"Ten Soul Beads? What are they?" Chu Feng asked.
"You don't even know about the Ten Soul Beads?" Chu Lingxi was visibly surprised by his question.
"If you don't mind, tell me about them," Chu Feng said with a smile. Seeing how astonished Chu Lingxi looked, he could tell she knew quite a lot about the Ten Soul Beads.
"Sigh." Yet rather than answering, Chu Lingxi let out an exasperated sigh and asked, "Doesn't your father tell you anything? How do you know absolutely nothing?"
"I've only ever met my father once in my life. For certain reasons, I wasn't raised by him," Chu Feng said.
At those words, Chu Lingxi's beautiful eyes flickered. She seemed to understand something.
So she dropped the matter, no longer mocking Chu Feng, and began telling him directly about the so-called Ten Soul Beads.
To speak of the Ten Soul Beads, one actually had to start with this venue — the grounds for the Divine Domain Selection.
This place had originally been called the Land of Life and Death. It had been personally forged by the ancestor of the Chu Heavenly Clan, Chu Yetianhong, in collaboration with a number of powerful Spirit World Masters.
Chu Yetianhong had hidden numerous treasures within it, and among them the most precious was the Ten Soul Beads.
The Ten Soul Beads offered tremendous assistance to those who carried the Heavenly Thunder bloodline, and for cultivators who practiced the Heavenly Punishment Mystic Art, their power could be brought to its absolute peak.
Yet as so many years had passed and countless juniors had entered this place — and while many had discovered treasures inside — no one had ever found the Ten Soul Beads.
Gradually, fewer and fewer treasures remained. People came to believe that everything the ancestor had left behind had already been taken, so the location was no longer a place that juniors yearned to visit.
However, thanks to its unique structure, it could serve as a venue for a special selection process, which was why it had eventually been designated as the grounds for the juniors' Divine Domain Selection.
"No — there was one person who once found the Ten Soul Beads," Chu Lingxi said suddenly.
"Someone found them? Then how are they still here?" Chu Feng was astonished.
"Because that person said the Ten Soul Beads were of no use to him, so he put them back."
"Because of that, many people at the time — and even now — believe that person was just bragging," Chu Lingxi said.
"That kind of claim would indeed be taken as bragging," Chu Feng agreed with a chuckle.
"But I heard that person… was your grandfather," Chu Lingxi said.
"…"
At those words, dark lines instantly appeared across Chu Feng's forehead. It seemed his grandfather had been quite the unconventional character in his youth as well.
Still, once he learned it was his grandfather, Chu Feng quickly said, "Then he definitely wasn't bragging."
"You have a lot of confidence in your grandfather," Chu Lingxi remarked.
"That confidence comes from the bloodline," Chu Feng said.
"Actually, I didn't believe it before. But I believe it now," Chu Lingxi said.
"Why so?" Chu Feng asked.