Lin Ke looked in the direction his bloodline pointed him.
In an instant, some power carried his gaze straight through space, revealing a scene.
A speck of golden light fell from the sky infinitely far away, plunging straight into a patch of earth within the Lin Residence.
Then a skeleton broke out of that patch of earth and rose into the air.
The skeleton was battered and broken, with scarcely a single intact bone. Some parts had even weathered and rotted away.
Yet above this seemingly ordinary skeleton, the golden light came to a halt.
Then the golden light flowed down like liquid, seeping into the bones.
As the golden light soaked in, the damage to the entire skeleton slowly healed, and missing fragments of bone grew anew.
At the same time, the entire skeleton began to turn translucent as jade, with radiance flowing through it.
After that, the phantom figure of someone dressed in plain cloth took shape.
The moment Lin Ke saw this phantom, he understood.
This was "Lin Ke's" mother-Lady Lin!
The phantom of Lady Lin's flesh formed over the skeleton, looking exactly as she had before her death.
Her face was gaunt, her eyes sunken, her skin stretched over bone.
She looked like a dried-out corpse wrapped in two scraps of sackcloth.
Lady Lin, who had endured untold suffering, was now having her body reforged because she had been granted the title of first-rank Imperial Patent Lady!
For those posthumously appointed first-rank Imperial Patent Ladies, their bones were fashioned from jade, their flesh condensed from moonlight, and their skin carved from ice essence. They were granted golden bodies that would neither decay nor perish for ten thousand years, sharing the rise and fall of Great Wei's national fortune.
In other words, so long as the Great