Hearing Lin Xuan speak so solemnly, the curiosity on Yue'er's face grew even stronger. Her beautiful eyes blinked a few times as she waited for Young Master to continue.
"Yue'er, have you ever heard the saying that certain immortal-grade spirit herbs of great age can gain sentience and become spirits?" Lin Xuan began unhurriedly.
"This... this servant has naturally heard of it, but what does that have to do with what's before us?" A trace of doubt appeared on Yue'er's face. So-called immortal-grade spirit herbs were rare enough in this realm, and even in the higher Spirit World, they were absolutely extraordinarily precious things. They could be used to refine spirit medicines with inconceivable effects. Let alone bringing the dead back to life and growing flesh on white bones, it was said they could even easily raise a cultivator's magic power by an entire realm.
Something one could encounter, but never seek.
Lin Xuan nodded. "That's right. It's said immortal-grade spirit herbs have one characteristic: once their age reaches ten thousand years, they can gain sentience and become spirits, cultivating a transformation body whose form is rather similar to a cultivator's Nascent Soul."
"Similar to a Nascent Soul?" Yue'er froze when she heard this and involuntarily looked toward the strange little person in Lin Xuan's hand.
Could it be...
No, that wasn't right. It had clearly leapt out of a blue stone; it had not the slightest relation to spirit herbs.
"I was only making an analogy just now." Lin Xuan took out a jade box from his robes, placed the little person inside, then pasted a restrictive talisman on the surface. Only then did he feel safe enough to put it into his Storage Bag.
"You also know that apart from cultivation, I like to read widely. I once