"The soul is mysterious…reach the utmost emptiness, keep deep stillness…be one with the world…and the soul will be born naturally."
Ye Yu comprehended the secret of the Soul-Nourishing Sutra, and the soul power at his brows gradually emanated. An invisible soul wave spread from his brows, followed by a powerful suction force that spread, and the invisible energy between heaven and earth poured in from his brows.
Feeling that his soul was beginning to transform, Ye Yu felt as if he was in a hot spring. His whole body was relaxing, and his fighting spirit was unconsciously flowing along his meridians.
"Hey, Ye Yu boy, stop now, your current realm cannot support the soul power of the spiritual realm."
Ye Yu was intoxicated in the wonderful sensation and was completely unaware of the anxious look of Beast Master outside.
As the energy of heaven and earth permeated, Ye Yu's soul gradually became stronger, and the soul power constantly impacted his body, trying to break through the obstacles of the body.
In an instant, Ye Yu's face changed drastically. He saw a man sitting cross-legged in the cave. The fluctuation of the energy of heaven and earth made the strand of red hair on his head sway slightly. His soul left his body!
The moment his soul left his body, Ye Yu's body shrank and dried up visibly like a deflated balloon.
Ye Yu tried desperately to get back into his body, but couldn't. Shouye saw it clearly from the side, but he was helpless and could only worry.
As time passed, Ye Yu realized that his soul form was gradually solidifying. This was a sign that he was about to completely lose contact with his physical body. More importantly, his soul had not truly reached the spiritual realm and could not survive in the world for long. Therefore, his soul was dissipating at the same time as it was solidifying.
Without time to think, Ye Yu used his semi-solidified soul to attach to the wooden slip woven from the soul-nourishing wood. The wooden slip emitted a faint light again, and the entire wooden slip pierced Ye Yu's body like a sharp sword.
The wooden slips were stained with blood, and a faint light flickered inside Ye Yu's body. His shriveled body began to slowly recover, but he kept his eyes closed.
Inside the wooden slip, Ye Yu found that all his energy and spirit had returned to his body, but his consciousness remained in a pure white space with a few stars shining above his head.
"Are you the one who obtained the Soul Devouring Sutra? That's interesting. Your body is vulnerable, but your soul has reached the limit of the mortal realm. Even the alchemists of ancient times knew that the soul and body must go hand in hand. Have people in later generations forgotten even this common sense?"
A thin old man appeared in the pure white space, looked at Ye Yu and shook his head.
"Are you the senior who created the Soul-Nourishing Sutra? Little Ye Yu, may I know your name?"
In the space, Ye Yu was startled and turned to face the old man who suddenly appeared behind him. After hearing the old man's words, he bowed respectfully.
"Name? Name. The past is like a passing cloud of smoke. I have long forgotten where I came from and where I am going. What remains is only a remnant of soul and obsession. I live by the wisdom of this Soul Devouring Sutra. I only regained a trace of consciousness after you eliminated its wisdom."
Hearing the old man's words, Ye Yu couldn't help but want to wipe the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead. The old man survived by relying on the spiritual wisdom of the Soul Devouring Sutra. If he erased the spiritual wisdom of the Soul Devouring Sutra, wouldn't that be equivalent to erasing the old man's obsession and hope of survival?
"Don't worry. I am just a remnant of my soul. I don't even have any means of attack. I just vaguely remembered that I wanted to pass something on, but I seem to have forgotten it."
The old man looked at the faint "starlight" above the space and waved his hand. A "star" turned into a streak of light and entered the old man's body.
"I...I...seem to have remembered it! I want to pass on...pass on my alchemy skills!"
After absorbing the flowing light, the old man appeared and disappeared, and his body shape could not be maintained. He kept muttering something in his mouth, and then his eyes fixed on Ye Yu.
"Senior?"
Ye Yu felt uneasy when being stared at, and spoke nervously.
"Alas... You have a powerful soul but you are not an alchemist? It is fate. I will pass on my alchemy skills to you. I hope you can help me pass it on."
The old man sighed for a long time, and finally turned into a white light and disappeared on the spot, and the pure white space shattered.
"The successor to the emperor that I have been looking for with great difficulty is gone just like that? Hey, kid, I will erect a monument for you... Wow! I am so scared!"
Ye Yu suddenly opened his eyes, scaring the Beast Master on his shoulder half to death.
He wanted to get up but he was too weak to stand up. He felt dizzy again and again. There was still a wooden slip stuck in his abdomen by himself. Realizing his miserable state, Ye Yu took out the healing pills given by Fa Ma from his ring, swallowed two of them and fainted again, which scared the Beast Master beside him.
"Fortunately, fortunately, there is still breath this time, and it is not dead yet..."
Beast Master walked around and found that Ye Yu was just in a coma, so he felt relieved. As long as he was not dead, it would be fine. Then he drilled into Ye Yu's body and guided his fighting spirit to squeeze the wooden slips out of his body. There was a time bomb in Ye Yu's body - the space force compressed by him existed in his body. If it was not controlled, this kid would fall asleep forever before he woke up.
Beast Master did not notice that when the wooden slip left Ye Yu's body, a yellowish dust merged into his body along with his blood. With the help of the power of the third-grade healing pill, the granulation tissue in his abdomen began to wriggle and gradually heal.
After a night, Ye Yu, whose soul power had recovered, woke up slowly.
He subconsciously touched the wound on his stomach. The new tender flesh had repaired the blood hole. The bloody wooden slips were scattered aside. After thinking for a long time, Ye Yu finally reacted.
Shaking his heavy head, Ye Yu found that there was a lot of knowledge and techniques of alchemy in his mind, as well as many pill recipes, including many ancient pill recipes that had been lost, such as the necessary material for refining eighth-grade pills and above, the soul-forming dust.
This dust can enhance the spiritual energy in the soul, thus enabling the soul to enter the spiritual realm.
Ye Yu waved his hand and picked up the wooden slip, and probed his soul power into it, twisting out two pale yellow dust particles. He felt that the "starlight" in the pure white space was the remaining soul-pregnant dust of the old man before his death.
What made him even more heartbroken was that he saw from the old man's obsession that the Soul Devouring Sutra's spiritual wisdom that he had casually wiped out had consumed more than ten grains of soul-pregnant dust to give birth to it.
"Forget it. I absorbed one anyway."
Ye Yu checked himself and found that his cultivation had increased by one star and reached the level of a four-star fighter. The most important thing was that although he was reckless, the good thing was that his soul had reached the great perfection in the mortal realm, and a trace of spiritual energy had been born in his soul.
This means that after breaking through to the Dou Wang realm, his soul will naturally break through to the spiritual realm. Then, after getting rid of the spatial force in his body, he will be qualified to fuse with the eighth-order magic core and be able to temporarily gain the strength of a Dou Zun.
"Hmm? Where's Master Beast?"
Ye Yu turned his head and looked around, only to find that there was no Beast Master's iconic childish voice ringing in his ears.
"It's a good thing you still remember me..."
Fortunately, the voice of Shouye sounded faintly in his ears, which made him feel relieved.