Chapter 730: The Profundity of Star Souls (1/2)

Numerous ancient magical symbols shone dazzlingly within the second fragmentary star mark.

Nie Tian’s soul awareness swam among them as he tried to derive more enlightenment.

As he did, the ancient magical symbols disappeared one after another, to be branded in the depths of his soul and become his indelible memories.

The ancient magical symbols recorded profound knowledge of star souls and Starchain. The magical symbols he learned first were about star souls.

From them, he finally learned that the nine fragmentary stars in his soul were actually called star souls.

Star souls were the souls of stars.

Qi warriors from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace would be able to gather star souls and cultivate with them after entering the Worldly realm.

Star souls only existed in the cores of stars, so they were very difficult to find in the first place.

Then, it was even harder to merge them with oneself and turn them into star souls.

It was hard for many Qi warriors from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace to find a single star soul right after they entered the Worldly realm.

Some couldn’t even collect as many as nine star souls their whole lives.

Apparently, he was different from most Qi warriors from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

He was a Son of the Stars picked by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace through the Heaven Gate trial.

Every Son of the Stars would receive nine star souls from the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace immediately after passing the Heaven Gate trials.

This meant that he had obtained these star souls right after he had passed the Heaven Gate trial.

At first, they had hidden in his sea of awareness. Later, seven of them had appeared. Then when he had refined the discarnate souls within the spiritual soul into pure soul power, the other two had come to form.

When star souls became strong enough, they could be viewed as sub-souls.

Once sub-souls were branded with the profound power of one’s true soul, they would be able to exercise the same functions as the true soul. Through them, the cultivator would be able to cast soul magics and derive enlightenment.

The interesting thing was that even if a cultivator’s true soul was destroyed, as long as they still had one sub-soul, they would be able to regather their true soul and return it to life.

Furthermore, his nine star souls would have other incredible uses when he needed to build his inner domain and break through into the Void domain.

The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace had chosen these star souls for him according to his situation. Only in this way was he able to control and use them when his cultivation base was still low.

He also learned that he could not only strengthen his star souls with soul crystals, which were very hard to find, but he could also cultivate them by detecting and collecting soul power from the cores of stars in this universe.

“There’re star souls in each and every star. I can establish a profound connection with them and channel power from them to strengthen my own star souls. When my star souls are strong enough, I’ll be able to brand them with my soul imprints and make them transform.”

As his awareness swam among the numerous ancient magical symbols to derive enlightenment about star souls, he also consumed his soul power at an alarming rate.

Soon, he felt deeply depleted, and had to stop deriving enlightenment of star souls. He didn’t even get to the magical symbols that recorded Starchain.

WHOOSH!

He let out a deep breath and awoke with a much deeper understanding of the nine fragmentary stars in his soul.

However, he also realized that he had consumed a significant amount of soul power after such a short time deriving enlightenment.

His nine star souls had grown noticeably smaller, and the light they emanated had become dimmer.

The soul crystal he had held fast in his hand had disappeared. Apparently, he had already drained it of its soul power.

At this moment, the Phantasm soul that resided in the prismatic crystal between his eyebrows seemed to sense his consumption of soul power.

Therefore, it launched another soul attack.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered as he exclaimed, “Here it comes again!”

Qiao Yunxi and Yin Yanan, who were each holding a soul crystal in their hand, snapped out of their cultivation and opened their eyes simultaneously.

Unlike Nie Tian, they didn’t have star souls in their seas of awareness. Because of this, their efficiency at absorbing soul power was far inferior to Nie Tian’s.

Qiao Yunxi’s soul crystal still had more than half of its soul power left, while Yin Yanan’s had shrunk more much considerably, but was still far from vanishing.

This meant neither of the two girls had managed to drain their soul crystal of its power.