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That night, Chen Hong was curled up in his little blanket, once again holding up his soul ring and staring at it with wide eyes.

Whoosh.

The foolish beautiful girl appeared outside Chen Hong's door once more.

Chen Hong looked up at the girl outside. From her initial shyness and fear to gradually becoming accustomed to this, her clear, pristine pale-purple eyes had remained unchanged. He greeted her familiarly, "I really do need your help nourishing my meridians today. Come on, come on."

"Huh?" Ye Lingling had expected Chen Hong to fool her again and send her back empty-handed. At his words, her eyes froze. For some reason, along with the joy of finally completing her task, she also felt a faint sense of loss.

"Come on, come on. That foolish old man of mine screwed me over badly today. If I didn't still have use for him lately, I'd have reported him to Mother and made him wake up to his lowly place in the family."

Chen Hong lay facedown on the bed, leaving his back to Ye Lingling. Having their eyes meet was a little awkward.

Ye Lingling walked softly to Chen Hong's side and knelt on the blanket. Pink-and-white begonia tendrils curled out from around her fair wrist, then pressed against Chen Hong's back along with her small hand, making him feel a gentle, soft warmth.

Chen Hong understood that things should not happen more than three times. If he kept fooling Ye Lingling, it would be going too far.

"I might be rather busy over the next few days, but if you're willing, I can teach you the secrets of Comprehending Soul Rings whenever you're free at night." With his face buried in the soft pillow, Chen Hong spoke to the silent girl beside him, who was quietly nourishing his meridians.

"Who wants to come looking for you in the middle of the night?! I'm exhausted every day, okay? Aunt Ning has already had me prescribing medicine for patients. I'm busy every day." Ye Lingling said with a somewhat angry huff, though she realized that she did not seem all that opposed to it inside.

"Ah, all right. You've worked hard, Sister Lingling." After being nourished by the life force of the Nine Heart Begonia, Chen Hong thanked Ye Lingling, whose Soul Power had been completely depleted after finishing the treatment.

Ye Lingling prepared to get up and leave, but her legs had gone numb from kneeling for too long. Unable to steady herself, she toppled onto Chen Hong's back.

"Ah!"

Chen Hong: "..."

"Since you're already here, why not start Comprehending Soul Rings with me today? You fell asleep yesterday and didn't hear anything." Thinking there was no night like tonight, Chen Hong simply rolled over, caught the adorably flushed Ye Lingling, made room for her under the blanket, then took her small hand and used his Mental Power to let her sense the flow of Soul Power within the soul ring.

Chen Hong could independently sense a small amount of Soul Power flowing within a soul ring thanks to his Spirit Martial Soul. For Ye Lingling to independently sense her soul ring, it could not merely be called difficult—it was as hard as ascending to heaven.

Therefore, only under Chen Hong's spiritual guidance could Ye Lingling slowly sense the fleeting fluctuations of Soul Power inside the soul ring. The process was undoubtedly slow and time-consuming, requiring Chen Hong's guidance throughout. Only after fully getting started could she comprehend it independently.

In a sense, what Chen Hong was doing now was creating a Self-Created Soul Skill. Once he truly removed the restrictions of a soul ring, the soul skill within it would truly become his own. Chen Hong had not realized this yet. He was only consciously exploring the underlying logic of this world according to his terrifying intuition.

"Feel the flow of Soul Power. Don't try to remember it all at once. Soul Power completes one full cycle within the soul ring. Each time, only remember a single point."

"This tests your perseverance. Although I can't promise you anything right now, some of my current research tells me that this will definitely benefit both of us for the rest of our lives."

"If one day you can hear the sound of Soul Power flowing on your own, that will prove you've entered the door."

Chen Hong's words seemed strangely hypnotic. Ye Lingling listened along with him for only a short while before feeling mentally exhausted. Before she knew it, she had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Hmm." Chen Hong looked at the girl who had fallen asleep again, then examined the several new black dots that had appeared in the 3D Engravings within his mind and fell into thought. He suddenly realized that the process of Comprehending Soul Rings seemed to consume a great deal of Mental Power. Ye Lingling, who lacked talent in Mental Power, could not sustain it for long before drifting off in a daze.

"...So Father and Mother can't use it for now." Chen Hong looked at the girl's adorable profile and sighed inwardly. Ever since he discovered that Soul Power could be fired out through a certain operational logic to produce soul skills with different effects, he had realized that the rules of this world differed from the World Rules of his previous life. It was like playing a game and suddenly inputting a command—up, down, up, down, BABA—and conjuring a tank out of thin air.

He could sense that Comprehending Soul Rings and imprinting the Soul Seals within them—or perhaps Energy Engravings, whatever they were—would definitely benefit people. Having Ye Lingling attempt it with him was also Chen Hong's way of seeing whether this was universally applicable. Depending on the results, he could apply the more complete technique to Mother and help her ascend to heaven sooner—ptui! Help her break through to a higher realm sooner.

Then Chen Hong could benefit from it as well. After all, he was the most talentless cultivator in their family. Mother had the best cultivation talent, belonging to the rank of a Commoner Genius. If he gave Mother a little push, perhaps he could personally create an artificial peerless genius? Let Mother experience a second spring in life?

As he thought, Chen Hong unknowingly fell asleep with his head pressed against Ye Lingling's. He seemed to have a dream. In it, Mother carried a gigantic Nine-Colored Gourd as tall as a person on her back. With her back to all living beings, she stood alone against eternity, shattering starry rivers with her fists and suppressing nine abysses with her feet, all to find a hundred million daughters-in-law in the mortal world?!! Holy crap! What the hell was that?!!

Abruptly awakened by the nightmare, Chen Hong snapped open his eyes, filled with terror. The dim gray dawn outside the window shone on his face, slowly dispelling the fear that had lingered there for so long.

It was not that he feared Mother finding him daughters-in-law in the dream. Why were there so many??? Did she really have to empty out all of the Nine Heavens Ten Realms that ruthlessly??

Opening his eyes, Chen Hong saw the foolish girl instinctively hugging his arm in her sleep. A trace of panic flashed through his black eyes. He instantly flung away the foolish girl's little hand, then, amid her slowly waking, dazed expression, dressed himself and fled in haste.

Only that evening, after escaping the nightmare's influence amid the complicated process of resetting and upgrading the Soul Engine, did Chen Hong return home as usual.

Guiding the girl in Comprehending Soul Rings, tightening proper screws, Chen Hong's life passed quickly between those two points until Bishop Suotuo arrived.