Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 331 Vigilance
"I've said everything I could say. You've taken away all my wealth and fortune. What else do you want?! Give me a quick death!"

The residual soul in the body of the natal puppet spoke weakly, as if it didn't even have the energy to hate.

Li Ye's expression remained unchanged, he just drew out a particularly powerful clone filled with surging soul power from the body of his natal puppet.

Then he injected the new spirit into it and absorbed the soul power that escaped from it.

Then he ignored the remnant soul's cry and turned away.

Soon his voice changed from pleading to cursing.
"How dare you treat me like this? I curse you to die a miserable death. In the future, your soul will be cut into pieces and eaten piece by piece..."

However, Li Ye had already left. It seemed that he could not hear a word due to the isolation of the formation. No matter how he shouted and cursed, it was just a meaningless vent.

"You're going to die a miserable death? If the curse you're saying is effective, how could you be trapped in my natal puppet and unable to break free?"

After returning to the cave, Li Ye, who was still monitoring the movements of the remnant soul through the formation, sneered.

He had been exploiting and torturing this remnant soul for some time, and combined with the items in its storage magic tool, he had gained quite a lot.

The remnant soul is named Kong Xing. He is a direct disciple of the Changqing Sect, a Yuanying Sect in the southern border cultivation world, and he is also very important in the sect.

In fact, his own talents were not that amazing.

He has come this far by relying on the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art to secretly influence and manipulate countless fellow disciples, seizing opportunities and benefits from them to achieve his own success.

At the same time, he also used his own power to do many seemingly unrelated things for the Yanshen Sect behind the scenes, and was praised and rewarded by the envoy many times.

"This person is wealthy and has a wide range of spiritual objects. Although I don't have any spiritual plants that can be planted, using them is enough to help me improve my cultivation..."

Li Ye continued to observe the remaining soul of Kong Xing, and murmured softly, with a look of joy as if a boy had brought wealth to his doorstep.

Compared with these, the contents of the classics on this person surprised him even more.

Not to mention the various secret techniques, although the inherited techniques of the Changqing Sect have never been seen, the many secret records about the southern border cultivation world are very detailed, much richer than those collected by Zhan Xinrui and Xue Chou.

More importantly, it was from this person that Li Ye discovered the contents of the next ten to twelve levels of the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art!

According to Kong Xing, it seems that as long as one becomes a ninth-level envoy, the skills will be bestowed upon him.

At present, Li Ye has tried to combine what Kong Xing said and comprehended some of the content.

Just as he guessed.

After cultivating the first split soul at the ninth level, it can be further divided in subsequent exercises, and even the split spirit can be greatly improved.

Every soul fragment cultivated can serve as a continuation of one's life.

Even if the cultivator dies, his soul can become his second self and make a comeback!
Although in Li Ye's opinion, it is actually meaningless. The split soul is just a copy of itself. If the main body dies, even if the split soul is still alive, it is just another life and has nothing to do with himself.

From the previous performance of Kong Xing's soul, it can be seen that it has clearly developed some different cognitions. Even though it has not escaped control, it still has an instinctive tendency to seek its own survival.

If there are too many souls, who knows what the situation will become!
But I have to say that this method is really tempting.

Although in terms of simply tempering the soul, the appearance of the split soul will greatly disperse its foundation, and perhaps in the end the Tiangong Puppet Control Technique may not be more effective in tempering the essence of the soul.

However, such a single soul fragment could simultaneously command many spirit fragments, increasing their power. Given enough time to gradually possess and erode a sect, captivating its mind, one could truly single-handedly subjugate an entire sect. Even if complete control wasn't possible, with a single soul fragment possessing higher-ups and spirit fragments influencing lower ones, the potential for such simultaneous influence could be terrifying!
After learning this, Li Ye felt a chill down his spine.

He seemed to have discovered something quite remarkable...

Fortunately, although Kong Xing did not say it explicitly, Li Ye deduced from his words that Yanshen Sect did not actually restrict fighting among its members, and even seemed to encourage competition and survival of the fittest.

The separate communications by envoys were merely a means of concealing the true power of the Yanshen Sect.

In other words, even if Li Ye killed Kong Xing, there was a high probability that he would not be hunted down by Yanshen Sect. Instead, he would be accepted by them and become one of their members.

Unless he refuses to join, he will be regarded as an enemy and attacked on the spot to prevent future troubles.

Kong Xing even witnessed with his own eyes an envoy extracting the soul of a cultivator on the spot, eating it up like a snack!

These scenes almost all left a shadow of inner demons in him, and made him very keen to improve his own strength. He began to consciously track down fellow cultivators who were practicing the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art.

This ninth level of soul-splitting training was achieved after he swallowed the soul of another cultivator!
This time, he discovered Li Ye's trace, and it seemed to him that it was just a sure hunt, but he never thought it would end up in such a situation!
But now that things have come to this, he has no choice.

During the interrogation, Li Ye had already tried to recall the soul that had previously absorbed part of the remaining soul power of the split soul and absorb it for his own use.

From the performance of the split spirit, it can be seen that the soul power cultivated by the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art can indeed devour each other without any hindrance. Except for a slight sluggishness, the imprint of its essence has not been affected by pollution.

With such verification, Li Ye finally believed it a little and absorbed the distraction.

As a result, he absorbed the split spirit very smoothly, completely absorbing the soul power in it. His soul became stronger, his consciousness improved, and his Thousand Thoughts Divine Art technique immediately made great progress!
After a careful inspection, he really didn't detect any fundamental contamination!
From then on, Kong Xing's image in his eyes changed.

If he could absorb it together with the remnants of the previous soul, it would be enough to help Li Ye practice the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art to the ninth level in a very short period of time, condense the soul, and be qualified to explore the lava underground palace!

Over the past few days, Li Ye has absorbed all the remnants of his split soul, and his spiritual awareness has skyrocketed, and he is not far from a breakthrough!
Although Li Ye enjoyed the quick success, his heart became increasingly cold and clear.

The characteristics of this technique are really too strange.

He can certainly rely on his powerful ability to devour other souls to replenish himself.

But from another perspective, in the eyes of Yuanying cultivators, aren't the Jindan cultivators also resources that they can use at will?

The Yanshen Sect's power is mysterious and its origins are hard to understand. Who knows that its members and disciples are not just cattle and sheep that are intentionally grazed outside for those "envoys"?
Li Ye thought again of what Kong Xing said about the messenger easily devouring the soul of a cultivator.

Judging from the experience during the previous demonic disaster, it is possible that the skills they obtained are incomplete.

The upper echelons can easily control these monks. Once they encounter an enemy, they have no way to resist and can only become snacks for the other side.

Li Ye's eyes flashed,

"This fat sheep has come to my door, so how can I not eat it? Entering the Lava Underground Palace earlier and obtaining the subsequent contents of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Sutra will also be of great benefit..."

"We can wait and see about this matter for a while. If there is really something wrong, this feedback can also help me improve my Tiangong puppetry technique. By then, my soul foundation will be supported, so even if I abandon this method, it won't matter!"

His tone was firm, without any reluctance.

No matter how magical and mysterious the martial arts technique is, if there are other hidden dangers that may even cost him his life, what is the use of its power?

(End of this chapter)