The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 204: Creating a Soul Refining Technique

After watching the spectacular scene unfold, Long Xuan followed Long Qian's instructions and transferred all the footage recorded by his Image Record Gu into Long Qian's Image Record Gu. The Image Record Gu had the ability to transmit footage over long distances, so Long Qian didn’t need to take it with him.

Moreover, he couldn't take it with him anyway. If he were to take Long Xuan's Image Record Gu to the City Lord, wouldn’t that reveal to the City Lord that the Long Clan had already mastered the technology of transporting living beings?

Considering the huge incident that just occurred at the mine, there was no way the Bai Clan wouldn’t notice. They had probably already started to act, so Long Qian had to quickly return with the evidence.

Thus, Long Qian didn’t bother chatting with Long Xuan. He took the evidence and left the Gu house, heading back to the clan.

It was uncertain what kind of storm would arise in Blackstone City, but it would likely cause a major upheaval. Too bad Long Xuan couldn't go personally to witness the excitement. Feeling disappointed, he silently returned to his residence.

After pondering for a moment, he finally took out the soul refining technique "True Soul Transformation" he obtained from the cave and started studying it intently.

He wasn’t going mining tonight. Tomorrow, the Long Clan would definitely organize people to mine in the Bai Clan’s area. He could go openly then, so there was no need to sneak around.

Tonight, he felt restless and considered whether he should initiate his plan to create his own soul refining technique.

His naturally strong soul was an advantage, and he also had the assistance of the Soul Nourishing Wood. He felt that if he didn’t learn a soul refining technique to further enhance his soul, it would be a complete waste of his talent.

In the dark, under the flickering candlelight, only the sound of flipping pages could be heard. The shadow of the man sitting at the desk wavered with the flame.

It was unclear how much time had passed before the man at the desk finally closed the book, a glint of light flickering in his eyes, as if he had been struck by inspiration.

After reading through "True Soul Transformation", inspiration surged within him. Various strange ideas flooded his mind, and he began to outline his thoughts for a new technique.

He quickly grabbed a pen and paper, excitedly drafting the outline for the new technique:

"Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Technique"

Ability: Fission

Humans possess three souls and seven spirits. Each time a practitioner advances a small stage, the three souls and seven spirits will split once.

The number of soul fragments determines how many tasks can be performed simultaneously. The direct manifestation of this is that all the soul fragments can grow simultaneously. The soul refining speed of "Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Technique" surpasses all other soul refining techniques in the world.

The number of soul fragments also determines how many flying swords one can control simultaneously, how many swarms one can command at once, how many spiritual herbs one can refine at once...

A master of this technique could divide their soul into countless fragments. When faced with an unbeatable opponent, these soul fragments could scatter and escape. As long as one fragment survived, rebirth would be possible.

Long Xuan calculated with his fingers. His soul was naturally different from ordinary people. His three souls and seven spirits were doubled, giving him 20 main souls.

At the early stage of Spirit Gathering, he would undergo his first fission, resulting in 40 soul fragments.

At the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering, his soul fragments would double again, totaling 80.

At the late stage of Spirit Gathering, the third fission would yield 160 soul fragments.

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Currently, he was at the late stage of Marrow Cleansing, so following this pattern, his maximum limit of soul fragments should be 1,280.

One might think that 1,280 soul fragments are not much, but his cultivation level was still too low.

The exponential growth of power was terrifying. He realized that once he reached the level required for immortality, the number of fragments would be in the billions. ?

By the time he reached the eighth level and became a Gu Immortal, the number of soul fragments would have already surpassed 100 billion.

If he continued this crazy fission further, Long Xuan's eyes widened, and he was so shocked that his pen fell onto the table. He didn’t dare to think any further.

He stiffly lowered his head and saw that the Gu on the table had already made progress. He couldn't help but feel a shiver down his spine. Could the Heavens really allow such a terrifying technique to exist? Were they insane?

Long Xuan took a deep breath, trying to calm his frightened heart.

The idea of soul splitting had been in his mind even in his previous life. He had always hoped to multitask by splitting his soul, refining large quantities of spiritual herbs simultaneously, and thus shortening the time required for alchemy.

But he hadn’t known how to divide his soul. After all, how could the soul be casually split?

Splitting the soul was incredibly dangerous, almost a matter of life and death. If one made a mistake while dividing their soul, they could end up as a fool.

Otherwise, why would "True Soul Transformation" of the Sword Master Wan Jian be so dangerous?

The danger lay in the fact that "True Soul Transformation" also required soul fission, making it extremely perilous. Without the assistance of Soul-Nourishing Wood, the unlimited fission would certainly lead to death.

Long Xuan had found the method for soul Splitting within "True Soul Transformation", which had prompted him to finally begin executing the long-held ideas in his mind.

As for why he didn’t just cultivate "True Soul Transformation", it was because that technique, even at the peak of the Gu King level, could only produce 10,000 soul fragments. That was far too inferior for him. If he was going to refine a technique, it had to be something powerful.

However, his newly created technique seemed a bit too extreme. Was it really okay to divide the soul into so many parts? Could his physical body even contain that many?

Would creating such an exaggerated number of soul fragments be dangerous? Well, if it was too risky, he could just let his Fire Clone practice it instead.

Long Xuan's lips curved into a slight smile as he picked up the pen that had fallen on the table and began writing the outline of the "Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique".

This time, the content he would focus on was the supporting soul techniques for the technique.

In this world, abilities powered by spiritual energy are called "Spiritual Arts", and those powered by physical energy are called "Physical Arts".

Abilities that use mental energy are known as "Illusion Arts" , and naturally, those powered by soul energy are called "Soul Arts" .

In this world, Spiritual Arts are the most common, followed by Physical Arts. Illusion Arts are much rarer than Physical Arts, and Soul Arts are almost non-existent.

Up to this point, Long Xuan had never seen a single Soul Art, which shows how rare they are.

Even though the True Soul Transformation technique was incredibly powerful, it only had three accompanying 'Soul Arts'.

The first Soul Art is an ability that uses powerful soul energy to attack the souls of others. This is an extremely rare soul attack that can easily shatter an opponent's soul, making it extremely difficult to defend against. It is called Finger Of Nirvana.

The second Soul Art allows the user to transmit sound over a distance of a thousand miles using powerful soul energy. This is a supportive ability and is simply called "Thousand Mile Sound Transmission" .

The third Soul Art is somewhat sinister. It allows the user to search the soul of an opponent, forcing them into a fate worse than death, extracting all their Gu recipe from their soul.

The method used by the Long family to prevent the spread of their Gu recipe by placing restrictions on the soul is completely useless in the face of this powerful "Soul Search Technique".

Long Xuan could only think of two Soul Arts in a short time.

The first is a technique that controls numerous soul fragments to quickly possess and take over people attacking him, forcing them to turn on their allies or even self-destruct in the midst of the crowd.

This technique would be considered a heaven-defying skill. Once mastered, it would render him unafraid of being surrounded by hordes of enemies.

Long Xuan's excitement was palpable as he quickly came up with a name for this Soul Art: Heavenly Demon God-Devouring Technique.

He wrote the name down on the paper.

The second Soul Art had been in his mind for a long time. It was the ability he needed most right now, but he had never had the means to achieve it before. Now, with the Soul Refining Technique, he decided to fully explore this idea.

He quickly wrote down the name of the second accompanying Soul Art: Soul Library.

As the name suggests, the Soul Library is a world full of books where one can read.

However, the flow of time within this world is different from the outside. Spending ten days reading in the Soul Library would only take a day outside.

Of course, this involves the power of time, and manipulating time is beyond Long Xuan's abilities.

Instead, he achieves this effect by speeding up his thoughts, thereby creating the illusion of time slowing down.

The principle behind this idea is to make the spiritual body think faster in a mental world full of books, extending the perceived time and giving the illusion of a slower time flow.

A book that might take ten days to read outside could be finished in just one day inside this world.

However, to achieve this, one must have extremely powerful soul energy. Otherwise, attempting such a thing would result in a soul collapse.

The Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique uses the method of increasing soul power through the growth of soul fragments, which makes the growth of soul power after birth terrifying. This is enough to support Long Xuan in realizing this idea, making it the perfect accompanying Soul Art.

If anyone else dared to practice the Soul Library without cultivating the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique, their soul would surely collapse.

Long Xuan had long wanted to develop this idea not just to read books—reading was secondary. His real purpose was to study Gu Recipe within the Soul Library.

Researching Gu Recipe was too time-consuming. As he continued to research more complex Gu formulas in the future, the time required would only increase. Developing a technique that could shorten the time needed for research was imperative and could not be delayed any longer.

Otherwise, if he needed to study a Gu Recipe with millions of materials in the future, would he really have to spend decades on it?

In the soul world, researching Gu Recipe eliminates the need for paper or pens. With just a thought, a word would appear on a phantom sheet of paper, greatly speeding up the process of researching Gu Recipe.

After writing down the introduction to the Soul Library, Long Xuan was relieved to find that the progress had not disappeared.

This meant that, in theory, the idea could be realized. As long as he was willing to put in the effort, this ability would one day be created.

Satisfied, Long Xuan picked up the paper, a look of self-assured pride on his face.

A terrifying technique that would strike fear into the hearts of everyone in the world was about to be born in his hands. He couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride in creating such an impressive technique.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the terrifying nature of the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique could rival the "Purgatory True Demon Technique" or even the "Ten Absolute Scripture".

This technique was undoubtedly one of the strongest techniques in the world.

He could barely wait to see the day when the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique would shake the world.

Long Xuan's lips curled upward as he picked up his pen again, full of energy, ready to work through the night on this technique.

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