Chapter 524: The Bottom Continen (1/2)
Chapter 524: The Bottom Continent
The Phantasm’s corpse was instantly reduced to flying ashes.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
As the discarnate soul within the skull in Nie Tian’s hand continued to ram into the soul ward Chang Yuan had established, crackling sounds began to echo out of the fleshless skull, as if it would explode at any moment.
Through the Heaven Eye, which was still within the skull, Nie Tian saw an endless craving in the discarnate soul the moment the Phantasm’s body turned to ashes, leaving nothing but the prismatic crystal that was the size of a fingernail.
It seemed as if the discarnate soul was desperate to break out of the skull and fly into the prismatic crystal, no matter the cost.
Since Chang Yuan’s cultivation base wasn’t very impressive, the ward he had condensed with his psychic power was far from impregnable.
Soon, Nie Tian had a feeling that the skull was going to crack if he didn’t do something right away.
As he let out a cold harrumph, misty starlight instantly flew out of his Heaven Eye.
The misty soul power floated in all directions and merged with the ward left by Chang Yuan, instantly strengthening it.
As the Phantasm’s discarnate soul rammed into the ward again, and made contact with the misty aura, it immediately shrank back as if had suffered great pain from the contact, its vague shape becoming even frailer.
After a handful more failed attempts, the discarnate soul consumed a large proportion of its last remaining strength, and finally realized that, after Nie Tian had strengthened it with his soul power, the ward inside the skull was no longer something it could break.
Eventually, it let out begrudging groans and stopped trying.
Seeing that it had settled down, Nie Tian started converging his spiritual power on the finger he was using to press on the prismatic crystal.
However, he found to his surprise that his spiritual power couldn’t enter the crystal.
Eyebrows furrowed, he pondered, “What in the world is it?”
He caught the attention of Qian Xin and the others when he channeled the Phantasm’s corpse towards him. However, after he placed his finger on it and it turned into ashes, they withdrew their gazes one after another.
The way they saw it, the Phantasm corpse Nie Tian discovered was no different from the valueless ones they had examined before.
None of them saw the prismatic crystal that stuck to Nie Tian’s fingertip.
Dong Li was the only one who saw it, since she was right beside him.
Staring at the prismatic crystal, Dong Li’s eyes glittered with the light of excitement as she asked in a low voice, “Nie Tian, is that the crystal from between that Phantasm’s eyebrows?”
Turning nothing but his eyes, Nie Tian looked at her and nodded in a very subtle way.
Dong Li’s eyes lit up as she said with a voice as soft as a mosquito, “Each and every Phantasm corpse Gu Haofeng and the others have examined turned into ashes the moment they touched them, including the prismatic crystals between their eyebrows.
“But when this one turned to ashes, its prismatic crystal remained intact.
“Perhaps only the corpses of Phantasms with a very high bloodline grade will be less prone to corrosion, and because of that, their prismatic crystal can be preserved.
“As far as I know, the prismatic crystal between the Phantasms’ eyebrows are vital to them.
“They seem to be the vessels that carry their souls and the source of their soul power.”
Nie Tian’s expression flickered. “Vessels that carry their souls!?”
After a moment of silence, Nie Tian withdrew his Heaven Eye from the skull and returned it to his ring of holding.
He attempted to examine the prismatic crystal with his Heaven Eye.
However, even the Heaven Eye that contained soul power from the fragmentary stars failed to enter the crystal.
He could only sense faint signs of violent soul fluctuations from within the prismatic crystal.
“Don’t tell me that the Phantasm’s soul is still in the prismatic crystal?!” With that question in mind, he made a few more attempts to pry into the secrets within the prismatic crystal, but all of them failed.
Eventually, he gave up and stored the small crystal in his ring of holding when no one was looking.
Time flew. Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
No one seemed to have discovered anything noteworthy during this time. Hence, they could only keep practicing cultivation.
Watching all kinds of strange-looking objects float into the colorful mist at the end of the segment, people gradually lost their patience.