Chapter 520: Chapter 172: Tomb Guardian, Joining the Divine Spirit, Born as Saint King, A Once-in-a-Lifetime Sunset

Zhenyan Clan, inside a yellowed and heavy beast-hide tent.

The Wolf Mother was wrapped in a snow-white fur cloak, her graceful body wrapped tightly in silver gauze hidden underneath. Her long legs stretched out, the glow from the outside fire casting a thin, rolling red over her.

Li Yuan merely looked quietly into her eyes and asked, "How did you know?"

The Wolf Mother said, "From my memory."

Li Yuan said, "I think you’re afraid of the Barbarian Race producing another powerful being, aren’t you?"

The two fell silent.

The Wolf Mother calmly said, "Yes."

Then continued, "But not entirely.

I hope you won’t be heartbroken after seeing your offspring die early.

Moreover, compared to the strength of your offspring, your heartbreak would make you lose your rationality, and that’s the greatest crisis in this Frozen Soil."

"Why would my offspring die young?" Li Yuan asked.

The Wolf Mother said, "It seems that the Divine Spirit indeed wants me to stop you, so it granted me extraordinary knowledge. Now, let me tell you, so you can give up this hope."

Li Yuan smiled, rested his cheek on his hand as he looked at the Wolf Mother before him, took a drink from the cup of milk wine by his side, and then tossed it aside. Then he firmly looked at the Wolf Mother, suddenly saying, "If you don’t come out, then I’ll definitely have this child."

With his words, the Wolf Mother suddenly froze, and then her aura turned extremely cold. Her eyes flipped to pure white, though not as flawless as Xiaozhao’s, they were still white.

"Wolf Mother." Li Yuan looked at this woman, now with a chilling aura, and this test directly confirmed the dual personality within the Wolf Mother’s body, "So you really exist."

The Wolf Mother said, "You’re mistaken about one thing, I am not an outsider entering her body; I am still her."

Li Yuan asked, "What do you mean?"

The Wolf Mother didn’t answer directly but said, "The Divine Spirit allowed me to know that the fire surrounding you is the condensation of Yang Qi, but do you know what Yang Qi is?"

Li Yuan said, "If you don’t answer my previous question, then I’ll definitely have this child."

Wolf Mother: ...

She said, "I am the Jade Remains, she is the incomplete; we were once a whole."

Li Yuan said, "Then how did you come to be? If I’m not mistaken, your incomplete self is the original you, right?"

The Wolf Mother said with a holy expression, "The Divine Spirit granted me fate.

However, as a mortal, I still have an unchangeable incomplete flaw."

After a brief pause, the Wolf Mother said, "The rest, I don’t know either. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Barbarian King, let’s return to our original topic.

Do you know what Yang Qi is?"

Li Yuan didn’t pursue further; he already had a rough idea. After all, his Sister Yan was the owner of the Ghost Street’s general store, and with their pillow talk, they had discussed many things.

So, he knew quite a bit about ghosts and Divine Souls.

This let Li Yuan understand that a ghost is like an "appliance needing a plug," and once plugged into the Yin Qi emanating from the Taiyin, it can become a real ghost.

Before becoming a ghost, it was an innocuous obsession, or it could be said to be... a distorted Divine Soul.

Yin Qi makes the twisted Divine Soul even more twisted, torn, and fixed into something extremely difficult to change.

In short, this is a mutation of the soul.

Ghost Servants are the same.

They’re killed by ghosts, and their Divine Souls become tainted with ghostly power, thus undergoing some degree of mutation, and then hover around the ghosts, becoming Ghost Servants.

The traits of Ghost Servants are: deceased, mutated souls, dominated by ghosts, undying with the Yin Qi, with no real autonomous consciousness.

The Jade Remains is the perfect combination of a human and a specific ghost; if "soul mutation" is born in "the form of mutation," then... it’s no longer a mutation.

Yet here the Divine Spirit can artificially create a Jade Remains after birth, which is unimaginable to him, making him feel heavy-hearted and wary of the Divine Tomb.

At the same time, he understood the Wolf Mother... is likely just a pitiable, chosen ordinary girl.

Many thoughts flickered in an instant,

Li Yuan returned to his senses and cooperatively said, "I don’t know, I don’t know what Yang Qi is."

The Wolf Mother said, "Soon you will see, on this land, before this fire, that even foreign pregnant women will give birth to powerful beings, known as the Ice Barbarians."

Li Yuan’s expression remained unchanged, nodding slightly.

The Wolf Mother rose, stepping through the brilliantly lit tent, and questioned herself aloud, "Why?"

Then answered herself, "It’s the fire!!"

"The Yang Qi in the fire changes the life within a mother’s womb.

It turns them into beings different from their parents.

To say the Barbarian King is the son of the Sun is no exaggeration."

Her voice lowered, eerily: "But they all only stand by the fire, whereas you... are the fire."

Li Yuan laughed: "So this means I can indeed give birth to offspring naturally powerful enough to become a Barbarian King. If I fathered children with a thousand women, I could produce a thousand Barbarian Kings."

Although he wouldn’t actually do such a thing, he rationally calculated while teasing the Wolf Mother, hoping to coax more information from her.

The Wolf Mother said, "Your fire, ordinary women cannot bear, but with the aid of that Secret Medicine, it becomes possible.

Because the Secret Medicine is brewed from some special herbs from the Yin Realm, some of these herbs remain on the Frozen Soil.

However, if you do have offspring, these offspring would live extremely short lives.

They would burn themselves rapidly, thus acquiring terrifying power.

Look!

An ordinary Barbarian might live over a hundred years.

While most clan leaders actually live only around seventy years.

If you have offspring, thirty years or so would be the limit of their lifespan."