After thinking of Strategist Ji, many of Li Yan’s forgotten memories came to his mind again.
By now, he no longer hated Advisor Ji so much. Although the other party had harmed him, it was also because of this person that Li Yan entered the door of cultivating immortals.
Li Yan is no longer as interested in the immortal cultivation lineage as he used to be. He tries his best not to think about it, but is now full of doubts and confusion.
He felt that there were some things that perhaps only these ants who traveled across the continents in search of immortals could know the answers to.
Originally, Li Yan had thought that after returning from Fengshen Continent, with his late Nascent Soul stage strength, he could try to dive into the depths of the pool again to investigate. However, he inexplicably ascended to heaven, and his plan came to nothing.
Now that these things are entangled together, the only clue Li Yan has is the "long underground alley" that appeared here.
Therefore, Li Yan could only think carefully about all the related things, but even after more than an hour, he still couldn't sort out too many clues.
Later, Li Yan took out the broken pottery jar. This thing was definitely related to the Soul Prison Clan.
Although Li Yan's current practice of soul cultivation cannot be considered a true master, his understanding of the power of the soul is completely different from before.
After taking out the broken pottery jar, he first sensed it carefully. There was still a trace of soul power in it, but the rest was like a dead object.
Then, Li Yan suspended the broken pottery jar in the air in front of him and began to make hand gestures, trying various soul techniques...
Half a day later, Li Yan's expression changed from contemplation to helplessness.
He finally had to give up thinking about this matter. No matter how he moved the broken pottery jar, it remained motionless like a dead object!
Li Yan had no choice but to temporarily put all his questions in the bottom of his heart.
After thinking about it, his spiritual consciousness entered the "Earth Spot" and soon arrived at the place where he raised poisonous insects. He first transmitted his mind to some of the poisonous insects, and then withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
Then he waved his sleeves and placed some poisonous insects around himself.
He was about to enter seclusion, and during this time of cultivation, he would enter deep meditation. Although a cultivator in cultivation still had a rough estimate of the passage of time, Li Yan was still afraid of missing the hundred-year deadline.
If he fails to complete the five tasks by then, he will be severely punished by the sect.
Therefore, he still ordered these poisonous insects to wake him up in the eightieth year. He was not sure how difficult the five tasks were, so he thought it would be better to leave more time.
After doing all this, Li Yan took out a soul tablet, injected his soul power into it, and engraved a set of exercises into it.
Although cultivators have super memories, Li Yan still likes to record unfamiliar techniques and study them slowly.
After becoming familiar with the cultivation process, one can either put things like the soul tablet of the martial arts technique into the "earth spot" or directly destroy the soul tablet.
As for the so-called skills that cannot be passed on to outsiders? In the "Earth Realm", Li Yan would of course abide by it completely and dare not go beyond it.
But if he could leave here, except for the Guishui Xianmen technique and the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique, he would of course give away all the other techniques in his hands to whoever he wanted, including the techniques of the Zhenhun Palace.
For example, in the future, if Gong Chenying and Zhao Min are willing to practice, Li Yan will definitely give them out without reservation. After leaving here, he will not care about any broken rules of the Zhenhun Palace.
Li Yan took the soul tablet in his hand and probed his soul power again. The first thing his soul power sensed was six big words - "The Opening Chapter of the Holy Soul Transformation".
The one he finally chose was the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique. After browsing many techniques in the Dharma Transmission Pavilion, Li Yan finally chose this one.
This technique has the same nature as the Guishui Sutra. One focuses on cultivating the foundation of magic power, while the other targets the power of the soul.
Moreover, compared with other exercises, the price of this exercise is not too expensive.
Li Yan planned to spend five years practicing it. If he did not make any progress in five years, he would immediately abandon this technique.
As for the choice of soul techniques, although there are many, after thinking about it, Li Yan felt that his soul cultivation foundation was still too weak, so he planned to practice "Holy Soul Transformation" while continuing to practice the basic soul techniques.
After laying a solid foundation, he would then look for the right soul technique. With these plans in mind, Li Yan began to ponder the soul tablet carefully...
Even Li Yan himself was completely surprised that this practice would last year after year.
Winter goes and spring comes, autumn passes and winter comes!
As time went by, it seemed as if Li Yan had never appeared in the Zhenhun Palace. He only showed up on the day he joined the sect.
Afterwards, he completely disappeared. During Li Yan's training, the door of the training room was closed for thirty years.
However, situations like this are actually the most normal for cultivators who have just joined the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
Once they enter the Zhenhun Palace, they will be like Li Yan, basically unable to wait to buy martial arts techniques to practice. This is their biggest purpose of entering the sect, which is to quickly improve their cultivation level.
Although there is a hundred-year mission limit, every new disciple will basically choose to accept a mission only after sixty years.
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On this very day, Li Yan was sitting cross-legged in his retreat room, with his long hair hanging down to the ground and his eyes slightly closed.
At this moment, there was a pile of gray stones in front of him. They were spirit stones whose spiritual energy had been exhausted.
Not far away, there were six or seven black beetles, lying there quietly. Each of them was the size of a civet cat, and were distributed around Li Yan.
These were exactly the "tiger-eating poison" that Zhao Min had given him. These poisonous insects were extremely ferocious, but at this moment, each of them had their eyes closed, standing still like millstones.
There is no sense of murderous intent, but as long as any living creature approaches Li Yan, they will launch the most ferocious attack.
Li Yan was sitting cross-legged, with no fluctuations of mana on his body, and even his breathing had almost disappeared. These were the symptoms of a cultivator entering deep meditation.
In fact, at this time, Li Yan's three souls seemed to have flown away from his body, passed through the void, and entered a vast unknown space.
Li Yan, dressed in black, was flying slowly in a black space. Above his head was a sky full of stars.
Li Yan didn't know how long he had been flying here. There was only darkness and stars, but he still couldn't find a star that could resonate with him.
The him here is condensed from three souls.
The "Holy Soul Transformation" technique requires the cultivation of the Yang Soul and the Yin Soul, and finally the transformation into the sun and the moon in reincarnation. However, if the three souls want to transform into a cold moon, they must first transform into a star.
When the star power within this star is full, you can begin to comprehend the essence of the moon, and then start to transform the three souls into the cold moon step by step.
In order to obtain the power of the stars, one must cultivate until the three souls are united into one, with the heavenly soul as the head, the earthly soul as the body, and the human soul as the limbs, which is called the "ghost spirit" body.
After practicing to this level, you can enter the meditation space with your body and sense the stars in the dark.
Li Yan didn't know whether the stars in the sky here really existed, but after thirty years of hard training, he finally cultivated his three souls to the point of unity and solidification.
He immediately followed the magic formula and activated the human-shaped body of the "ghost spirit". This person with three souls who had the same appearance as Li Yan immediately flew out from the top of Li Yan's head.
Afterwards, he merged into a dark space. Although there was no wind in this space, Li felt extremely cold, as if he had arrived in the Netherworld.
But when he looked around, he didn't find any underworld things like the Naihe Bridge and the Yellow Spring River, but there was a sky full of stars above his head.
These stars are some far away, some near, each one twinkling with a cold bluish-white light. Some are as big as an adult's fist, while others are slightly smaller, like a baby's fist.
But there were more stars as small as fingernails and ants, which filled the entire sky, but the light of these stars was much weaker, even almost invisible. Li Yan flew towards the stars in the sky, but every time he wanted to get close to a star, an invisible force would push him away.
Li Yan knew that these stars were the "Soul Stars" recorded in the exercises.
According to the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique, every living being in the world will correspond to a "Soul Star". The stronger the three souls of a person, the brighter the "Soul Star" will be.
Therefore, 90% of those bright "Soul Stars" correspond to cultivators, while those stars that are almost too faint to be visible are the natal "Soul Stars" of mortals.
Whether this so-called "Soul Star" really exists is not recorded in the martial arts books, but it is definitely invisible to those who are not soul cultivators.
But even for soul cultivators, due to the different techniques, they may not know about the "Soul Star". There may even be star-related cultivation in their techniques. This is just the name of the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique.
However, in some soul cultivation techniques, the stars are also used, and those stars can only be seen in meditation, but the names and methods of use may be different.
Li Yan travels through this space, and he needs to keep searching here to find his natal "Soul Star".
This kind of search is very difficult. In the area you pass through, you need to constantly sense the stars you think are suitable.
Fortunately, according to the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique, when a cultivator is able to cultivate to the point where the three souls are united into one, it means that your soul is already quite powerful, and the "Soul Star" that you sense is also relatively bright.
Therefore, you don’t have to consider those stars that are smaller than the size of a baby’s fist, as they are the “Soul Stars” corresponding to mortals.
The stars here are not your natal "Soul Star", and you will never be able to approach them.
Li Yan understood that this should also be a kind of restriction and protection of the rules of heaven.
Otherwise, once you get close to a star, you can just reach out and destroy the star, and maybe you can really kill its body. Then, you can kill people at will here.
Of course, this statement is only recorded in the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique. As for other soul cultivation techniques, whether it means that every person will correspond to a star is not necessarily the case.
After all, all the exercises were created by our predecessors, and when they created each set of exercises, they created it according to their own cultivation and understanding.
The path Li Yan is taking now is just to follow the path explored by his predecessors and move forward through continuous practice.
Li Yan kept flying under the starry sky, constantly trying to communicate with the stars he thought were suitable. Time passed day after day, and later, he no longer knew how long he had been flying.
Even the body composed of three souls has begun to feel tired.
But he still kept flying day and night, constantly approaching each star he identified, but was then pushed away by the other party, and continued to search again...
Another three years passed in the training room. Li Yan's body had become thin. His muscles, which were once full of energy and blood, had become shriveled and dull, and his blue veins were like protruding green earthworms.
During the past three years, he had not practiced "Holy Soul Transformation" and naturally, he had not breathed in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. At this moment, he could not even breathe, like a dried corpse.
Li Yan's remaining vitality depends entirely on the endless circulation of magic power in his body and the constant flow of his seven souls throughout his body.
Suddenly, Li Yan, who had been motionless, suddenly shook violently. With this shaking of his body, Li Yan, who was originally like a mummy, suddenly gained more strength.
As soon as this power appeared, Li Yan felt like the spring rain, winter had passed and spring had come, or like a dead tree coming back to life.
Li Yan, who was already very thin, began to glow red all over his body. Then a powerful vitality emanated from his body in just an instant, and Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes.
A pair of dark eyes flashed red for a moment, and then a chilling coldness spread out in all directions.
"Three souls return to the body!"
Li Yan growled in his heart. Just before that, he finally sensed his own "Soul Star".
The moment it sensed the "Soul Star", the body formed by the combination of three souls was sucked in the moment it approached the star.
At the moment his body was sucked in, Li Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the cave, immediately returned to his body, bringing with him tremendous vitality.
As Li Yan shouted in a low voice, the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique was also activated at the same time. Immediately, the power of the soul and spirit merged again and spread throughout the body.
The "Holy Soul Transformation" technique was running, rushing through every corner of the body, and then condensed into a column of wind. Li Yan felt that a cool force suddenly appeared in his soul power.
The emergence of this power made his three souls seem to be frozen together at all times, becoming more solid and compact.
A vortex suddenly appeared on the crown of the golden Yuanying who was also sitting cross-legged in Dantian. Then, large patches of bluish-white light spots similar to starlight fell one after another.
These bluish-white spots of light were formed when the "Holy Soul Transformation" technique was activated. A rotating column of wind was formed in the body, going straight through the crown of Li Yan's body and down to the top of his Nascent Soul's head.
Then, Li Yan felt that the top of his head was constantly absorbing some invisible cold power from between heaven and earth.
Afterwards, this force followed the wind column and continuously injected into the top of the Nascent Soul at the Dantian below.
As these powers were injected, a spot of light slowly appeared on the forehead of the golden Nascent Soul, like a star.
However, the light of this star is very weak, and it flickers and seems to be going out at any time...
Three months later, Li Yan's eyes trembled slightly while he was meditating, and then slowly opened. At this time, Li Yan's eyes were even clearer, like a pool of water.
His eyes truly turned into two deep stars, and in the instant his eyes opened and closed, without him making any movement, a loud "boom" suddenly came from several feet ahead.
Along with this, the entire training room began to shake violently, and the formation restrictions that protected the place suddenly emitted a blinding white light.
At the same time, on the formation restriction in front of Li Yan, white light flashed rapidly, and there was a crackling sound, similar to the sound of electric arc jumping.
After a few breaths, the white light slowly dimmed.
The basic soul cultivation technique - "Soul Dividing Slash". After seeing this result, Li Yan couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
Over the years, he has taken time to practice his soul skills. Although he has not yet reached perfection, he is very close.
When he used it again just now, although he only used 60% of the strength, it had already caused several cracks to appear in the "Mo Kai" formation. This kind of power has reached the middle Nascent Soul level among soul cultivators.
If he exerts his full strength, he can reach the power of the late Nascent Soul stage.
“Although I have not been able to cultivate my Yang Soul and Yin Soul to the point where they can transform into the sun and the moon, I have already communicated with my natal ‘Soul Star’, and the power of the stars has begun to accumulate in my body.
After the spell was cast, the effect was more than twice as good as before the 'Soul Star' was sensed.
And this is only the case when I have sensed the 'Soul Star', and I am still far from being able to sense the full power of the star.
As I absorb more star power in the future, my attacks will continue to grow stronger. I just don’t know if I can fully exert the power of my soul without breaking through to the Spiritual Transformation stage…”
Li Yan was weighing the effect of his previous attack in his mind. Although the "Holy Soul Transformation" was only a remnant, he could still cultivate the moon essence of the Yin soul in the end.
Li Yan is even more looking forward to this!
(End of this chapter)