Chapter 265: Chapter 232: The Three Major Soul Fragments
Essence, Qi, and Spirit are the three vital signs of a cultivator's life.
"Essence" refers to the physical body, "Qi" refers to the True Qi cultivated within the Qi Sea, and "Spirit" is the most special, referring to the Divine Sense and Divine Soul hidden within the mind!
The physical body can always be strengthened by ordinary people; while True Qi can only be cultivated by those who have opened up the Qi Sea; as for the Divine Soul, it is even more special, only those with profound cultivation or who have come into contact with special techniques may strengthen the Divine Soul!
The Divine Souls of ordinary people are scattered; whereas the cultivators who have experienced the five major astral laws at the Rotating Pill Realm have long since condensed their Divine Souls into form, and can even sense the void by borrowing the astral laws; after reaching the Heavenly Saint Realm, Divine Souls can even form the incredibly powerful True Soul Flame, possessing unmatched offensive power!
Ye Chen's mind, just like the Qi Sea, possessed an immensely vast Inner World.
Within this world, countless threads of Ye Chen's Divine Sense, like stars, were scattered, adorning the world of the mind.
Combined, these threads comprised Ye Chen's Divine Soul!
Each person's Divine Soul occupies its own world within the mind, but now, a cluster of blue-brown flames suddenly burst into Ye Chen's Inner World.
This intruding blue-brown flame was none other than the Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame!
If these blue-brown flames were to destroy Ye Chen's Divine Soul completely, then Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame could truly occupy Ye Chen's Inner World, truly control Ye Chen's physical body, and truly "Body Snatch" Ye Chen!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
After the Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame invaded Ye Chen's mind, the blue-brown flames burned even more fiercely.
"Haha, after Body Snatching this physical body, from now on, I, 'Heavenly Saint Moya,' will be able to come out of seclusion and rise again!"
"Little kid, just prepare to be completely annihilated!"
Amidst the rolling sounds, the Divine Soul Flame of Heavenly Saint Moya crazily burned towards the numerous threads of Ye Chen's Divine Sense.
Heavenly Saint Moya, being of the Heavenly Saint Realm, had a Divine Soul that did not perish even after his physical body shattered for over three thousand years, which shows how powerful his Divine Soul was!
And Ye Chen was merely at the Spirit Sea Realm, his Divine Soul not even condensed into form, but scattered, with no offensive power whatsoever.
At this moment, these scattered threads of Divine Soul were like lambs to the slaughter, only able to watch as Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame burned toward them!
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If it were any other cultivator, seeing this scene, they might have already started screaming in horror by now.
Because if the Divine Soul falls, then the person themselves truly perishes!
But Ye Chen, upon seeing Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame burning towards him, wasn't the least bit frightened, for he knew that Phoenix Spirit had allowed him to lure Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame into his mind for a reason.
Indeed.
Just as Heavenly Saint Moya's roaring voice echoed, and the True Soul Flame burned towards Ye Chen's Divine Soul, five lotus leaf-shaped glows suddenly flew out from the Sacred Artifact on Ye Chen's body, and in an instant, these glows shot into Ye Chen's mind.
Before Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame could reach even a thread of Ye Chen's Divine Soul, the five lotus glows that flew into Ye Chen's mind transformed into five immense lotus leaves, instantly enveloping Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame completely!
This turn of events shocked Heavenly Saint Moya entirely!
And when Heavenly Saint Moya's Divine Soul charged towards these five lotus leaves, it was completely blocked, and even some of his True Soul Flame was annihilated upon touching the lotus leaves, turning his surprise into utter terror!
Heavenly Saint Moya, who was absolutely confident in Body Snatching a Spirit Sea Realm youth, could not have imagined that something capable of overpowering his True Soul Flame would appear in Ye Chen's mind!
"What are these lotus leaves?!"
Heavenly Saint Moya shouted in horror!
As a Heavenly Saint who had cultivated the Heavenly Saint True Soul, "Moya" of course knew the power of the Heavenly Saint True Soul.
He could say, with just the attack of the Heavenly Saint True Soul, he was able to sweep away all cultivators below the Heavenly Saint Realm!
The only thing that could counter the Heavenly Saint True Soul were incredibly powerful Sacred Treasures or Divine Artifacts related to the Divine Soul.
But Divine Soul-related Sacred Treasures are rarer than ordinary Sacred Artifacts, and as for Divine Artifacts, they are even more elusive for Heavenly Saints to obtain.
Ye Chen, in possession of a Sacred Artifact Flying Sword, actually had another mysterious Secret Treasure against the Heavenly Saint True Soul, which completely disbelieved Heavenly Saint Moya!
How could a Spirit Sea Realm possibly have such treasures?!
Even "Heavenly Saint Moya," as a Heavenly Saint being, who has many Sacred Artifacts, did not possess a Sacred Treasure related to the Divine Soul, yet this youth had more and even stronger treasures than him, a Heavenly Saint!
What Heavenly Saint Moya did not know was that Ye Chen had already formed a connection with the Phoenix Spirit within the Azure Blue Mansion, and as the treasure trove of the Divine Phoenix Clan, the mansion naturally possessed items capable of countering Divine Soul attacks!
Not to mention the five lotus leaves of the Divine Soul-related Secret Treasure, but the mansion contained even more mysterious treasures!
Heavenly Saint Moya screamed in shock, with no way out!
Numerous experiences with Body Snatching have shown that although it can extend a Heavenly Saint's life, it is also fraught with extreme danger.
"Body Snatching," can only be attempted once with each cluster of Divine Soul!
Once the Heavenly Saint True Soul enters another's body mind world, there are only two outcomes: successful Body Snatching, taking over a new body, or failure, resulting in complete dissolution.
There is no possibility of the "Heavenly Saint True Soul" exiting the body once entered!
Moreover, the time for Body Snatching is limited, only lasting one hour; if Body Snatching isn't successful within that time, the world of mind will directly counter-attack and kill the invading Divine Soul.
At this moment, the True Soul of "Heavenly Saint Moya" had already entered Ye Chen's mind, with no way of retreat.
It was either his death or Ye Chen's demise!
Now, trapped within the embrace of the five lotus leaves, "Heavenly Saint Moya" had no other options; he must break through the confinement of the lotus leaves, kill Ye Chen's Divine Soul, or wait for the body snatching to fail and his True Soul to perish!
"No, I, 'Heavenly Saint Moya', will definitely not be defeated by a kid like you!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In his frenzied cries, "Heavenly Saint Moya" unleashed the full power of his True Soul Flame, violently colliding with the surrounding lotus leaves.
As the True Soul Flame of "Heavenly Saint Moya" struck, the five lotus leaves began to compress wildly.
In the end, rather than being shattered by the True Soul Flame, the lotus leaves pressed in even tighter, to the point of nearly extinguishing the True Soul Flame of "Heavenly Saint Moya"!
Witnessing this scene, "Heavenly Saint Moya" let out an even more astounded and frantic cry, while Ye Chen observed this terrifying battle unfolding within his mind's Inner World.
This spectacle might not match the scale of a physical and True Qi confrontation, but the battle of Divine Souls was far more dangerous than any bodily or True Qi fight!
This was a battle to kill the Divine Soul!
With the Divine Soul extinguished, that meant true and utter death!
Perhaps, he was about to witness the annihilation of a Heavenly Saint's True Soul!
Hum! Hum! Hum!
Ye Chen didn't have to wait long; the five lotus leaves were none other than the True Soul Sacred Artifact "Tianga Primal Leaf" activated by Phoenix Spirit. Among the Divine Phoenix Clan, the "Tianga Primal Leaf" was an immensely powerful Secret Treasure designed to counter Divine Soul attacks.
At this moment, the "Tianga Primal Leaf" certainly wasn't going to let "Heavenly Saint Moya" escape!
The five lotus leaves whirred and tightened their grip increasingly, the internal force growing stronger. In the end, "Heavenly Saint Moya," who could only let out a miserable shriek, saw his True Soul Flame completely extinguished.
Ultimately, the five lotus leaves burst open with a jolt, and Ye Chen even noticed that "Heavenly Saint Moya's" original flame-shaped True Soul had been torn into countless threads by the power of the lotus leaves, now disintegrating in his mind's world.
"'Heavenly Saint Moya'... has he really died just like this?"
Ye Chen watched these True Soul threads, which were being twisted into nothingness, and could no longer hear the voice of "Heavenly Saint Moya."
Considering that a Heavenly Saint's True Soul had just vanished and a Heavenly Saint had completely fallen, Ye Chen was profoundly shocked!
At that moment, Phoenix Spirit's voice entered Ye Chen's mind, "This cluster of True Soul Flame is dead, Ye Chen. Hurry, look at these disintegrating True Souls; they may contain the numerous experiences of 'Moya.' Touching these experiences will greatly help strengthen your Divine Soul!"
The disintegrating True Soul contained "Heavenly Saint Moya's" experiences? Could it help bolster the Divine Soul?
Upon hearing Phoenix Spirit's words, Ye Chen looked towards the disintegrating threads of Divine Soul, where the countless life experiences of "Heavenly Saint Moya" began to flicker wildly in the midst of soul disintegration.
Included were "Heavenly Saint Moya's" cultivation process, insights, and even the process of his assault on various realms; his exploits in the Minor Spirit Realm; and all about the construction of ancient tombs, the elaborate deathtraps, and the hidden locations of Secret Treasures...
Ye Chen felt as if he was coming into contact with an immense flood of information.
This information was even overwhelming his Divine Soul, which began to expand incessantly to accommodate the influx.
Alas, "Heavenly Saint Moya's" Divine Soul disintegrated at an extremely fast pace, and the feeling of Ye Chen's Divine Soul expansion lasted only for a few moments before these Divine Souls and their experience fragments completely vanished.
Just as Ye Chen's entire Divine Sense was focused on his Inner World, digesting the experiences from the disintegration of Heavenly Saint Moya's True Soul Flame, at the moment when that cluster of True Soul Flame was fully extinguished, from the bronze giant coffin not far from Ye Chen, two more clusters of Heavenly Saint True Soul Flame suddenly burst forth.
These two clusters of Heavenly Saint True Soul Flame were exactly the same as the one that had entered Ye Chen's mind!
No one expected that within the bronze giant coffin, there were still two clusters of True Soul Flame hidden!
Even Ye Chen, who had already killed one cluster of True Soul Flame, could not have anticipated this!
"My three Soul Fragmentations, one has actually perished!"
"This youth, he actually managed to destroy my Heavenly Saint True Soul!"
The moment these two clusters of Heavenly Saint True Soul Flame shot out, they once again took the form of "Heavenly Saint Moya." Now, both "Heavenly Saint Moyas" turned their gazes toward Ye Chen in the air, eyes filled with both fear and resentment!
"Fortunately, fortunately I obtained the secret technique for cultivating avatars years ago. I could divide my Heavenly Saint True Soul into many Soul Fragmentations! Just in case, I divided my Heavenly Saint True Soul into three independent Soul Fragmentations!"
"Even though one cluster has been extinguished, I still have two more. I, 'Heavenly Saint Moya', still have a chance to make a comeback!"
"Even if I lost a cluster of Soul Fragmentation and can no longer return to my peak state, I can still survive!"
These "Heavenly Saint Moyas" emerging from the bronze giant coffin spoke, and one of the True Soul Flames immediately shot toward Xue Yue, who was restrained in the sky.
Not daring to attempt body snatching Ye Chen again, "Heavenly Saint Moya" turned to seize Xue Yue instead.
He had spared Xue Yue and Liu Yan, precisely for this moment!
Heavenly Saint Moya, truly worthy of being a being that had cultivated to the Heavenly Saint Realm!
He was indeed exceedingly cunning and had more than one trick up his sleeve!
While attempting to snatch Ye Chen's body, he still had a contingency plan in place!