Chapter 296: A Hundred Trials Lead to Nothing
Chapter 294 – Nothing to be gained from a hundred attempts
“Due to the special nature of the divine soul, the array pivot device can be mass-produced though.”
“However, the activation of each formation pivot in the [Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation] requires the formation master to personally guide it. And, in order to ensure the accuracy of the formation, every once in a while, the formation master is required to debug and calibrate it.”
“And that, in turn, is why you have come here for intensive training.”
A small golden ball suddenly appeared in Ji Hongdao’s hand, the very same item that had been distributed to the crowd along with the clothing earlier.
“This is the Soul Gathering Bead, created with Yin Spirit Jade. As the name suggests, it has the effect of collecting and imprisoning divine souls.”
“See the golden light inside?”
“Those are the divine souls of the Five Elders Association cultivators we captured!”
The moment Ji Hongdao said this, the cultivators present changed color.
Through the live test of extracting the divine souls just now, the crowd knew that the golden light in the divine souls of the Five Elders’ Association cultivators were traces of the [Soul Contract].
However, in each cultivator’s divine soul, the golden light only accounted for so much.
To condense so much golden light that was like substance, how many divine souls would be needed?
Thousands? Or tens of thousands?
The more I thought about it, the more appalled I felt.
Some Formation Dao Junjie had been immersed in the study of formations since the beginning of their cultivation, and had rarely come into contact with such a cruel side of the Immortal Cultivation World.
At this moment, they couldn’t help but look a little pale and panicked.
Ji Hongdao said in a deep voice, “What? Scared? Think we are too cruel?”
“But you have to know that in the battle of Tian Ling Zhou alone, the number of cultivators of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance who died in battle was a hundred times a thousand times the number of divine souls in the Soul Gathering Pearls in your hands!”
“Not to mention the various small and large wars that have broken out one after another over the past thousands of years.”
“Kindness to the enemy is true cruelty.”
Ji Hongdao looked deeply at the many young cultivators in front of him and nodded his head, no longer continuing to delve into this topic.
Instead, he continued to introduce this Golden Soul Gathering Bead.
“What you have to do is to realize the traces of the soul contract by constantly observing and touching these divine souls up close.”
“Eventually reaching the point where you can recognize the difference without the help of external forces.”
“In this way, when you construct the [Heavenly Xuan Spirit Locking Formation], you will have the ability to debug and calibrate the pivot of the formation.”
“This process of sensing requires the consumption of divine souls, and it would be best for you to be able to do so before the divine souls in the Soul Gathering Pearls are consumed.”
“Otherwise ……”
Ji Hongdao’s voice chilled, “We will determine that you do not possess the ability to construct the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation. Not only will you be expelled from this Huan Yu Special Academy, but you will also be charged for the loss of training, from the person who nominated you.”
When these words came out, the faces of all the cultivators were all a bit ugly.
If they failed to meet the requirements and were expelled just like that, it wasn’t just a matter of losing face.
I’m afraid that their future will be ruined, and they will never have a chance in the formation path.
These jungles who were nominated couldn’t help but feel a bit pressurized.
“However, you guys don’t worry. In order to alleviate your difficulties, the divine souls of these Five Elders Association cultivators, we have already processed them with special means.”
“The vast majority of the memories within the divine souls have already been purged clean.”
“Pure souls that don’t have to face the onslaught of memories and emotions are far too easy to perceive.”
“As long as they aren’t purely scum who come to mix their qualifications, they should have no problem.”
Ji Hongdao finally turned his words around and encouraged the crowd of young talents again.
In the end, he set up a study plan for the crowd for the next period of time.
During the day, the crowd of cultivators followed Ji Hongdao and learned to construct the [Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation].
At night, they each returned to the small courtyard where the crowd was located to perceive the Soul Contract Seal.
Every month, an examination was conducted. Checking the progress of the people’s learning.
……
In this way, Li Fan began his schedule of further studies in this Huan Yu Bei Yuan.
This Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation was worthy of being a formation that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had high hopes of using to turn the situation around. It was incredibly complicated.
Just the outer structure of the formation alone had a full 36 million formation formulas.
Each of these basic formations, in turn, consisted of a variety of different and numerous basic formations.
Even the simplest one was compounded with tens of thousands of different formation units.
To master all of Tian Xuan Spirit Locking’s formation structures was not an easy task, even for these geniuses selected from various states.
However, Li Fan had the assistance of the [Dao Transforming Divine One] secret method.
Everything he had learned and seen, and even what he had done and thought, was recorded in the blue Dao Transformation Stone in his sea of consciousness without any discrepancies.
It could be accessed at any time and corroborated before and after.
Li Fan’s mastery level of the Tian Xuan Spirit Locking Formation could be said to have skyrocketed.
Among the crowd of Junjie, they were all at the top.
In stark contrast to this, was Li Fan’s ability to sense soul contracts.
When almost a quarter of the gold color in the Soul Gathering Pearl had been consumed, Li Fan was still the same as at the very beginning, with almost no progress at all.
However, Li Fan was also going with the flow and was not under any pressure at all.
Words such as expelling from Tianyu Prefecture and asking for fees from the lifters could not threaten him, Li Fan.
If there were no accidents, by that time, Zhang Zhiliang was afraid that he would have already returned the way to Heaven.
Therefore, Li Fan remained with a normal heart, not being arrogant or impatient as he slowly sensed at his own pace.
Time passed slowly like this.
On this day, Li Fan once again extracted a divine soul from the Soul Gathering Pearl and was about to comprehend.
Two huge strands of cultivation suddenly surged from within his body.
Like a torrential river, it ran on and on.
In just a blink of an eye, it filled the third robbed body by half.
And the feedback cultivation level, it continued to increase.
Li Fan was delighted in his heart and faintly sensed, “This is Ye Feipeng and Xiao Heng both breaking through to the Jindan realm?”
Subconsciously, he wanted to unleash the Phase-less Killing Machine to check the situation over there.
However, the distance was too far away to know what had happened to the two.
This made Li Fan unable to help but feel a bit uncomfortable and unaccustomed.
“Judging from the amount of feedback cultivation, the two are at least a Three Dharma Jindan.”
“It’s a little bit of a shame that I can’t get to see such a wonderful picture.”
“It seems like I need to find a way to upgrade my Phase-less Killing Machine.”
Calming the faint joy in his heart, Li Fan’s divine sense skillfully rushed into the blank divine soul in his hand.
It was as if he had arrived in a vast space that was white and horizontal.
Li Fan traveled through it, trying to find traces of the golden soul contract.
However, as before, he found nothing.
The imprint of the soul contract was deeply hidden in the soul, just like a drop of water blending into the sea, it was absolutely difficult to detect.
Violently pulling out the soul to observe is equivalent to boiling the ocean, forcing the soul contract mark to appear.
Taking the soul by force is no different from killing someone.
Wanting to identify on a large scale, it was simply impossible to use such means.
It could only be done by way of divine sense entering the interior of the soul body and coming into close contact.
The existence of the Soul Contract Seal was realized.
(End of chapter)