One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

【Previously, due to breaking through in cultivation, the trait tag slots had become more spacious.】

【You equipped the ”Human Body Detector.”】

【This trait allows you to see others’ immortal roots, physiques, souls, luck, and other talent related to immortal cultivation.】

【In your eyes, Chen Yue indeed possesses a special soul, the ”Nine Heavens Soul Spirit” that the Free and Unfettered God once told you about.】

【Of course, the Free and Unfettered God himself didn’t know about this; it was the Red River Nether King who told him when he came to take Chen Yue away from the human world.】

【Now, here’s the problem.】

【Those four characters, ”Nine Heavens Soul Spirit,” you’ve seen them somewhere else before.】

【”Dad! Just tell me already!”】

【”Oh dear, Xiaoyue! I’ve already said I can’t say it. This is a matter of grave importance. It’s better if you don’t know, especially since you’re such a big mouth!”】

【”Nonsense! I’ve never told any outsider anything about the Torch Society!”】【”Yes, yes, then pray tell, how did your secret base and your identity get exposed?”】

【”There must be a traitor!”】

【That’s right, this person chattering away is none other than Ji Wuqing!】

【”Special souls are extremely rare. If not for Second Sister, those Martial Gods in the human world wouldn’t even know such things exist...”】

【Even now in the Real Realm, with your ”Human Body Detector” running every day, you still haven’t seen a third person besides Chen Yue and Ji Wuqing who possesses a special soul.】

【The ”Human Body Detector’s” description of ”Nine Heavens Soul Spirit” is only a few short words: Above the nine heavens, a soul bound by destiny.】

【You can’t discern the specific meaning at all.】

【But you figure that Ghost Cultivators should understand it, otherwise, the Red River Nether King wouldn’t have gone to such great lengths to bring Second Sister up from the human world.】

【Although you don’t know the specific meaning, you couldn’t help but associate it with something.】

【”Celestial Empress, Tianhuo Xuan Nu...”】

【Previously on the Blazing Star, you learned this from the items obtained in the Celestial Empress’s cenotaph.】

【After the Celestial Empress died a natural death, she used the secret technique ”Slash Three Souls” to disperse her three souls, each reincarnating in different times and spaces.】

【Once the three souls are reborn and reunited, and all master the ”Merge Three Souls” spell corresponding to ”Slash Three Souls,” they can merge back into one, allowing the original owner to be reborn!】

【”Is there a possibility that this ’Nine Heavens Soul Spirit’ refers to one of Tianhuo Xuan Nu’s three souls?”】

【Moreover, coincidentally, the Celestial Emperor’s inheritance that Tianhuo Xuan Nu cultivated is called ”Heavenly Maiden Nine Transformations.”】

【”Nine Heavens Soul Spirit... Heavenly Maiden Nine Transformations... It can’t actually be true, right... If it is...”】

【Your own second sister and Ji Wuqing are, in a sense, the same person!】

【Although as long as they never cultivate ”Merge Three Souls,” they can never become the same person.】

【But...】

【The possibility still exists!】

【At this moment, you only feel a wave of relief.】

【Good thing you never surrendered your defenses during the hundred years Ji Wuqing was chasing after you.】

【Otherwise, if the Celestial Empress were to one day reappear in the world, wouldn’t you be mortified?】

【There’s one point you can’t figure out.】

【Ji Wuqing is in the Real Realm, so it’s not strange that she could be the reincarnation of one of the Celestial Empress’s souls.】

【But Second Sister was clearly born in the Void Realm!】

【And strictly speaking, she’s also a descendant of an Artifact Spirit’s reincarnation.】

【How could she become one third of the Celestial Empress?】

【”Maybe I’m overthinking it...”】

【Even if your speculation is correct, with one of the three souls still missing, the Celestial Empress still can’t be reborn.】

【But this incident has solidified your resolve: you can’t take off the ”Human Body Detector” from now on. You’ll keep it equipped at all times. Who knows, maybe one day you’ll spot that third person!】

【”If I can find all three souls and have them all cultivate ’Merge Three Souls,’ wouldn’t our human Celestial Emperor be able to reappear in the world? Then how would the Alien Races still be able to act so smug? They can all go mining for me!”】

【Ji Wuqing saw your eyes angled upward at forty-five degrees, your mouth stretched ear to ear, and curiously leaned in.】

【”What are you grinning about like an idiot? And why does your gaze look so lecherous?”】

【”Nonsense! My gaze is perfectly pure!”】

【The three of you spent some time in the underground cavern.】

【Before long.】

【A white light shone in from somewhere unknown.】

【An old man’s figure appeared faintly within the radiance.】

【”Ji Baiming.”】

【The old man’s figure spoke.】

【”Junior Ji Baiming pays respects to the ancestor.”】

【Ji Baiming motioned for Ji Wuqing to come over and pay her respects.】

【But the old man raised his hand.】

【”No need. I’m not from the Ji family. My surname is Zhang, given name Beihai.”】

【Ji Wuqing was shocked.】

【”Zhang Beihai?! The Light Feather Immortal King who, a thousand years ago, fought three Holy Dragon Clan Immortal Kings on Jueluo Star, shattering it to dust?!”】

【The old man chuckled.】

【”No need to dwell on past glories. I’m just an old man tending crops in the Secluded Village now. This time, the Peace Bureau has hunted you to the point of desperation. The Secluded Village can offer you temporary refuge. But before entering the village, we must agree on three rules...”】

【Zhang Beihai told you.】

【The Secluded Village is a place of retreat, located on the Vermilion Violet Star.】

【Although the Alien Races never say it openly, everyone knows they will never allow humans to produce Immortal Kings.】

【Whenever a human reaches the Immortal King realm, they will constantly find all kinds of excuses to harass and suppress them, eventually eliminating them.】

【Humans who cultivate to the Immortal King level all know this in their hearts.】

【Of course, some refuse to accept it and choose to fight back.】

【But in the end, they discover that the Alien Races’ rule is deeply entrenched. Their experts are countless; kill one batch and another appears. There’s no end to the fighting.】

【So there’s another option.】

【Seclusion.】

【This causes one to socially vanish, but it also reduces countless troubles, even the danger of death.】

【The Secluded Village is home to such people. They have Immortal Kings and Immortal Lords, living under assumed identities, rising with the sun and resting with its set, living just like ordinary mortals.】

【However, merely living like a mortal doesn’t mean the Alien Races will leave you alone.】

【The most crucial point is to seal your own cultivation.】

【”Once your cultivation is sealed, you’ll be no different from ordinary mortals inside and out. No matter who comes to investigate, the results will be the same. But rest assured, this sealing has no effect on your actual cultivation whatsoever. As soon as you begin cultivating again, or channel power to cast techniques, your cultivation will immediately return. The one thing the Secluded Village asks of you is this: absolutely no use of any immortal arts within the village, no matter the circumstances. If you can accept this condition, the Secluded Village will allow you to take refuge here.”】

【Having a place to lie low and weather the storm beats everything else.】

【All three of you agreed.】

【Then, this old man, who was who-knows-where, cast a spell on the three of you from who-knows-how-far-away, sealing your cultivation.】

【Immediately after, the white light transformed into a long luminous path beneath the earth, stretching toward the distant reaches.】

【”Follow this path all the way, and you’ll reach the Secluded Village.”】