"Hui'er, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Qingyi asked with concern as soon as she opened the door.
Minghui, already seated beside the bed, shook his head, then said with surprise, "Dad, Mom, I just felt my spirit and discovered that besides the Guangling Divine Bow, I have another spirit. I can sense it in my head; it must be my true spirit."
"My true spirit!" The couple exchanged glances, each with surprise.
This meant they could let their son cultivate his true spirit first, laying a solid foundation, before training the Guangling Divine Bow.
That way, they wouldn't have to worry about his internal organs being too weak to withstand the chilling effects of absorbing an ice-attributed spirit ring.
The thought of this moved Mingchen so much he almost to tears.
"God bless my Ming family!"
He was the only one left in the Ming family's generation. He had finally cultivated to the rank of Titled Douluo, suppressing the backlash of the cold energy, and had worked so hard, finally having a child when he was over 70. If the child died prematurely, cutting off the family bloodline, he would be driven mad.
God knows how much pressure he'd endured all these years.
And now, finally, he could breathe a sigh of relief.
"In my head, could it be a spiritual attribute?" Qingyi trotted over and sat down beside her son.
"Hui'er, try activating it?"
"It should be. I just tried it," Minghui said. With a thought, he activated his martial spirit, and his mind suddenly cleared a little.
His vision shifted dramatically.
Qingyi and Mingchen, both Titled Douluo, felt a surge of spiritual energy emanating from their son's brow.
It was faint, but with their strength and proximity, they couldn't be mistaken.
"The emanation of spiritual energy after activation must be a spiritual attribute," Mingchen's eyes flickered.
Spiritual attributes are extremely rare martial spirit attributes.
They should align well with the family's inherited eye-training techniques.
"Dad, Mom," Minghui chimed in, recounting his experience. "After activating this martial spirit, the world I see has changed."
"To be precise, it's like a third eye has opened between my eyebrows. Even with my eyes closed, I can still see."
He quickly closed his eyes.
"It's just that I'm clearly seeing the same thing, but the presentation is different."
"For example, when I look at you, Mom and Dad, your clothes are very dark, but your skin has become lighter and has a pale blue hue."
"The head is the brightest, and it's constantly emitting waves, like a fish stirring up ripples in the water. I just looked out the window and noticed that the surrounding flowers, plants, and trees are emitting similar waves, but inanimate objects like the chairs in the house aren't."
She opened her eyes again. "I can see them now, but they're overlapping and not very clear."
"It's probably mental fluctuations." Qingyi turned to look at her husband and offered her own guess.
"Only living things emit mental fluctuations; inanimate objects don't, which is why the colors appear dark. So, Hui'er must be seeing the spiritual world, the manifestation of the real world in the spiritual realm."
"However, Hui'er's martial spirit has only just awakened, so he can only see the surface."
"When your cultivation and mental power grow stronger, perhaps you'll be able to see deeper things."
"For example, the soul." A glint flashed in her beautiful eyes.
"And being able to see it means there's a chance to attack it with soul skills."
The implication: enormous potential!
"To achieve this, perhaps Hui'er's spirit will need to evolve again," Mingchen said meaningfully. Qingyi understood.
There was only one place on the continent capable of allowing the body spirit to evolve a second time, and it was located north of the Heavenly Soul Empire.
The Body Sect? It seemed possible. Minghui, having read the original novel, had some knowledge of the Body Sect. They had led their men into the Star Dou Great Forest, hunting down seven hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and triggering a beast tide, bringing considerable disaster to the surrounding people.
In terms of the outcome, they deserved criticism, after all, indirectly killing many people. But in terms of the cause, since soul masters hunted soul beasts for spirit rings and bones, and didn't kill indiscriminately, there wasn't much to say.
How many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had been hunted by soul masters on the continent over the years? Shrek Academy was known to have several, but the hunting was spread out over time and locations, preventing a beast tide.
Simply put, it was all about individual needs.
Furthermore, as the protector sect of the Heavenly Soul Empire, the Benti Sect in the original novel did its best to defend against foreign enemies. Their leader, Du Bu Si, even blew himself up to assassinate Xu Tianran, the crown prince of the Sun and Moon Empire. From the perspective of the Heavenly Soul Empire, he was considered a national hero.
Honestly, he had quite liked this character when he read the original novel.
Furthermore, after being reincarnated into this world for several years, he had never heard of the Benti Sect engaging in wanton killings of innocent people.
He had heard of them attacking the weak and then the strong, and of them defending their own shortcomings and then beating them up. As a result, they were considered domineering and both good and evil.
His mother had once commented on the Benti Sect, saying that while many of them were idiots who only cared about building muscle, their unity was something worth learning from. Firstly, the underlying law of the world is the survival of the fittest, and secondly, with the frequent presence of evil spirit masters on the continent, those who didn't stick together would be bullied and killed. He deeply agreed with this, and therefore had a favorable impression of the Benti Sect.
Protecting their own shortcomings? Who wouldn't like that if it meant protecting themselves. Of course, that wasn't his current concern. For him, Tang San was the biggest threat ahead.
Having awakened his Ultimate Ice Spirit and his spiritual-attributed Martial Soul, he felt compelled to attempt to acquire opportunities like the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Electrolux, Ice Emperor, Snow Emperor embryos, and the Ice Jade Scorpion's left arm bone imbued with Ice Explosion.
This, he felt, would most likely require contact with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and thus, Tang San.
Well, if Tang San were alright now!
"Also, Dad, Mom, there's something else," Minghui said, sitting upright.
"What is it?" Qingyi, in a good mood, smiled.
Minghui scratched his head, feigning confusion. "Mom, this is a bit bizarre. I had a dream yesterday after I passed out."
"In my dream, I saw a towering tree. It was so tall and massive, I couldn't see the end. The trunk at the base was so thick I felt like a hundred people holding hands couldn't wrap their arms around it. Looking up, the branches spread out like a net, the leaves so dense they blocked out the sun, like a giant cloud, radiating a faint golden glow, brimming with life."
Such a large tree was truly bizarre. The couple looked at each other in amazement.
"And right in front of the tree, there were two people," Minghui's expression deepened with confusion.
"A man and a woman. The man wore a purple robe, the woman a green dress. They were very beautiful, just like Mom, and they felt very close to me."
"I don't know why, but the moment I saw this woman, the term 'Goddess of Life' came to my mind." Goddess of Life? God? The couple was stunned.
"But as for the man next to him, I can't recall his name, and his features are blurry. However, when I looked at him, a sense of inexplicable respect welled up within me." Minghui frowned.
"He seems quite imposing."
"Besides, they're a loving couple, I'm sure of that."
"Dad, Mom," he turned to his parents, whose faces were already thoughtful. "When I first woke up, I didn't think much of it. I just thought it was just a random dream from seeing you so often. But just now, after you left, when I activated my own martial spirit, the images suddenly became clear again, as if I had really seen them, and had seen them many times."
He had seen them clearly when Tang San was chasing him in the God Realm.
Could my son be the reincarnation of a deity from the God Realm? The couple glanced at their son, both of them harboring this thought. My son has the potential to become a god?!
"So, Hui'er, do you still remember what the Goddess of Life looked like?" Qingyi said, gathering her emotions.
"Of course," Minghui nodded seriously. "I remember it clearly."
"Okay," Qingyi nodded. "I'll have your Aunt Hong come over later. You describe it to her and draw it."
When it came to deities, she preferred to believe them. She had never heard of the Goddess of Life, but she had heard of and seen the Tree of Life. Currently, Shrek Academy had an instructor with a Tree of Life spirit.
Furthermore, the ancient golden tree on the inner courtyard's Sea God Island looked very similar to the one her son had just described. It was transplanted there by Sea God Tang San ten thousand years ago.
Crucially, her son had never seen it! So, what her son saw in his dream had a certain truth.
She decided to hang a painting and erect a statue of the Goddess of Life, offering them a proper worship and praying for her son's future. As for the other male deity, her son didn't know his name or see his face clearly. She felt it was offensive to have a faceless statue, so she decided not to worship him. "
My ability to have a child in my old age might be due to the efforts of these two gods," Mingchen said.
He felt it was necessary to pay his respects. His wife, in her seventies, still conceived, felt somewhat miraculous.
"Okay, Mom," Minghui nodded obediently.
Qingyi smiled, reaching out to pat her son's head. "Okay, Hui'er, don't overthink it. Get some rest first. As for other things, we'll deal with them once you're better."
Absorbing spirit rings while in poor condition wasn't a good idea. Besides, her family didn't have a deep understanding of the true spirit.
"Okay," Minghui nodded.
After a few more instructions, the couple left the house.
Minghui slipped back into bed, basking in the warm sunlight streaming in through the window, and dozed off with his eyes closed.
"Hopefully, I can catch the attention of the Goddess of Life," he sighed to himself.
Leveraging faith to attract the attention of the Goddess of Life—that was his idea. With the support of his family and the influence of a large number of people, he could leverage this advantage. As long as there were enough believers and sufficient faith power generated, he believed the idea had some potential.
And attracting the attention of the Goddess of Life would be equivalent to the attention of the God of Destruction.
In the original novel, the God of Destruction was obsessed with expanding the Divine Realm during this period. Expanding the Divine Realm required the Divine Realm's central key, which was why he later attacked Tang San. Therefore, his next move was to find a way to hand the knife to the God of Destruction.
Tang San's numerous interferences in the Lower Realm around Huo Yuhao were clearly beyond his authority.
If the God of Destruction witnessed these incidents, wouldn't that be a legitimate opportunity to seize the key from Tang San?
Without the central key to the Divine Realm, Tang San's ability to monitor the Douluo Plane would likely be significantly weakened.
Furthermore, even if they knew he was responsible, as a follower of the Goddess of Life, they wouldn't dare to act openly against him.
Life and Destruction might even protect him.
"Of course, it's possible that after the Goddess of Life takes notice, she'll learn I saw her in a dream and perform a soul search to read my memories. But even then, knowing Tang San's actions from my memories wouldn't make things any easier for him."
"If I can prevent the subsequent invasion from the Abyssal Plane, I'll have done a great deed for the continent and the future of my family."
"Not a loss!" Minghui muttered to himself.
Of course, he still harbored a glimmer of hope. The Goddess of Life is not Tang San. Judging from the description of the Goddess of Life in the original novel, this girl still has a bottom line, and is even a bit saintly. She should not do such rude things as prying into other people's memories and invading other people's privacy.
Especially since he is a man.
As for the God of Destruction, it is hard to say. We can only hope that the Goddess of Life will stop it.
The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish. Fortune and wealth are sought in danger. If you win the bet, everything will go smoothly in the future. If you lose the bet, it will not be in vain to come to this world.
"Just do it!" As a passionate young man who has lived two lives, Minghui felt that he could not be timid at this time.
"Chen, what do you think about this matter?" Outside the house, in the living room, Qingyi spoke first.
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