Wang Lin was sitting in the lotus position inside the cave, holding the bag of holding Du Tian. After scanning it with his divine sense, his expression became strange.
Along the way, although he knew that Du Tian had collected a lot of celestial jades, he had never actually seen them. In the past, when the sects handed over celestial jades, Du Tian would directly take them into his bag of holding.
Now that he looked inside, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"The amount of celestial jades in this little bag of holding is more than 100 times the amount I got from the Celestial Realm … No wonder the Soul Refining Sect has produced so many Soul Transformation cultivators in the past tens of thousands of years."
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He shook the bag of holding in his hand and a large amount of celestial jades fell around him. In an instant, the cave was filled with dense celestial spiritual energy.
This was only a part of the bag of holding. Wang Lin put away the bag of holding, closed his eyes, and began to absorb the celestial spiritual energy.
The celestial spiritual energy was absorbed like crazy into his body and continued to grind down the spiritual energy in his dantian. Wang Lin had done this many times before, so now that he had absorbed celestial spiritual energy, he could easily break through to the Soul Transformation stage.
As a large amount of celestial spiritual energy entered his body, the spirit force inside his dantian became more and more condensed until it formed a fist-sized ball. This ball was similar to a cultivator's golden core, but the difference was like heaven and earth.
Three days later, the celestial jades around Wang Lin's body all turned grey. Cracks appeared on them and they turned into dust.
Wang Lin didn't stop. He slapped his bag of holding again and a large amount of celestial jades flew out and landed around him.
The absorption of celestial spiritual energy didn't stop. It quickly entered Wang Lin's body and flowed through his meridians. It compressed and condensed spiritual energy while transforming Wang Lin's flesh, blood, meridians, and bones.
The first step of the Soul Transformation stage was to completely change the body of a cultivator. They would remove their mortal roots and have a celestial body suitable for using celestial spiritual energy.
In fact, before the collapse of the Immortal World, when cultivators ascended and entered the Immortal World, they didn't need to absorb immortal jade like Wang Lin was doing now. Instead, they would soak in the Spirit Cleansing Pool, and in a few months, they would be able to wash away their mortal roots and possess an immortal body.
But now, with the collapse of the Celestial Realm and the disappearance of the Spirit Cleansing Pool, all cultivators in the Soul Transformation stage needed large amounts of celestial jades to slowly remove their mortal roots.
Once the mortal roots are removed, the first step of the Soul Transformation is complete. As for the second step, it is to solidify the origin soul and turn it from illusory to corporeal.
Although it was still unable to replace the physical body, the condensed Yuan Spirit was countless times more powerful than before, giving it the ability to protect itself.
From a certain point of view, Nascent Souls were like infants, and Nascent Divinities were like young infants. As for Nascent Soul Transformation, it was a miraculous transformation. Infants would grow up to become adults, and at the same time, they would have weapons in their hands. Nascent Divinities couldn't compare.
Situ Nan's nascent soul was huge. This was the sign of a cultivator at the Soul Transformation stage. Even an Ascendant cultivator would have a nascent soul of this size. Only after breaking through the Ascendant stage and reaching another level would there be new changes.
However, that level was too far away from Wang Lin.
Time slowly passed. More than half of the celestial jades in the bag of holding had been absorbed by Wang Lin. There were traces of shattered celestial jades around him.
The spiritual energy in his dantian suddenly cracked and a powerful suction force came from the crack. In the blink of an eye, all of the celestial spiritual energy in Wang Lin's body was sucked into the crack.
Even the celestial jades Wang Lin had just taken out collapsed. The celestial spiritual energy rushed into Wang Lin's body like crazy and was sucked into the crack.
Gradually, the color of the sphere condensed from spiritual power began to change. At first it was green, but now it was slowly emitting a golden glow.
Wang Lin's mind was still clear. He looked at the changes in his body with no emotions; it was as if he was looking at someone else.
After a short while, when all the Celestial Force was absorbed by the crack, the color of the entire ball of Spiritual Power completely changed, turning completely golden. At this moment, if it was dug out from the body, ordinary people would definitely not be able to see the difference between it and a Gold Core.
Just at this moment, the golden ball suddenly trembled and more and more cracks appeared on it. Finally, there was a loud bang that echoed inside Wang Lin's body. The golden ball shattered and a large amount of celestial spiritual energy poured out. His origin soul was pushed back three feet by this powerful force. When he wanted to return, a powerful force stopped his origin soul from entering.
Wang Lin's origin soul floated above his body. When he looked down, he could see everything that was happening inside his body.
When the golden ball shattered and the celestial spiritual energy hit his body, all of his meridians were destroyed. His entire body was like an empty shell with only celestial spiritual energy inside!
All of the pores on his body opened and strands of celestial spiritual energy came out and surrounded his body. The feeling of celestial spiritual energy immediately appeared.
After a short while, the Celestial Force that came out of the pores entered the body through the mouth, nose, and orifices of the body. It came and went like this, forming a cycle.
Wang Lin's body gradually became transparent like crystal. The clothes on his body slowly disappeared as if they were melting, leaving behind only two bags of holding.
Celestial spiritual energy slowly condensed into meridians inside his body. These meridians were completely made of celestial spiritual energy, so they were naturally suitable for celestial spiritual energy to circulate.
His flesh and blood also changed, and contained a trace of Celestial power. At that moment, he looked like an Celestial.
This transformation process lasted for an unknown amount of time. During this time, Wang Lin's origin soul was still floating above the body. He tried to enter the body countless times, but he was always stopped outside. It was as if the body no longer belonged to him and couldn't be fused with.
On this day, his body emitted a strange fragrance. This fragrance was very tempting, as if a spirit had just been unearthed.
This fragrance floated out of the cave. Du Tian, who was cultivating outside the cave, suddenly opened his eyes. There was a hint of admiration in his eyes as he muttered to himself, "The first step of the Soul Transformation Stage has condensed his body. Complete!
Next is the second step, origin soul condensation. "
He formed an incantation gesture with both hands and pressed them in all directions. Immediately, a black light flickered and surrounded the cave, forming a sealed area that prevented the fragrance from spreading.
"After a Soul Transformation cultivator completes the first step, this fragrance will attract some powerful demonic beasts and malicious spirits to possess the body. However, my Soul Refining Sect is the ancestor of controlling souls. If those malicious spirits don't come, then it's fine. If they do, then they'll be absorbed by the soul scroll.
"As for those beasts, the Old Man isn't afraid. The Soul Refining Sect's protective formation can block them. In all of Suzaku, there is no beast that can make the Old Man retreat."
The Soul Transformation stage was a dangerous stage. For Wang Lin, Du Tian was there to protect him, so he wasn't worried. However, for those rogue cultivators and those from sects that weren't strong enough, it was deadly.
During the Soul Transformation stage, the cultivator's body would be defenseless, especially when the origin soul was forced out of the body. If there were powerful souls, they could take this opportunity to possess or devour the body.
Even the beasts were interested in the body of a cultivator that had just reached the Soul Transformation stage. In their eyes, the body was a heavenly treasure that could increase one's abilities.
If the origin soul returned to the body, then the spiritual energy in the body would be useless against the beasts.
Inside the cave, Wang Lin's origin soul reached out and the bag of holding on the ground opened. A large amount of celestial jades flew out and celestial spiritual energy appeared. This time, the celestial spiritual energy wasn't absorbed by the body but gathered around the origin soul to nourish it.
A very comfortable feeling appeared in Wang Lin's body. He could feel that as the spiritual energy entered his origin soul, his origin soul became larger and more solid.
At this moment, Wang Lin knew that once his origin soul became solid, it would become one with his body and he would successfully reach the Soul Transformation stage.
The process of condensing the origin soul was very long.
Outside the cave, Du Tian's eyes lit up. He waved his right hand and a golden-purple primary soul flew out. It grabbed a soul that was covered in black mist and pulled it back into the soul flag.
Du Tian muttered, "This is already the 19th soul. They are all Soul Formation souls, but unfortunately, there are no Soul Transformation souls. Otherwise, there would be one more primary soul in the soul flag."
Just at this moment, a golden-purple light came from the distance. The protective formation didn't stop this light at all, so it went through it and headed straight for the cave.
Du Tian's eyes lit up and he laughed.
The protective formation was already controlled by him, so it didn't stop souls from entering. That was why this soul could smoothly enter.
"Good!"
Du Tian's eyes shined brightly and he stood up from the ground. His right hand reached out toward the golden-purple soul fragment.
In a flash, the golden-purple soul disappeared. It dodged Du Tian's hand and charged toward the cave.
Seeing that the soul was about to enter the cave, Du Tian's eyes lit up. He took a step forward and arrived before the soul in the blink of an eye. He smiled and said, "Unfortunately, you haven't reached the Soul Transformation stage and are only at the edge. You won't be able to escape!"
With that, his right hand formed a seal and pointed forward. A giant vortex appeared before him.
"Soul vortex!"
Du Tian shouted. The soul let out a shrill cry and quickly retreated, but Du Tian was one step faster and shouted, "Stop!
He shouted, "Come!"
A powerful suction force came from the vortex and the golden-purple soul was involuntarily pulled toward the vortex.
A smile appeared on Du Tian's face, but just at this moment, a loud bang came from the Soul Refining Sect's protective formation. The entire formation shattered into pieces and collapsed.
The deafening sound shook heaven and earth, filling the entire Soul Refining Sect. Even the three mountain peaks in the sect began to tremble, and countless rocks began to fall down. Cracking sounds could be heard as fissures spread out across the surface of the mountain, causing the disciples inside to look on in astonishment.
In the sky, a fiery-red figure wearing a red robe appeared. This figure emitted an unimaginable aura, it was unbelievably powerful!!
At this moment, the sky lost its color and only this figure existed.
"Rosefinch's son!!"
Du Tian's expression was extremely ugly. He didn't have time to play with this soul. He waved his hand and the one-billion-soul soul flag appeared in his hand. He shook it and put the soul away.
The third watch is over!
Let's see if we can get into the top 20.