Hearing the Spirit Turtle's words, Yan Xiao'er felt as though some strange memory had just been unlocked. Her forehead began to itch, and she couldn't help scratching it.
Back at the Cao Family estate, hadn't the Spirit-Eating Insect treated the hollow inside the Purple Sword as a Spirit Pool? If inanimate objects could store and release spiritual aura in that way, why couldn't a human skull?
The difficulty lay only in the fact that a sword was not a living thing and could be manipulated at will, whereas humans had meridians, nerves, and flowing blood. Artificially creating a spirit aperture in a living person through postnatal means must be extraordinarily perilous.
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