Chapter 848: Yellow Springs Soul-Hooking Chain (4th update)

Over the next two days, He He Pingsheng honestly began his strengthening process.

The two batches of Cleansing Karma Pills were all strengthened into top-tier quality, and the quantity doubled into four batches.

A total of forty-eight pellets!

There was no need to keep these at high-tier quality.

Since there weren't many to begin with, he would keep some for himself and his friends, and could at least bring out two batches for sale.

Furthermore, when selling them, he would sell them one by one.

Only in this way would they be considered rare and precious.

It was best to trade for items, not spirit stones!

……

Two days later, Luo Luo Bingyao had finally stabilized her cultivation base, and she returned to stand before He He Pingsheng.

He He Pingsheng took out a top-tier Cleansing Karma Pill and said, "After consuming this, the karmic debt on your body will be cleansed away."

"However, you should still be cautious and prudent in your future actions. Don't go around exterminating families at every turn; once innocent people die, you will naturally be burdened by karmic debt again."

"Yes!" Luo Luo Bingyao said, "Disciple will keep Master's teachings in mind!"

Having said that, she extended her slender, jade-like fingers to pinch the Cleansing Karma Pill from He He Pingsheng's hand and swallowed it in one gulp.

A miraculous scene occurred.

The red karmic light on Luo Luo Bingyao's body and in her pupils faded away bit by bit.

In the end, the karmic debt on her body was completely cleansed.

"Thank you, Master. You have truly helped me a great deal!" Luo Luo Bingyao was overjoyed.

He He Pingsheng said, "It's just a small matter!"

"By the way, Master, I have an ancestral divine ability here. Although it is a minor technique, it will certainly be useful to you at a critical moment!"

"Take a look!" After saying this, Luo Luo Bingyao produced a jade slip and gave it to He He Pingsheng.

He He Pingsheng smiled, "What? Are you becoming my master now? Teaching me techniques?"

"It's not like that, Master!" Luo Luo Bingyao's face flushed red, "I mean it. You'll understand once you take a look. Of course, this method is somewhat sinister, but for those who act maliciously, it is truly useful!"

He He Pingsheng nodded and sent a strand of spiritual sense into the jade slip.

Very quickly, the contents of the jade slip were projected into He He Pingsheng's mind.

This was a divine ability called: Soul-Detaining Art.

It was called an 'Art', but it was not a mere magic spell; it was a genuine divine ability.

It required coordination with one's own laws to execute.

He He Pingsheng briefly reviewed the outline of the Soul-Detaining Art and realized: it was actually a divine ability to detain the souls of others.

It was very simple: after killing an opponent, one could detain their soul, or even destroy it directly.

This was a major move, a great divine ability!

Whether it be cultivators or ordinary people, after death, their souls would fly out from their physical bodies.

The soul is a very special entity.

If there is no interference from any means, it will be attracted by the Reincarnation Land and enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

However, there are some special circumstances.

For instance, using evil artifacts like the 【Ten Thousand Soul Banner】, one could suck the divine soul into it for refining. But because this act competes with the Six Paths for the laws, it causes karmic debt to befall the user!

Therefore, He He Pingsheng had not used such items much, even though he had strengthened them out before!

The souls he had absorbed were all those of his enemies.

Later, having karmic light on his body—partly due to the Ten Thousand Soul Banner—he had almost never used it since arriving in the Spirit Realm.

Of course, without such evil artifacts, one could also directly wipe out the divine soul of another.

But this required having combat power far superior to the opponent.

Without these special means, ordinary people cannot interfere with souls.

That is to say, without accidents, souls will ultimately head toward the Reincarnation Land!

But there is one exception.

That is when one possesses a clone.

High-level cultivators who possess clones will find that upon death, their souls will naturally fly to the location of the clone according to the laws of heaven and earth, attaching themselves to the clone to be reborn.

This process generally cannot be interfered with.

No matter how powerful you are, you cannot stop the soul of the main body from flying toward the clone.

This power even exceeds the attraction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, which is why the soul flies to the clone instead of the Six Paths upon the death of the main body.

This is the basic principle of having two lives if one possesses a clone.

But with this 【Soul-Detaining Art】 in He He Pingsheng's hands, it was different. Once mastered, one could interfere with those souls.

For example, although He He Pingsheng can now kill Qi Refining stage cultivators, he could not detain their souls.

Their souls would flow toward their clones.

If one cultivates this Soul-Detaining Art, after killing an opponent, one could detain their soul.

What is the benefit of this?

Of course there is!

Even if you have a clone, I have detained your soul.

I could even destroy the soul directly.

In this way, the trace of soul intent on the clone would have nothing to depend on and would dissipate in an instant.

Thus, the clone would become a living corpse without consciousness.

This would achieve the effect of killing both the main body and the clone together.

Such a divine ability could be called heaven-defying; no wonder Luo Luo Bingyao said it was somewhat sinister.

It wasn't just sinister; it was sinister to the core.

But this divine ability was not without its flaws.

He He Pingsheng read that it had a limitation: it was only effective against cultivators with a lower cultivation base than himself.

For instance, He He Pingsheng can now kill cultivators below the eleventh layer of the Qi Refining stage and destroy both their clones and main bodies, but it would be powerless against Golden Core stage cultivators.

"What a domineering divine ability!" He He Pingsheng withdrew his spiritual sense from the jade slip and asked, "Luo Bingyao, is this the original or a copy?"

Luo Luo Bingyao said, "Master, feel free to take it; it's a copy!"

"Good!" He He Pingsheng nodded, "I'm relieved it's a copy!"

Right in front of his disciple, he swooshed the jade slip into his storage ring and quietly tossed it into the Ju Bao Pen.

Let's strengthen it.

Early the next morning, the divine ability he had tossed into the Ju Bao Pen had been strengthened into two.

He He Pingsheng casually took out the first one to view it.

Name: Six Paths Soul-Seizing Art.

Grade: Heavenly Tier Divine Ability!

Function: After cultivation, one can open a sliver of a crack in the Six Paths of Reincarnation to seize back certain specific souls from the Six Paths.

Note: This act harms the harmony of heaven; the caster will be stained with a massive amount of karmic debt.

But from the introduction, He He Pingsheng knew its use.

For example, if a loved one dies and their soul enters the Six Paths of Reincarnation, one could use this spell to forcibly pull that person's soul out of the Six Paths.

But the problem is, it would stain one with massive amounts of karmic debt.

After all, this is a struggle against heaven and earth.

"This thing is still useful at critical moments; it can be cultivated!" He He Pingsheng put the jade slip away directly.

Then, he took out the second jade slip and scanned it with his spiritual sense.

Name: Yellow Springs Soul-Hooking Chain.

Grade: Heavenly Tier Divine Ability.

Function: After cultivation, one can capture all souls within two major realms higher than oneself.

Seeing this introduction, He He Pingsheng was instantly invigorated: I've got it!

It's reached 9.0, thank you to all my parents, the extra updates begin. Ten chapters today, but please wait a moment, I'll get one ready first. I have to go take my son to sports training, and I will finish updating all ten chapters before 22:00.