Chapter 69: Second Layer of Soul Refinement and the Silver-White Small Light Spots

The key is why she has no similar memory inheritance, while the Jin Tong Mu does.

Are human-shaped souls discriminated against?

Su Jin not only thought this, but also spoke it directly.

The Jin Tong Mu transmitted a thought speechlessly: "I am a tree; I can inherit more memories. What about you? With that fragile little head of yours, how much memory inheritance can you accept? Do you want your little head to be squeezed and burst by the inherited memories?"

"Jin Tong Mu, I feel you are speaking more and more like a human," Su Jin said.

The Jin Tong Mu ignored her again.

Su Jin squatted on the ground and touched the small gourd sprout, feeling that this little fellow was somewhat confused. Su Jin transmitted a thought to it: "Hello there."

"Yi yi lo."

"Do you remember your own name?"

"Yi yi lo."

Su Jin sweated; this little fellow didn't even seem to know how to transmit a thought to her. It just screamed wildly in its mind: "Yi yi lo."

"What's wrong with it? It feels a bit stupider than that little fellow Blood Xue Chiluo?"

"It was sealed for a long time, and its spiritual nature was damaged. It's already good that it's alive; wait until it grows a bit bigger, and let Blood Xue Chiluo teach it," the Jin Tong Mu added.

Su Jin accepted the transmitted thought and nodded to show she understood. "As long as it doesn't stay stupid forever."

"Busatan is not stupid," the Jin Tong Mu emphasized.

Su Jin thought this topic could wait until Busatan grew up.

What if this fellow is neither stupid nor smart?

Besides Busatan, the gourd vines in the southwest corner had already grown into a patch. The tallest twelve gourd vines had grown to half a person's height.

Seeing those gourd vines, Su Jin thought of the red ginseng planted outside.

"Jin Tong Mu, I have a question."

"What question?"

"Jin Tong Mu, I have planted some red ginseng.

But when the red ginseng matures at the end of the year, I will have to harvest them.

The problem is that I now find the red ginseng I planted seems to have great spiritual nature; I worry they will develop spiritual intelligence when they mature.

If they develop spiritual intelligence, yet I harvest them, that would be such a pity.

But if I don't harvest them, that won't work either.

Because they are my mission; after they mature, I must hand them back.

What do you think I should do?" Su Jin explained her dilemma.

"You want to keep their spiritual intelligence separate?" the Jin Tong Mu asked.

"Yes, but is that possible?" Su Jin asked again.

"First, have Blood Xue Chiluo cultivate them into Wu Soldiers. Then, after you harvest them, send them into the Little Wu Tian. I will extract their spiritual nature or spiritual intelligence and nurture them within my tree body for seven days.

During these seven days, you go find a sufficient quantity of red ginseng seeds.

I will inject their spiritual nature or spiritual intelligence into the new seeds.

By the time they sprout again, your Wu Soldiers can be regenerated."

"Wait, as long as they are cultivated into Wu Soldiers, they can be reborn, is that right?" Su Jin seized on the key phrase.

"Yes, once they become Wu Soldiers, they won't die so easily," the Jin Tong Mu said.

"Then will their spiritual nature be damaged when you extract it?" Su Jin pressed.

"No. Once collected by me and stored in my body for nurturing, their spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence will not be diminished. In the future, every new Wu Soldier you refine must be sent here to be nurtured. After I finish nurturing them, you can take them out. If they die in battle outside, their spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence will also return here.

When you bring new seeds again, they will be injected by me into the new seeds, waiting to sprout."

"Can't my Wu Soldiers be resurrected infinitely?" Su Jin realized upon hearing this.

"They cannot be resurrected infinitely. When a Wu Soldier dies, it can be the death of the physical body, or the death of the spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence. If the spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence are damaged, they can continue to be resurrected. But if the spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence are absorbed and refined by something, then they cannot return. If they don't return, how could they possibly be resurrected?

So when you use Wu Soldiers, you must be careful to avoid things that specifically absorb spiritual nature and spiritual intelligence."

"I understand." Su Jin secretly memorized the Jin Tong Mu's warning in her heart.

Su Jin's consciousness returned from the Little Wu Tian; her sister-in-law had already called her for dinner.

After dinner, she continued arranging spell practice.

She practiced the Binding Spell every day at the clan school, and practiced the spell of Extracting Wood Essence at home in the evening.

Although she had already recited the mental method for the spell of Extracting Wood Essence until it was perfectly familiar in her mind, she still hadn't truly practiced on any large tree, so she still felt somewhat insecure.

She actually wanted to practice on the Jin Tong Mu, but as soon as the Jin Tong Mu discovered her intention, it directly poked her out with its tree roots.

Hmph!!

Having tree roots to use, are you so proud?

In a few more days, she could also go out of the city with her older brother.

But in the middle of the night, she suddenly woke up startled. This was truly something that had never happened before.

Su Jin woke up in a daze; it took a while for her to realize that she was able to wake up solely because she was about to break through to the second layer of Soul Refinement.

How abrupt.

But the soul power had already begun to swell, and she herself had started seeking a breakthrough.

She just needed to calm down, sit cross-legged, prepare, and begin guiding the soul power to break through.

At the instant of breaking through to the second layer of Soul Refinement, she felt her soul threads suddenly surge by dozens of threads. One hundred and fifty or sixty soul threads grew wildly out of her soul body, making her feel like she had become a monster!

Besides the surge of soul threads, her Little Wu Tian also grew a size larger.

The space that was originally five or six mu became a space of eight or nine mu. The Jin Tong Mu seemed to have grown taller by a section.

The Little Wu Tian seemed to have spawned several silver-white small light spots with this promotion of hers.

The silver-white specks of light drifted and fluttered very casually within Little Wu Tian.

Some of the specks of light were absorbed by the gourd vines, and some were absorbed by Wood Satan.

Wood Satan had now completely changed from its dull, clumsy appearance; its small body whooshed through the earth, popping in and out as it chased down the silver-white specks of light that were about to fall to the ground.

Every one it caught, it swallowed.

As for the gourd vines, since they couldn't move, they swallowed far fewer specks of light.

After Bing Chen Lu stabilized her cultivation at the second layer of Spirit Refining, she once again fell into a deep sleep.

The next day she woke up late. Fortunately, her sister-in-law noticed in time and dragged her up; otherwise she would definitely have been late for school.

Still, Bing Chen Lu remembered to bring everyone the Earth-Heart Blueberry Dew.

After finishing General Studies class and moving into the Third Hall, she distributed the Earth-Heart Blueberry Dew.

She also collected six hundred spirit stones.

"Sister Ah Jin, the quality of this spirit dew seems exceptionally good." Su Linyuan gently lifted the lid and took a sniff, immediately feeling his whole body relax, with his qi and blood faintly showing a hint of growth. His body-tempering Cultivation Technique had only begun training yesterday!!

"Don't treat the Earth-Heart Blueberry Dew as an ordinary material for assisting body-tempering Cultivation Technique training. Its effect isn't great—at most it can add a bit of qi and blood, and it has almost no effect on advancing the overall progress of the Cultivation Technique," Bing Chen Lu said. "I've tried it myself; normally drinking it isn't even as good as drinking Bing Chen Lu."