Origins of the Divine Clan, Earth Shaking and Heavens Roaring

The Heart Demon moved with his thoughts, his perception spreading outward. Before long, it reached the well, where he discovered two people carrying Heart Demon seeds.

They were, astonishingly, two elderly men. Frail and collapsed beside the well, neither seemed clearly alive or dead. Within their consciousnesses, faint shadows drifted about, giving off a summons that drew Qiu Yan in—

These two were clearly ordinary herdsmen, but their ancestors might once have been extraordinary. By their generation, however, they had plainly faded into the common crowd. Their wills were also exceedingly weak; unlike that Sword Saint, they could not seal off their inner worlds and prevent the seeds from leaking out, sparing Qiu Yan some trouble.

I left behind quite a few seeds back then. These two may be descendants of someone from the Lianxi Tribe. After several centuries of inheritance, the seeds happened to pass down into a fallen branch. With that thought, Qiu Yan's perception slowly merged into their consciousnesses and began to make contact with the two seeds, fusing with them.

Though the Heart Demon seeds Qiu Yan had left behind dwelled in human hearts, without his direction they could not divide on their own. They could only be passed down through the host's bloodline. Specifically, after the current host declined and died, the seeds would automatically transfer through the connections of blood and temperament into the bodies of related descendants.

Thus, the inheritance of a single seed was generally limited to one bloodline, usually among the host's descendants. Of those many descendants, only one could receive the inheritance. Yet while this inheritance seemed somewhat arbitrary, it followed a certain pattern. Anyone chosen to host a seed was bound to possess something exceptional. This did not show in aptitude, but in the heart.

The Heart Demon itself