Inside the city lord's mansion in Shenyuan City.
"Have you thought this through? Once you start, there's no going back. The pain involved is many times greater than you can imagine. Even in the history of the divine realm, the number of people who have survived it is less than a handful!"
Venerable Lingfeng looked at Chi Chen before him and asked with a serious expression. In truth, Venerable Lingfeng was not as relaxed as he appeared when he made the decision to have Chi Chen undergo the Soul Shattering and Reshaping process ahead of schedule. After all, if Chi Chen were to die during the Soul Shattering and Reshaping process, all their previous efforts and plans would be in vain.
"Even Miaomiao, a girl, persevered, so what am I, a grown man, afraid of?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen's words immediately drew a chill from Hu Miaomiao.
"Oh, of course, I didn't mean to look down on women, and I certainly didn't mean to look down on you! I was just using an analogy!"
Chi Chen, driven by a strong will to survive, immediately offered a sophistry.
"No, Miao Miao did not endure the pain of soul shattering and reshaping back then!"
\"Um????\"
Lingfeng Venerable's next words left Chi Chen with countless question marks.
What do you mean?
"As I said, Miaomiao is a special case."
Lingfeng Venerable's expression remained unchanged, and he continued to lie to Chi Chen without blushing at all. Now that things had come to this point, if he were to tell Chi Chen now that he didn't actually need to suffer the pain of soul shattering and reconstruction, but only needed to go to the forbidden area of the God Realm at the Star Radiance Realm to obtain something and return to Blue Star, Lingfeng Venerable was really afraid that Chi Chen would suddenly turn against him.
"is that so?"
Chi Chen looked at Hu Miaomiao.
"Um!"
Hu Miaomiao's eyes flickered slightly, and after hesitating for a moment, she nodded.
"Alright, since that's the case, let's get started without further ado!"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen glanced at Venerable Lingfeng with a somewhat strange expression.
"Did this kid realize I was lying to him?"
Looking at Chi Chen's eyes, Venerable Lingfeng had some doubts, but since Chi Chen didn't back out, he didn't need to worry about so many details.
Yes, Chi Chen did realize that Venerable Lingfeng was lying to him. However, after asking Hu Miaomiao a question and finding that she didn't object, he chose to accept the situation.
Although Chi Chen didn't know why even Hu Miaomiao was helping Venerable Lingfeng deceive him into undergoing that ridiculous Soul Shattering Reshaping procedure, Chi Chen was clear about one thing: Hu Miaomiao would never do anything harmful to him.
Therefore, out of absolute trust in Hu Miaomiao, Chi Chen did not delve into the reasons behind it, but simply chose to accept it.
"Stand inside the magic circle!"
Venerable Lingfeng, with a solemn expression, stepped aside, and behind him, an extremely complex magic array emerged.
Chi Chen walked straight to the center of the magic array and sat down on the ground.
"During this process of reshaping your soul, you must always remember to keep your mind clear. No matter how painful it is, you must not get lost in the endless darkness. Otherwise, what awaits you is most likely the annihilation of your soul and complete disappearance from this world!"
But enduring the initial, soul-shattering pain is only the beginning. The endless darkness that follows is the true test. There, you will gradually forget who you are. A new world will appear before your eyes, and there, you have a high chance of utterly succumbing to it, believing that it is the real world!
The Venerable Lingfeng's extremely solemn voice rang out as he continuously explained the key points of soul shattering and reshaping to Chi Chen.
Although Venerable Lingfeng did not experience soul shattering and reshaping, there were others in the divine realm who had succeeded, and there are relevant records.
Are you ready?
After Venerable Lingfeng finished explaining, he asked Chi Chen seriously once again.
"Well, now that I've made my choice, I won't change it. Let's begin!"
Chi Chen nodded, then gave Hu Miaomiao a reassuring look.
Hu Miaomiao smiled at Chi Chen without saying a word, but her eyes, shimmering with tears, conveyed the message, "I'm waiting for you to come back."
Then, Hu Miaomiao turned her head and glanced at Venerable Lingfeng, the meaning in her eyes was self-evident.
If Chi Chen's shattered soul reconstruction fails, then we'll see.
Venerable Lingfeng's lips twitched slightly, inwardly cursing the sins committed.
"The Soul-Shattering Array is activated! Souls scatter, souls reunite!"
Venerable Lingfeng's expression was solemn. He made hand seals, his hands creating illusory images as he constantly changed the hand seals. Even with his level of cultivation, it seemed extremely difficult for him to perform such a technique.
Soul shattering and reshaping is actually an extremely heaven-defying feat. The difficulty involved is something that Venerable Lingfeng simply did not elaborate on, but it does not mean that soul shattering and reshaping is as simple as Chi Chen appears on the surface.
Take the magic array beneath Chi Chen as an example. The amount of rare and precious materials required to inscribe it is enough to shock everyone in the world. Inscribing this array is even more complicated and intricate. If Venerable Lingfeng and others had not planned for this for over a hundred years, it would not have been so easy to create these things.
As Venerable Lingfeng's hand seals changed continuously, different lights began to emanate from the four directions of the magic array: east, west, south, and north.
Then, guided by Venerable Lingfeng's incantation, four beams of light gradually illuminated the entire array along its patterns, eventually converging towards Chi Chen at the center of the array like four streams.
"Condense!"
At a certain moment, when the four beams of light were still a hair's breadth away from Chi Chen, Venerable Lingfeng's expression hardened, and he uttered a soft shout. The four beams of light of different colors instantly condensed into four small radiant knives of different shapes.
Then, under Hu Miaomiao's somewhat worried gaze, four small, luminous knives simultaneously shot into Chi Chen's body.
"Ughhhhhh!"
As soon as the four-colored radiant dagger entered his body, Chi Chen let out an extremely shrill scream.
Pain, excruciating pain, indescribable pain!
Although Chi Chen had made sufficient mental preparations beforehand, when the Soul Shattering Technique was just beginning, in the very first instant, Chi Chen almost had his pre-established mental defenses breached.
The moment the four-colored daggers entered Chi Chen's soul, Chi Chen felt as if four giant hands were tearing his soul into four pieces from different directions. Then, each piece of his soul experienced a different kind of pain.
One piece of his soul felt as if it were being slowly gnawed away by thousands of man-eating ants. Another piece felt as if it were being constantly pounded by a giant iron hammer, with each blow more powerful than the last. The third piece of his soul felt as if it were in absolute cold. Here, Chi Chen felt as if both his thoughts and senses were frozen. He could only feel that he was there, but he could do nothing.
Chi Chen's last remaining piece of soul felt as if it were in a blazing lava field, being constantly cooked by a raging fire, experiencing an inescapable burning pain.
"Aaaaaaah!"
At the center of the magic circle, Chi Chen's soul struggled incessantly, his limbs twisted into irregular shapes as if broken, and his face was already distorted beyond recognition. At this moment, Chi Chen no longer resembled a human; he looked more like the lowest-ranking imp in hell who had been tortured for so long.
Chi Chen's shrill screams echoed continuously from the center of the magic array. As his soul was torn apart, Chi Chen's consciousness was also torn into four parts. Four kinds of pain appeared at the same time. No one dared to say that they could withstand that kind of pain that was simply indescribable.
Chi Chen originally thought that the shattering of the soul would be a gradual process, but he did not expect that the beginning would be so tragic.
In the basement, Hu Miaomiao looked pale as she watched Chi Chen wail in pain. Her hands were clenched so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms, but she was completely unaware of it.
Even though Hu Miaomiao had never experienced the pain of a shattered soul, she could imagine from looking at Chi Chen's current state what kind of pain the boy was going through. Because in the past, no matter how serious the injury Chi Chen had suffered, Hu Miaomiao had never seen Chi Chen show such unbearable pain.
The boy in front of me has always been a symbol of resilience since he lost his parents. He never easily showed his pain in front of others. But now, even though he is trying his best to endure it, the pain is no longer something he can suppress.
Venerable Lingfeng stood aside, looking somewhat nervous and uneasy. Knowledge gained from books is ultimately superficial. Although ancient books contained detailed descriptions of the pain of shattered souls, seeing such a scene with one's own eyes still made Venerable Lingfeng feel somewhat shocked.
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