Volume 1: The Last Siege Chapter 6: The Three Uses of the Soul

"This can't be!" Han Yexing struggled to recall everything he knew about the ghost, and his tone was confused for a moment, and he was anxious to speak, "Doesn't it all say that this ghost is very beneficial to spiritual practitioners...... How...... When did it become a monstrous race!?"

"As you said, the Apocalypse Plane was destroyed by the hands of the Spirit Hunter Ye Fusha, and the Phantom Race lost its home and wandered around...... I thought, anything can happen!"

Lin Yuan Jue recalled the ghost, and he also had palpitations: "And I have been wandering in the Stygian Sea all these years, and I have heard the legend of the ghost's underworld in several planes. Especially since this island of destiny was taken over by the Blue Spirit Plane, I heard that they have changed their previous kind and gentle temperament, and have begun to destroy people's cultivation, take away people's spiritual homes, and even ...... like spirit demons."

"Or even what!?"

"Even manipulate the host, the Spiritualizer!"

"Okay, at least I'm not a spiritual cultivator yet!" Han Yexing looked at Lin Yuanjue, trying to calm himself down: "I haven't held an awakening ceremony yet, and I haven't opened up the spiritual sea ...... yet."

He really wanted to see Lin Yuanjue give a positive answer, but he didn't expect that the answer he got from Lin Yuanjue's face was heavy, and he slowly shook his head.

"This can't be! This can't be......" Han Yexing's face was full of horror, he only felt that his head became empty for a while, and kept muttering to himself: "The old blind man has said: Hunting spirit is taboo, the world is spiritual, and everyone will be punished together!"

"Little brother, you don't have to worry, your problem may not be as serious as you think. Lin Yuanjue looked at the young man who had become a little stupid due to the great changes, and he felt a little unbearable, so he had to continue to comfort him: "Of course, it may not be as simple as you think......

"Really!?" Hearing Lin Yuanjue's words, a fine light shot out of the young man's eyes, as if he had grasped the last straw: "So, I won't be underworldd! I won't become a spirit hunter!?"

"Alas...... You know that there are three major spiritual systems in this world: spirit sealing, spirit refining, and spirit hunting. Lin Yuan didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to clear his mind and asked the young man, "Then do you know where the boundary between the three is!?"

"I'm not a spiritual cultivator yet!" Han Yexing was crying, and his eyes were staring at Lin Yuanjue tightly: "How could I know these ......?"

"Oh, yes, but you can see the aura between heaven and earth, it's easy to do!" While calming the young man's emotions, Lin Yuanjue looked up at the deep night sky, his spiritual sense swept through the surrounding ruins, and finally stopped in a rancid weeds in the middle of the street: "I'm sorry, it's you~"

As he hummed softly, the young man noticed a little ripple in the deep spiritual sea of the abyss, and another chakra rose on the tip of his right finger. As this abyss-like chakra rose, a trace of spiritual power had already floated out.

It floated like a kite with no broken string across the courtyard, over the ruins, and finally hovered among the weeds, and a faint soul fire was captured by it and brought back to the ruined house.

At this moment, it is hovering quietly on the fingertips of the abyss, floating and sinking.

"This is the soul, the soul that each of us has!" Lin Yuanjue manipulated the chakras on his fingertips and moved the weak soul fire in front of the young man, allowing him to take a closer look.

"It is extremely powerful, it is the root of all laws, the source of the strength of all spiritual cultivators! But it is also extremely fragile, in addition to being able to contact and merge with the spiritual energy, once it leaves the spiritual sea and touches anything else, it will be annihilated immediately if it does not suffer heavy damage!"

"This soul usually dwells in the spiritual platform above the spiritual sea of each of us, this spiritual platform is like a pagoda, the tower has seven floors, and there are two doors at the bottom of the tower, which is the door of life and the door of death. ”

"The door of life and the door of death?"

"Yes, it is these two doors that determine the division of spiritual cultivators: among them, those who are born and leave the soul are for refining spirits, those who open the door of death and devour souls are hunting spirits, and those who open two doors to lure souls into the spiritual sea are for sealing spirits. ”

Lin Yuanjue said, with a pause in his hand, the shape of the veins on his fingertips changed, and the dark soul fire had been captured, and it began to continue to stretch and expand, and finally dispersed into clusters of starlight. The scattered starlight continued to disperse until the weak soul fire reached the limit of what it could withstand, and he stopped.

"You look closelyβ€”this is the form of the soul evolving in the direction of spirit refining: the begotten is discrete, expanding, it leads to space and eternity. Souls that evolve into this form can generate what is known as telekinesis, which can generate, solidify, guide, and extract the aura between heaven and earth. ”

"According to some unwritten saying, this mind power has eleven levels, and it is called eleven thoughts of refining spirits. The more this telekinesis is awakened, the more types and ranges of aura that can be controlled. "With the incomprehensible evolution of the soul form, from the spirit slave to the spirit disciple, and then from the spirit disciple to the spirit envoy, all the way to the spirit master, the soul of the spirit refiner can evolve into the spiritual sea that leaves the person and comes to this real world. ”

"Of course, in order to prevent the fragile soul from being hit hard, the spirit refiner will first choose to refine his natal spirit object, until the soul is completely fused with it, and then the soul can be separated from the body for a long time, thus greatly strengthening the ability to refine the spirit. ”

"No wonder that's so!" Han Yexing listened to it for a while, and the chaotic and fragmented spiritual knowledge in the past was finally connected: "I remember what the old blind man said, he said that the sign of a spirit refiner is a natal spiritual object. ”

"He's right!" Lin Yuanjue nodded solemnly: "That's why I asked you to cherish this fragment in your hand as if you were your own life!"

"You mean!?"

"Yes, you guessed right! In other words, because of this incident, you directly skipped the stage of spirit slaves and spirit envoys, and now you are already a spirit refiner with natal spirit objects!"

Seeing that the young man was still a little ignorant, he couldn't help but continue to admonish: "This spirit refiner has always regarded his natal spirit object as his biggest secret, because although this spirit refiner can give birth to and control spiritual energy, he can't produce spiritual power and is not good at fighting. If the natal spirit creature is known by the enemy, it will suffer heavy damage at least and be killed instantly!"

"Only by continuing to cultivate, from the spirit master to the spirit venerable, and then from the spirit venerable to the legendary spirit king, can this natal spirit object turn into a virtual reality, and switch freely between the ontology and the outside world, and the fatal weakness of the spirit refiner can be effectively avoided!"

"What about the Soul Sealer?"

"As for us Soul Sealers. As he spoke, Lin Yuan's hand shook, and the expanding soul light began to shrink again, returning to its original appearance.

It's just that it didn't stay in this form for long, and it continued to shrink, until it reached a certain critical point, and it began to collapse violently, bursting like starlight, and finally turned into a streamer, forming a series of interconnected spiritual veins. Once this spiritual vein is connected, it forms chakras of different shapes.

"This is the Soul Seal! The hallmark of our Soul Sealers is this chakra. ”

"The soul sealer awakens the soul through the awakening ceremony, and throws the soul into the spiritual sea through the two gates of life and death for tempering, constantly stimulating his own potential. After the eight spiritual veins on the human body form a chakra, the spiritual energy in this spiritual sea can be converted into spiritual power for fighting. ”

"Five hundred years ago, the eight main planes gathered in the astrological city of the twilight plane to make an alliance of cold fire to fight the spirit hunters. In that covenant, the Spirit Sealing Kings of the Eight Main Planes and the Thirteen Spirit Refining Kings gathered together, and it was only for the first time that this Spirit Sealing System was assembled and sorted out, and the current rules and regulations were established. ”

"The soul sealer goes from awakening the spirit, forming the vein, sealing the chakra, hallucinating, and then entering the mind and attracting the soul...... It is a difficult road of not borrowing external forces, seeking oneself internally, and constantly surpassing oneself. ”

"It is not unreasonable that although we spiritualists have risen the latest among the three major spiritual systems, we can take the lead and become the mainstream of today's spiritual world. The so-called way of sealing the soul is nothing but the process of awakening the soul of each of us and shaping it according to our free will!"

In the Cold Fire Alliance five hundred years ago, there was a saying of the Six Methods of Sealing Spirits: one is the 'Netherworld Original Sin Covenant' of our Abyss Plane, the 'Blue Light Spirit Heart Knot' of the Blue Spirit Plane, the 'Cloud Shadow Demon Blood Seal' of the Cloud Shadow Plane, and the 'Nine Bones of the Cold Mountain Plane' of the Cold Mountain Plane, the 'Five Aggregates of Karma Collection' of the Burning Lotus Plane, and of course, your Zixuan's 'Purple Xuan Weiyang Jue'. ”

"As for this Spirit Hunter...... Lin Yuan Jue said, his hand shook again, and this little bit of soul fire began to shrink and merge under his control, and then continued to break under fission, until Han Yexing could not see its true existence.

It's just that in the deep darkness, the already extremely weak soul suddenly rose and ignited the line of fire.

These lines of fire stretched freely in the air, drawing a mystical trajectory, and finally formed a mysterious rune - it was the blood-colored waning moon that Cold Night Xing saw before he passed out in the Requiem Array.

"This is not ......" Han Yexing had been immersed in the various visions of the Soul Sealer, and suddenly saw this waning moon, and couldn't help but exclaim!

"Yes, you read that right! This is the evolution of the soul of the Spirit Hunter, the so-called opening the door of death to accept the fierce spirit, it is precisely for the legendary Soul Eater!"

"This door of death is convergence, contraction, it leads to time and reincarnation. By making a soul contract with the demon god, the soul form that evolves in this direction will form various magic spectrums. Once this soul spectrum is complete, it can be used to recruit and control the seeds of the fierce spirits through the four ways of temptation, stickiness, bondage, and erosion, and use them to fight. ”

"And what we see in the Requiem Array tonight is one of the four magic spectrums - the spectrum of the undead! Legend has it that when it is perfected, it will turn into a blood-colored full moon. Once this spectrum of the undead is complete, it can manipulate countless undead to fight. At the time of the battle, this undead spirit was almost endless, and there was no way to completely kill these undead except for sealing it or killing the spirit hunter himself!"

"You mean, there are spirit hunters in our Xunyang City!?"

"Yes, the reason why I appeared in the requiem field tonight is precisely to track down the trail ......of this spirit hunter!

"What a pity!?"

"This spirit hunter is not in Xunyang City!"

"Which waning moon?"

"Alas, this magic spectrum can rely on the formation to cross the boundaries of space, if the spectrum of the undead that appears today is not a doppelganger projection, but a deity appears, I'm afraid we won't have a chance to talk here!" Lin Yuan sighed and continued: "However, although this spirit hunter is powerful, it is a pretense of external force after all. And you need to make a soul contract with the demon god, which is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will be counterattacked. ”

"Besides, this fierce spirit race was originally born in the Stygian Sea, from the illusion realm, and the underworld energy carried by the body is naturally opposed to the plane aura, once they meet, they will annihilate each other, so they have always been the great enemy of our plane world!"

"Soul Contract!?" Han Yexing looked at Lin Yuan's non-stop demonstration, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "Since my soul resides in this fragment, that is, I said that I did not make a soul contract with the Demon God, and I will not become a spirit hunter!?"

"Little brother, you are very sensitive, but this is also what I don't understand!" Lin Yuan sighed and continued: "We have only one soul, which cannot be separated. The three of these spirit refining, sealing spirits, and hunting spirits have always been distinct, and they are not connected. Although there are also precedents for spirit refiners and spirit sealers to fall into spirit hunters, they can only make this transformation after they have abolished their own cultivation. As for your situation, according to common sense, you should be a dead person at this moment-"

"Dead manβ€”"

"Yes, but you don't have to worry!" Lin Yuanjue continued to comfort the young man: "Existence is reasonable, but I see another possibility in you!"

"What possibility?"

"Open up the spirit refining and sealing the spirit...... And the boundary between the three of them!"

"Get through...... ...... between the three Boundaries?"

"Yes!" Lin Yuan smiled faintly: "Of course, the premise is that you can live to that time!"

Looking at Lin Yuan's continuous deference, the cold night couldn't help but be fascinated for a while, and trembled again. He kept imagining all kinds of possibilities, but he rejected them one by one in his heart.

After a long silence, he came back to his senses: "Why are you helping me!?"

"Why do I want to help you......" Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh lightly......: "Yes, why do I want to help you?"

While the two were talking, the cold night walker suddenly turned his head and looked at the wind and snow outside the house, and he seemed to hear the footsteps of the pursuers.

Almost at the same time, Lin Yuanjue also listened sideways, and he gave the young man a look of appreciation: "If you still want to live, remember what I said to you tonight! If you don't know how to choose then, then remember your original intention of saving people today, and you will no longer feel afraid." ”

After Lin Yuanjie finished speaking, he didn't wait for the cold night to react, so he stood up, stepped out of the dilapidated house, and disappeared into the wind and snow outside.

I don't know how long it took, but the cold night walk finally came back to his senses. He noticed that the soldiers on the night patrol had not arrived for a long time, presumably led by him elsewhere. The fire was slowly burning, and the elixir on his body was starting to work. Outside the house was bleak and snowy, but inside this room was so warm that it made people sleepy.

He wanted to touch the burning pain on his head, but before he could touch it, he broke out in a cold sweat. The pain made him suddenly feel unreal, what a strange person, a strange thing.

He simply lay quietly, carefully recalling what Lin Yuan absolutely said, and constantly telling himself what he needed to pay attention to in the future. In the midst of recalling it over and over again, I fell asleep peacefully.

In the early morning, he woke up suddenly, sat up in shock, and found that although he still had a faint pain in his body, most of the injuries had healed. The wind and snow outside the house have not stopped, although it is dawn, but there is only a glimmer of light. It's still this lonely city, this dilapidated house, this snow.

He slowly got up and stepped into the wind and snow in a trance, feeling like he was in a dream. He tucked away his robe, looked back at the dilapidated house, and finally made sure that none of this was a dream!

The ashes of the fire were still burning, and there was an ugly scar on his forehead. What's more important is that the fluctuation of aura coming from the wide robe on his body made him feel a long-lost warmth in this post-apocalyptic siege.