Hanling City, Lingkuang Mountains
In the mine, he sat like a monk for seven nights, motionless. From time to time, a faint wrinkle of disappointment appeared between the eyebrows... After a moment, the bloodshot eyes slowly opened, revealing silent disappointment.
"Failed again... try again." With a sigh, Qiye mustered up his energy again and encouraged himself unwilling to fail.
It has been three full days since I started trying to recast my soul. For three days, he stayed awake for seven nights and one night and was immersed in the spiritual world. His pale and bloodless cheeks seemed to tell the story of his unremitting efforts every moment these days.
In three days, nearly 300 low-grade spiritual stones were consumed, and more than half of the hundreds of spiritual stones in Yanahei's spiritual ring had been consumed. After consuming so much spiritual stone and mental energy, Qiye also gradually made some progress in the process of recasting his soul.
To recast the soul, you need to fuse it first: the spiritual embryo. The spiritual embryo is the product of the fusion of blood essence, spiritual power, consciousness, laws of heaven and earth, etc. These tangible or intangible material factors are not simply rolled into a ball, but a delicate balance needs to be mastered to promote integration.
Although he had been given guidance by the Great Protector in advance, Qiye still seemed very clumsy when he first got started.
The embryonic body has not yet fused and shrunk to half, and the balance is broken at the slightest movement. The embryonic body completely collapses and all previous efforts are wasted... I have tried more than ten times in a row, but the result is still the same. After more than a dozen attempts, Qiye's face began to turn pale due to blood loss, accompanied by confusion. However, the failure did not make Qiye retreat. Instead, it aroused his determination not to admit defeat. He took a short rest and wolfed down the dry food on his body. After replenishing his energy and blood, he launched another fierce attempt to sink into the spiritual world...
Two days later, Qiye was able to fuse and compress the embryonic body to three-quarters, making it the size of an egg. However, when the control of the mind was removed, the compressed embryonic body would still expand and collapse. As the compressed volume becomes smaller, the force generated by the expansion explosion becomes greater, which is a huge impact on the mind and the spiritual world.
"It turns out that recasting the soul is such a dangerous thing..." Qiye said with deep understanding after gradually figuring out the way. The risks involved are that if you are not careful, the consequences will be death or disability.
Because the spiritual power in the embryo is compressed to a certain extent in the spiritual world and explodes, the instantaneous impact force can even completely destroy nearby spiritual stars. If it is compressed to the extreme, an accident may destroy the entire spiritual world. Once the spiritual world is destroyed, it will no longer be able to store and gather spiritual power, and it will become like a mortal. For spiritual practitioners, a mortal is no different from a useless person!
Obviously, the Great Protector had not mentioned any of these before. Now that Qiye has personally experienced the tricks involved, he has no intention of letting it go.
Firstly, I don’t want my efforts in the past three days to be in vain and my hard work wasted; secondly, I also want to break the bad intentions of the Great Protector; thirdly, after three days of failure, I need to use success to dispel the bad thoughts in my heart after gaining experience. shadow. For people who have failed countless times, they need success to save their self-confidence.
This is also the motivation behind Qiye’s determination to move forward despite knowing how powerful it is!
'Pooh! After spitting out bloody saliva, Qiye breathed a long sigh of relief and continued to pick up a spiritual stone and began to absorb it again. He had been without sleep for three days and seven nights. Not only was he physically and mentally exhausted, but his body had also suffered serious internal injuries after so many explosions. Thinking of the large-scale attack by the surrounding princes' cities and the possibility of arriving at the Lingkuang Mountains at any time, they felt that time was urgent and there was no need to delay.
Gritting his teeth and putting aside the distracting thoughts of loss, Qiye devoted himself wholeheartedly to rebuilding his soul...
In the spiritual world, the abundant spiritual energy and blood slowly merge with each other under the guidance of the mind. This fusion process is quite long and boring, just like the interweaving of black and white, winding and intricate.
Every trace of spiritual energy and blood are slowly devoured by the mind under the influence of the mind according to a certain proportion, forming strands of unknown liquid that glows with light gold. After all the spiritual energy and blood are integrated and dispersed in the spiritual world, the fused golden liquid must be carefully gathered together.
In the huge spiritual world, the golden liquid gradually gathered like a rolling mass of magma, constantly shrinking slowly, then slowly releasing, and then shrinking again... over and over again, alleviating the unstable air pressure generated during the compression process. As soon as it opens and closes, the volume of the fused golden liquid is gathered and compressed. When the liquid was compressed to the size of an egg, Qiye felt like walking on thin ice and stopped breathing every time.
As if he has gone through a long ninety steps, and only the last ten steps to success are left, Qiye is tense and steady, even if the speed is slow, he must ensure the success of every step!
"Gather!" He shouted with all his concentration, pulling the void with his mind. Now every compression is regarded as a success. Every time a step is successful, I feel a little relieved, and then I adjust my state and start trying to succeed in the next step.
Just like this, he was working on the camp step by step without any rush... In the blink of an eye, another two days passed, and finally the golden liquid needed to rebuild the soul was compressed to the size of a red date.
But this is only the 'embryo gathering' in the process of recasting the soul. The next step is the most critical 'embryo condensation'!
Condensing the embryo is the most transitional step in the process of recasting the soul. Whether the soul can be successfully formed or not, the condensing embryo directly determines the final success or failure. At the same time, the condensed embryo is also the most dangerous life-and-death gap in the entire recasting process. The long "Juebo" in front is just a gentle pavement, while the "Condensation" is like a turning ridge of cliffs. If you pass it, you will be close to success. If you fail, you will fall into the abyss and be shattered into pieces.
For countless years, many spiritual cultivators whose souls have been destroyed have chosen to give up rebuilding their souls because they are afraid that the embryo will fail and lead to death. Both speed and subtle control of spiritual power release are of great benefit.
The shining golden embryo is like a round golden elixir. But Qiye knew very well that there was a very terrifying energy balanced inside this 'golden elixir', like a balloon filled with water. It only needed a gentle push from outside to make it burst into pieces.
After thinking for a long time, I didn't dare to make a move easily. But now that things have happened, there is only one way to go. Qiye spent a full five days, constantly exerting slight force and repeatedly groping to test the critical stress value of the golden embryo body, and finally found a subtle balance point after more than a dozen failures.
Among these more than ten failures, perhaps because of the double barrier effect formed by the Hunyuan Refining Realm and the spiritual world, it actually withstood the powerful impact of more than a dozen 'Embryonic Body Spirit Explosions', preventing the spiritual world from collapsing. Blow yourself up. Otherwise, for an ordinary spiritual cultivator, a single spiritual blast would be enough to destroy the wall of the spiritual world that could easily be broken at the fingertips and swallow the self.
However, it is gratifying to have withstood the 'Embryonic Body Spirit Explosion', but the three 'star clusters' in the spirit world suffered. The power of the spirit explosion made the stars dim and the particles sparse. A rough count of at least seven or eight thousand stars was lost. Xingzi.
After putting in so much effort, Qiye finally showed a weak smile on his lips. After waking up and taking a look at his physical condition, he found that more than half of the blood in his body had been consumed. Various organs in his body were aching from the shock, and there were countless hidden wounds and lacerations. In addition, ten days of concentrating on it took too much effort. At this moment, Qiye's mind was also confused and buzzing, accompanied by a feeling of coldness and swelling, which was like the chaos before death, and it was extremely uncomfortable.
"It seems it's time to rest for a while..." He took out a bottle of healing medicine, swallowed a few pills, then lay down on the stone platform with relief, and fell asleep unconsciously. When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day. After resting for a night, Qiye felt that his whole body had recovered to some extent, so he picked himself up and prepared for the last step without delay: condensation.
Staring quietly, the golden ball of light in the spiritual world, which is as big as a date stone, is suspended calmly in the sky, bright and dark. Swallowing slightly, Qiye began to inject his mind power into the light ball. When his mind power just touched the cool wall of the light ball, he was shocked, and his whole body felt like a cold current passing through him. His whole body instantly felt a cold and moist illusion.
Pulling himself together, Qiye slowly manipulated his telekinesis to push the liquid in the ball of light to expand in five directions. After a dozen previous failures, Qiye concluded the key to this process: it must be slow! Slower! Slower!
Because the liquid wall film is too thin, even if the wall film extends outward at the speed of a turtle, it cannot withstand it. It can only slowly 'grow' outward at a snail's speed; secondly, the force in the five directions must be balanced. If a If the direction of force is unstable and the balance is broken, the wall membrane will collapse instantly, resulting in a 'spiritual explosion'.
Five different directions, requiring the same speed and the same force, this 'single focus and five functions' is really a huge test! This is also the reason why many people dare not try it easily....
Slowly... one day passed, the round golden sphere flowed out of the prototype of a small human body, and then it took another day to continuously enrich the details of the prototype of the soul: such as the differentiation of fingers, face, mouth and nose, and torso proportions.
Qiye slowly continued to flesh out the outline of the character. By the early morning of the next day, after a day of refinement and enrichment, the soul had begun to take on a human form. This is a spiritual form that is very similar in appearance to Qiye, but is just a smaller version. After Qiye carefully completed the entire condensation process, the final ending made him uneasy.
That is, when the power of thought is removed, will the soul collapse instantly? Nowadays, the soul is no longer in a stable compressed embryonic state, but has been shaped into a human appearance structure through the power of thoughts. During this period, one's own thoughts have been acting on the soul's torso to maintain the stability of its internal energy structure. However, when it finally When the force is removed after completing the human transformation, can the soul really take shape smoothly without collapsing and exploding?
Qiye couldn't help but have a big question in his mind...
Just like after the construction of an exquisite palace is completed, when the load-bearing auxiliary pillars are finally removed, it is deeply unsettling and terrifying to think that the magnificent palace may instantly collapse into ruins. . After being silent for a long time, I finally thought: Since it will fail in the end, why bother to persist!
After changing his mind, Qiye took a deep breath and pulled back all the power of thought in his soul in one go. At the moment when it was withdrawn, the body wall membrane of the soul bounced like a soap bubble for a few times and then gradually stabilized.
Looking at the fluctuations that seemed to be about to explode, Qiye's heart was in his throat. However, the expected instant collapse did not occur, and the spiritual body gradually became stable. Seeing such a scene, I finally let go of the big stone hanging in my heart and successfully pulled it! A huge joy surged over...
However, before she was happy for a long time, Qiye discovered that something was wrong with her spiritual body. The finalized character's appearance slowly began to become a little distorted. As this distortion intensified, many details of the character began to become blurred, as if Melting generally.
Qiye watched the changes in the spiritual body anxiously, and did not dare to intervene to stop it before he knew the cause of the change. It didn't take long for this melting distortion to stop. At this moment, although the spiritual body still maintains the appearance of a human body, the details of the human face, number of fingers, etc. have completely melted and become unclear. It is like a person made of water and cannot be clearly distinguished.
"What's going on?" He stared at the very blurry soul with solemn eyes, constantly speculating on the attribution of its success or failure.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect that your boy was actually recast..." As Qiye frowned, a cold and sinister smile came out. In the Huntian Wheel below the spiritual world, the Great Protector finally couldn't bear to make a sound. Come. Before that, he had been watching the whole process with a cold eye, quite like watching a good show. Then when he saw Qiye gradually being completed, he felt a little disappointed. The successful condensation of the soul in front of him meant that some of his plans had completely failed. .
