Dugu Yan had finally obtained the External Soul Bone she wanted. Brimming with delight, she skipped back to her room, eager to enter seclusion and absorb it.
Once she had left, Lu Xuan took the strange fruit from Ye Lingling and walked slowly into the courtyard, carefully burying it in the soil.
Ye Lingling's gaze shifted slightly, and she immediately activated her Martial Soul. The pure, gentle glow of her seven-heart begonia quietly blossomed, slowly enveloping both the nine heart begonia already growing in the courtyard and the newly buried fruit.
Warm, soothing plant vitality seeped through layer after layer of soil, wrapping around the newborn seed.
For a short while, the soil remained utterly ordinary. Neither the fruit nor the begonia showed any unusual changes; everything still lay dormant in silence.
Only when Ye Lingling had completely exhausted her Soul Power did the previously withered nine heart begonia finally give off an exceedingly faint pulse of vitality.
But the change was truly minuscule. To keep stimulating its growth, Ye Lingling would need to remain there for a long time, continuously releasing her Soul Skill to nourish it.
Ye Lingling was quiet by nature and showed no impatience whatsoever. After exhausting her Soul Power, she simply sat beside the begonia and circulated her Nine Yin Inner Power, regulating her breathing and replenishing her reserves.
Once her Soul Power was full again, she resumed releasing her healing power, nourishing the old plant and the fruit buried in the soil.
Watching her happily tend to a single flower and a single seed on her own, Lu Xuan stopped approaching to disturb her and let her devote herself to caring for them.
Lu Xuan approached the various Immortal Herbs and transplanted plant Soul Beasts in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well one