Chapter 78: Achieving Divine Soul

  The direction of the Lingbao Pavilion, a huge roar came, killing the red-eyed Tian Shi from all sides, forgetting that they were in the Imperial City of Yunyun Country, for the sake of the spiritual treasure, daring to take action against anyone around them.

  The sound of horns is urgent, and the troops stationed in the Lingbao Pavilion should have started to maintain order.

  Ji Changkong galloped on the rooftops, his heart as clear as a mirror, reflecting all the fluctuations around him. He avoided areas with many fierce heavenly warriors and instead headed towards places where people were scarce.

  Hoo-hoo!

  A faint blue smoke blew in front of him, and Ji Changkong galloped freely in the sky, unintentionally taking a breath.

  As soon as the blue smoke entered his body, he suddenly felt numb and weak all over, one foot stepped into thin air, "plop" sound, fell in the center of a elegant courtyard.

  "Hehe, I've finally caught you."

  A familiar, thin figure emerged from a distant corner of the wall, surprisingly in the Lingbao Temple, it was the old man who had exchanged two hundred top-grade yuan stones for the thousand-year-old purple gold toad poison fang.

  The old man chuckled to himself in a low voice, walked up to Ji Changkong's side, grabbed his collar and dragged him directly into a wing room in the courtyard. Inside the house, a couple was foaming at the mouth, having been dead for some time.

  After closing the door, the old man pressed Ji Changkong's weak and limp body into a chair. A withered yellow hand searched around on Ji Changkong's body for a while, removing the tightly gripped dagger, mustard bag, and the pliers on his left hand one by one.

  Opening the mustard seed bag, various spiritual medicines from Yunmeng Daze, Hei Yu Yuanjing, and more than 6,000 high-quality yuan stones he exchanged at the Spiritual Treasure Conference were piled up in the house.

  "It's issued, it's really prosperous! Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that you, who look so unassuming, would have so many good things. It was worth following you for half a day!" The old man excitedly chuckled and praised in amazement.

  Her entire body felt weak, and her eyelids seemed to be getting heavy as she asked in a faint voice: "Who... who are you? Why are you following me?"

  "Huh, there's something else too?" The old man didn't respond, instead he looked at Ji Changkong with a puzzled expression, stretched out his dry and thin old hand like a chicken claw, and carefully searched Ji Changkong's body again. "Youngster, where is it?"

  "What's left? Haven't you taken everything?" His mind was a complete muddle, and Ji Changkong found it difficult to even speak.

  "Stop pretending to be a hero!"

  The old man sneered, lowering his voice: "Before the collapse of the Lingbao Pavilion, three spiritual treasures flew out from the exhibition platform. The Tianyuan Pearl fell on you! At that time, although the pavilion was in chaos and few people dared to look around, I was the only one who kept staring at the Tianyuan Pearl and saw this situation!"

  "Hmph, at that time there were many people, I didn't dare to make a move. I watched as you snatched the Moon Heart Stone and the Sun Heart Stone from Du Shaofeng, then escaped from the Lingbao Pavilion. I followed you all the way from the Lingbao Pavilion, but it wasn't for the sake of the Moon Heart Stone or the Sun Heart Stone!"

  "Speak! Where have you hidden the Tianyuan Pearl? Is it in that little girl's hands? If you confess honestly, I'll spare your life today!"

  Boom!

  The old man punched a fist on Jixiangkong's chest, and Jixiangkong, who was already about to faint, suddenly felt a sharp pain and his spirit recovered a bit.

  Heavenly Yuan Pearl?

  Ji Changkong's mind was a bit dull, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered that when he and Bai Qingya flew out of the Lingbao Pavilion, they seemed to have been hit by a beam of light from behind, leaving him with a strange feeling as if something had been added to his body. Later, the situation became urgent, and Du Shaofeng chased after them relentlessly, so Ji Changkong didn't have time to investigate the abnormality in his body. Now that he mentioned it to this old man, Ji Changkong suddenly remembered.

  Her eyes sparkled as Ji Changkong concentrated her mind, consciousness and willpower, keeping her mind clear, thinking hard about a countermeasure.

  "Little one, don't you know what's good for you? My Shen Zhen cultivates the Heavenly Scholar's Way, which is different from ordinary people. I collect the world's most potent poisons to refine my body. If you don't speak up, I'll let you experience bit by bit what it means to be worse off than dead!" The old man's face gradually turned gloomy, his eyes like a venomous snake darting back and forth on Ji Changkong's body.

  "That thing has pierced into my body and reached inside my eyeballs. You can take a look and see for yourself." Ji Changkong's voice was weak and lacked energy as he spoke.

  Although Shen Chen had been following him all along, the fight between Ji Changkong and Du Shaofeng in the clothing store was only a momentary flash, so he guessed that Shen Chen shouldn't know the secret of his silver pupils, hence he spoke to test him.

  As expected, Shen Chen was indeed unaware, with a puzzled face he leaned towards Ji Changkong, his eyes wide open and staring into his.

  Suddenly, Ji Changkong's pair of pitch-black pupils gradually turned silver under Shen Chen's concentrated gaze, and a silver light burst out.

  "Ah..."

  Yin Mang shot into Shen Zhen's eyes, he only let out a sudden and abrupt cry of surprise, just like Du Shao Feng, his body immediately froze, turning into an ice sculpture.

  It wasn't until then that Ji Changkong's spirit, consciousness and will truly began to introspect his body, examining the abnormalities within from top to bottom.

  In his lower abdomen, a foreign object was wrapped in flesh and blood, slowly releasing the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

  As soon as the spirit, will and perception touched it, it suddenly jumped violently, and the surging heavenly energy seemed to be like a thread, pouring out of it one after another, and overflowing into Ji Chang's limbs, bones, muscles, blood and flesh.

  Another strange wave fluctuated wildly, and he suddenly felt his spirit, will, and consciousness entwined with those of Kijō Kokū. All sorts of illusions emerged in his mind.

  His body was in a pool of blood, and all kinds of evil spirits from hell came to gnaw at his body, making him feel unbearable pain!

  After a while, he seemed to emerge from the Jade Palace Paradise, one by one, the beautiful and charming women, playing with him in the milky white river water... All kinds of illusions came flooding in, covering all the phenomena of the world, repeatedly appearing in his mind, each time different.

  Among the illusions in the sky, there is a thread of clarity in one's heart. Ji Changkong firmly remembers the profound meaning on the Tai Xu Secret Record, guarding his original heart and fighting against various illusions.

  It was unclear how much time had passed when Ji Changkong suddenly shook violently and all sorts of illusions in his mind vanished.

  He suddenly stood up, and the numbness and weakness he had felt before were gone. He only felt refreshed and invigorated, as if there was an endless supply of power within him that he could use at will.

  His heart's desire, perception extends in all directions, surrounding everything, the slightest fluctuation of elemental forces and life signs, accurately reflected in his mind.

  He opened his hand, and a strand of yuan force flew out from the center of his palm. The yuan force kept changing, gradually forming into a winding and moving long snake. Suddenly, it changed again, shrinking into a ball, becoming a lazy sea turtle.

  Primordial Energy Coalesces! The Realm of the Three Talents at the Summit of Heaven!

  A sudden movement in the heart, spirit, consciousness and will merged together, forming a vast wave that can be clearly felt. The wave is like ripples on water, or a spark of fire, invisible and intangible, yet truly existing.

  Divine Soul!

  Only with a divine soul can one manifest in this form in the mind, and only when the divine soul is complete can one condense yuan energy into physical objects!

  Overjoyed and beyond expectation, Ji Changkong did not expect that he could form a divine soul so quickly. The divine soul's inner vision of the body, in an instant, the various meridians, bones, five organs, and six viscera within his body rapidly appeared in his mind, giving him an extremely clear feeling, as if he had shrunk countless times to enter his own body, familiarizing himself with every corner of it.

  This is an incredibly wonderful feeling!

  Above the lower abdomen, the Tianyuan Pearl was wrapped in flesh and blood, still slowly but continuously releasing strands of yuanqi, causing Ji Changkong to be greatly surprised, but he didn't dare to use his divine soul to probe the situation of the Tianyuan Pearl again.

  However, he knew that Chen Yuexiu was right from the start. The Tianyuan Pearl from the meteorite was absolutely not just for gathering yuan power!

  He realized that the reason why his divine soul could gather and form so quickly must have something to do with the Tianyuan Pearl.

  Without continuing to investigate the anomaly of the Tianyuan Pearl, Ji Changkong quickly came back to his senses from the inner vision of his divine soul. In front of him, Shen Chen, who had been frozen into an ice sculpture, still hadn't melted, and all over the ground were his belongings: yuan stones, a mustard seed bag, black jade yuan crystals, a dagger, a hairpin, spiritual grass, and more, none of which were missing.

  He grabbed the gourd bag, and one by one, he put away the yuan stones, black jade yuan crystals, and spiritual grass into the gourd bag. He also put on his finger ring, picked up the dagger, and after seeing that there was nothing left in the room that belonged to him, Ji Changkong finally looked at Shen Chen who had been frozen into an ice sculpture.

  His divine soul stirred, and for him who was extremely sensitive to the fluctuations of yuan force, he could clearly sense that there was a weak flow of yuan force within Shen Zhen's body. Shen Zhen's divine soul had formed, and it hadn't been frozen by the rigid ice either. At this moment, there were also signs of life fluctuating in his mind.

  Not dead yet?

  Knitting her brow, Ji Changkong calmly gazed at Shen Chen, seemingly pondering something.

  To kill or not to kill?

  Shen Chen obviously had ulterior motives for him, following all the way just for the Tianyuan Pearl, and even poisoning him along the way, taking away his spiritual treasures, and also intending to slowly torture him to death.

  Such a person is definitely not a good kind, the two innocent civilians' corpses in the house are proof! The one who stayed behind was indeed a scourge, most importantly, this person also knew that the Tianyuan Pearl was on him!

  After hesitating for a moment, Ji Changkong's eyes gradually turned icy cold, his pupils unchanged but with a hint of chill.

  With a flash of the dagger, a silver light flashed, and only a "clang" was heard. Shen Chen's head flew out, falling hard on the floor inside, still frozen stiff.

  Du Shaofeng's death was a miskill, but this time, he took the initiative to kill!

  This time taking action, Ji Changkong was exceptionally calm, his moves decisive, one strike fatal!

  Shen Chen's body was poisoned and covered in thick ice, but Ji Changkong didn't move him. He looked at him deeply for a moment before turning around and leaving the quiet room.

  The moonlight is like water, splashing on the ground, it's already deep in the night, and the surroundings are quiet and soundless.

  The Ji Changkong who had just actively killed someone looked up at the sky, opened his mind and soul, and extended his spiritual awareness in all directions, with him as the center, surging towards the eight directions.

  It's unclear whether it was because his spiritual soul had formed, but Ling Xue's perception became not only much clearer than before, and the range of what he could perceive increased by at least five times.

  As soon as he walked out of the room, the Tianyuan Pearl in his body seemed to move slightly. Immediately afterwards, the primordial energy that filled the heavens and earth actually began to converge towards him gradually.

  His divine soul had taken shape, and within his body was the Heavenly Yuan Pearl and other such treasures. With the Surging Tides and Heavenly Thunderbolt, as well as a pair of silver pupils that could turn the tide of battle in an instant, Ji Changkong's confidence swelled to unprecedented heights.

  Find Bai Jie first, then talk. Ji Changkong let out a low cry and leaped up, flying onto the roof, heading towards Lingbao Pavilion.

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