Chapter 48: Immortal Soul

From the Earth Immortal inheritance, many methods for accelerating the growth of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands were recorded, the most important of which was the cultivation of various spiritual plants.

The more varieties of spiritual plants cultivated, the faster the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land would advance.

Spiritual plants contain fragments of the world's laws; as the plants grow, the law fragments within them also grow and become more complete. Once these fragments are analyzed by the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, they can accelerate its growth rate.

The same applied to various ores.

Ores could be integrated into the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land using Smelting Arrays, thereby accelerating its growth and expansion.

Furthermore, once an ore was integrated, the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land could use energy to derive corresponding mineral veins.

Various formations could also be deployed to assist the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land in accelerating the absorption and conversion of Chaos energy.

In the later stages, the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land could even serve as a massive formation diagram. By using the spiritual veins within to set up a formation, it could swallow the Chaos energy of the outside world, drastically reducing the time required for the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land to accumulate energy.

In addition to these methods of nurturing the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, the Earth Immortal inheritance also contained numerous spells and a series of divine ability inheritances.

Within the divine ability inheritances, a portion had been broken down into: Minor Divine Ability Seeds, Minor Divine Ability Prototypes, Minor Divine Abilities, and so on, to facilitate cultivation for low-level cultivators.

At the Golden Core stage, one begins to condense Minor Divine Ability Seeds; at the Soul Transformation stage, one begins to tentatively condense Minor Divine Ability Prototypes; and at the Void Piercing stage, the Minor Divine Ability is completely condensed and mastered!

In fact, many spells were simplified versions of Minor Divine Abilities, designed to reduce the difficulty of practicing them in the later stages.

However, Minor Divine Ability Seeds and Prototypes were more powerful, making it easier to condense true Minor Divine Abilities later on.

The only drawback was that the difficulty of cultivation in the early stages was much higher.

Among these divine ability inheritances was the Clone Divine Ability that Ye Qingxuan had been yearning for!

Minor Divine Ability · Clone

Condensing a Divine Ability Seed allows for the creation of 2 ordinary clones possessing 30% of the original body's cultivation.

Condensing a Divine Ability Prototype allows for the creation of 4 ordinary clones possessing 50% of the original body's cultivation.

Minor Divine Ability · Clone allows for the creation of 32 ordinary clones possessing 80% of the original body's cultivation.

Clones cultivated through divine abilities allowed Ye Qingxuan to control them regardless of distance, a feat many other cloning methods could not achieve.

Moreover, after condensing a Divine Ability Seed, he could utilize the origin of the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land to pre-emptively condense an External Avatar, something only Nascent Soul stage cultivators could typically achieve!

Ordinary clones could be re-condensed after falling, but once an External Avatar fell, it could never be re-condensed!

However, an External Avatar could possess 100% of Ye Qingxuan's cultivation. Even if it was not near his main body, once his main body's cultivation broke through, the External Avatar could cultivate and break through on its own, though its cultivation could never exceed that of his main body.

Most crucially, because the External Avatar was condensed from the origin of the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, any karma would only be tied to the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land.

If someone attempted to divine the karma of the External Avatar, they would only divine the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, which had nothing to do with Ye Qingxuan himself.

While the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land was a self-contained realm, it was still part of the Earth-Mystic Realm before it could break free. Therefore, divining the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land was equivalent to divining the Earth-Mystic Realm!

He did not know if there were any powerhouses in the Earth-Mystic Realm capable of withstanding the karmic backlash of divining an entire Great Realm!

Thinking of this, a playful smile appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face!

Besides Minor Divine Ability · Clone, the Minor Divine Ability · Heaven Deception and Minor Divine Ability · Shapeshifting also highly appealed to him.

Minor Divine Ability · Heaven Deception (Divine Ability Seed): Can conceal one's aura; cultivators within three major realms cannot see through it. Once the true divine ability is condensed, it can directly conceal one's karma!

Minor Divine Ability · Shapeshifting (Divine Ability Seed): Can change one's physical form and appearance; cultivators within three major realms cannot see through it. Once the true divine ability is condensed, it can even transform into any object!

With the dual assistance of the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land in the future, his cultivation speed would definitely exceed the imagination of the Profound Heaven Sect.

Therefore, to avoid exposing himself too early, this Minor Divine Ability · Heaven Deception was the best solution.

Furthermore, by combining Heaven Deception and Shapeshifting, he could create a new "identity" for his External Avatar to use when roaming the Earth-Mystic Realm.

In addition, there were many other auxiliary and offensive divine abilities; he could select some to practice for self-protection.

With these divine ability inheritances, his combat power would undoubtedly jump several tiers, rather than being like before, where he had cultivation but very few means to face an enemy.

After all, his circumstances had changed, and it was time he practiced some protective methods.

Once he broke through to the Golden Core stage and condensed a Divine Ability Seed!

From then on, his main body would live in seclusion, acting as nothing more than an ordinary blessed cultivator within the Profound Heaven Sect, secretly increasing his cultivation, practicing divine abilities, and studying auxiliary immortal paths such as alchemy, smithing, formations, and talismans.

Meanwhile, his External Avatar would roam the Earth-Mystic Realm, experiencing the wonders of various lands and collecting all sorts of resources for the growth of the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land.

This was the path Ye Qingxuan planned for his future!

After simply organizing this inheritance information, Ye Qingxuan curiously began to look through the special information content.

After a brief inspection, Ye Qingxuan's eyes suddenly widened!

He finally knew what the solidified Soul Origin Body in his mind was!

He had always thought it was merely a special soul body condensed because his soul was powerful across two lifetimes.

It wasn't wrong to call it a soul body, but the more accurate term was an Immortal Soul.

Only an existence in the Immortal Realm could give birth to an Immortal Soul!

Under the protection of the World Bead, Ye Qingxuan's Soul Origin had traveled through time and space. During this process, his soul had accidentally contracted the Eternal Turtle, causing a special metamorphosis that began its transformation into an Immortal Soul.

After arriving in the Earth-Mystic Realm, his various encounters had allowed him to realize his Dao Heart, which finally caused the transforming Soul Origin to fully mature and condense into a true Immortal Soul.

It was precisely the premature condensation of the Immortal Soul that granted Ye Qingxuan his heaven-defying comprehension!

Comprehension increases with cultivation; the great powers standing at the peak have comprehension levels that are nearly identical.

By condensing an Immortal Soul early, Ye Qingxuan could allow the soul to continuously evolve alongside his realm, ensuring his comprehension always far exceeded his current level, providing significant assistance to his growth.

Moreover, the Immortal Soul is the key to the powerful survival capabilities possessed by those great powers in the Immortal Realm!

Through the Immortal Soul, one can merge their consciousness into the origin of their Essence, Qi, and Spirit, allowing their Immortal Soul, Immortal Body, and Immortal Power to be simultaneously controlled by their consciousness.

From then on, as long as the consciousness is not destroyed, I am not destroyed. Only by simultaneously annihilating the Immortal Soul, Immortal Body, and Immortal Power of an Immortal Realm existence can a great power be truly erased.

The special information left by the Earth Immortal inheritance included the method of merging consciousness into the origin of Essence, Qi, and Spirit through the Immortal Soul. Having the Immortal Soul control everything was not a difficult method.

It was just that Ye Qingxuan's physical body and spiritual energy had not yet reached the strength of an Immortal Body and Immortal Power, so the life-saving effect might not be as heaven-defying as that of an Immortal Realm powerhouse.

However, once his consciousness was merged into the origin of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, as long as he wasn't instantly ground into ash, he would not face the risk of immediate death.

As for the recovery of injuries, it would depend on Ye Qingxuan's speed of energy absorption.

Regardless, he certainly wouldn't be able to achieve instantaneous recovery like those Immortal Realm powerhouses!

Although his main body would definitely not go out in the future, to be safe, Ye Qingxuan still decided to use his Immortal Soul to merge his consciousness into the origin of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.