Xue Yiyao

Unofficial art.

Xue Yiyao is the herb garden owner. She is known for her eccentric temper and not letting anyone buy or take any herbs from her garden. Even the local city lord from where she resides in was shut down and asked to find his herbs somewhere else without sparing a single thought.

One day, she started letting herbologists, herb kings, herb garden owners, and Master Teachers into her garden. While no one knew exactly why, some had heard that the everyone was talking about centerpiece was about the Earth Vein Spirit Vine. When they entered the area where the Earth Vein Spirit Vine resided in, they saw that it had an aura of death shrouding it. She offered anyone who could solve the problem the ability to obtain any medicinal herbs they require in the future. Not only that, Xue Yiyao's herb garden shall supply it to them for free.

After Zhang Xuan looked through the book he compiled about the earth vine, he discovered something odd. He asked Xue Yiyao to execute a punching routine to clear his suspicions. After that, he revealed why the earth vine was dying.

Xue Yiyao often cultivated near the earth vine. Her cultivating here made it the very root of the problem. Zhang Xuan points out that the Earth Vein Spirit Vine was not nearing its lifespan but it was suffering from a loss of spirit and soul. As Zhang Xuan pointed out: "All sentient beings in the world possess spirit, and a spirit herb, just like Spirit-tier weapons, possesses spirit. As the centerpiece of the herb garden, if the Earth Vein Spirit Vine doesn't possess a spirit, how do you think it's able to allocate the required nutrients to each individual medicinal herb accurately?"

Everyone was perplexed on how Garden Owner Xue Yiyao cultivating near the Earth Vein Spirit Vine could result in loss of spirit and soul. So, he explained that she actually has been stuck in Transcendent Mortal 4-dan Clarifying Turbidity realm for at least seven to eight decades. He further points it was not her lack of talent that she wasn't able to breakthrough to Transcendent Mortal 5-dan but that her soul had been damaged. She sought to repair the damage through different means. Hearing that spirit contained within spirit herbs could heal the damage, she created this herb garden and cultivated medicinal herbs. The reason why she refused to sell them is so that you can absorb the spirit contained within them to mend the tear in her soul.

However, she failed to mend the damage due to the fact that spirit herbs could not perfectly complement the deficiency in everyone's soul. To prove his conjecture, Zhang Xuan stretched out his hand toward the grass. The grass, as if seeing its natural predator, evaded his hand. Despite the fact that it should still not have spirit yet, from this, it can be deduced that someone has been absorbing spirit from the medicinal herbs, thus granting even ordinary plants like this to possess the ability to avoid harm.

After Zhang Xuan explained all of this, Garden owner Xue Yiyao asked how to heal the damaged Earth Vein Spirit Vine. Zhang Xuan proposed the idea of grafting to her. It consisted of implanting a bud onto the stem of another plant to form a whole plant. She would have to find another Earth Vein Spirit Vine bud with intact spirit and graft it to this spirit vein, over time, the spirit of the bud will fuse together with the original Earth Vein Spirit Vine, thus forming one entity. Using Zhang Xuan's abilities as a Soul Oracle, he hastened the grafting to only five to six hours.

She gained a cultivation technique from Zhang Xuan's alter ego, Yang Xuan, to achieve a breakthrough to Transcendent Mortal 5-dan Primary Stage.

## Appearance

"An elder who looked like she was in her fifties walked into the room. Even though her skin was a little loose and there were signs of age all around her, one could still see hints of a previous beauty in her. She didn't reveal her cultivation but vaguely, one could feel a powerful aura from her that seemed to nearly match up to the Demon Cinque Beast." (Chapter 521)

Garden Owner Xue exuded a steady aura which reflected perfect harmony between her soul and her physical body. Clearly, she had broken through her bottleneck and reached Transcendent Mortal 5-dan, Consonant Spirit realm! (Ch- 573)