Xiao Yi lowered her head, a trace of unease rising in her heart. She said softly, "The problem isn't the soul bones, but the soul beasts themselves."
At her words, Chen Xiaojun's thoughts swiftly returned to the matter at hand. He realized that this was indeed a thorny problem.
In their original plan, the Immortal Evergreen Vine would draw on vine-type origins to undergo Promotion into a super martial soul.
According to Chen Xiaojun's initial estimate, she would need to hunt hundred-thousand-year soul beasts when obtaining her eighth and ninth soul rings.
But circumstances had changed. The requirement had risen to three, and if they included her second martial soul, the Void Willow God Vine, the number of soul beasts needed would climb even higher.
Five? Six? Or as many as seven or eight?
Moreover, considering the stance of the Origin Nine Vines and Xiao Yi's identity as the Azure Vine Holy Maiden, could they even kill vine beasts from the clans within the Azure Vine Alliance?
Xiao Yi needed vine-type origins for her Promotion, which made her situation entirely different from Chen Xiaojun's.
His martial souls were the Ten Divine Swords and the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword. What soul beast possessed a sword-type origin?
He only needed to choose soul beasts in the usual way.
Xiao Yi's situation, however, was far more complicated. Her path to Promotion was tightly bound to vine soul beasts.
Chen Xiaojun knitted his brows and began giving the problem serious thought.
Unless Xiao Yi abandoned this path to Promotion through absorbing vine-type origins. But that would not only render all their previous efforts futile; it might also prevent her from using the Immortal Evergreen Vine's unique branching abilities.
After all, the branching vines produced by the Immortal Evergreen Vine were surely connected to the