Talk:Reincarnation/@comment-70.140.138.180-20200220135757/@comment-45.56.151.105-20200422155842

The so-called 'reach immortality' is actually 成仙 'Cheng Xian' in Chinese. This is something hard to translate in just a few words, immortality is only part of it. Xiao Bai is not a demon, as the English translation suggests, but a 妖 'yao' or 妖怪 'yokai'. She is more like a monstrous beast but with intellegence. And I also believe she was not just meditating, she was 'exercising' too. Meaning that she was activily practicing something. Just like practicing Kong Fu.

Her goal of 成仙 means that she wants to transform into another level of god-like creature, which is 仙. That is in opposite of 妖. 妖 'yao' is considered as beast, but 仙 'xian' is devine.

The cost she refered to is love. That one second of feeling of love cost her hundres of years of meditating and exercising but she still could not become 仙. Love was the reason that she could not complete the process. Because deep in her heart, she still cares about someone. She has to get rid of her earthly sentiment in order to become devine.

Both Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai are not immortal, meaning that they can be killed. But due to the nature of being 妖, their life won't end by old age. They can continue live as long as they are not being killed. Therefore, they can be reincarnated, but they have not been throug the process.