Chapter 385: The Giant Hand That Stretched Out of the Sea (1/2)

Chapter 385: The Giant Hand That Stretched Out of the Sea

Qin Lie could clearly see that Xue Li looked somewhat dejected after suffering this terrible injury. Even his spirit seemed to have shriveled up.

He had twice suffered defeat at the hands of Jiang Zhuzhe. The first time, he was wrongfully accused of being a blood sucking demon and instantly fell from grace, going from Blood Fiend Sect’s newly appointed sect master to the sect’s disgrace. He was sealed within the twelve spirit pattern pillars.

This lasted for a thousand years.

Then he finally escaped from the spirit pattern pillars with Qin Lie’s assistance and stealthily returned to the Land of Chaos in an attempt to exact revenge.

However, before the matter could be fully investigated, he was caught by Jiang Zhuzhe yet again.

This time, the outcome was even worse than before. His physical body and half of his soul were completely destroyed, refined by Jiang Zhuzhe.

He currently only had half a soul left, barely surviving within the Soul Suppressing Orb…

After suffering two devastating blows in a row, Xue Li found all of it difficult to process. He had already been restraining it in the first place, and now he was about to go insane with hatred.

Qin Lie watched the surface of the bright red sea from inside the small room with a deep frown on his face. He wasn’t sure how to console Xue Li.

“I’m tired. I need some time to think.” A long time later, Xue Li released a deep sigh from within the Soul Suppressing Orb and went silent.

Qin Lie closed the window and quietly sat on his bed. He felt a little unsettled by everything.

Floating corpses were appearing more and more frequently on the sea’s surface. This meant that the path ahead was fraught with danger. This, along with Xue Li’s disastrous experience, had spawned sorrow inside of his heart. His mind was obviously agitated.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a few spirit boards from the spatial ring and began inscribing the spirit diagrams he knew, with his finger as the brush and his spirit energy as the ink.

He quickly became fully absorbed in the task of inscribing spirit diagrams and calmed down.

Spirit Storage, Spirit Gathering, Amplification, and Strengthening—these were the four ancient diagrams stored within the Soul Suppressing Orb. Their were meant for cleansing his spirit, washing away the violent instincts in his heart, and calming his soul.

The four spirit diagrams were miraculous and incomparably powerful when it came to calming one’s soul. When Qin Lie was inscribing the spirit diagrams, not only did he feel calm and peaceful, even his soul seemed to have entered a magical state.

The spirit boards that were inscribed with the spirit diagrams were casually tossed aside.

Qin Lie suddenly stopped inscribing the spirit diagrams and entered his own mind.

Formed from soul consciousness, the transparent Soul Lake in his mind was like a window into his own heart. It could reflect everything from recent memory.

It was like a mirror of the self.

Inside the Soul Lake, there seemed to be a blurry shadow as thin as a cloud.

“A Soul Shadow!” Qin Lie trembled.

Breaking through from the Manifestation Realm to the Netherpassage Realm depended on the formation of one’s True Soul inside the Soul Lake. A martial practitioner would gather the soul imprints scattered in their mind and absorb them bit by bit, forming them into their True Soul within the Soul Lake.

Everyone had a soul in their minds when they were born. These souls were scattered, invisible and formless.

However, there was no doubt that souls existed.

As a martial practitioner’s realm grew, their physical body would be strengthened, and their spirit energy would be tempered. They would gradually be able to sense the existence of their own soul and detect its traces and movements.

The soul imprints scattered throughout one’s mind were the origin of one’s soul. Once a Soul Lake became translucent, they would be slowly absorbed into the Soul Lake.

A transparent Soul Lake was capable of forming an extraordinary attraction field that slowly but surely drew all of the soul origins scattered to every corner of a martial practitioner’s mind.

The sign of a blur inside of the Soul Lake meant that the gathering had already begun.

A Soul Shadow would form after the soul origins and soul imprints poured into a Soul Lake.

As more and more soul imprints, origin, and flames gathered inside of the Soul Lake, the Soul Shadow would gradually become clearer and more defined!

When all of the scattered soul imprints were gathered into the Soul Lake, the Soul Shadow would then become a True Soul!

Once a True Soul was formed, this would mean that the martial practitioner had officially entered the Netherpassage Realm. They would be able to utilize their True Soul and unleash all sorts of mysterious techniques. The soul’s perception and sensitivity would be greatly increased as well!

When a True Soul was completely formed, a martial practitioner’s soul would change from a formless, invisible entity to a tangible existence.

As a martial practitioner continued to temper and explore further knowledge about their True Soul, their physical body, muscles, veins, and dantian’s spirit sea would connect to their True Soul. They would undergo an overarching metamorphosis as if being reborn.

“A Soul Shadow! This is a Soul Shadow!”

Qin Lie was overcome with emotion as he observed the extremely blurry shadow inside of his Soul Lake.

He had not taken a step outside his room for so long, cultivating day and night without allowing the slightest bit of laziness. He was finally able to see a bit of result of his hard work.

The formation of the Soul Shadow meant that he was breaking through the Manifestation Realm to the Netherpassage Realm.

Once a Soul Shadow could be clearly seen, and all of the soul origins had been gathered and condensed into a True Soul, he could then be considered to have successfully broken through to the Netherpassage Realm.

He could not wait for that day to come.

“Stop!” an icy cold voice rang out from far in front of the boat.

On a boat shaped like a willow leaf, three young martial practitioners dressed in blue clothing with gold trim appeared, arrogant expressions on their faces.