Hearing Tian Meng Ice Silkworm's words, Shen Hanyu slightly frowned and secretly glanced a few times at the young girl slowly walking over from not far away, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Seeing that Shen Hanyu hadn't responded for a long time, Tian Meng Ice Silkworm turned its head and discovered that Shen Hanyu had already fallen into deep thought while stroking his chin.
"Hanyu? Hanyu? Hey, hey, hey, Hanyu, stop thinking, the person is almost here..."
Shen Hanyu casually let out an "oh," then seemed to suddenly remember something.
"Tian Meng, you're saying that the girl just now and the Soul Douluo in the Great Fighting Soul Arena both have reactions of life energy?"
Tian Meng nodded and said:
"Indeed, it's the reaction of life energy, just like the life energy carried by the Emerald Swan clan, but much gentler. In my opinion, their martial souls should be a type of your human plant-system martial souls, and of very high quality."
After a pause, as if organizing its words, it waited until the black-skirted girl had walked far away before continuing:
"I don't know what's going on either. When I scanned those two people's bodies with my mental power, I discovered a trace of strange energy in their origins, coiled around their so-called life and martial souls. Although it won't endanger their cultivation or anything like that, but..."
Shen Hanyu raised an eyebrow. With a high level of mental power, one could indeed discover many things that ordinary people couldn't, and Tian Meng was such an example.
As for him, it was purely intuition. After all, besides the ice attribute, the Cold Heaven Spear also carried thick killing intent. This killing intent wasn't evil; it was vast and grand like the killing intent of Sword Douluo's Seven Kill Sword, carrying a sense of justice and having a unique sensitivity to certain things.
"But what? Is there a problem?"
Tian Meng racked its brains for a long time before saying:
"It's just... it will affect their normal reproductive ability. In other words... people with this martial soul can only have a maximum of two existing at a time, otherwise that strange energy inside their bodies will be triggered, leading to a tragic death..."
"Rather than calling it a restriction, it's more like... a curse..."
Listening to Tian Meng Ice Silkworm's words, Shen Hanyu slightly narrowed his eyes and suddenly recalled a character from the original story.
Top-tier plant-system martial soul, female, good talent, only two can coexist in a generation, bearing a curse...
This was none other than Ye Lingling and her grandfather.
Ye Lingling's grandfather was named Ye Renxin, with the martial soul Nine Heart Begonia. His cultivation had reached the Soul Douluo level. He had been traveling the continent for years, saving lives and healing the injured, having saved a terrifying number of people. He was renowned across the continent and hailed by many as the number one divine doctor of Douluo.
Of course, he earned this title with good reason. The terrifying healing ability of the Nine Heart Begonia was unmatched in the world. As long as a Nine Heart Begonia soul master was present, dying became a luxury.
Ning Fengzhi once praised the Nine Heart Begonia as a "miracle" among Douluo martial souls.
This was also a laughable matter. The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's suppression of the Nine Heart Begonia family had rarely stopped. If not for the fact that only two Nine Heart Begonia soul masters could exist in a generation, it would truly be uncertain whose family the title of the number one support-system martial soul on the continent would belong to now.
Even so, the Nine Heart Begonia family faced considerable suppression. Ye Renxin traveled the world practicing medicine, also for this reason to pave the way for his granddaughter, just like Dugu Bo, hoping to make her future life more comfortable...
However, Ye Renxin traveled year-round, and the grandfather and granddaughter rarely saw each other for years. Now that they were both in Ha Root Das City at the same time, it was likely a long-awaited reunion.
"Alright, Tian Meng, stop guessing blindly. Their martial soul is the Nine Heart Begonia, a heaven-defying martial soul that indeed carries a strange curse. But it has nothing to do with us. Moreover, the other party's grandfather is a greatly renowned benevolent person on the continent. Offending them would mean offending everyone he has ever saved."
Shen Hanyu explained, glancing at Ye Lingling, who wore a black veil, a hint of appreciation in his eyes.
Though Ye Lingling was still young and wore a veil, she was already an icy and stunning little beauty.
As they passed each other, Shen Hanyu even caught a faint, elusive orchid fragrance from her, truly refreshing and captivating...
Shen Hanyu believed he had controlled himself very well, but Ye Lingling still paused slightly in her steps. However, she quickly returned to normal, hurrying toward the Great Fighting Soul Arena without even glancing at Shen Hanyu.
"Was I discovered? What sharp perception..."
Shen Hanyu muttered to himself and continued walking forward.
Tian Meng looked at Ye Lingling's retreating figure and said thoughtfully:
"Hanyu, this little girl has a pretty good skull bone on her, with a year limit of at least thirty to fifty thousand years. It just emitted a mental fluctuation earlier, which allowed it to vaguely detect us. But my mental power is tens of thousands of times stronger than hers, so you don't need to worry."
Shen Hanyu nodded in some surprise. A skull bone of thirty to fifty thousand years—even the upper three sects probably didn't have many. For a minor noble family like the Ye family to possess one...
Tsk tsk, a family with ten thousand years of inheritance truly wasn't simple.
After casually sighing a few times, Shen Hanyu quickly found a large and comfortable carriage, paid the coachman fifty gold soul coins, and set off at full speed out of Ha Root Das City, heading toward Element City.
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After leaving Ha Root Das City.
Watching the scenery outside the window gradually change from deep green to light green, Shen Hanyu chatted idly with Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, one sentence here and there.
The carriage compartment was enveloped by Tian Meng Ice Silkworm's mental power, so no one outside could detect even the slightest sound. It was very quiet and private.
The Ha Root Das Kingdom had many mountains and plains, and the main road to Element City was naturally built among towering mountains and ridges. Several bridges even spanned deep valleys; one wrong step meant falling into a ten-thousand-zhang abyss. People with a fear of heights probably wouldn't even want to look; it was truly frightening.
The areas around this road were filled with mountains and forests, with a fair number of soul beasts. However, they were mostly ten- or hundred-year-old small fry that rarely dared to attack humans. There were no bandit groups like wolf thieves either, making it much safer than other places.
Feeling the gradually dropping temperature, Shen Hanyu finally perked up a bit. No matter where he was, sometimes being tired and slacking off was what he enjoyed most.
Unfortunately, happiness was always short-lived. After resting for a while, he had to get up and meditate to cultivate, striving to break through to Soul Sage as soon as possible. Now was not the time to slack off.
As for Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, who tirelessly stared out the window at the scenery with great enjoyment, Shen Hanyu couldn't help but admire it a little. In the original story, wasn't it supposed to have a lazy personality? He hadn't seen the laziness, but the slacking vibe was quite strong.
According to Tian Meng's own words:
If you can live, then live with effort. If you really can't live anymore, then think about other things.
Those words made a lot of sense. For a soul beast like it that only knew how to eat, drink, and sleep, it was simply a golden saying, like a life creed for beasts planning out an entire lifetime from birth to death...