Chapter 88: Exercising the Soul

After sending Old Daoist Chen away, Song Qingming instructed Wang Cheng not to let anyone disturb him, and then returned to his residence behind the shop with joy in his heart.

The courtyard where he lived was next to Fourth Uncle's family. After turning a corner through the back hall and walking a few dozen steps forward, he soon arrived.

Fourth Uncle had been here for decades and had long since taken root. The courtyard was noisy all day long, apart from mortal shop assistants and servants, there were also several children.

After arriving at his residence and closing the door, Song Qingming carefully arranged a sound-insulation restriction at the door. Soon, the noise next door disappeared from his ears.

A restriction is actually a simplified formation. Arranging it is relatively simple, and the effect will naturally be greatly reduced. It can only play a part of the formation's role.

In the recent period, in order to be quiet when cultivating, Song Qingming also spent some time studying the way of formations. Not only did he use the materials collected in the shop to make several sets of formations, but his own level of formation restrictions had also improved quite a bit.

The restriction Song Qingming just arranged at the door was actually the sound-insulation formation he used in the shop just now. It was completed by him a few months ago.

This sound-insulation restriction can completely isolate sounds within a certain range. After using formation flags to arrange it into a formation, it can also isolate the spiritual sense of Qi Condensation cultivators.

After arranging this set of restrictions, Song Qingming also felt much more at ease when cultivating. Not only could it isolate external noise, but the various sounds made in his room would also not be heard by people outside. As long as he did not encounter a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it would be very difficult for anyone to spy on what was happening in his room.

Sitting cross-legged in the compartment where he cultivated, Song Qingming impatiently opened the cultivation technique jade slip he had just obtained.

Ever since he obtained the Lei Hu puppet beast, in the few years in Guiyun Market, Song Qingming had gone to many shops to inquire, but he had not been able to find this kind of spiritual sense-type cultivation technique.

Cultivators like Lu Yunfei who had cultivated this type of cultivation technique, due to sect restrictions, could not pass the cultivation technique to outsiders.

Song Qingming did not expect that the cultivation technique he had been looking for outside for several years without success, after returning to Qinghe County, Old Daoist Chen, whom he had not seen for ten years, bumped into him by mistake and sent him this cultivation technique he had been seeking but could not find. It was truly that things in the world are unpredictable.

However, in order to obtain this cultivation technique, Song Qingming also paid a not-small price. Two bottles of elixirs plus the top-grade spirit talisman that Old Daoist Chen was originally going to give him, added together, also cost him over a hundred spirit stones.

Spirit stones, this kind of thing, sometimes are truly not enough to spend. He worked hard for several months to save over a hundred spirit stones, but it only took half a day to spend them.

Spending most of the day, Song Qingming carefully read this cultivation technique a few times first.

After reading it, Song Qingming slowly discovered that the difficulty of cultivating spiritual sense cultivation techniques was much higher than he imagined, and cultivating this kind of cultivation technique was very dangerous, which easily led to damage to the cultivator's soul.

The soul and the dantian are both very important to a cultivator. One is to store the magic power in the cultivator's body, and the other is to entrust the cultivator's spiritual sense.

Once a cultivator's soul is injured, it is very difficult to recover quickly. If the injury is too severe, causing damage to the cultivator's soul or sea of consciousness, at best, they will lose part of their memory, and at worst, it will make people become a foolish person.

This Wind Abyss Soul-Forging Technique is a relatively opportunistic soul-forging technique. The core idea of the cultivation technique is that the cultivator attaches the soul in their body to a special magic tool or spirit item that can store the soul every day, forcibly pulls the soul out of their body, and borrows the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to continuously forge the soul, thereby achieving the effect of strengthening the soul and improving spiritual sense.

Once a cultivator's soul leaves the sea of consciousness in the brain for a long time, it is very easy to be damaged in the outside world. For a cultivator who cultivates this kind of cultivation technique for the first time, this is indeed a very dangerous thing.

Knowing that cultivating this kind of cultivation technique is relatively dangerous, Song Qingming did not rush for success and spent a lot of time to comprehend and understand this cultivation technique.

Then, he found a mid-grade magic tool named Soul Gathering Bottle in the market and carefully started to bring his soul out of his body step by step.

After the soul left the sea of consciousness and reached the outside of the body, a burst of cold and bone-piercing pain suddenly came from Song Qingming's brain. This is also the pain that must be experienced when cultivating this cultivation technique. Although Song Qingming was prepared in his heart long ago, he still somewhat underestimated this pain that stimulated the soul and almost failed to stabilize the magic power in his body.

Fortunately, he had cultivated for many years, so he hurriedly gritted his teeth and quickly used the magic power in his body to wrap the Soul Gathering Bottle, reducing the pain of the soul contacting the outside world. Relying on his own strong perseverance, he managed to hold on.

Five zhang, six zhang... ten zhang, eleven zhang. Cultivating diligently every day, it took nearly three months in total before Song Qingming finally felt some changes that this cultivation technique brought to his spiritual sense.

Although the cultivation was a bit slow, Song Qingming was not discouraged about himself. After several months of hard cultivation, he finally entered the door of this cultivation technique and survived this most dangerous step.

Spiritual sense-type cultivation techniques are truly not that easy to cultivate. No wonder there are very few cultivators in the cultivation world who cultivate this type of cultivation technique. Just the pain and danger that must be experienced have already made many cultivators shrink back. Plus, the effect after Qi Condensation cultivators cultivate is also very limited, so it is not strange that this type of cultivation technique is rare.

Come to think of it, Song Qingming has to thank Old Daoist Chen for the cultivation insights of this cultivation technique he gave him. In these few months, when he was cultivating, Old Daoist Chen's cultivation insights helped him avoid quite a few detours.

This old man's cultivation aptitude is average, but he is indeed much more powerful than Song Qingming in comprehending cultivation techniques. No wonder he dared to take the initiative to cultivate such a dangerous spiritual sense cultivation technique. On this point, Song Qingming still admires him very much in his heart.

Next, Song Qingming slowly accelerated the rhythm of his cultivation of this cultivation technique. As spring went and autumn came, after three years of hard cultivation, Song Qingming finally successfully completed the cultivation of this cultivation technique.

Now, the spiritual sense in Song Qingming's body can already be released more than twenty zhang away and can completely cover this entire shop of the Song family, which is already about twice as strong as before.

The improvement of spiritual sense also greatly improved Song Qingming's ability to manipulate the puppet beast. Now he controls the Lei Hu puppet beast more skillfully than before. The power of this puppet beast in his hand is now already comparable to an ordinary sixth-layer Qi Condensation cultivator.

This Wind Abyss Soul-Forging Technique is only a Qi Condensation-stage spiritual sense cultivation technique, and this cultivation technique is still incomplete. Song Qingming does not know whether the senior who created this cultivation technique has not finished it yet, or if the subsequent cultivation technique has already scattered to other places.

In these few years, Old Daoist Chen has been drifting through Qinghe Market and often comes to the Song family shop. Song Qingming took the opportunity to ask him if there was any subsequent cultivation technique. Old Daoist Chen said directly that he did indeed only obtain this part of the cultivation technique and did not hide it from Song Qingming.

Regarding this, Song Qingming also once intentionally probed Old Daoist Chen's spiritual sense and discovered that his spiritual sense was indeed about the same as his own after cultivating the cultivation technique. It can be seen that he did not cultivate this cultivation technique to a higher level, and he should not have the subsequent cultivation technique on him.

Not many days after Song Qingming completed the cultivation of the Wind Abyss Soul-Forging Technique, Fourth Uncle, Song Changqiu, found him in this shop in a hurry.

"Qingming, I just received a sound transmission from the clan. The Great Elder asks you to go back. It seems somewhat urgent. You hurry up and pack your things. I will look after this side for you first."

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