Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 688 The Role of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan was no stranger to the concept of the true spirit, which is the fundamental core of life and exists in the deepest part of the soul.

Even if some life forms do not have a soul, they still possess a true spirit. The soul is more like the outer shell of the true spirit, which can play a protective role, but even if they do not have a soul, it will not have much of an impact.

According to Chen Yuan's understanding, the true spirit has two major characteristics: uniqueness and immortality.

The former not only proves the uniqueness of each life, but also means that the existence of the true spirit spans the entire river of time and cannot coexist simultaneously.

Just as reversing time cannot revive a life that has never died, this is because the true spirit is still in the current time and space, and trying to retrieve someone from the past time and space is like trying to catch the moon's reflection in water.

"The true spirit is the root of all life."

Chen Yuan recalled the information he had collected about the branches of the True Spirit, "The various soul enslavement techniques I encountered in the primordial universe were essentially about imprinting one's own aura onto another's True Spirit, thereby completely becoming the master of that life!"

"That's why enslaved lives obey their masters from the bottom of their souls, and even if the master is completely destroyed and then resurrected, the influence cannot be eliminated."

"The reason is that the true spirit has been polluted, which has little to do with the soul. So even if the soul is broken up and reassembled, it will not have any effect. Even the caster himself cannot undo it."

But I am different.

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Only by mastering the power of the True Spirit can one influence it."

There are many uses for the power of the true spirit, such as removing the pollution of the true spirit of enslaved lives and allowing them to return to their original nature.

Or, when faced with a soulless being immune to soul magic, he could directly brand it onto its true spirit and forcibly enslave it!

"Of course, neither removing pollution nor forcibly enslaving is the most powerful function of the True Spirit Branch."

Chen Yuan shook his head slightly, "The true function of the True Spirit's power is actually to forcibly erase the True Spirit's immortality, completely annihilating a life!"

This function actually involves the second characteristic of the true spirit: immortality, which, as the name suggests, means that it is neither dead nor destroyed.

Or rather, apart from the Great Dao of the Soul, there is no effective means to deal with the True Spirit in the entire Chaotic Origin Space, which is why the True Spirit is able to remain immortal.

However, once Chen Yuan mastered the True Spirit Branch, he could completely break this immortality and forcibly erase the True Spirit!

Once the true spirit is erased, it is equivalent to the complete disappearance of this life, and even reversing time and space cannot revive it.

"Of course, the quality of something cannot be judged solely by its appearance."

"The ability to erase true spirits is indeed terrifying, but it also means that I can directly influence the existence of true spirits."

"Since I can kill, I can naturally save lives as well. As long as I find the true spirit of a fallen life, I can use the power of the Great Dao of Souls to reshape the soul and then completely revive it!"

"This method of resurrection is completely different from reversing time, so it will not suffer from the backlash of the rules, because all the costs of resurrection are borne by my power."

The methods of resurrection in this world are basically the same: bringing dead lives from the past into the present.

Because it's equivalent to "creating something from nothing," all the costs were borne by the origin of the world, so the backlash from the world was also very severe.

However, Chen Yuan's method of resurrection is equivalent to only needing to find the most fundamental mark of a life, then gradually piecing together the other person's soul, and finally giving it a physical form. All the costs involved are just some energy.

"This method is less about resurrection and more about saving a life that is not yet dead."

Chen Yuan thought to himself, "Because in my eyes, the true spirit has never actually disappeared. It's as if this life is neither truly dead nor truly alive; it's just in a state of 'almost dying but not quite dead.'"

"Anyone with a deep understanding of the Dao of the Soul can easily replenish his soul and reshape his body. It may seem like a resurrection, but in reality, it is just saving a life on the verge of death."

For Chen Yuan, who had mastered the power of the true spirit, there was no such thing as a dead life in this world. Any dead life that had not entered the cycle of reincarnation was, in his eyes, only in a state of being half-dead.

Only the death of a true soul is considered a complete death in his eyes!

"Master Zuoshanke's family members can be saved." Chen Yuan blinked. Having mastered the True Spirit Branch, he could now revive those lives that had perished in the Pu Kingdom.

Of course, this is on the premise that he has already mastered the power of the true spirit.

"Unfortunately, I've only just optimized this branch into the 'Virtual Universe' secret technique, and it will take some time before I fully master it."

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Chen Yuan shook his head. This can only be waited for. Fortunately, the current virtual universe has the resources of two source worlds, so its growth rate is still very fast.

Even a new branch of the Great Dao, such as the extremely difficult Great Dao of the Soul, can be mastered in a maximum of a hundred days.

However, mastering just the branches is not enough. Now that all six branches of the Soul Dao have gathered, he still needs to integrate all the branches into one before he can truly step into the ultimate realm of the Soul.

"Mastering the branches isn't difficult, but integrating six branches is a bit tricky."

Chen Yuan thought to himself, "Fortunately, I have already completed the fusion of the five branches. I estimate that the fusion of this last branch will be completed in about three or four hundred days."

"In other words, it will take me anywhere from four hundred to five hundred days to master the ultimate soul path and completely enter the ultimate soul realm."

"However, to help the teacher resurrect his relatives, it is not necessary to reach the ultimate soul realm; mastering the true spirit branch is sufficient."

"Well, I'll tell my teacher this news after I've mastered the true spirit in a hundred days."

Now, thanks to Chen Yuan's advance revelation of the resurrection, the Mountain Dweller, still holding onto hope, hasn't completely succumbed to despair like in the original story, and is actively cultivating every day.

Thanks to his exceptional talent after reincarnation and the inheritance he received from his disciples, the Mountain Dweller's path of cultivation can be described as smooth.

With the help of various resources, especially the time acceleration of the Primordial World, he successfully broke through to the second level of the God King realm in just over a thousand days, and is now focusing on striving for the ultimate realm.

After sensing his teacher's cultivation state, Chen Yuan decided not to disturb him for the time being, and to wait until he was completely confident before doing so.

"Right now, I should focus on developing my abilities. Besides the Great Dao of the Soul, the collection of other innate Great Daos should be entering its final stage."

Now, three hundred days have passed, and his achievements in collecting the innate Great Dao are indeed remarkable. Including the unfinished soul-type Great Dao, he has mastered and collected 2468 kinds of innate origins.

But don't forget, these Great Daos do not include the five hundred Great Daos contained within the Hunyuan bloodline.

"In fact, I have already counted the Great Daos in the Hunyuan bloodline. The innate Great Daos are not exactly 500; to be precise, there should be 517."

If these 517 Great Daos are included, Chen Yuan has now collected 2985 kinds of innate origins, and only 15 more are needed to reach the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Unfortunately, these last 15 Great Daos are hidden very deeply. In the past few days, Chen Yuan's various clones have entered more than a million source worlds, but they still can't find any information about them.

"The Last 15 Great Paths —"

Chen Yuan shook his head. "Forget it, let's not waste this time. Let's just go to the Infinite Treasure Vault to exchange for it."

Within the Infinite Space Treasury, there is naturally an option to "Directly Face the Primordial Dao," with varying fees ranging from approximately 300 to 700 reward points depending on the type and strength of the Primordial Dao.

The only regret is that there are no soul-related major paths in it.

However, Chen Yuan had already collected all the soul-related origins, so he wasn't worried.

With this thought in mind, he once again connected with the infinite space.

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