"By comparison, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul really pales into insignificance. Even the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda can't compare to your sacred heart begonia, Lingling!"
Ji Yang shared that opinion and was just as deeply astonished.
For every soul ring it possessed, the sacred heart begonia came with an additional ability. That was far too overpowered, beyond anything the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda or even the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could match.
In fact, this simply wasn't a martial soul that should exist in this world.
If Ning Fengzhi learned of Ye Lingling's sacred heart begonia martial soul, he would probably spare no expense to kill her and silence her, or take her back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a breeding tool, making her continually bear descendants with that martial soul for the sect.
That wasn't the slightest exaggeration.
"Is this the tremendous benefit the nine heart begonia gains once its curse is lifted?"
Ji Yang was filled with wonder.
After all, the abilities of the nine heart begonia martial soul alone were enough to make the heavens "jealous," prompting them to lay a corresponding curse upon it.
The abilities of the sacred heart begonia martial soul simply defied imagination. By rights, the world should never have tolerated its existence.
"Oh, come on, you're exaggerating!"
Ye Lingling was a little embarrassed by their praise.
But deep down, she felt immensely proud and delighted.
If her grandfather learned of her sacred heart begonia martial soul now, he would probably be so shocked that he fell prostrate in awe.
"Hmm?"
As Ye Lingling was thinking this, a faintly surprised voice sounded within a forest somewhere in the Divine Realm.
This was the Forest of Life, the domain of the Life God King, also known as the Goddess of Life, one of the Divine Realm's Five Great God Kings.
Although the Goddess of Life had her own office at the God Realm Committee and a separate palace where she resided, she usually returned to the Forest of Life to live an ordinary life of planting flowers and trees.
At that moment, she was planting a few ordinary little flowers in the Forest of Life.
Ordinary as they were called, even the most common varieties rivaled the immortal herbs of the Douluo Continent.
The most precious were "divine herbs" that could benefit most deities in the Divine Realm and possessed astonishing effects.
While she was planting flowers, the Goddess of Life suddenly sensed an unusual aura from the lower realm.
It was an aura of life, carrying fluctuations of life law, and it piqued her curiosity.
Something capable of causing such a disturbance, and even being sensed by her, the Goddess of Life, was no small matter.
Its source was either an extraordinary treasure in the form of a life-aspected plant, or a prodigy blessed by the heavens whose abilities carried that affinity and who was qualified to inherit her divine seat as the Goddess of Life.
Whichever of those two possibilities it was, it had now caught the Goddess of Life's attention and greatly interested her.
"Let me see..."
The Goddess of Life immediately sent her divine sense toward the lower realm, following those fluctuations of life.
Soon, she traced them all the way to the Douluo Continent and roughly ascertained that their source was a human.
As for that person's specific details, she did not investigate too deeply.
Doing so could easily violate the Divine Realm's prohibition against interfering in the lower realm, drawing the attention and rebukes of the other God Kings.
Even though she was a God King and would not face any severe punishment, she was unwilling to do that.
Moreover, her husband, the Destruction God King, utterly abhorred such conduct, giving her even less reason to do it.
"It seems this is a prodigy with the makings of a deity. She might even have a chance of inheriting my divine seat!"
The Goddess of Life was both surprised and delighted.
This was the first such instance in all of history.
As one of the Divine Realm's oldest deities and one of those most intimately connected to it, she was not actually attached to her divine seat. She was willing to pass it on to someone else and contribute to the Divine Realm's development.
That would also free her from the Divine Realm's restrictions, allowing her to roam the universe at will rather than remain as bored as she was now, passing her days planting flowers and trees.
Although she had long grown accustomed to such a life and rather enjoyed it, she still sometimes wished for a different, freer way of living.
Unfortunately, her divine seat of life was one of the strongest in the Divine Realm, and its requirements for a successor's aptitude were exceptionally strict.
As a result, throughout all these years, no one had ever caught her eye and prompted her to bestow the corresponding "life nine trials."
For that reason, she had even dismantled, one by one, the inheritance sites she had previously established in the lower realm.
Now that someone had drawn her notice, that person clearly possessed the aptitude to inherit her divine seat of life.
How could she not be delighted?
"Xiao Lu-"
Just as the Goddess of Life was considering whether to borrow the Divine Realm Center to lawfully examine that person's circumstances in detail, or simply bestow her divine trials directly, a familiar voice reached her.
The speaker was none other than her husband, the Destruction God King.
Also known as-Xiao Zi.
"Xiao Zi, you're here!"
The Goddess of Life smiled at the Destruction God King and nodded.
"Xiao Lu, did you just investigate the lower realm?"
The Destruction God King's brows furrowed slightly as he asked with a trace of concern.
He had originally come to spend some affectionate time with his wife. Who would have thought that, as he approached the Forest of Life, he would sense unusual activity from the Goddess of Life's divine sense?
It surprised him greatly, and he was also somewhat concerned that she might have broken the rules.
"Don't worry, Xiao Zi. I didn't interfere in the lower realm. I used my divine sense to investigate because a prodigy with the makings of a deity has appeared there, and her affinity matches mine. I think she has a chance of inheriting my divine seat!"
The Goddess of Life understood the Destruction God King's concerns. Concealing nothing, she smiled and explained what she had just discovered and the lawful actions she had taken.
"So that's what happened!"
Upon hearing this, the Destruction God King first breathed a sigh of relief, then grew rather astonished.
As a fellow God King, he knew very well how rare and important a suitable successor was.
Take that fellow, the Asura God, for example. All he wanted was to find a suitable successor, pass on his divine seat, and then make his escape from the Divine Realm to roam freely elsewhere.
Yet after all these years, the Asura God still hadn't found a compatible successor and could only remain in the Divine Realm, waiting miserably.
The Destruction God King sympathized with him, but he also felt somewhat dissatisfied with the Asura God.
As one of the Divine Realm's supreme Five Great God Kings, it was bad enough that the Asura God didn't shoulder the responsibility of strengthening the Divine Realm as he did. Instead, he was constantly thinking of ways to run away.
Was the Divine Realm truly so unworthy of attachment?
If it were him, even if he passed on his divine seat, he would still stand firm in his duties and make his own contributions to the Divine Realm.
Of course, that was a matter for later.
Right now, he was more concerned about the person in the lower realm whom his wife had sensed, someone who might inherit the Life God King's divine seat.
If the Asura God found out, he would surely be green with envy.
"So, Xiao Lu, are you going to pass on your divine seat?"
The Destruction God King asked with a soft sigh.
His feelings were rather complicated at that moment.
On the one hand, he did not want his wife to remain bound by her divine seat.
On the other hand, he wanted her to retain her current divine seat so she could lend him a hand, shouldering together the hope of strengthening the Divine Realm.
If his wife chose to pass on her divine seat, and the person who inherited the divine seat of life had no interest in that goal and even stood against him, that would undoubtedly be something he did not want to see.
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