Chapter 107.1 : Anticipation. (Part 1)
As a result, Qianqiu Yue's Spirit Clan origin dispersed.
A small portion scattered into heaven and earth, its whereabouts unknown.
Of the remaining two major portions, one transformed into a Spirit Source Tree, which Su Qing suppressed within the grand formation, while the other was retrieved by Qianqiu Xue and nurtured within the Spirit-Nurturing Painting.
That painting was precisely the one Su Yushan had seen as a child when she mistakenly entered that mysterious room.
The room itself was actually a Phantasmal Spirit restriction and array set up by Qianqiu Xue,
its purpose being to nurture the spirit within the painting to the greatest extent possible, preventing it from gradually dissipating with the passage of time.
However, because another portion of Qianqiu Yue's origin had transformed into the Spirit Source Tree and remained suppressed by Su Qing,
Qianqiu Xue had no choice but to remain under Su Qing's control all these years.
That grand formation now lay beneath the entirety of Wangjian City.
Even so, although constrained, Su Qing had once been subjected to restrictions placed upon him by the two sisters in their early years.
Thus, even though he had secretly stepped into the Seventh Heaven over the years without anyone's knowledge,
he still could not break those restrictions.
As a result, the two sides had been mutually restraining each other all this time.
Because of her sister Qianqiu Yue, Qianqiu Xue remained constrained, despite her strength surpassing Su Qing's.
Meanwhile, because of Qianqiu Yue's power and the restrictions on his own body, Su Qing was likewise wary of her.
Even though he held leverage in his hands, he did not dare push things too far.
In the end, the two sides barely reached a deal:
Qianqiu Xue would assist Su Qing in carrying out certain matters,
and in the future, Su Qing would return the portion of Qianqiu Yue's origin that he had suppressed.
In truth, Su Qing's two wives—past and present—were both Qianqiu Xue.
The reason for this was, in fact, Su Qing laying the groundwork for his own cultivation in advance.
Once he found the child most suitable for his cultivation,
he would arrange for that child to bear the identity of a child born of his first wife.
Then, step by step, he would guide the child along a predetermined path.
He would allow the child to "accidentally" discover that it was Su Qing himself who had killed the child's mother,
maximally stimulating hatred and murderous intent toward this so-called father.
The child Su Qing ultimately selected was Su Mo.
Whether it was Su Qing's undisguised loathing toward Su Mo in public,
or his instructions to Qianqiu Xue—this nominal mother—to target Su Mo,
or the overt and covert suppression of Su Mo by the other two sons, Su Qi and Su Lin, as well as by other members of the Su family,
all of it was meant to provoke hatred within Su Mo's heart.
With layers upon layers of resentment intertwined, Su Mo would inevitably walk the path of raising his blade against Su Qing and against the entire Su family.
At that point, the seed named Su Mo that Su Qing had planted for the sake of his cultivation would be considered fully ripe.
In fact, whether it was Su Yushan, or Su Qi and Su Lin, or even Su Mo,
all of them had been found by Qianqiu Xue out in the outside world.
Originally, Su Qing had intended for Qianqiu Xue, a member of the Spirit Clan, to help him search for vessels to bear his cultivation,
with those born possessing abundant innate spirituality being the best.
Qianqiu Xue, of course, would never seize other people's children.
She only searched among newborn orphans who had been abandoned.
In the end, one after another, Qianqiu Xue brought back four children:
Su Yushan, Su Qi, Su Lin, and Su Mo.
Among the four, Su Yushan and Su Mo both carried a trace of the Spirit Clan origin that had dispersed from Qianqiu Yue into heaven and earth.
As for why the final choice fell on Su Mo rather than Su Yushan,
it was because Su Mo carried the greatest amount of this spiritual essence.
So much so that, due to an excess of this essence,
it even formed a post-natal Spirit-Aperture Body.