"Can you lift the curse brought by the nine heart begonia martial soul?"
Just as Ji Yang had expected, almost the instant Ye Lingling heard this, she turned to him with widened eyes, her expression brimming with excitement.
The curse of the nine heart begonia martial soul was an eternal wound for her clan, one that had cost her her closest loved ones.
Now that there was a chance to escape this curse, how could she not be tempted?
Of course, she could not simply take Ji Yang at his word.
After all, the curse of the nine heart begonia martial soul was an ultimate conundrum that was all but impossible to solve.
Throughout the ages, the Ye Family had tried every conceivable method to resolve it, but all their efforts had ultimately come to nothing.
For a little brat like Ji Yang to claim he had a solution naturally left her somewhat skeptical.
But remembering that Ji Yang could coexist peacefully with a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, Ye Lingling felt that he did possess some "extraordinary powers."
Perhaps Ji Yang really did have a way?
If such a "miracle" truly existed, what harm would there be in joining Ji Yang's faction?
In fact, it need not be just her.
Even if he asked their small, solitary Ye Family to join him in its entirety, her grandfather would surely have no objections. More likely than not, he would gladly agree.
"I can! Even if I'm not a hundred percent certain, I'm at least seventy or eighty percent confident."
Ji Yang nodded as he spoke.
His claim of seventy or eighty percent confidence might have sounded somewhat conservative, but it actually contained a measure of his own "uncertainty."
That was because his proposed method of breaking the nine heart begonia martial soul's curse was to use the aromatic silk beauty from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to evolve Ye Lingling's nine heart begonia, attempting to remedy her martial soul's flaws and release the shackles it bore.
Once Ye Lingling's Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul evolved, the Ye Family's hereditary martial soul would also change.
As long as they could pass down Ye Lingling's evolved martial soul, the curse upon the Ye Family's Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul would naturally crumble without a fight.
However, the curse brought by the Ye Family's Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul did not necessarily stem from a "flaw" in the martial soul itself.
The shackles inherent to the Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul sounded more like a restriction imposed by the Heaven and Earth Rules, or a counterbalance the Heaven and Earth Laws placed upon the martial soul itself.
If that was the case, the abilities of the immortal herb aromatic silk beauty clearly would not be enough to break the nine heart begonia martial soul's curse.
That was why he said he was only seventy or eighty percent confident.
And the reason he still claimed seventy or eighty percent confidence rather than an even fifty-fifty chance was that he had another backup plan, whose prospects he had also factored in.
This backup plan also involved Martial Soul Evolution, but rather than the refining, flaw-mending evolution brought about by aromatic silk beauty, he would use an evolution through mutation.
In other words, he would induce a mutation in the nine heart begonia martial soul, attempting to indirectly circumvent the curse's effects upon it.
There were so many unusual plant soul beasts on the Douluo Continent. Surely one of them stood on the same level as nine heart begonia and could induce a further beneficial mutation in its martial soul.
And if even that failed to circumvent the nine heart begonia martial soul's curse, he would have to intervene personally after becoming a god.
He believed a deity's power should be enough to break this curse.
Surely the power of the nine heart begonia martial soul's curse could not rival the supreme cosmic consciousness capable of affecting even the Dragon God, a Supreme God King?
"Seventy or eighty percent?"
Ye Lingling murmured.
Those odds were quite high.
Provided, of course, that Ji Yang was not lying.
She tried looking straight into Ji Yang's eyes, and all she seemed to see was confidence.
So Ji Yang really was that confident he could do it?
I'll take the gamble!
Ye Lingling decided to stake her hopes on it!
"I'm willing to join your faction, as long as you can break the curse brought by our nine heart begonia martial soul!"
Ye Lingling drew a deep breath, then spoke with resolve.
"You've made the right choice!"
Ji Yang suddenly laughed aloud.
Ye Lingling's choice did not surprise him.
Even if he had claimed only twenty or thirty percent confidence, Ye Lingling might still have been willing to take the gamble.
Let alone seventy or eighty percent!
"Yes!"
Ye Lingling nodded in response.
Her heart was full of anticipation, hoping Ji Yang truly could accomplish it.
"Don't worry. Xiao Yang will definitely be able to do it. After all, he's an inheritor chosen by a deity!"
Meeting Ye Lingling's gaze, which held both sorrow and hope, Xiao Wu offered words of comfort and encouragement.
"A deity's inheritor!?"
Ye Lingling's eyes flew wide open.
The look she gave Ji Yang grew even more incredulous.
Was this the key, the secret behind Ji Yang's ability to coexist peacefully with a hundred-thousand-year soul beast?
If so, no wonder!
At that thought, Ye Lingling's gaze toward Ji Yang grew even more fervent.
Now she believed even more strongly that Ji Yang could accomplish it.
She had no doubts whatsoever about Ji Yang's identity as a "deity's inheritor."
"Heehee-"
Xiao Wu had no idea what Ye Lingling was thinking. Seeing how stunned she was by Ji Yang's identity as a deity's inheritor, Xiao Wu merely giggled with a hint of smugness.
Anyone who did not know better might have thought she was the so-called "deity's inheritor."
"Here!"
Ji Yang paid no mind to Xiao Wu's "revelation." Once Ye Lingling declared her willingness to join, he offered her the Life Sunflower Soul Spirit Pill.
"What is this?"
Ye Lingling looked curiously at the unfamiliar pill in Ji Yang's hand.
She did not think it was poison, but she was still rather curious about its effects.
Surely this pill alone couldn't break the curse of her nine heart begonia martial soul?
"This is a Soul Spirit Pill, refined from a soul beast. Once you absorb it, you'll possess a soul spirit. A soul spirit can not only provide you with multiple soul rings, but also fight alongside you."
"For a nine heart begonia soul master like you, that second function is even more valuable than it is for other soul masters, because it might retain its own soul skills rather than having them assimilated into the nine heart begonia martial soul's sole soul skill-Group Healing!"
Ji Yang explained.
His latter claim was also a conjecture.
Although the nine heart begonia martial soul assimilated the soul skills of every soul ring into its sole soul skill, Group Healing, absorbing a soul spirit might produce a different result.
The only soul skill the nine heart begonia soul master herself could use might still be Group Healing, but the soul spirit could retain its own soul skills and use them independently in battle.
"How amazing! Could it be formed from a soul beast's soul?"
Ye Lingling was astonished.
Although she felt a little disappointed that this pill could not break the nine heart begonia martial soul's curse, the heaven-defying effects of the Soul Spirit Pill still left her deeply shaken.
For a nine heart begonia soul master like her in particular, if a soul spirit really could fight alongside her while retaining its own soul skills, then she, a healing-type soul master, would not only be much safer but would also possess considerable combat ability.
In this respect, the same would hold true for other healing-type or support-type soul masters.
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