Deduction

"That's right." Gu Shi nodded. "But, the souls of this world are reincarnating internally, so, external reincarnation is out of the options." He said. "As for them being dead…" he looked at Yi Bing. 

"It isn't possible, either." Yi Bing said. 

"En. Because only their presence disappeared and not their existence." Huo Ling spoke. "It means that the souls are still alive." He said. 

Gu Shi gave Huo Ling a thumb's up. 

"By their presence disappearing, it might be that their soul is too weak to be detected." Huo Ling spoke, then shook his head. "No. If their soul is too weak to be detected, then how can we say that they disappeared?" he asked. "We can say they disappeared because we have detected them first, but then something happened that made their soul became weak… weak enough for us to lose them to be detected." He explained. 

Yi Bing nodded in agreement.