Wuyingzi said that the ghostly girl was her daughter, which left Ye Fan very puzzled. You're a woman, the person wasn't born by you, what right do you have to call her your daughter?

But Ye Fan wouldn't ask in detail, as it involved the emotional entanglements of ancient cultivators. Even the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman had a daughter, and neither Wuyingzi nor Jiuyou Su Girl, both old acquaintances of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, knew who Lan Jing's father was. The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman never intended to explain, and Wuyingzi probably wouldn't honestly tell either.

"Why don't you ask further?" Wuyingzi seemed a bit dissatisfied with Ye Fan not asking and looked back at him.

Ye Fan said, "Everyone has a past they don't wish to mention. In the presence of a master like you, I feel insignificant. Why would I invite embarrassment by asking?"

"Actually, if you asked, I would have told you, because it's not really a secret. Not only do I know, but even the Mysterious Woman is very aware. Sigh!" Wuyingzi, still in the form of a woman, was leaning on a cane, wearing a somewhat tattered robe. No matter how you looked at it, she seemed out of place with this world, and passersby were also watching this side, all feeling that Wuyingzi, a beauty, dressed so uniquely.

But Wuyingzi didn't mind the curious stares from those around.

Ye Fan said, "Then, may I ask, why is that girl your daughter?"

"She is the daughter of my other half, naturally also my daughter," Wuyingzi said, "However, she has a different father, and my other half also never disclosed his identity, just like the Mysterious Woman. What they gave birth to with the Mysterious Woman were not corporeal beings but merely spiritual bodies. Apart from their mothers... and you, no one else can sense their existence. However, the Mysterious Woman dared to sacrifice herself, using her human body to achieve her daughter, while my other half disappeared. Now I only want to find her and resurrect her!"

Ye Fan was perplexed, hearing Wuyingzi's words. The ghostly girl seemed to have the same father as Lan Jing, and some man, or perhaps a male Immortal, simultaneously wooed two powerful cultivators—Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Wuyingzi's lover—and even fathered daughters with them separately. So, Lan Jing and the girl were half-sisters?

Ye Fan had but one thought: even among cultivators, such melodrama exists.

He initially thought when Wuyingzi appeared to rescue him and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman from a demon attack, it was out of sisterly love or some other emotion. Now he knew the truth: Wuyingzi's deep interest in Lan Jing's father was to find her "rival." Because both the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Wuyingzi's lover had given themselves to the same man and bore him daughters!

"Who could it be?" Ye Fan thought, but as a mere mortal, caring about who was the spouse of an ancient power seemed absurd.

He quickly dismissed the thought and chose to focus on the present, as he needed to go upstairs to find Shen Yan.

Ye Fan asked, "Have you found the person?"

"No," Wuyingzi replied, "Vanished without a trace, and even the person I want to find can't be found anywhere. I've hidden in secret realms for tens of thousands of years, traveled many places, all to find this person, but to no avail, until I learned the Mysterious Woman was still alive. If she were merely in a spiritual body state, I might never see her again or find out from her who fathered her daughter!"

Ye Fan wanted to say, you don't know, you can very well ask the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, and at the same time test if she is pretending to have lost her cultivation when in fact she still possesses great power.

"Could you help me ask?" Wuyingzi scrutinized Ye Fan.

"If Senior is telling me this only to seek my help, I fear I'm powerless to help. The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman isn't friendly to me, and she wouldn't even talk to me about Lan Jing's matter. You might have better luck asking... Sang Yuan." Ye Fan looked at Sang Yuan, who followed beside her—as Sang Yuan was created by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman's flesh and blood.

Wuyingzi glanced at Sang Yuan, with a slight hint of disdain on her face, then looked back at Ye Fan and said, "I need to find the soul of my other half, and to find this soul, I need to borrow something from you!"

Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat; he hoped Wuyingzi wasn't thinking of taking his Copperling Mirror?

He was able to communicate with spiritual bodies all because he had the Copperling Mirror inside him.

Perhaps knowing what was on Ye Fan's mind, Wuyingzi smirked coldly, "No need to worry; I won't take the Copperling Mirror. The Copperling Mirror has become your second Nascent Soul. Even if I had it, it would be of no use to me. I also cannot build a second Nascent Soul within me. Having it with you can actually assist me. Now, I need to borrow a person from you."

"Who?" Ye Fan warily sized up Wuyingzi.

Ye Fan thought, if it was about borrowing someone, none of the women around him could help Wuyingzi with this task. Sang Yuan seemed to have a chance, but the four small crystals inside him were different, excluding the currently unconscious Little Red Crystal, the other three crystals could communicate with spiritual bodies, and Little Purple Crystal even had a human form, able to discover other spiritual bodies' conditions just like Ye Fan, then transform into a human form to tell Wuyingzi.

But Wuyingzi wasn't asking for Little Purple Crystal; she looked up at the hotel room and said, "Her."

Ye Fan followed her gaze and saw it was Shen Yan's room.

"Senior, she's merely an ordinary human girl. How could she help you with your search?" Ye Fan felt Wuyingzi was almost threatening him, wanting Shen Yan from him for no clear reason. Not to mention that Shen Yan had no relation to him, and he had no right to decide her whereabouts. Besides, what good would an ordinary person be?

Wuyingzi said, "I can sense an invisible spiritual entity around you; she can detect the presence of surrounding spiritual bodies. Since you have something to deal with against the tribulation, I won't trouble you; I'll just take her with me!"

Saying this, Wuyingzi was already heading quickly towards the hotel.

Ye Fan muttered in his heart about the term "invisible spiritual entity," understanding slightly. It seemed similar to what Wuyingzi mentioned—a person who could sense hidden spirits. But this person wasn't Shen Yan, it was Mo Xiaoyan, because Mo Xiaoyan had the ability to see and communicate with ghostly spirits, which was previously baffling to Ye Fan.

How could Wuyingzi think Shen Yan had such ability too? Or was it that Shen Yan indeed had this ability?

"Senior, don't you think this is forced?" Ye Fan stepped forward and questioned coldly. They hadn't entered the hotel yet, but Ye Fan knew Wuyingzi was giving him a chance to speak. If Wuyingzi wanted to kidnap someone, she could instantly appear beside that person and then make them vanish without a trace.

Wuyingzi sneered, "I want her to help, but I'll also give her cultivation so she can become a true invisible spiritual entity. Initially... her mother was hunted precisely because she had the ability to perceive spiritual entities. Now she is just a mortal, without even basic cultivation. If I grant her the ability to protect herself, what's wrong with that?"

Wuyingzi actually said she would help Shen Yan gain cultivation, which was similar to Ye Fan's intention to help Shen Yan break through the Golden Core Stage.

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