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The hall erupted into an uproar again.
Confusion flickered across Ye Sirong's face. "Young Master, that shouldn't be right! After Tong'er awakened, Old Dou and I checked repeatedly with the finest Testing Orbs. It was definitely level 9.0. We were so afraid of getting it wrong, and now..."
Chen Xiaojun put away the Testing Orb and considered this before saying, "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean your measurements were wrong. Deputy Commander Dou once mentioned to me that, through a stroke of good fortune in his younger years, he consumed an extremely rare eighth-grade spirit medicine, the Xuan Bing Life-Nourishing Orchid."
"Not only does this medicine greatly improve fertility, but the extreme icy cold and abundant vitality it contains can also subtly nourish the essential foundations of both mother and fetus, improving the offspring's innate aptitude. It played no small part in Sister Congtong having innate level 9."
He paused and looked at Zhu Wuneng. "Furthermore, with this special kind of mutated martial soul, where beast and tool exist in symbiosis, innate soul power isn't entirely fixed. It has some capacity for growth. As the soul master grows, absorbing Heaven and Earth spiritual qi, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones, the martial soul itself continually evolves and its fusion deepens. Its 'innate aptitude' then undergoes an extremely slow and subtle improvement."
"When Wuneng awakened, he was level 9.1. Now he has stabilized at level 9.2-at least, that is what we say publicly. This is the reason. Sister Congtong's situation is similar. As her cultivation level increased, her Medicine-Pounding Spirit Rabbit underwent further fusion and refinement. Like a boat rising with the tide, her innate aptitude also rose, from level 9.0 to level 9.1."
Understanding dawned on Ye Sirong, and she said joyfully, "So that's how