Ye Daotai watched me disappear and hurriedly called out, "My lord! There's one more matter!"
I impatiently drifted back into view and asked, "What is it?"
"My lord, you must be looking after Lingyi of Eastview Mountain and Jian Beitang of North Hall Sword Dao, right?" Ye Daotai asked with a beaming smile.
I nodded. "They're both my Dao Ghosts. How could I mistreat them?"
"That goes without saying. Over the years, by bearing your fortune, we've all acquired powerful Heavenly Dao lineages. But we've discovered a problem. As your strength grows, the number of lineage inheritances keeps multiplying. The probability of the three of us being summoned accounts for nearly ninety percent. Although this benefits us as well, your forces are ultimately a little too thin. Moreover, when facing different battle environments, your inheritors can summon only one of us, and sometimes we simply cannot provide the perfect countermeasure. As a result, your lineage inheritors often use this trump card to save themselves, only to still be beaten to death by the enemy with ease..." Ye Daotai suddenly became solemn.
"What did you say? My lineage inheritors can still be beaten to death so easily? Do I have no dignity?" I knitted my brows. "Hmph, that's fine. I actually noticed this problem long ago. Do you have any good suggestions?"
"It wouldn't exactly be a suggestion, but I think you certainly want to develop more powerful Dao Ghosts of different types and spread them throughout your lineage. Over these hundred thousand years, Daotai has made quite a few friends whose strength is close to that of Lingyi and Jian Beitang. If they could become subordinate Dao Ghosts under you, your lineage would be substantially more solid." Ye Daotai made his proposal.
"Then, according to you, how many Dao Ghosts