Chapter 166: Cultivating a Fake Soul!

  The strongest soul technique that had been cultivated by the True God of the Three Realms, although it was only the most basic one, still made Shiyue ecstatic.

  Xuanbing Han Yan went to great lengths to obtain the Soul Gathering Bead from Shi Yan.

  It not only clearly explained the origins and uses of the Soul Devouring Beast and the Gathering Soul Pearl, but also extracted a soul technique from its memories, just to enable Shi Yan to withstand the first wave of spiritual attacks from the Gathering Soul Pearl.

  Shi Yan's face was filled with joy, hiding behind the dense foliage of an ancient tree, his mind submerged in the Blood Swirl Seal, attentively listening to Xuan Bing's introduction.

  "In your human martial artists' cultivation journey, you will be influenced by hatred, greed, delusions, attachments, and resentment. These are collectively known as heart demons, which can cause you to go crazy and lose all your cultivation. However, there are also powerful beings with great divine abilities and strong willpower who not only fear no heart demons but can also use them to achieve certain things."

  "Devil's Heart?" Shi Yan was surprised for a moment, "You want to tell me that the Soul Technique is related to the Devil's Heart?"

  "Exactly! Using your hatred, greed, delusions, obsessions, and resentment, these heart demons, gather them together with a special method into a ball of demonic emotions, then leave an imprint of your soul in the heart demon. This can form a magic soul in a short time. The magic soul is like a fake soul of yours. When encountering a Lingzhu's soul attack, you only need to release the magic soul, and the Lingzhu's soul power will destroy your fake soul, but your true soul won't be affected at all."

  "Devil's soul? Or just a fake one?"

  "Hmph!" Xuan Bing Han Yan was somewhat impatient, "That guy's demonic soul cultivation is not just that! He can use his heart demon to cultivate a true demonic soul. A true demonic soul is a second soul, also possessing divine powers and even a second sea of consciousness. Once it finds a suitable body, the demonic soul can even form a second him! The demonic soul is condensed from the heart demon, bearing the life imprint of the main soul, possessing the memories and knowledge of the main soul. As long as the demonic soul is weaker than the main soul, it will be controlled by the main soul. But once the demonic soul surpasses the main soul, it can even control the main soul, turning a powerful divine realm expert into a bloodthirsty madman!"

  "If it's as you say, wouldn't having a demon soul mean having an extra life?"

  "It's exactly like that! After cultivating, the demonic soul can be sacrificed to allow the main soul to escape at critical moments. As long as one survives, they can continue to reassemble the demonic soul, and its uses are endless. The main soul and demonic soul complement each other, and it's extremely formidable."

  "Haha, this demonic soul's cultivation method is indeed formidable."

  "Hmph! I won't tell you the method of cultivating a demonic soul. What I taught you was just a fake soul, which can only be sacrificed and has no magical power at all. If I let you know the method of cultivating a demonic soul, you will definitely deal with me in the future, don't even think about it."

  Shi Yan chuckled twice, knowing that it was unrealistic to obtain the method of cultivating demonic souls from Xuan Bing's cold flames in a short period of time. He didn't force the issue and continued to transmit: "Then tell me the method of condensing fake souls."

  "It's like this, you gather hatred, greed, delusion, obsession, and resentment together, as well as all the negative emotions in your body, condensing them into a soul cluster in your mind. Once the soul cluster is formed, your spirit rapidly enters the false soul and then quickly leaves, leaving behind an imprint of your spirit on the false soul, allowing the soul cluster to possess your spiritual mark and form a false soul."

  "Is it that simple?"

  "Of course, it's not that simple. Halfway through, I'll control some of the power to help you tidy up your soul for a bit. Only then can you infuse your spirit; if I don't help you out, you'll be directly trapped by the fake soul, and your heart demon will dominate everything, turning you into a bloodthirsty madman without any self-awareness."

  "Midway through, you help me? How can you help?" Shi Yan coldly snorted, "You think you can escape from the Blood Mark Seal?"

  "This accursed ring has been binding me, my soul can't get out at all, but my consciousness can seep out a bit. Hmph, if my soul could leave this accursed ring, I would have left long ago!"

  "Alright, let's give it a try then."

  As the master of Shiyan, he can subtly control some Blood Rings.

  However, he had long made up his mind that no matter what, he would not release the power of Xuanbing Han Yan from the Blood Pattern Ring. This Xuanbing Han Yan was too evil and powerful, constantly thinking about occupying his soul and taking over his body.

  Compared to the Soul Gathering Bead, he was even more wary of the Mystic Ice Flame!

  So from start to finish, he has been emphasizing that he will not open up his blood seal ring a bit.

  "Cut the nonsense! Let's get going, that Soul Mirror formed by the Gathering Soul Pearl may bring the demon's soul over at any moment. Once the demon's soul appears, we must rush to the Gathering Soul Pool immediately. You need to obtain the Gathering Soul Pearl before the demon finds you, only then can you use it to absorb him, otherwise, you'll have no choice but to die."

  After hearing Xuan Bing's words, Shi Yan also didn't dare to hesitate. He took a deep breath and slowly withdrew his spiritual consciousness from the Blood Vein Ring.

  He took a look around and felt that something was off about this place. This location was at the entrance of the mountain valley where the Soul Gathering Pearl was located, and it was likely that members of the Gu family would be passing by. If a skilled member of the Gu family were to come by and release their divine sense to search for him, they might just discover his trail.

  After some thought, to be on the safe side, Shi Yan flew down from above and quickly left the valley.

  A few hours later, Shi Yan arrived beside the earth mound. He dug a hole in the earth and drilled into it to start condensing his fake soul.

  Unleashing his violent martial skills, all sorts of negative energies surged out. Without the purifying power of the cave, those negative emotions that could affect his mind seemed to still be hidden inside the cave.

  The spiritual energy released by Shiyan intentionally gathered a portion of negative emotions from the acupoints on his body and slowly seeped into his mind.

  Hatred, greed, delusion, obsession, and resentment - all sorts of thoughts kept surfacing in Shi Yan's mind. Under the detailed explanation of Xuan Bing's Cold Flame, as soon as these thoughts emerged in his mind, they immediately condensed with negative emotions and gradually gathered in his mind.

  After a long, long time, in Shi Yan's mind, there appeared a gray and hazy whirlpool, filled with all sorts of negative emotions and heart demons. These emotions condensed into an air mass, constantly affecting Shi Yan, making him grit his teeth and harbor bloodthirsty murderous thoughts.

  This is somewhat similar to the situation when Shiyan's powers were purified in the Stone Cave, but it was still a bit weaker and did not completely destroy Shiyan's will, causing him to fall into a state of not knowing who he was.

  "Alright, I'll help you change that." A wisp of Xuan Bing's consciousness flew out from the Blood Pattern Ring and silently landed in Shi Yan's mind.

  Shi Yan was as if facing a great enemy, not worried about the cyclone forming in his mind, but afraid that the mysterious ice flames would suddenly wreak havoc.

  He cautiously sensed, sensing the consciousness of Xuan Bing's cold flames, but found that this consciousness was not strong, and there seemed to be no memories or wisdom mixed in it, just like his spiritual power, a simple spiritual energy. This spiritual energy had not yet carried any aggressive tendencies.

  Shi Yan didn't dare to relax, secretly being on guard, preparing for the possibility that the spiritual energy of Xuan Bing's cold flames might make a move unfavorable to him, and he would stop at nothing to block it.

  He worried about what Xuan Bing Yan would come up with.

  It's okay, Xuan Bing Han Yan's spiritual energy seems to have no malice. This cold air has been injected into the center of that grayish-white gas mass.

  With the infusion of this icy cold soul energy, the various heart demons in Shi Yan's mind seemed to be evenly dispersed, and even the negative emotions he had gathered were calmed down by the icy aura of Xuan Bing Huoyan.

  "Alright, drill your soul inside and exit immediately!" Xuan Bing Han Yan transmitted the signal.

  Without hesitation, Shi Yan concentrated his spiritual power, gathering his mind and soul, slowly accumulating his spiritual energy to form a beam of light, which suddenly pierced into the fake soul.

  In an instant, Shi Yan entered a layered illusion, his parents' early death, the dullness of life, and the suffocating feeling when he was on the verge of death during adventures all surged into his mind.

  All sorts of green-faced, fang-toothed demons also appeared in the illusion, all baring their teeth and pouncing on him, trying to drag him into the nine serenades... There were also beautiful and charming peerless beauties, wearing revealing clothes, lying horizontally, striking thousands of coquettish poses... Various illusions emerged from the fake soul, and at the moment when Shi Yan's soul beam passed through them, he saw countless evils and temptations.

  At last all peril and temptation disappeared, and when the rock found himself through them, he was shocked.

  In those false souls, there actually emerged a miniature of his own soul!

  Those shadows are in all sorts of phantasms, with a ferocious and brutal look as if they want to destroy everything. The various shadows of their own souls in the phantasms, not one is normal!

  "That's the residual imprint of your soul, your soul imprint activated the fake soul, allowing it to possess a part of your consciousness. Don't worry, this fake soul has no magical power and can't affect you. You just need to block it in front when touching the Soul Gathering Bead, and you'll be able to withstand the bead's soul attack and seize it."

  "Fake soul......" Shi Yan was shocked, "Why, why do I feel like I'm still in that illusion, why, why do I feel like I haven't escaped? The me in that illusion seems to be the real me, this, what's going on?"

  "You've left a soul imprint inside, and although the fake soul has no magical power, it's also a miniature of your heart demon that communicates with your true soul. It's normal to have such feelings, but when you really form a demonic soul, your experience will be even more wonderful. However, I'll never tell you the real method for cultivating a demonic soul!"

  Demon soul! Demon soul!

  Shi Yan withdrew his spiritual sense from the Blood Vein Ring, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He muttered to himself: "I'll get it out of you sooner or later! Hmph!"

  Xīn shén lí kāi xuè wén jiè, xuán bīng hán yàn tīng bù dào tā de zì yán zì yǔ, què yī jiù shǎn shuò zhe.

  ...three days later.

  The stone rock that had been observing the sky suddenly discovered a black shadow appearing in the sky, and those shadows formed a row, slowly flying towards the largest mine of the ancient house.

  Shi Yan raised his head and took a look, immediately recognizing those dark shadows as the Cyan Blood Bats he had once ridden.

  His complexion changed slightly, Shi Yan judged for a moment and found that from his direction to Gu's family mine, it would take at least half a day.

  Rushing to the valley where the Soul Gathering Bead is located will take only two hours!

  After a moment of contemplation, Shi Yan immediately made up his mind and rushed towards the mountain valley where the Soul Gathering Bead was located.

  He knew that change was just around the corner!

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