The Soul Temple's sole divine artifact had finally welcomed its first owner after lying sealed away for a full thousand years since its creation.
At first, no one in the Soul Temple had known that their Temple Master's granddaughter could resonate with this divine artifact, much less that she had awakened the Soul Saintess physique, the most gifted physique in their temple's lineage.
After all, Chen Ying'er had been an entirely ordinary child. She had shown no special talent for cultivating their temple's summoner legacy, and had even seemed rather clumsy at it.
Yet when her elders took her to the temple where the artifact was enshrined to pay respects to their ancestors, the Soul Vestment, sealed inside a stone statue by the Soul Temple, suddenly erupted with dazzling light. The statue shattered in an instant. That day, the Soul Vestment, which embodied the painstaking efforts of dozens of generations of the Soul Temple, found an owner capable of unleashing its full potential.
This became the Soul Temple's greatest secret. Apart from Chen Hongyu and his wife, San Shui, and a handful of the temple's senior officials, no one knew just how important Chen Ying'er was to them.
For that very reason, Chen Ying'er's upbringing had always been closely monitored, which directly contributed to her later rebelliousness. Fortunately, under Yue Shen's influence and through her trials in the Demon Hunt Squad, she finally matured and began facing her mission and obligations as the Soul Temple's saintess.
In a way, Chen Ying'er was glad that their team had this opportunity to disband temporarily, giving her so much time to return to her temple and work toward this breakthrough.
While the Soul Saintess physique granted her the innate ability to cast the Gate of Life above her tier, it also sealed her