Chapter 220: Ah Yin Sprouts—Researching the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline
In the drawing room.
Huo Wu pressed the Ten-thousand-Year Immolation Flame Right Arm Bone against her right arm. After injecting her Soul Power into it, the Soul Bone instantly transformed into a mass of golden-red light and merged into her arm, radiating a dazzling glow.
In the next moment, Huo Wu immediately sensed a torrent of powerful Soul Power being released from the Ten-thousand-Year Immolation Flame Right Arm Bone, surging into her body without end.
After meditating and refining it for a while, Huo Wu's rank smoothly broke through from Rank 43 Spirit Ancestor to Rank 46 Spirit Ancestor!
Having now fully fused with the Ten-thousand-Year Immolation Flame Right Arm Bone and recognizing Ye Yu as her master—just like Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong—Ye Yu also intended to grant Huo Wu an External Spirit Bone: Demon Willow Fluff, and teach her how to cultivate Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Thus, when Huo Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang were preparing to leave, Ye Yu kept Huo Wu behind.
He then took out an External Spirit Bone: Demon Willow Fluff and gave it to her.
With his cultivation growing stronger, the mother body of the Demon Willow Fluff was now able to produce more clones.
Currently, Ye Yu had successfully created 22 Demon Willow Fluff spirit bones, having already distributed one each to his grandfather Dugu Bo, Ling Zhantian, and Ye Zhilan.
"Thank you, Master!"
After learning about the abilities of the Demon Willow Fluff—being able to store Soul Power and greatly accelerate healing—Huo Wu was overjoyed and immediately fused it with her body.
Later, Zhu Zhuqing was instructed to personally guide Huo Wu in locating the acupoints on her body. This would later allow her to train in the Mysterious Heaven Skill and learn the secret arts of the Tang Sect using the meridians extended from the Demon Willow Fluff.
Time quickly passed over the next few days.
Though there was now one more frequent guest in the Dugu Mansion—Huo Wu—since she hadn't yet fully grasped the acupoint and meridian structure from Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Yu's daily cultivation schedule remained unaffected.
Then suddenly, one day—
Ye Yu discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor seed he had planted in the Blue Silver Domain had sprouted!
"She finally sprouted!"
Summoning several Blue Silver Jade Tree Martial Souls, which had already partially taken physical form, Ye Yu entered the Blue Silver Domain. There, he saw a tiny seedling poking out of the soil—like a freshly sprouted soybean, but translucent like blue crystal and etched with golden patterns.
Ye Yu smiled with satisfaction and once again took out an External Spirit Bone: Demon Willow Fluff, which he then implanted into the young sprout of Ah Yin's Blue Silver Emperor body.
Controlling the Demon Willow Fluff, he began releasing the refined Soul Power and life force it had absorbed.
However, to his surprise, Ah Yin's nascent body resisted the absorption and refinement of the power and vitality released by the Demon Willow Fluff.
Ye Yu furrowed his brow.
"Lady Ah Yin, I suggest you cooperate. Absorb the Soul Power and life force my Demon Willow Fluff provides. Reach ten-thousand-year cultivation as soon as possible, then return to human form."
"Otherwise... I'm sure you wouldn't want anything to happen to your dear husband Tang Hao, or your son Tang San, would you?"
Faced with Ye Yu's cold threat—
Deep within her just-sprouted body, Ah Yin's heart filled with sorrow and helplessness. But for Tang Hao and Tang San's sake, she had no choice but to comply.
She began absorbing and refining the Soul Power and life force released by the Demon Willow Fluff.
Inside the Blue Silver Domain—
As the absorption continued, Ah Yin's Blue Silver Emperor body rapidly grew. From its sprout-like form, it soon took the shape of a slender, vine-like sapling resembling the second stage evolution of Ye Yu's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, the Blue Silver Vine.
After several more days of absorption and cultivation—
Her form finally matured back into a towering tree-like Blue Silver Emperor, with a trunk woven from countless strands of blue crystal-like vines—her full ten-thousand-year form.
"Time to take human form again."
Now that Ah Yin's cultivation had returned to the ten-thousand-year level, Ye Yu gave the order with evident satisfaction.
Obeying Ye Yu's command, the massive Blue Silver Emperor released a dazzling blue-silver light and transformed into a giant cocoon of blue silver light. Inside the Blue Silver Domain, the cocoon pulsed and shimmered.
After a few more days—
A crack formed on the surface of the cocoon.
Fractures spread like spiderwebs across its shell until it suddenly burst into countless specks of blue-silver light.
Where the cocoon had once been, a tall and graceful woman now stood—clad in an elegant blue-silver gown, voluptuous and curvaceous, with long, flowing blue-silver hair, fair skin like jade, and delicate, refined features. Her expression was gentle, though tinged with sorrow.
Her deep blue-silver eyes held nothing but melancholy and grievance.
"Lady Ah Yin, it's a pleasure to see you again."
Ye Yu smiled like a gentleman, raising a hand in a gesture of invitation.
"Let's step outside. I'll need your cooperation once more."
Leading Ah Yin out of the Blue Silver Domain, Ye Yu returned to a remote forest clearing beyond Heaven Dou City.
Though he had already studied the self-generated Spirit Ring process of a ten-thousand-year spirit beast after human transformation once before, he still hadn't fully unraveled how Soul Skills were encoded into the rings.
He understood how the Soul Power and life force formed the ring—but the generation of the Spirit Ability itself remained unclear.
He needed to observe it again.
In a clearing deep in the forest—
Ah Yin sat cross-legged on a patch of grass, beginning the process of generating her first Spirit Ring anew, as instructed.
With her husband and son's lives hanging in the balance, she had no choice. Even with bitterness in her heart, she could only comply.
Through the Demon Willow Fluff implanted in her body, Ye Yu once again sensed the sealed ten-thousand-year Soul Power and life force within her being redirected—some of it flowing along specific meridians, condensing into a ring shape.
As the ring solidified, strands of Blue Silver Emperor bloodline power were transmuted into a special kind of imprinting force—similar to data being written to a disc.
Previously, Ye Yu hadn't understood how the bloodline power acted like a recording medium for Spirit Abilities.
But now, having begun his own exploration into the nature of blood energy and creating his original Spirit Ability: Dominating Heaven!, which fused blood essence and spiritual force, he finally grasped it.