(An extra burst today—four updates)
The Ghost Beast glanced at Qin Fengming, then rubbed its little claws over its face with an exceedingly humanlike gesture, as though trying to sort out its thoughts. After that, it began transmitting its voice.
For a full half an hour, Qin Fengming sat cross-legged on the stone ground. If not for the occasional flicker of emotion across his face, the glints of light in his eyes, and the fact that he would sometimes move, one might have thought he was meditating in cultivation.
As the little beast before him transmitted its voice, Qin Fengming gradually came to understand its origins.
According to the little beast itself, it had already existed for countless tens of thousands of years. Even it could not explain exactly how long. Before transforming into a little beast, it had merely been a mass of Tai Sui essence soul, and it had remained sealed within the lofty mountain where it had first appeared in the world.
Although it could not clearly explain how long it had existed, a memory that had suddenly appeared in its soul several days ago had made one thing clear: its origin.
It truly was a wisp of essence soul split off by a Tai Sui from the Upper Realm.
Tai Sui was a top-tier existence in the Upper Realm and even the Miro Realm. Yet it was different from humans and the Demon Race. It could not reproduce offspring, and its inheritance followed an entirely different path.
Whenever someone or a Ghost Beast possessing a Young Tai Sui Soul reached a certain level of cultivation, it had to split off several hundred or even a thousand wisps of essence soul once every great epoch-cycle—that was, during the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation that occurred once every ten thousand