Chapter 301: Quenching the Soul in the Sea of Grieving Souls

Chapter 299 – Sea of Grieving Souls Soul Quenching

Time passed quietly as Li Fan continued to familiarize himself with his divine soul.

With the [Ghost Hairpin] as a strange object, it drastically improved Li Fan’s ability to sense the divine soul.

The success rate of identification was also nearly doubled.

From one in a thousand, it had become two in a thousand, which was a huge leap!

“Hmm, it does work. It’s a pity that my original foundation was too poor, and if I want to raise it to a qualified level, I still need to continue strengthening my training.”

Wholeheartedly devoting himself into the process of sensing the divine soul, the golden light content in the Soul Gathering Bead dropped by leaps and bounds.

Seven days later, after the fifteen lucky ones who had originally been eliminated had all returned to the Huan Yu Academy, the second stage of closed training officially began.

The trainees had more or less heard about Tantai Tao’s death due to an “accident”, and their expressions were all a bit subtle. However, everyone understood that this matter was very deep and no one discussed it in public.

The second stage of training was to continue to deepen the accuracy of sensing the traces of the soul contract, in addition to learning the structure of the inner layer of the [Heavenly Xuan Spirit Locking Formation]. The requirement was to make sure to reach a hundred percent accuracy.

This was really a bit difficult for the replacement members such as Li Fan who were not up to standard originally. Fortunately, Ji Hongdao had also taken this into consideration, and had very “thoughtfully” prepared another special training for these students who were at the bottom of the list.

“You were originally eliminated, but because of some kind of change, you have returned here.”

“This is your destiny. Although your talent is inferior, your destiny is better than those geniuses.”

“Fate…is important.”

“The reason you all were eliminated earlier was basically because of your unqualified sensing of the Soul Contract Seal. The wasted Soul Gathering Bead shows that you guys are not good at this.”

“Since that’s the case, to ensure that you guys are qualified, you’ll have to do it in a different way.”

Ji Hongdao looked at Li Fan and the others with an expressionless face and waved his hand.

From the void above and below, several golden chains suddenly reached out, binding all of their hands and feet.

Ignoring the somewhat stunned expressions of the trainees, Ji Hongdao said in a cold voice: “This method is very dangerous, if you can’t hold on, turning into a senseless idiot is the best result. The destruction of form and spirit, and the painful plea for death, are all a kind of liberation.”

“The reason this method was not used before is because the death rate is too high for unusual cultivators.”

“But ……”

A trace of color flashed in Ji Hongdao’s eyes.

“Since you guys have good lives, then I think it’s not much of a problem to make it through.”

Gently slapping his palm, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.

The sound of monstrous waves came from the sea, and Li Fan and the others were bound by golden chains on top of a reef by the sea.

Although their limbs were locked, it did not affect their perspective.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the “sea” in front of him.

The aura coming from the ocean made him feel a little creepy.

Listening carefully, the sound of the waves seemed to be mixed with countless howls of pain.

“This is …… “Seemingly seeing something, Li Fan colored slightly.

“In front of you is the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance’s renowned [Sea of Grieving Souls].”

“For thousands of years, all the Five Elders Association cultivators who died in battle in the territory of the Ten Thousand Years Alliance, their tattered divine souls would be absorbed within this [Sea of Grieving Souls].”

“Day after day, month after month, no one knows exactly how many divine souls have been gathered in this sea.”

“Every drop of seawater could be a collection of several or even a dozen cultivators’ divine souls.”

“Since you all sense one by one, you can’t recognize the soul contract imprints. Then, let the quantity come in more.”

Ji Hongdao’s eyes were slightly lowered as he said in a cold voice.

With his words, the [Sea of Grieving Souls] seemed to be summoned.

Waves arose without wind.

Huge waves of several feet in height were created abruptly, and they struck head-on towards Li Fan and the others who were locked in the seaside reef.

The moment they made contact with the seawater, countless images and emotions appeared in Li Fan’s mind in an instant. It didn’t matter whether or not the other party could take in such a huge amount of information in such a short period of time.

The condensed divine souls were extremely rough and scrambling, spreading in Li Fan’s sea of consciousness.

Occupying all the blank spaces by force.

The huge amount of impact came at first, and caught off guard, Li Fan almost lost his mind and lost himself.

Cursing in his heart, Li Fan did his best to maintain the existence of his own self-consciousness under this wave of divine souls.

At the same time, the Dao Transformation Stone in his mind operated at full power, quickly categorizing and filing and processing the heavenly amount of information mixed in the countless divine souls one by one.

And it seemed that because of the life-threatening situation, the Xuan Huang Refining Heart Incantation was also extremely rare in speeding up its operation efficiency at this moment.

Absorbing all those negative emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and fear from the divine souls.

With the two-pronged approach, it was as if a long time had passed before Li Fan managed to pull through.

The rest of his eyes looked at the surrounding cultivators, and surprisingly, one of them directly failed to withstand it, and his body directly dissolved under the impact of the waves of the [Sea of Grieving Souls].

The soul also became part of the seawater.

And the vast majority, their eyes were occupied by a blank space.

It was only the occasional turn of the black eyeballs that indicated that their sanity had yet to be completely worn out.

There were only two or three people like Li Fan who had already recovered from the onslaught of the tidal wave of divine souls.

However, the hideous and ghastly expressions on their faces illustrated the pain they were suffering at the moment.

Learning to reveal an unbearable expression as well, before Li Fan could have too many thoughts, the second wave followed.

Sinking, resisting, recovering, and sinking again.

Just in this cycle, I don’t know how long it took before the sea finally calmed down.

The chains disappeared, and the crowd was dislodged, falling to the ground.

“It’s true that all of you have a good life, out of the fifteen people, eleven of you actually made it through.” Ji Hongdao marveled somewhat.

“The Dao of destiny is truly mysterious. Although it is not visible, it is real. You know, according to our previous statistics, under the impact of the [Sea of Grieving Souls] for unusual cultivators, the survival rate is only one percent.”

“Very good!” Ji Hongdao seemed happy.

“Today’s special training is over. You guys go back and rest first!”

The crowd couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

“Continue tomorrow.”

Ji Hongdao continued.

When the crowd heard this, they all had palpitations and ugly faces.

It could be said that it was all thanks to luck that they had survived today.

Hell knows if they would still be able to hold out tomorrow?

Unavoidably, some people beat a retreat.

After all, compared to the future of the formation path, one’s own life is still a little more important.

However, all these people got was Ji Hongdao’s cold words, “Want to quit at this time? It’s already too late.”

“How precious is the [Sea of Grieving Souls], it’s not easy for us, the Cursive Formation Hall, to apply for it even once.”

“Either we hold out through it, or become part of it, I guess.”

The cultivator whose request was rejected had a face like ashes and sat down powerlessly on the ground.

Li Fan, however, had little fear.

(End of Chapter)