@happybro @huskyshero
Haha, Wang Lin didn't die. If he had died, then he would be dead, story over. He lost his body and his soul was damaged, but was preserved through the power of the Heaven Defying Bead/Situ Nan. His soul went through the rift to the foreign battleground and the dimensional space where only loose soulds and soul fragments lingered. Plus soul devourers. He become one of those soul devourers and gained a degree of power over souls. He then possessed the unlucky, freshly dead freckled dude's body. Soul devourers are prevented from leaving the foreign battleground by the formation, but he cheated using the body and raw power. Thus he managed to get back to his home planet. However, the transfer array took him wherever the freckled dude was from, so now he's trying to figure out where his home country is.
He never died, he was only very close to dying. Cultivators don't die so easily. Although cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage can't leave their body in a soul form, there are always extraordinary circumstances, especially for Wang Lin who possesses the Heaven Defying Bead and is helped by Situ Nan within.