Chapter 204: Self-Created Soul Refining Technique

After watching this spectacular drama, Long Xuan followed Long Qian's instructions and transmitted all the footage recorded by the Shadow-Recording Gu into Long Qian's own Shadow-Recording Gu.

The Shadow-Recording Gu had the ability to transmit footage over long distances, so Long Qian did not need to take his own Shadow-Recording Gu away.

Furthermore, he couldn't take it away; if he were to truly present Long Xuan's Shadow-Recording Gu to the City Lord, wouldn't that be telling the City Lord that the Long Clan had already mastered the technology to transmit living creatures?

With such a major incident occurring at the mine vein, how could the Bai Clan not have noticed? They were likely already taking action, so he had to return with the evidence as quickly as possible.

Thus, Long Qian did not chat with Long Xuan and returned directly to the clan with the evidence from the Straw Gu Hut.

It was hard to say what kind of turmoil this would trigger in Black Stone City; this incident was likely enough to cause a massive earthquake in the city.

It was a pity he couldn't go there in person to watch the show. Long Xuan muttered that it was a shame, and could only return to his residence, feeling let down.

After pondering for a moment, he finally took out the soul refining technique, "True Soul Transformation," obtained from the cave abode today, and began to read it with focused attention.

He wouldn't be mining tonight. Tomorrow, the Long Clan would certainly organize manpower to mine in the Bai Clan's mining area; he could just go openly tomorrow, so there was no need to go sneakily.

Tonight, his heart was itching with impatience, and he considered whether he should initiate his plan to create his own soul refining technique.

His innate strong soul was an advantage, and with the Soul-Nourishing Wood as an aid, he felt that not learning a soul refining technique to continue strengthening his soul would be a complete waste of his great talent.

In the dark night, the candlelight flickered; only the rustling sound of pages turning could be heard, and the figure in front of the desk swayed continuously in the flickering light.

It was unknown how much time had passed when the man at the desk finally closed the book, a faint light flashing in his eyes, as if he had found inspiration.

After reading through "True Soul Transformation," his inspiration surged, and all sorts of whimsical ideas bubbled up uncontrollably. At this moment, he already had a brainstorm for the initial concept of the new technique.

He quickly took out paper and pen, excitedly beginning to write the outline for the new technique.

"Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art"

Divine Ability: Fission

Humans have three souls and seven spirits. Every time a cultivator raises a small realm, the three souls and seven spirits will split once.

With as many split souls as one has, one can multitask accordingly. The direct manifestation of multitasking is that all split souls can be strengthened simultaneously; the soul refining speed of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" will be unmatched by any soul refining technique in the world.

At the same time, one can control as many flying swords as there are split souls, control as many insect swarms as there are split souls, refine as many spirit medicines as there are split souls, and with as many split souls, one can...

A master of this art can split into countless split souls. When encountering an invincible enemy, the countless split souls can scatter and flee; as long as one strand of a split soul escapes, one can be reborn.

Long Xuan extended his finger to roughly calculate; his soul was innately different from ordinary people. His three souls and seven spirits were a pair, a full double that of ordinary people, so his number of main souls was 20.

At the early Spirit Gathering stage, the first split occurs, resulting in 40 split souls.

At the mid Spirit Gathering stage, the second split occurs, resulting in 80 split souls.

At the late Spirit Gathering stage, the third split occurs, resulting in 160 split souls.

He was currently at the late Essence Refining stage; according to this pattern, his limit for split souls was 1,280.

Do not think that a thousand-plus split souls is a small number; his current realm was simply too low.

The power of exponential growth is terrifying. He discovered that once he cultivated to a realm sufficient for longevity, the unit of "billion" would likely not be able to contain it.

Just reaching the eighth realm, Gu Emperor, the number of split souls would already exceed ten billion.

If he continued to split crazily after that, Long Xuan's eyes widened, and he was so scared that his pen dropped onto the desk; he didn't dare to think any further.

He stiffly lowered his head and saw that progress had already appeared on the Gu formula. He couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. The Heavenly Dao actually allowed such a terrifying technique to exist; it must be crazy!

Long Xuan took a deep breath and couldn't help but pat his startled little heart.

He had actually already had the brainstorm about split souls in his past life. He had also always hoped that he could achieve multitasking through split souls, thereby refining massive amounts of spirit medicine simultaneously while performing alchemy, so that alchemy wouldn't waste so much time.

It was just that he didn't know how to split his soul. How could a soul be split so casually?

Splitting a soul is simply too dangerous; it could be said to be a life-of-nine-deaths situation. If one split soul is not handled well, it is possible to split oneself into an idiot.

Otherwise, how could Ten Thousand Swords True Person's "True Soul Transformation" be so dangerous?

It is precisely because cultivating "True Soul Transformation" also requires splitting the soul that "True Soul Transformation" is dangerous to the extreme, forcing one to use Soul-Nourishing Wood to assist in cultivation; otherwise, splitting souls infinitely would be a ten-deaths-no-life situation.

Long Xuan had also found the method of splitting souls from "True Soul Transformation," which was why he wanted to complete the brainstorm he had conceived for so long as quickly as possible.

As for why he didn't just cultivate "True Soul Transformation," it was entirely because "True Soul Transformation" only allows one to cultivate ten thousand split souls upon reaching the peak of Gu Emperor; it was simply too trashy. He disdained to cultivate it; if he were to refine, he would refine a ruthless one.

Who knew that the technique he created was a bit too ruthless? Was there really no problem with splitting out so many souls? Could his own shell really contain them?

Wouldn't it be very dangerous to split out such an exaggerated number of souls? Forget it, since it's a bit dangerous, let the Yan clone cultivate it.

Long Xuan curled his lips into a smile, picked up the pen that had fallen on the desk, and began to continue writing the outline of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" on the paper.

The content he was going to proceed with this time was the technique's supporting soul arts.

In this world, abilities performed using spiritual power as energy are Spirit Techniques, and abilities performed using physical energy as energy are Body Techniques.

Abilities performed using spiritual sense as energy are Illusion Techniques, and abilities performed using soul power as energy are naturally Soul Arts?

In this world, Spirit Techniques are the most numerous, followed by Body Techniques. Illusion Techniques are far fewer than Body Techniques, and Soul Arts are so rare they are almost non-existent.

Up until now, Long Xuan had never seen a single Soul Art; the rarity of Soul Arts is evident.

Even though "True Soul Transformation" is strong to such a degree, it only has three supporting Soul Arts.

The first Soul Art is the ability to use powerful soul power to attack the souls of others. This is an extremely rare soul attack that can easily shatter an opponent's soul and is extremely difficult to defend against; it is called the Nirvana Finger.

The second Soul Art is using powerful soul power to perform thousand-mile sound transmission. This is an auxiliary ability, and the name is Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission.

The third Soul Art is a bit evil; it is to perform soul searching on an opponent at the cost of making them wish they were dead, and it can extract all the Gu formulas from their soul.

The Long Clan's method of preventing Gu formulas from leaking by placing restrictions on the soul is completely useless in the face of powerful soul searching.

And Long Xuan could think of two Soul Arts in the short term.

The first is to control countless split souls to quickly possess the crowd besieging him, control them to attack their own teammates, and even induce them to self-destruct in the crowd.

This method absolutely belongs to the heaven-defying category; once this method is achieved, one is not afraid of being besieged by human-sea tactics at all.

Long Xuan's expression was excited, and he quickly thought of a name for this Soul Art: "Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique."

He wrote this name on the paper.

He had actually conceived of this second Soul Art for a long time; it was the ability he needed most right now, but he previously lacked the conditions to realize it. Now that he had a soul refining technique, he decided to carefully brainstorm this idea.

He quickly wrote the name of the second supporting Soul Art on the paper—"Soul Study."

As the name suggests, Soul Study is reading books in a world full of books.

But the flow of time for reading here is different from the outside; reading here for ten days might only mean one day has passed outside.

Of course, this involves the power of time, requiring an understanding of how to control the power of time; it was impossible for Long Xuan to achieve this.

He was only achieving this goal in disguise by controlling the speed of his thinking.

The principle of this brainstorm is to speed up the thinking speed of the spiritual body in a spiritual world full of books, thereby stretching time and creating the illusion that the flow of time has slowed down.

Books that would take ten days to read outside might only take one day to read here.

Of course, to realize this brainstorm, one must have powerful soul power; otherwise, daring to play like this would inevitably lead to a soul collapse.

The method of simultaneously increasing soul power through splitting souls in the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" is simply too terrifying for the growth of acquired soul power, sufficient to support him in realizing this brainstorm; it can be considered an absolute supporting Soul Art.

If someone else dared to cultivate Soul Study without cultivating the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art," their soul would inevitably collapse.

Long Xuan had always wanted to develop this brainstorm, of course, not because he wanted to read books; reading books was only a secondary reason. He entirely wanted to research Gu formulas in this Soul Study.

Researching Gu formulas is simply too time-consuming. As the Gu formulas he researches in the future become longer and longer, the time consumed also becomes more and more. Developing an ability that can shorten the research time of Gu formulas is imperative, and it cannot be delayed any longer.

Otherwise, if he really had to research Gu formulas with over ten million materials in the future, would he really have to liver it for decades?

Livering Gu formulas in the soul world, everything is illusory. Not to mention saving paper and pens, with a single thought, one can directly conjure a character on the illusory paper, and the speed of livering Gu formulas will be greatly improved.

After writing the introduction about "Soul Study" on the paper and discovering that the progress had not disappeared, Long Xuan let out a long sigh of relief.

This meant that this brainstorm was theoretically achievable; as long as he was willing to liver it, such an ability would sooner or later be created by him.

Long Xuan picked up the paper with satisfaction, revealing a smug smile.

A terrifying technique sufficient to make the whole world tremble with fear was about to be born in his hands. Being able to create such a badass technique, he couldn't help but be proud.

Without exaggeration, the terrifying degree of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" is comparable to the "Purgatory True Demon Art" and also comparable to the "Ten Extremes Scripture."

This technique absolutely deserves to be one of the strongest techniques in the world.

He couldn't wait to see the scene of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" dominating the world.

Long Xuan curled his lips, picked up his pen, and began to liver the technique with full motivation; he was going to pull an all-nighter.

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