Under that coercion, as Jin Zhiyuan maneuvered against the other side and exhausted every possible means, he could only temporarily keep his wife and children safe.
But taking them away was an exceedingly difficult matter. After he and his Dao Companion had been separated, they had each become hidden pawns planted by that force. Jin Zhiyuan could only continue preparing in secret.
The judgment of the force behind him had indeed been sharp; they had not misjudged his abilities. Jin Zhiyuan's mastery over spiritual plants had in fact far exceeded their expectations.
Jin Zhiyuan's inheritance came from one of his immortal encounters. He had once obtained a tome called "Immortal Dew Illuminating Plants," likely an inheritance left behind by an ancient cultivation sect specializing in the study of spiritual plants.
It recorded many long-lost methods for cultivating spiritual plants, while also introducing various rare spiritual plants of heaven and earth and their uses.
Though some of its records were exceedingly obscure and profound, Jin Zhiyuan often understood them thoroughly. That was why his knowledge of spiritual plants was so exceptional.
Among the records of that inheritance was a spiritual plant called the "Soul-Burying Leaf." Its true purpose was to provide tremendous aid in cultivating a split soul.
After a split soul was refined into this leaf and implanted into the body, as long as it was not used, the network covering the meridians formed from the fused leaf would keep the split soul from revealing itself.
When it lay dormant in ordinary times, it was as though it existed in a different space—a perfect space formed between the true meridians and a perfectly fitted "shell." The split soul would be isolated from all contact with its host.
Once it was used, if its host was a Soul Cultivator, the additional