Over two years, Ning Chen had only developed a preliminary form of the secret method for second awakening.
The crux was still that there were too few children, too few samples. To develop a method for second awakening as soon as possible, he still needed more children.
This was different from how the Body Sect's first sect master had discovered the method for second awakening through a series of accidents.
The Body Sect's first sect master had had no concept of a secret method for second awakening and had obtained it through luck.
Ning Chen had the concept of second awakening, yet his methodical research was actually slower than the Body Sect's first sect master's progress.
Still, Ning Chen believed that, given enough time, he would eventually work out a method for the second awakening of body martial souls.
"Oh, right."
At that moment, Ye Lingling spoke again.
"Was there something else?"
Ning Chen asked in puzzlement.
Although Ye Lingling had often visited the Earl's Residence over the past two years, she never actually stayed particularly long.
This time, she had come to the Earl's Residence every day to help look after the children because he had asked her to.
Now that Ning Chen had returned, by her usual routine, Ye Lingling should have been leaving.
Yet she lingered in the office, hesitant to speak, as though she had something she wanted to tell him.
Ye Lingling did not answer immediately.
Her fingers rubbed lightly together, the tiny movement betraying her inner unrest.
With her usual disposition, she was always crisp and decisive in word and deed, rarely hesitating like this.
"Well." She finally spoke, her voice a little quieter than usual. "My father... would like to meet you."
Ning Chen froze slightly.
He had known Ye Lingling for years