Ling Xiaotian didn't dare gamble. He had barely escaped death through the space-time rift, and without a clear understanding of his surroundings, he didn't dare rashly destroy the jade pendant. Inside the jade pendant, Ling Xiaotian's soul would dissipate much more slowly. What if he was currently in a place devoid of spirits? If he destroyed the jade pendant, he would be courting death.
Ling Xiaotian hesitated, and as time went by, his soul grew weaker and weaker. Even if he encountered a low-level cultivator, he wouldn't dare attempt to possess their body. After all, if a cultivator attempted to possess someone else's body, it was a life-or-death struggle. What cultivator would be willing to give up their body to someone else? Ling Xiaotian, so weak, might be subject to someone else's soul refinement. While it was sinister for a cultivator to seize someone's soul, it didn't count if it came to them. If a cultivator's body failed to be possessed and was instead refined, it was permitted by the laws of nature.
This manual was like opening a new door for Ling Xiaotian. Ling Xiaotian didn't know when he had obtained this manual. In his two hundred years of cultivation, he had killed countless evil cultivators. Perhaps he accidentally dropped this manual into his sea of consciousness after one of his efforts to eliminate evil and defend the Way.
The technique is called "Soul Nourishing Technique." It states that a cultivator can split their soul into small pieces, each of which can be placed in the bodies of others, nourishing their own soul. Once the soul has grown stronger, it can be returned to their own body. It's well known that cultivators with stronger souls are more powerful in leveling up and fighting than those with weaker souls.
When a cultivator who has lost his original body cannot find a good body to possess, he can temporarily use this method to find a mortal body to nourish his soul, and wait for the right time to find a body that is most suitable for him to possess.
As we all know, not just anyone can become a cultivator. To cultivate, one must possess spiritual roots. A mortal without spiritual roots, no matter how skilled their cultivation techniques, cannot become a cultivator. The most tragic thing about a cultivator possessing a mortal body is taking over a mortal's body. A cultivator, accustomed to their own immense strength, would certainly not want to return to being an ordinary mortal.
It is said that if the "Soul-Nourishing Art" is practiced to the extreme, it can reshape the body.
However, this heaven-defying technique had a flaw: the first time it entered another person's body, it required the body's owner's consent. Otherwise, how could the original soul in the body allow the foreign soul to coexist? If the two souls tore each other apart, it might end up in a lose-lose situation.
This bizarre effect nearly drove Ling Xiaotian crazy. He wouldn't accept the idea of having a strange soul inside his body, even if it offered him the greatest benefit!
With no other options, Ling Xiaotian continued to search his vast "collection of books." Finally, amidst a jumble of storybooks, he came across the term "system." There were many different types of storybooks, each with its own distinct style. What captivated Ling Xiaotian most was the way the protagonists, after acquiring the "system," seemed to have their lives transformed into smooth sailing, reaching peaks of their potential.
Ling Xiaotian decided that he could pretend to be the "system" and get the host to agree to his entry.
After Ling Xiaotian made up his mind, the jade pendant finally cracked.
Without the jade pendant, Ling Xiaotian had no support and could only follow his own intuition to find a direction to float forward. Ling Xiaotian's luck was quite good. It was night when the jade pendant shattered. He floated for several hours and floated into a large mansion before dawn.
In that large mansion, Ling Xiaotian met He Jingjing. After much persuasion, he finally managed to forge an alliance with her, entering her mind and becoming a "system." Ling Xiaotian finally felt relieved. With He Jingjing's body nourishing his soul, he could proceed with his soul-nurturing plan. However, Ling Xiaotian's soul was already very weak and could not be separated for the time being. Ling Xiaotian planned to wait for some time before beginning his "soul-nurturing plan."
What surprised Ling Xiaotian was that after entering He Jingjing's body, he discovered that He Jingjing actually had spiritual roots. Although they were the useless four spiritual roots of water, fire, earth and gold, at least they could be cultivated!
Ling Xiaotian's heart was ablaze with excitement. He felt that he had another option. Even if the Soul Nourishing Technique was unreliable, he could still possess He Jingjing's body and become a true cultivator. Although He Jingjing's identity as a woman made Ling Xiaotian somewhat unhappy, compared to being a disembodied ghost, regaining a body that could be used for cultivation had become Ling Xiaotian's obsession.
To understand He Jingjing's aptitude for cultivation, Ling Xiaotian began to coax her into practicing. What He Jingjing considered telekinesis was actually the extra spiritual energy that a cultivator gained through cultivation. Unfortunately, He Jingjing's aptitude was too poor, and it took her over a year to cultivate even a tiny bit.
Ling Xiaotian then taught He Jingjing a spell. Of course, Ling Xiaotian told He Jingjing it was a spell to drive telekinesis, but in reality, it was a method of inflicting a Gu. After inflicting this Gu on a person, Ling Xiaotian could use the Gu worm to continuously absorb vitality from that person to nourish his soul.
He Jingjing couldn't hold back. She couldn't help but try it on Feng Xueying after learning just a little bit.
How could Feng Xueying, a mere ordinary person, withstand Ling Xiaotian's constant daily drain of vitality? Consequently, as Feng Xueying's vitality steadily diminished, her appearance aged day by day. Had Zhou Xi not decisively severed the connection between Ling Xiaotian and the Gu worm, and then used Wen Yulong's blood to draw out the Gu worm from Feng Xueying's body and eliminate it, Feng Xueying would have died long ago.
Zhou Xi broke the Gu that He Jingjing had cast, causing her to vomit blood and pass out. No one expected that the culprit behind all this was a remnant soul hiding within He Jingjing's crystal.
After He Jingjing stopped practicing, Ling Xiaotian had to find another way to strengthen his strength. After Ling Xiaotian accidentally discovered that He Boqian's driver Zeng Mingliang had pure Yin energy, he decisively separated one-third of his soul and placed it in Zeng Mingliang's body.
Using puppetry, Ling Xiaotian discovered that Zeng Mingliang's wife Wang Xiaona was actually a woman with yin attributes - the cauldron that the evil cultivators in the cultivation world dreamed of.
At this point, Ling Xiaotian no longer had the original motivation he had when he first started practicing, nor did he have the reserved demeanor of a Tiandao Sect genius. He was completely focused on regaining his body and continuing to be a cultivator. To achieve his goal, he didn't care about the lives of others.
Through Zeng Mingliang, Ling Xiaotian absorbed the pure spiritual energy from Wang Xiaona every once in a while. After a few months, he felt that his soul had grown stronger.
Before Ling Xiaotian could take back the soul that was fostered in Zeng Mingliang, Zhou Yuanyuan took action and burned Ling Xiaotian's soul into ashes.
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