"This is..."
"This object is called the Desire Seal."
The Medicine Emperor said, "Within the Sumeru Realm, there is the Desire Realm, the Form Realm, and the Formless Realm. If one day you are able to set foot on the road to the Northern Border, and head to the shattered Sumeru Realm, this object might perhaps prove useful."
"...Mm, I understand."
Yao Wan nodded, then could not help glancing at the Medicine Emperor, her gaze unreadable.
The Medicine Emperor naturally saw through what Yao Wan was thinking at a glance. Now that she had more or less finished explaining the most important matters, the matter weighing on her heart still needed an answer in the end.
"I know what you're thinking."
The Medicine Emperor said, "To you, perhaps making full use of this remnant soul of mine would be a decent choice."
Yao Wan lightly tapped the space between her brows with her fingertip, and an illusory Light Orb slowly separated under the pull of her finger.
That translucent, illusory Light Orb emitted a faint pulse, signifying that this Soul Power, which had slumbered for so long, still retained consciousness.
Only, after that Light Orb left Yao Wan's Supreme Sea, it trembled slightly, like a fish out of water, and began to shrink rapidly, shuddering without end.
"To have made it this far was truly not easy. Very well. Back then, I was a little luckier than they were. Today, in the end, I shall still walk another stretch for those who come after."
The Medicine Emperor held the remnant soul she had left on the Dou Qi Continent in both hands, then slowly placed it against her chest. The increasingly illusory, hazy light merged into her body, and the two different remnant souls gradually fused together.
That gentle light