Chapter 1000: Divine Soul Avatars (Requesting Monthly Votes)

Only after personally cultivating the Divine Soul Splitting and Soul Refining Technique Array did he understand why the Emperor-level expert who developed this secret method for the Thousand Stars Alliance refused to practice it himself.

The cost is too great.

The key is that this loss is irreversible under normal circumstances.

In other words, this loss reduces your upper limit.

For example, the first step: severing the Divine Soul’s origin to forge a Divine Soul avatar.

To succeed, you must forge three Divine Soul avatars.

And to be effective, they absolutely cannot be too weak.

If they’re too weak, they serve no purpose beyond this single use.

Xu Jin habitually preferred to seek multiple opinions.

Because hearing all sides leads to clarity.

So regarding the cultivation of the Divine Soul Splitting and Soul Refining Technique Array, Xu Jin not only consulted his mistress, Emperor Du Yue, but also sought guidance from his master, Emperor Feng Hua.

It wasn’t that his mistress would betray him—rather, the higher one ascends in the cultivation ecosystem, the more divergent each cultivator’s understanding of cultivation becomes.

Below the True Person realm, cultivation paths and theories are nearly fixed; above the True Person realm, they are entirely different.

His master, Emperor Feng Hua, had specifically advised him on this matter.

The Divine Soul Splitting and Soul Refining Technique Array can be cultivated—given Xu Jin’s conditions, the benefits after success far outweigh the drawbacks!

But you absolutely cannot cultivate it solely for this purpose.

Because the avatars forged after splitting the soul are themselves an important divine technique.

If cultivated well, when paired with the main body in battle, they can possess up to fifty percent, even as high as seventy percent, of the main body’s combat power, along with many other advantages.

Therefore, when forging these Divine Soul avatars, if you’re going to do it, do it right—otherwise, it’s pure waste.

For this reason, Emperor Feng Hua gave Xu Jin a precise quantity: how much Divine Soul origin to sever for each avatar.

This quantity is directly tied to the Divine Sword Energy.

The reason it’s called Divine Sword Energy is because it is condensed from the Divine Soul origin.

One unit of Divine Sword Energy can be shaped into countless divine techniques, enabling the use of various divine secret arts.

Therefore, when forging Divine Soul avatars, the amount of Divine Soul origin severed must be at least equal to one unit of Divine Sword Energy—only then can you freely wield any Star Art.

Because Divine Sword Energy is inherently attached to the main body, to ensure the avatars operate with perfect fluidity, the severed Divine Soul origin should ideally be one and a half times the amount of one unit of Divine Sword Energy—this maximizes their effectiveness.

His master Emperor Feng Hua’s advice was sound, and Xu Jin naturally followed it.

Thus, when severing the Divine Soul origin, each Divine Soul avatar received one and a half times the amount of Divine Soul origin contained within one unit of Divine Sword Energy.

The severing process, needless to say, was excruciating.

The sensation was several times more painful than cutting flesh from one’s own body—but to Xu Jin now, it was child’s play.

Then Xu Jin compared the amount of severed Divine Soul origin to his total quantity.

To forge one useful avatar, the severed Divine Soul origin needed to be roughly three percent of his total Divine Soul origin.

Xu Jin severed three units in total—first forging three Divine Soul avatars, and he could forge more later if needed.

For the three Divine Soul avatars, Xu Jin severed nine percent of his total Divine Soul origin—nearly one-tenth.

Overall, it didn’t seem like much, and the impact on Xu Jin was minimal.

But if you applied this same percentage to other cultivators, it would be terrifying.

For comparison, cultivating this Divine Soul Splitting and Soul Refining Technique Array to produce one avatar requires severing an amount of Divine Soul origin equivalent to three units.

Xu Jin’s total Divine Soul origin was one hundred, so after severing three units, his Divine Soul origin remained immensely powerful.

But Xu Jin’s total Divine Soul origin was three times that of the world’s greatest genius, nearly four times that of a top-tier genius.

Translated this way, the Divine Soul origin of those supreme and top-tier geniuses could at most reach thirty.

Thirty minus nine.

One-third vanished instantly.

That was terrifying.

It was perfectly normal for the Emperor-level masters who developed this technique to avoid it.

Not to mention the fact that it also consumes three units of Divine Sword Energy.

To some extent, this Divine Soul Splitting and Soul Refining Technique Array is a self-mutilating secret method that deliberately lowers one’s upper limit.

No wonder Emperor Cang Jing captured prisoners to practice it.

Under these conditions, only a prodigy like Xu Jin could possibly undertake it.

As for the celestial treasures used to house the avatars, Xu Jin used the Secret Realm’s ultimate treasure—the Purple Yuan Bodhi Root—already rapidly nourished and refined for months under temporal acceleration using Chaotic Rhythm and Star Power.

Absolutely top-tier.

With everything prepared, the forging process held no difficulty.

Three days later, on the sixth day of the sixth month, within the Chaotic Abyss.

Xu Jin sat cross-legged on the ground, three small wooden figures, each enveloped in Chaotic Starlight, hovering before him; their eyes were tightly shut, revealing nothing of their true nature.

But the next instant, as Xu Jin opened his eyes, the three small figures simultaneously opened theirs, their bodies flashing with starlight, revealing three slightly translucent versions of Xu Jin.

As their eight eyes met, all four Xu Jins bowed in unison.

As a smile spread across Xu Jin’s lips, the three avatars instantly transformed into three streaks of light and merged into his three Divine Sword Energy arrays, already refined with Azure Water Stone and Boundary Pattern Stone.

More accurately, they should now be called No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Technique Arrays.

All that remained was to infuse them with the origin qi of the desired domain.

The next instant, the three Divine Soul avatars flew out again.

Xu Jin’s mind stirred, and his life weapon, the Chaotic Thunder Spear, shot forward and hovered before No. 1 Divine Soul Avatar.

As Xu Jin willed it, No. 1 Divine Soul Avatar immediately attempted to activate the Chaotic Thunder Spear.

Half a breath later, lightning and thunder erupted—slow, and weak.

It could only unleash two or three tenths of the weapon’s full power.

Just as his master had said, Divine Soul avatars require prolonged cultivation to grow strong enough for combat.

The next instant, Xu Jin continued inscribing the initial Pure Soul Star Patterns into the Divine Soul avatars.

One advantage of Divine Soul avatars is that, given the right environment, they can grow autonomously.

Of course, their growth rate is inferior to Xu Jin’s own cultivation—but over time, the cumulative effect is substantial.

After inscribing enough Pure Soul Star Patterns to passively and slowly enhance their Divine Soul power, Xu Jin finally retracted the three avatars into his body.

With a single glance, his form vanished.