"Ancestor, these five manuals are all trash. This is what you practiced? No wonder your cultivation was so weak back then, barely reaching Legendary rank. Why don't I teach you a few superior techniques? I guarantee your power will advance even further!"
"Enough! That's enough!"
"Oh... Well then, learned Ancestor, I'd like to ask, why can a Demon Spirit merge with the Soul Sea?" Nie Li looked at Ye Yan and asked, tsk-tsk, so Ancestor Ye Yan was preparing to compare knowledge with him?
"Such a simple question, didn't your mentor teach you? A Demon Spirit exists in the form of a soul, and the Soul Sea is the vessel for the soul. Of course they can merge!" Ye Yan gave a faint smile. "Although your talent is decent, your foundation is too poor. Young people shouldn't aim too high!"
"If the Soul Sea is a vessel and the Demon Spirit is the soul, like a cup and water, then why do some people fail no matter how they try to merge a Demon Spirit after advancing to the Silver rank?" Nie Li asked with a grin. "Besides, any cup should be able to hold water, right!"
"This... the probability of failure is extremely low, almost negligible, so there's no need to fuss over this question!" Ye Yan paused, a bit vexed. The question Nie Li asked was too esoteric, and he simply couldn't answer it.
"Such exceptional cases are often the key to unlocking secrets when studied. A Legendary Demon Spirit Master doesn't even understand this? I really don't know how your master taught you! If I had a disciple like this, I'd slap them dead against the wall!" Nie Li shook his head, looking genuinely pained.
"Then you tell me, why is that?" Ye Yan's voice was trembling with anger. As a Legendary Demon Spirit Master, when had he ever been spoken to like this?
"The Soul Sea has its fixed attributes, and so does the Demon Spirit. If the attributes of the two differ too greatly, it will naturally lead to failure. Just like water and fire cannot coexist!"
"Attribute difference?" Ye Yan murmured to himself. In the past, he had never considered this aspect, and Nie Li's words seemed to open a window in his heart.
"Apart from attribute differences, deep within the human Soul Sea, there are many profound secrets that a Demon Spirit Master of your level naturally wouldn't understand. If you're willing to take me as your teacher, perhaps I can explain them to you. Your soul hasn't dissipated yet; it's even possible to help you reconstruct your physical body." Nie Li sat cross-legged, a hint of a smile playing on his lips.
Take Nie Li as his teacher? Ye Yan was so furious he nearly came back to life. He was the founding ancestor of the City of Radiance! To be looked down upon by a kid like this was utterly intolerable! But Nie Li's last words left him stunned on the spot.
"Reconstruct the physical body, is that truly possible?" Ye Yan was dazed. This was a realm beyond his imagination. What was this young man's background? Why did he know so much? As the ancestor of the City of Radiance, if he wanted to take a teenage disciple, wouldn't they be crawling at his feet, kowtowing wildly? How could it be like Nie Li, who instead lectured him?
Although he was so angry he could almost vomit blood, everything Nie Li said was like a magnet deeply attracting him.
What Nie Li said was indeed from areas he knew absolutely nothing about.
"Kid, do you really want me to take you as my teacher?"
"Take me as your teacher? Let me think... forget it, I don't want you! I can't be bothered to teach a disciple with such poor aptitude!" Nie Li scoffed with disdain. "If my disciple was eighty or a hundred years old and still only at the Legendary realm, yet acting smug about it, watch me beat him to death!"
Ye Yan pointed at Nie Li, his finger trembling nonstop. "You, you, you unfilial descendant!" Ye Yan's beard quivered with rage. Even if he were to come back to life now, he'd be angered to death again by Nie Li!
"I'm not even a descendant of your Ye family. I'm from the Tian Hen Family. In terms of lineage, the Tian Hen Family's history goes back much further than your Ye family. If it weren't for the fact that you're Ziyun's ancestor, I wouldn't even bother with you!" Nie Li curled his lip dismissively.
Ye Yan was furious, but in his soul state, he couldn't do anything to Nie Li at all!
"The Tian Hen Family... I remember now. When I founded the City of Radiance, the Tian Hen Family was already just a small clan. I admit, your ancestor was indeed very powerful. So you received some of your family's inheritance! But to receive such a tiny bit of inheritance and dare to be so arrogant!" Although Ye Yan had to admit that Nie Li seemed to know more than him, he still refused to admit defeat.
To lose to a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old kid like this—where would that leave his dignity as a Legendary Demon Spirit Master?