Yes!
Lin Heng had taken another seed of the Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus!
There had been nine in all. He had taken two, leaving seven, which was enough!
At most, three seeds of the Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus were enough to form a divine soul!
That was why a Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus was worth more than a divine artifact or a god-level cultivation technique, and why it had been the reward for Lin Heng's first check-in at the Palace of Reflection.
Of course, a person could only take three Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus seeds at most. A fourth would have a negligible effect.
Lin Heng decided to give his mother, Liu Ling'er, the third seed when his birth drew near!
It wasn't good to take these divine-grade heavenly treasures one after another!
This time, Liu Ling'er's soul was struck, but she didn't feel as though her head were splitting again.
Compared to the last time, her soul had become far tougher and stronger.
She easily endured the twenty breaths.
Liu Ling'er looked inward at her sea of consciousness.
The sea of consciousness, where a cultivator's soul resided, was boundless and filled with a thin mist.
That mist was all unclaimed soul power!
The way ordinary cultivators increased their soul power was to use their soul fire to continuously absorb the soul mist in their sea of consciousness.
As their soul fire grew, their soul power increased!
This method increased soul power at an exceptionally slow pace. With the help of a relatively advanced cultivation technique, it would be somewhat faster.
Soul cultivation was the most time-consuming of all, yet cultivators had limited lifespans.
Time was their greatest enemy in advancing their cultivation!
Thus, heavenly treasures and pills capable of increasing soul power were often astonishingly valuable.
On her first day in the Palace of Reflection, Liu Ling'er's soul fire had already grown into a sea of flames!
Like a whirling galaxy, it devoured the soul mist in her sea of consciousness.
This time, another vast surge of soul power burst into her sea of consciousness. As it strengthened the sea of flames, round beads began to condense within it.
The sea of flames looked even more like a starry sky blanketed in fire!
Those glittering beads were like the stars in that sky!
They were unstable. Some would suddenly fall apart or burst, some flickered between bright and dim, and others kept swelling or shrinking...
The sight filled Liu Ling'er with shock!
According to the Heavenly Heart Profound Maiden Scripture, she was already very close to condensing a Divine Soul Pearl!
If another surge of that unknown energy helped her, the sea of soul fire would contract, and all the little soul pearls would gather to form a single, stable Divine Soul Pearl!
Could a God Realm expert really be created from nothing in less than two hundred days?
Liu Ling'er couldn't help wondering why it was her and not someone else.
What had she done to deserve such a heaven-defying opportunity?
She couldn't make sense of it, couldn't understand it!
Liu Ling'er soon came back to herself. She prostrated herself on the ground and thanked the sages of old for their divine grace.
After kowtowing three times, she was about to rise when she discovered a slender longsword before her!
The longsword was exquisite, but not gaudy.
Two characters were engraved on its hilt: "Moon Rainbow."
"Could this be Mu Wanqing's Moon Rainbow Sword?"
Liu Ling'er had read the Biography of Wanqing and knew the Moon Rainbow Sword was Mu Wanqing's personal sword.
"No, that's not right. The biography said the Moon Rainbow Sword was destroyed in one of Mu Wanqing's battles before she advanced to the God Realm!"
Liu Ling'er wasn't too surprised that a longsword had suddenly appeared out of thin air before her. Such strange things had happened too many times lately.
She reached out and grasped the longsword's hilt.
Clang!
The longsword's blade rang and began to tremble.
It was as if it were leaping for joy!
Curious, Liu Ling'er used a drop of blood to claim the longsword as her own.
Her blood fell onto the blade and merged into it!
The next moment, she established contact with its artifact spirit. To her utter astonishment, the longsword really was the Moon Rainbow Sword!
The Moon Rainbow Sword was a quasi-divine artifact!
Liu Ling'er was about to kowtow in thanks for the divine grace again when a zither and a set of dazzling battle robes appeared before her.
"Could these be Mu Wanqing's Heavenly Heart Zither and Iridescent Battle Robe?"
After using her blood to claim these two treasures as well, Liu Ling'er was overwhelmed with excitement!
The Moon Rainbow Sword was a quasi-divine artifact, but both of these treasures were true divine artifacts!
They had all once belonged to Mu Wanqing!
Liu Ling'er had wanted to become a woman like Mu Wanqing. She had never imagined that this dream, which people would have laughed at as a daydream if she had spoken of it, had actually come true!
She had scarcely had time to revel in her excitement when a surge of unknown energy erupted within her. It rushed into her sea of consciousness and poured into her soul!
It was a technique inheritance. She had received the god-level martial skill, the Eight Sounds of the Profound Zither!
Liu Ling'er once again kowtowed in thanks for the divine grace. Only after a long while did she slowly stand.
She swept her long sleeve and, with a thought, the treasures turned into streaks of light and sank into her body.
They fell into her Purple Mansion Inner World!
With a single thought, she could instantly summon them!
Lin Heng made no further moves in the womb.
The Moon Rainbow Sword was too slender. One look was enough to tell it was meant for a woman.
The Heavenly Heart Zither looked even less like a magical treasure a man would use.
As for the Eight Sounds of the Profound Zither, he had no interest in studying it.
The Hall of Longevity.
Lin Changqing, ruler of Chishui, sat facing Su Song, the grand commander of the Demon-Subduing Army, who had just arrived in the hall.
Hong San, the royal palace's chief steward of internal affairs, stood behind Lin Changqing.
Shi Feifei, the ruler's principal consort, sat to Lin Changqing's right, looking somewhat worried.
"Your Majesty, has the Lingxi Kingdom truly come under attack by the Devil Race's army?"
Su Song asked in surprise.
"That's right!"
Lin Changqing, who was already over fifty but still handsome and dashing, with a complexion as smooth and lustrous as jade, nodded and said, "The Great Xia Empire's Divine Judgment Army has already mobilized. The Great Xia Empire has also sent an Imperial Devil-Resisting Decree, ordering our Chishui Kingdom to send reinforcements as soon as possible!"
On the Divine Firmament Continent, both the Demon Race and the Devil Race were stronger than the human race.
If the human race couldn't stand united, the demons and devils would have wiped them out long ago!
They could fight among themselves in ordinary times, but once the demons and devils invaded, they had to stand together against the enemy!
"Has there been any movement from the Demon Race?"
Su Song asked again.
"At present, there's no intelligence of a Demon Race invasion. This should be an operation by the Devil Race alone."
Lin Changqing replied.
"That's not quite normal!"
Su Song frowned. "If the Demon Race and Devil Race want to launch a large-scale invasion against us Human Race, they usually join forces!"
"Grand commander, never mind whether it's normal or not!"
Shi Feifei, who looked dignified and richly adorned, couldn't help speaking up. "Hurry and take the Demon-Subduing Army to support the Lingxi Kingdom. If you're late, not only will the Lingxi Kingdom suffer tremendous losses, but we may also be called to account by the Great Xia Imperial Clan!"
She was originally a princess of the Lingxi Kingdom's royal family, so naturally she didn't want to see her birth family plunged into deep waters and scorching flames.
"The Imperial Devil-Resisting Decree says that we must not only send the Demon-Subduing Army, but also dispatch three Quasi-God experts to battle."
Lin Changqing added.
"Surely not?"
Su Song's eyes widened. "We only have three Quasi-God experts here in total. If all of them leave, who will guard the Devil-Sealing Well?"
"The Great Xia Imperial Clan probably wants to deal the Devil Race a crushing blow. After all, the Demon Race hasn't made a move this time, so it's a good opportunity!"
Lin Changqing offered his guess, then said helplessly, "There's no choice. We cannot disobey the Great Xia Imperial Clan's Imperial Devil-Resisting Decree! As for the Devil-Sealing Well, thank you for taking on the duty of guarding it for a while, Chief Steward Hong!"
"This old servant obeys!"
Hong San bowed in acknowledgment.
Few people knew that this old eunuch was actually a Quasi-God expert as well!
"Your Majesty, Consort Liu is about to give birth. I'd like to visit her at the Heartwarming Pavilion, if you would grant me permission!"
Shi Feifei said with a sincere expression, "We are sisters, after all. As the principal consort, if I don't visit her even once, people will gossip!"
Lin Changqing glanced at his principal consort in some surprise. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded.
"It would be good for you to go and see her."