Ten years ago!

The 25-year-old Li Ping was in the secret room as usual, but he no longer practiced as hard as he did before the age of 15, and kept thinking about improving his cultivation. In fact, after so many years, he was still stuck at the bottleneck of the sixth layer of the Qi cultivation period, and now that a full decade had passed, he no longer had any hope for his realm to improve. Although things like this, stuck in a bottleneck for decades or even a lifetime, are very common in the spirit world, when such things happen to him, he still feels hopeless.

After all, he had only practiced the cultivation of the sixth layer of the Qi period, and he hadn't even started to learn the Five Elements Spell, and on the way to cultivation, this was just the beginning, and it came to an abrupt end.

Looking at this cultivation secret room that his father had spent his life savings to build for him, Li Ping only felt ashamed.

Maybe in other words, with such conditions, maybe he would be able to easily step into the threshold of the tenth layer of the Qi cultivation period! But for him, at this moment, there is no use for it.

In fact, it is also weird, even if Li Ping has been cultivating here since he was a child, he still doesn't know where this place is. Because there are layers of spatial barriers on all sides of the secret room, in his estimation, I am afraid that he does not have the strength of the foundation building period, and he will not be able to break the spatial barriers here at all. And every time he goes in and out, he relies on a small teleportation circle, although it costs a lot, but it is also extremely safe, and he is not afraid of being disturbed.

However, based on Li Ping's observation over the years, it can be roughly judged that the location of this secret room is an extremely unstable area, because many times, this secret room will be in a turbulent and uneven situation, like a boat on the sea encountering a huge wind and waves. Fortunately, over the years, although the secret room has often experienced these fluctuations, it has remained firm, and its tenacity is far beyond Li Ping's imagination.

In the secret room, the most important formation, in addition to the teleportation array that can be used to enter and exit, is the soul absorbing array in the center.

Back then, he had heard his father talk about the operation of this secret room, and he didn't know if it was because he was too young at the time, or because he lived in such a stable and happy living environment, and he didn't want to care about this aspect at all, so he only had some vague memories. And his father Li Xian only mentioned it once, and then stopped mentioning it, obviously he also knew that these things were too far away for Li Ping at this time, and he didn't need to know at all.

The West Pole Continent itself is a region of spatial turmoil, it is rumored that in ancient times, this was the battlefield of the war between gods and demons, and countless powerful people fought bloody battles here, which eventually led to the collapse of mountains and rivers, the annihilation of space, and the entire West Pole Continent was almost destroyed. According to rumors, this was not the case before, and the West Pole Continent was a sacred place for immortal practice with continuous mountains and aura in ancient times.

It's just that this kind of legend is too far away, and no one can verify it.

Such an unstable space also makes the West Pole Continent dangerously spread, hundreds of thousands of miles west of Dingyuan City, the Heavenly Absolute Valley, is a Jedi full of spatial cracks, it is rumored that no matter how powerful people with advanced cultivation enter it, as long as they touch the spatial cracks, they will be pulled into the void and torn to pieces, and their bodies will die, which is extremely terrifying. Because of this, the powerful people of the three major factions set up layers of magic circles around the Heavenly Absolute Valley to prevent anyone from straying into it.

As for the small spatial rifts in other places, they can be seen everywhere, and from time to time, some underworld ghosts will sneak into the spirit world through the spatial cracks to fight for disaster. And the responsibility of the three major factions is obviously to guard the security of the West Pole Continent and expel the ghosts that come from across the border.

Of course, these things Li Ping is just hearsay, when he was young, he disdained to inquire about these things, just a mental practice, after the family changes, he has no intention of these things, all day long, just thinking about staying away from this world. If it weren't for the fact that he could open the valley by cultivating to the fourth level of the Qi cultivation period, and he could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to maintain his own consumption, I am afraid that a person like him might starve to death in a corner.

This secret room was built in a place where the space was unstable, and the function of the soul sucking array was to suck some of the soul consciousness in the void into it.

It seems that I heard my father say that the intersection of space here is not the underworld like other places, but another world without aura, a place called the human world or the waste world. Speaking of which, it can indeed be called the waste world, taking the spiritual world as an example, in the spiritual world, the number of monks is not much, but it is not small, those who have spiritual roots, through the cultivation of spells, can attract spiritual energy into the body, wash the marrow and cut the hair, remove the fat and change the bones, increase the longevity, and achieve the Tao.

Those who have no spiritual roots are naturally outcasts in this world, busy every day for warmth, and gradually aging and dying.

And the human world is different, whether it is the chosen son with a spiritual root, or an ordinary person without a spiritual root, it is the same, because that world itself does not have spiritual energy, even if there is a spiritual root, there is no spiritual energy available, so that all living beings in the world are only busy for eating, drinking, living and traveling, and after a short life, they return to reincarnation. The Soul Returning Array is to absorb the divine consciousness souls of those who are in the spiritual root but have not cultivated, and supplement their own cultivation by refining their divine consciousness into divine elements.

Because these soul bodies themselves have spiritual root qualifications, although they have not been cultivated, they also have innate spiritual elements, and for those who are low in cultivation, they are naturally great supplements, even far beyond ordinary elixirs. However, if you want to build such a soul returning array, it is really not a simple matter, not only must it be at the intersection with the human world, but also there needs to be a natural space crack, otherwise, not to mention a late-stage foundation building monk like Li Xian, or a Jindan stage monk like the ancestor of the Li family, it is absolutely impossible to have the ability to break through the interface.

On the West Pole Continent, there are many spatial cracks that communicate with the underworld, but the cracks that happen to communicate with the human world are really one in a million. It can be imagined from this that Li Xian had to wait for his son's cultivation at the beginning, but unfortunately, Li Ping's cultivation was stuck in the sixth layer of Qi training, and his father's hard work was in vain.

On the edge of the Soul Returning Array, there is also a small array called the Reverse Boundary Array, which is actually just another reverse passage made in the same spatial rift. Because the soul body without a spiritual root in the body has no effect at all for the monks of the spirit realm, and the soul of a mortal is even more likely to damage the Dao heart, so once such a soul body strays into the soul returning array, it needs to be sent back from the reverse realm array, so that these souls can be reloaded back into the human realm and re-enter the underworld cycle.

It's complicated to say, but in fact, it's just a Shura field for those with spiritual roots in the human world, and the monks are naturally selected, and the strong survive. It's just that the chosen sons of the human world have too bad luck to have such cultivation conditions at all, and they still can't escape the fate of making wedding dresses for others after death. Even if this is just a small crack, on the way from the human world to the underworld, only a small number of souls will be captured by the soul returning array, but over the years, there have been nearly more than a hundred soul elements that have been absorbed by Li Pinglianhua.

Li Ping didn't care about this, just like the spiritual monks suppressed the ghosts of the underworld, it was just a matter of habit and nature.

On this day, Li Ping still grabbed and took out the soul bodies in the Guiyuan Array as usual, sealed them into the bottle, and then erased the divine sense and practiced as the soul element.

It was only when he habitually searched souls to learn about the life experiences of these soul bodies that Li Ping read the memory of a person named Shen Tong. As he learned more and more, the more he knew, the more he felt in his heart, and in the end, even he didn't know why he re-sealed Shen Tong's memory in the spirit bottle, but he was already in tears.

In the human world, people with spiritual roots, because of the existence of innate soul elements, are often slightly higher than ordinary people in terms of intelligence, although such a less obvious intelligence gap, the impact on people's lives is not great, but it is undeniable that often those who stand at the top of society, most of them are those who have spiritual roots. Or that's the so-called 99 percent perspiration plus 1 percent talent.

And sometimes, that one percent of talent is the most important point in determining where you end up standing.

Over the years, he has read more than 100 memories of soul bodies, and knows a period of life experience and past. Most of these so-called successful people in the human world are actually people who can be loyal and brave in times of suffering, and share weal and sorrow. When life is difficult and difficult, they can often show amazing endurance and a calm personality that far exceeds ordinary people, and they rise up in the midst of difficulties and rise to the sky. But once they become famous, such people who hold great power or have a lot of money will lose their original nature and become greedy and despicable.

He has seen a lot of tricks to abandon his original partner and marry back to a junior, and he has seen a lot of people who betray their brothers and friends for money and power, and those who fight with him when he is difficult are just stepping stones on his road to success. The wives who did not leave him when he was poor and difficult eventually became a stumbling block to their lust for beauty, and when he began to enjoy life, most of them had to enjoy it alone, and how many of them could do it with his brothers and friends? with his original wife?

After seeing more such things, he couldn't help but sneer, obviously whether it is in the spirit world or the human world, the inferior roots of human nature are the same. He does not feel the slightest guilt or uneasiness when refining these "dirty" souls, and it is obvious that he feels that this is a kind of revenge for those who have been outcast.

It's just that when he saw and read Shen Tong's memory, an inexplicable feeling surged in his heart.