"There isn't actually much in the Heavenly Ruins Tomb that needs a Grave Keeper's attention. That's one reason I said you could only stay for a day."
"The other reason is that if you stay inside the Heavenly Ruins Tomb, the Old-Year Pagoda Tree Lord will feed on your memories."
"They say a Grave Keeper once stayed in the Heavenly Ruins Tomb and had his memories consumed without even realizing it, until one day he forgot who he was."
Jiang Wei looked at the towering pagoda tree before them as he explained.
"But the Old-Year Pagoda Tree Lord doesn't just consume memories. He also gives memories back."
"If you're willing, you can place your hands on the Old-Year Pagoda Tree Lord in a moment."
"Then you'll receive a surge of memories from the Old-Year Pagoda Tree Lord. Let go when you can't take it anymore."
Kong Yue looked puzzled.
"A surge of memories? What's the point of doing that?"
Jiang Wei smiled.
"It tempers your soul body. The more of the memory surge you withstand, the better the tempering effect."
"But you can only do it once a month at most. Do it too often, and you won't be able to tell which memories are yours and which belong to other people."
"You could call it a special perk for the Eastern Mausoleum's Grave Keepers."
Kong Yue's eyes lit up when she heard it could strengthen her soul body.
The Kong Family also had methods for strengthening the soul body, but the longer one used a single tempering method, the less effective it became.
So, in many cases, another method of tempering the soul body meant another way to speed up its improvement.
"We just touch him?"
"Yes, just touch him. If I notice anything wrong with you, I'll intervene.