendant, but the once-clear emerald was now clouded.
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