"Because speech cultivators are judged by their innate talent, they possess the ability to transform language into power, something other cultivators cannot do. That's why my third junior sister can't teach you how to become a speech cultivator..."

Tianning understood Pang Yi's explanation, but felt a little regretful.

Yan Xiu was born with that kind of talent, so she couldn't learn it.

However, she was more concerned about something else: "I noticed that Fellow Daoist Ye seemed to be acting strangely just now. Is she alright?"

Speaking of which, apart from Gao Yue, everyone else in Pang Yi's sect has amazing skills, but they all basically suffer heavy losses while harming the enemy. Could Ye Yiyi have been seriously injured just by speaking once?

“Don’t worry, it’s not a problem with the injury…” Pang Yi paused, but still didn’t hide it from Tian Ning and took the initiative to speak.

"Actually, this matter is a bit complicated. In recent years, due to the decline of our Lingyun Sect, we have rarely been able to recruit disciples. Therefore, our masters often go to various places to find abandoned children and take them in to raise. My third junior sister is also a child that our master brought back from the mortal realm..."

Pang Yi continued talking about Ye Yiyi.

The mortal realm has always had the bad habit of favoring sons over daughters, and the village where Ye Yiyi lived was like this. As the eldest daughter in the family, she was not allowed to eat at the table since birth. She could only eat some leftovers to barely fill her stomach every day, and she also had to help with the family's chores.

Not only that, Ye Yiyi has a younger brother. As the son she finally gave birth to after four pregnancies, the family doted on him. As a result, he was very unruly and often bullied Ye Yiyi. He would play pranks by putting caterpillars in her clothes and pouring water on her blankets in the dead of winter. Once, when Ye Yiyi was washing clothes by the river, he even secretly pushed her from behind.

If Ye Yiyi hadn't been a good swimmer and hadn't relied on her strong will to survive to climb ashore in the dead of winter, she would have been killed in the river.

After Ye Yiyi climbed ashore, her younger brother was still mocking her for looking like a drowned rat. Ye Yiyi was furious at that moment. She shouted at her brother with utter disgust, "You're a monster! You deserve to die! Go to hell!"

At that time, Ye Yiyi never imagined that her words would come true. After hearing her words, her younger brother ran to an uncle who was sharpening a knife by the river, picked up a sharpened knife, and slit his throat in front of everyone!

A group of women who were washing clothes by the river naturally heard Ye Yiyi's words. They screamed and cursed Ye Yiyi as an evil spirit, and the Ye family members who came over did the same!

The villagers specially invited a Taoist priest to exorcise the evil spirits and perform a ritual at the village entrance to burn Ye Yiyi to death!

Later, thanks to Pang Yi's master who happened to pass by that village, he rescued the poor little girl, discovered her talent for cultivation, and brought her back to Lingyun Sect to become a disciple.

But since then, Ye Yiyi has been unwilling to speak easily.

Her brother's death left a shadow over her. Even when she thought of him later, she still hated him. But the feeling of losing a life because of a single unintentional word was just too terrifying!

She knew perfectly well that if Yan Xiu were to say the wrong thing... he could hurt someone.

This was especially true after she arrived at Lingyun Sect, as she was afraid of saying the wrong thing and hurting her fellow disciples who were genuinely kind to her.

Therefore, Ye Yiyi rarely speaks up.

The more you say, the more mistakes you make; the less you say, the fewer mistakes you make; if you don't say anything, you won't make any mistakes.

This way, everyone around will be safe.

She didn't think Yan Xiu was that great. As Yan Xiu, she couldn't speak freely like an ordinary person. Therefore, she didn't want others to become like her, without even the right to speak normally.

That's why Ye Yiyi resisted so much when Tianning proposed becoming Yan Xiu.