Chapter 339: Something Interesting Happened!

"Xing He."

Su Ming crouched down, bathed in the sunlight, and his voice was very soft.

Zhao Gang and his wife huddled behind, not daring to draw a breath.

The little girl suddenly lifted her head.

The next second—

"Brother!"

Zhao Xinghe immediately stretched out his little hand and seized Su Ming's arm.

That burst of delight couldn't be hidden at all.

Looking at it like this…

It's quite normal, nothing wrong.

"Long time no see, Xing He, what are you doing?"

"Playing with blocks! Brother, do you want to join?"

Ten minutes later.

Su Ming got up, tiptoed out of the bedroom.

Outside the Gate, Zhao Gang and his wife stood, their expressions complicated, staring intently at Su Ming.

There was anxiety and anticipation, mixed into a mush.

Su Ming rubbed his brow and leaned against the sofa.

"Let's cook first."

He hesitated.

"I'm hungry."

Zhao Gang and his spouse were stunned on the spot.

Then, almost simultaneously, they jogged into the kitchen, their steps swift.

Both of them knew clearly in their hearts.

Mr. Su was willing to ask for food…

Then this matter hasn't reached a dead end yet!

There's a saying!

Only Su Ming remained in the living room.

Leaning against the sofa back, he didn't move.

His eyelids slowly drooped.

Just now…

He, under the sunlight, used the Eye of Truth to sweep Xing He completely.

In the end, he found nothing.

This child, unlike those few in Jingcheng, doesn't have any aberrant condition.

Except for having no shadow…

She is exactly the same as an ordinary child.

Normal to an absurd degree!

"Where exactly is the problem?"

In his mind, Su Ming replayed the earlier scene several times.

Sunlight.

Princess dress.

A pile of blocks.

And that empty, featureless floor.

Fortunately…

Huochai Ge, the guy who was eating matches, just now showed a reaction.

Now, let's negotiate a round!

"Tell me, what's really going on with her?!"

"Heh, your eyes aren't working either?!"

From deep within Su Ming, a faint voice drifted.

Su Ming rolled his eyes.

Now that this guy is full and satisfied, having gained benefits, he can talk to him at any time.

But he chokes him as soon as he comes up?!

Farmer and snake!

"Your eyes are seeing—there is!"

Huochai Ge's voice was lazy.

It sounded as if it had just been fished out of millennia-old brew, carrying a tone of someone who has just woken from sleep but the alcohol hasn't cleared yet.

"But the thing on her is—nothing!"

Su Ming stayed silent, waiting.

Anyway, he couldn't understand anyway.

"Her blood has been swapped."

Huochai Ge's tone carried a hint of thoughtfulness.

【The Speaker's blood can temper a mortal body, you know that, and that's what you were doing before.】

【But on that little fellow's body…】

It paused for a moment.

【Something interesting happened.】

Su Ming's eyelid twitched.

"Interesting" came out of his mouth…

But it wasn't any kind of flattery!

【Under normal circumstances—】

【A mortal body drinks blood, blood washes away old ailments.】

【It's like rinsing a dirty cloth with clean water; the cloth is still the same cloth, only it's clean.】

Su Ming leaned on the mat and hummed.

The metaphor is clear.

He can understand it.

【She is different.】

Huochai Ge and the others paused.

【That cloth of hers turned the water a different color!】

Huh?!

Hearing this, Su Ming narrowed his eyes slightly.

An ordinary cloth dyed this domineering water?!

This is a bit… like an inverted Tian Gang, right!

【Specify.】

【On her, The Speaker can sense a trace of Original Clan aura!】

【But note—it's Original Clan, not The Speaker!】

In the tone of Huochai Ge, a hint of indefinable uncertainty floated out for the first time.

Su Ming's eyelid twitched again.

Huh?!

Zhao Xinghe, just a little girl…

Can cause this commotion?

【In simpler terms—】

【Drinking blood to heal is essentially using new blood to expel old blood.】

【An ordinary mortal receiving a bloodline baptism does so passively; if the bloodline says east, the body goes east.】

【But this little fellow is different.】

【She took The Speaker's blood as food.】

【She picked it herself to eat, absorbed the nutrients, digested The Speaker's traits, and directly expelled the dregs she deemed useless!】

【Then, according to her own Rule, she regrew it.】

Su Ming fell silent.

He can tell.

This guy himself is also surprised.

On what basis!??

"Has this situation… happened before?"

【No.】

【The Speaker's bloodline has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and no mortal has ever actively digested The Speaker's genes.】

【Not to mention mortals, even those so‑called trash… it won't work!】

Su Ming said nothing further.

Got it.

He understood!

Zhao Xinghe, that little fellow—

Awesome!

She's a scoundrel!

"No shadow, then what's going on?"

"Analyze it for me again!"

The voices of Huochai Ge and the others drifted over leisurely.

【A shadow is the soul's projection in the mortal world.】

【The soul is tightly bound to the flesh, and the shadow lies at the feet.】

【But the child's current condition… The Speaker guesses about seventy‑or‑eighty percent.】

Su Ming sat up a few notches.

"What does that mean?!"

【Inside her now, there may be two souls!】

"Two?!"

Su Ming silently repeated the number in his mind.

Earlier Zhao Gang said that it seemed like there was an invisible person in the house.

So this "person"…

Is it that other soul?!

【How should I put it? This soul is neither split nor possessed.】

Huochai Ge and the others spoke in the same calm tone.

【It's a division of labor!】

【What she herself leads is the original soul.】

【The one newly born after the bloodline awakening, I, The Speaker, will for now call it—Bloodline Consciousness!】

Huochai Ge paused.

【The reason we can't see a shadow is probably because the emergence of the new soul caused the original soul— the one we can see as a shadow— to retreat entirely into the little girl's body.】

【And this freshly born Bloodline Consciousness is still too feeble, drifting in the boundary layer between matter and soul, not yet formed, thus invisible!】

【The naked eye can't see it, but entities with sufficient consciousness intensity can sense where it is.】

【Your eyes can't see it not because of insufficient rank— it's simply something that can't be grasped by sight!】

【Just a moment ago, it was constantly by the little girl's side.】

【Precisely because this soul is still weak, yet it has countless ties to the little girl, she herself is the one least aware of any abnormality.】

【In her perception, she is still the same as before, with no difference at all.】

……

Is that so?!

Su Ming quickly integrated the information in his mind.

It seems…

It can be explained!

「I have a question—both souls will be hers in the future? 」

【Of course.】

【When the Bloodline Consciousness fully matures and the two merge, her soul density—or rather her spiritual power—will be roughly that of an ordinary person's…】

Huochai Ge's tone paused.

【Conservatively estimated, thirty times.】

【Moreover, as strength grows, the boost to spiritual power stacks multiplicatively.】

Sss—!

Su Ming inhaled a gasp of cold air.

Snatching the few?!

This child…

She'll be soaring to the heavens later!

……