"Teacher, what you said before that you could help me solve the Spirit inheritance problem is that true?"
"My Nine Heart Sea Spirit has an innate flaw there can only be one inheritor in each generation. At any given time, there can only be two Nine Heart Sea Spirit Masters alive. Only when one dies can another possibly appear among the descendants."
"Actually, I have no intention of developing and expanding my Family like other Spirit inheritors; that's something I wouldn't even dare to dream of. I just don't want my Family members and my future descendants to have to sacrifice themselves again because of the birth of a newborn."
The cherry blossoms drifting in the wind brushed past her ears. Ye Lingling had the opportunity to speak with Teacher Xin alone, and she spoke while looking at that figure, which seemed detached from the Mortal world.
She knew that the teacher calling her over privately was highly likely related to her Cultivation and Spirit.
As she spoke the last sentence, a hint of sadness flashed in Ye Lingling's eyes.
Because of the rarity of the Nine Heart Sea Spirit, in order to ensure that the descendants could successfully inherit the Nine Heart Sea Spirit, once a relative became pregnant with a newborn, the older generation of Nine Heart Sea Spirit holders would choose to end their own lives at the appropriate time.
When Ye Lingling was born, her grandmother buried herself in a yellow dirt grave.
In the future, when her granddaughter is born, she will also walk this path, endlessly repeating the cycle.
For ordinary families, a newborn represents vitality and is a joyous event.
But for them, the Nine Heart Sea Spirit holders, the arrival of a newborn often means the imminent passing of an elder.
"It seems, Ling Xiaoqi, you still don't trust your teacher." Xin smiled faintly.
"No... that's not it. I believe in Teacher."
"What I don't believe in is my Spirit. We have always been this way, and it has never changed."
That single sentence from Ye Lingling expressed an untold amount of helplessness and bitterness.
"Alas." Xin also sighed. He understood the cruelty of the Nine Heart Sea Spirit, which surpassed even that of the Blue Phosphor Serpent.
Otherwise, the only olive branch he extended at the Soto City Great Spirit Arena would not have been offered to Ye Lingling.
"God opened a window for the Nine Heart Sea, but simultaneously closed a door."
"The Nine Heart Sea Spirit has extremely powerful healing capabilities, and it can even achieve large-scale group healing. Perhaps because its healing power is too strong, it needs to devour the lives of its clansmen for sustenance, preventing the sea Tang flower from withering after it blooms."
"Actually, there are two ways to solve this problem."
After Xin finished speaking, Ye Lingling's mind trembled, "Teacher, there really is a way?"
And there are two ways!
"That's right, but both of these methods require paying a huge price."
Xin nodded, "The first method is blood for blood, healing for healing. The Nine Heart Sea is actually an Immortal Herb Spirit. You only need to continuously feed it Immortal Herbs that also possess powerful healing abilities to increase the number of Spirit Masters who simultaneously possess the Nine Heart Sea Spirit from two to three, four..."
"Immortal Herbs? These shouldn't be ordinary things, right?" Ye Lingling only half-understood; she had no concept of Immortal Herbs.
"A single stalk of Immortal Herb is priceless."
Xin used one sentence to make Ye Lingling understand the preciousness of Immortal Herbs.
"Priceless... that's too precious. And needing a continuous supply of Immortal Herbs for feeding even an emperor couldn't afford that, could they? No wonder my ancestors couldn't solve the Spirit inheritance problem."