Chapter 144 Soul Search
In the following days, Luo Xuanyi sacrificed his soul and began to enter the Peach Blossom Land to learn soul-searching techniques and formation cultivation from Hao Fei.
Ten years in Peach Blossom Land was but one day outside. It was the perfect place to learn the Dao and study the Dharma. Luo Xuanyi first learned soul-searching techniques, then the art of formations.
In the valley where peach blossoms were flying, Luo Xuanyi sat cross-legged on the ground, listening to Hao Fei's explanation.
Soul-searching was a sinister technique, no less potent than the Soul-Locking Technique wielded by Luo Xuanyi. How did it work? Luo Xuanyi assumed it was as simple as the name suggested, allowing her to see every memory of the person she was searching. But she couldn't fathom how it could render the person's soul searched incompetent or even kill them.
It turns out that soul-searching is actually more like extracting the soul, but extracting the soul can only extract the entire soul, and cannot separate the thoughts and so on.
The caster shatters the Fushi spirit within the victim's soul, transforming it into a stream of spiritual energy and absorbing it into the body. Fushi is the life soul of a person, containing all spiritual memories. By only absorbing the Fushi spirit into the body, the majority of the soul remains within the victim, allowing the caster to access the memories without being overtaken by the consciousness of others.
Because the Fu Shi, the spiritual essence, is extracted, both cultivators and ordinary people will instantly become idiots, with no cure. Furthermore, cultivators' three souls and seven spirits are often cultivated into one, so even if soul-searching techniques are used to extract only one spirit, it's easy to accidentally damage the others. If any of the three souls is destroyed, the individual dies instantly, their spirit unable to reincarnate, and instead becomes a wisp of death in the world.
Therefore, Luo Xuanyi's idea of using elixirs to strengthen the victim's body and prevent their death was naive. Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but admire the creators of these evil spells and asked Hao Fei: "Isn't there any cultivator who has tried to perfect this evil spell?"
"Even if they have demonic cultivators, they can't pass it on to others." Hao Fei thought for a moment before answering, "As for the righteous cultivators, I remember someone trying to use soul-searching against us. However, soul-searching requires the use of a large number of living souls, otherwise it would ruin one's own cultivation. How could a righteous dog dare to use living souls, and yet they didn't want to ruin their own cultivation? In the end, soul-searching was banned by the righteous."
In the Peach Blossom Land, the sun and moon passed rapidly. To avoid wasting the few remaining souls she possessed, Luo Xuanyi began by repeatedly reciting the formula and changing the hand gestures. Having previously learned the Soul Locking Technique, she had assumed the Soul Searching Technique would be difficult. However, as soon as she recited the formula, a familiar feeling welled up within her soul, a feeling that the two techniques were resonating with each other.
Could these two techniques have been created by the same cultivator? Luo Xuanyi compared the two techniques. Soul-Locking and Soul-Searching both required a profound understanding of the human soul, and the mere refinement of their techniques could predict the deaths of countless people. Anyone who practiced such evil techniques would undoubtedly have caused a bloody storm.
Hao Fei said, "This evil technique has been passed down since ancient times, and no one can say for sure which master created it."
"Really?" Luo Xuanyi put it aside for the moment and waved to Hao Fei, "I'll try this soul-searching technique."
"?" Hao Fei hadn't reacted yet. He had just taken two steps towards Luo Xuanyi when he suddenly realized it, but it was too late to escape. He was already dead, but had been taken by Luo Xuanyi as gold paper. So, with a wave of her hand, he suddenly turned and floated into Luo Xuanyi's hands.
Luo Xuanyi retrieved ten souls from Rong Gui's collection and launched herself into the golden paper Hao Fei had transformed into. As soon as the words left her mouth, an obscure spell automatically entwined itself around the golden paper. The golden paper, a thin, round sheet, suddenly shone with countless white lights, one faintly blood-tinged. Luo Xuanyi, feeling a sense of purpose, caused the blood-tinged light to peel away from the white light.
Although Luo Xuanyi was careful, the white light clung tightly to the blood light, and she inevitably shattered some of the light strands as she pulled it out. Once the light strands shattered, the entire sheet of gold paper began to burn, taking with it the ten souls spread out around it. Luo Xuanyi felt the soul power rapidly draining from the gold paper, and she quickly pulled out the blood-colored one and swallowed it directly!
Luo Xuanyi's first wave of emotions was a torrent of emotions. Rage and the fear of death were particularly overwhelming. Hao Fei seemed to be screaming in her mind about his unwillingness to die. However, the soul-searching technique erected an invisible barrier between Luo Xuanyi's mind and Hao Fei's extracted Fu Shi soul. Hao Fei's thoughts could not invade Luo Xuanyi's, and could only dissipate reluctantly.
Then unfolded Hao Fei's life, transformed into countless images, compressing millennia into a single moment. Luo Xuanyi naturally accepted Hao Fei's memories, witnessing how Hao Fei, a naive child, was led by his master onto the path of demonic cultivation, and how he was killed by a formation master. It must be said that Hao Fei had a master who was considered to be conscientious and responsible. He had once been a prominent figure in the righteous world and even knew many secrets of the evil ways hidden within the righteous.
For example, behind the Vegetable Market was an evil sect. Many righteous sects also wanted to establish a relationship with the Zang Yao Sect, and even had private caravan exchanges with them.
However, what Luo Xuanyi is most interested in now is not this. What she wants is Hao Fei's later understanding of the art of formations.
Following her memory, she entered Hao Fei's Martial Dao and began to ponder within the Martial Dao. She felt a faint sensation within her body, as Hao Fei continued to comprehend it. Like the Martial Dao that Xi Xingji had transformed into after his death, her original spirit fire slowly began to form strange fragments. These were not foreign objects, but rather the "Dao" that Luo Xuanyi had gained by replacing herself with Hao Fei's enlightenment.
The living souls surrounding Luo Xuanyi burned too quickly, barely enough to hold up to Hao Fei's five hundred years. As soon as these souls burned out, Luo Xuanyi, still learning formations from Hao Fei, felt the spirit of Hao Fei's hidden arrow begin to dissipate within her body. Her memories of Hao Fei began to blur, like an ink painting blurred by water.
Soul-searching techniques disperse and expel useless hidden arrows to prevent the practitioner from becoming confused by the presence of too many other souls within their body. Luo Xuanyi hurriedly drew another piece of gold paper from Rong Guili to transform it into a living soul, but was distressed to discover that after taking out ten more, only a little over twenty remained. This was no time to be stingy, so Luo Xuanyi gritted her teeth and ignited the living soul.
Hao Fei's memory slowly solidified, transforming into a series of coherent images. Luo Xuanyi carefully recorded all the memories related to the formation that appeared in Hao Fei's memory, immersed in it, and cleared her mind of all distractions.
Finally, the living soul burned out, and Hao Fei's memory last stopped at the moment he walked towards Luo Xuanyi, and then turned to ashes.
Luo Xuanyi exhaled, feeling ravenous but unwilling to waste her limited supply of living souls. Seeing that the gold paper Hao Fei's soul had been searched on was still there, she reluctantly stuffed it into her mouth to satisfy her craving, her mind still poring over the Dao of Formations.
I have to say that before this, Luo Xuanyi knew very little about the Dao.
Make up for yesterday's update~Hao Fei is gone, no waste at all
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