A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 225

Chapter 221 Soul Control Flag

Little Spirit and Little Star were born from the Lake of Spirit Eyes.

Their talent is quite high,

far surpassing that of Little White

and Little Jade. Like the Gold-Eating Insect Swarm, they received a spiritual energy infusion.

Over the years, they unknowingly broke through a major bottleneck, naturally reaching level eight.

However,

as a spirit insect, level eight is not the transformation stage for Little Spirit and Little Star. Like the Six-Winged Frost Centipede, they only trigger the transformation tribulation at the Nascent Soul or even Void Refinement stage (around level ten).

They still need to continue to mature.

The further a spirit beast or spirit insect progresses, the harder it is to advance.

“I wonder when the next advancement will be,”

Han Li thought expectantly.

Blood Jade Spiders below level two possess the ability to spin silk, have impressive physical abilities, and an exceptionally high jumping ability.

Blood Jade Spiders above level two possess explosive skills like the Berserk Technique.

After advancing to level five, Blood Jade Spiders gain the ability to fly. Furthermore, they can release their demonic power, forming a white protective demonic cloud. Its six legs have changed, becoming as white as jade and sharper. They possess extremely high resistance to cold.

At level seven, their intelligence was already quite high, comparable to a human child.

Now at level eight, their bodies have grown larger, and their six legs have become much longer.

The webs they spit out are more sticky and tougher.

Ordinary magical artifacts and sword energies cannot cut through these webs.

They have also gained two more supernatural abilities.

One is that the two can condense the protective demonic cloud around their bodies into a set of white armor, greatly increasing their defense. The other is that they can treat the spider silk they spit out as their own tentacles, launching various attacks.

For example, they can transform it into swords or blades, or condense it into a large snake to entangle their opponents.

When Han Li sparred with the two, he felt this move was quite troublesome.

Their armor was difficult to break, and their attack methods had greatly increased.

Even ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators might not be able to defeat the two.

However, the two little ones’ abilities were still only at the ordinary Nascent Soul level, unlike the Dragon Clan, Suanni Clan, and Dragon Whale Clan, whose eighth-level cultivation was approaching ninth-level combat power.

…

Besides the Gold-Eating Insect and the two Blood Jade Spiders, Little Spirit and Little Star, which had made significant progress and transformations, the little monkey Tihun had also changed.

In the Ghost Mist Zone of the Void Heaven Palace,

the little guy devoured many Yin Souls and Fiends, and had fallen into a deep sleep years ago. After waking up two years ago, his aura surged, and he could transform into a ferocious ape several meters long.

His restraint effect on Yin Souls and Fiends had significantly improved.

…

“Judging by the time, I should also refine that set of Ghost Dao treasures.”

Han Li looked at a strangely ugly tree outside the Jade Pavilion, beside the Lake of Spirit Eyes, and considering the situation of Ji Yin and Elder Ximen’s two Nascent Souls, he finally made up his mind.

All along, he had been hesitating and weighing how to use the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

If he simply refined a Soul-Nourishing Treasure, it would be a waste.

According to his knowledge, based on a ghost-path weapon-refining technique called “Mysterious Soul Refining Technique” from the old ghost’s memories in the Void Heaven Palace, Soul-Nourishing Wood could actually be used to refine ghost-path treasures.

That old ghost was none other than Xiao Cha’s old friend

, the one who passed on the ghost cultivation method to Xiao Cha.

However, that old ghost also held back a few tricks; for example, he didn’t pass on to Xiao Cha this weapon-refining technique that could refine a ghost cultivator’s primordial spirit into a magic weapon.

This weapon-refining technique, called the Mysterious Soul Refining Technique, could refine a ghost cultivator’s primordial spirit into a specific magic weapon, binding the ghost soul to the magic weapon from then on, making it impossible for them to break free. If the magic weapon was damaged, the ghost soul would also suffer a backlash. It

was similar to a weapon spirit binding.

The key point was that the ghost cultivator’s previous supernatural abilities could be completely preserved. For example, Xuan Gu’s half-finished Asura Sacred Fire could still be refined by Xuan Gu to continue increasing its power.

In addition, the ghost cultivator who was bound to the magic weapon could continue to cultivate.

Furthermore, as the ghost cultivator’s cultivation level increases, the magic weapon will also benefit and change accordingly.

As the saying goes, one prospers, all prosper; one suffers, all suffer.

Back in the Void Heaven Palace, he obtained relevant information by searching the old ghost’s soul, and subsequently considered refining this set of ghost-path treasures.

“Although Yuan Yao and Ru Shuang have broken through to become Nascent Soul cultivators, their strength is still considerably lacking. At most, they can help me restrain two transformed demon cultivators. To deal with Feng Xi, I still have to rely on myself. To keep the three demons alive, I have to rely on myself even more. Moreover, I also have to guard against unexpected events…”

Who can be sure that after failing to find the original body’s wood-attribute energy source, Feng Xi won’t seek other wood-attribute demon cultivators to replace him?

Better safe than sorry.

Therefore, he still needs to estimate the strength of the Noble Bird’s side as much as possible,

and then try to improve the overall combat power of his own side.

“Xiao Cha, Ji Yin, and Xi Men are all Nascent Soul cultivators.”

“Ji Yin and Xi Men’s Nascent Souls haven’t been nourished in recent years, and they’re showing signs of dementia and mental confusion. If this continues, they might lose their intelligence.”

He had to make a choice.

Either extract their souls and refine them,

or make use of their resources.

“If I refine them into the main soul of the Ghost Dao treasure [Soul Control Banner], I’ll gain three more powerful combatants.”

“There are also more than ten Soul-Hooking Flying Spirits, which can also be refined into the Soul Control Banner as another powerful method…”

In short,

he wanted to convert his resources into his own combat power as much as possible.

He didn’t want any accidents to happen during the acquisition of the Wind and Thunder Wings.

If he alerted Feng Xi and she fled, he would hardly have a second chance.

“Then, let’s refine the weapon.”

Having made his decision, Han Li decisively took out six one-foot-long Soul-Nourishing Wood trunks.

Then, from the Star Palace’s trading supplies, he took out three pieces of leather from transformed demon cultivators.

From Wan Tianming’s storage bag, he took out a fourth piece of leather.

There are also various auxiliary materials.

“Although the loss of two pieces of leather to serve as the two banners for the Soul-Controlling Banners will more or less affect the overall power of this set of Soul Banner treasures, we can replace them later as long as we find leather from other transformed demon cultivators.”

The real core material is not the spirit skin of demon cultivators, but the trunk of the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

More than a month later.

Four eerie banners surrounded Han Li.

He raised his hand and pointed at the first banner, releasing a burst of magical power. The next moment, the banner rapidly expanded to over ten zhang in size, and a skeleton of a thunder whale swam on it. The white-boned thunder whale on the banner did not have empty eyes; instead, it burned with two orbs of ghostly fire, one green and one gray, as if it were alive. When it looked up, it seemed poised to leap off the banner at any moment.

However, before the white-boned thunder whale could emerge from the surface of the Soul-Controlling Banner, the two orbs of ghostly fire in the skeleton’s eye sockets floated out first.

The green orb transformed into the appearance of Xuan Gu Shangren Xiao Cha.

The other gray flame transformed into a ball of light flashing with black lightning, circling around Xiao Cha.

Upon meeting Han Li’s gaze, Xiao Cha immediately bowed respectfully and said,

“Your subordinate, Xuan Gu, greets Master.”

“Hmm, how is the refining of the Asura Sacred Flame going?”

Han Li asked, looking at the sphere of light floating around Xiao Cha.

That sphere of light was indeed the Asura Sacred Flame.

“Master, this Azure Ice Flame is indeed powerful. Even though I have forcibly refined it for over twenty years, constantly weakening it; even though you, Master, have provided a large amount of Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning, preventing it from escaping, the ice flame dragon formed from the Azure Ice Flame is still unruly.”

As he spoke, the sphere of light trembled.

The ice flame dragon, trapped within the black Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning and the green Xuan Soul Yin Fire, struck the barrier of the sphere of light again.

The impact caused the sphere of light to continuously emit black arcs of electricity.

This situation occurred frequently.

If Han Li hadn’t obtained a large number of Golden Thunder Bamboo magic treasures from the Void Heaven Palace,

providing an inexhaustible supply of Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning, the Azure Ice Flame would probably have already escaped.

“After you bound yourself to this Soul-Controlling Flag, has your cultivation level dropped?”

“No.”

“Can you use the magic weapons you possessed in your previous life?”

“Yes. Master, please take a look.”

With that, he raised his hand and shot out a small golden thunder bamboo arrow, the very same Demon-Slaying Arrow.

Black lightning crackled and danced around it.

Its power was quite formidable.

“Not bad.”

Han Li nodded.

He then looked at the second flag.

A skull was printed on it.

He raised his hand and channeled a burst of magic power into the flagpole, instantly expanding the flag to ten zhang (approximately 33 meters). Then, the skull spontaneously emerged from the flag.

“Hehehe…”

Ji Yin’s chilling laughter instantly filled the secret chamber.

Then, two flames, one black and one green, appeared in the skull’s pupils. The black flame emerged and transformed into Ji Yin’s likeness.

Upon appearing, Ji Yin first bowed to Han Li:

“Subordinate Ji Yin greets Master.”

After Han Li nodded slightly, Ji Yin immediately looked up, staring intently at Xiao Cha.

Xiao Cha also stared intently at Ji Yin.

The air between them seemed to freeze, as if electric sparks were colliding and flying. They looked

ready to fight at any moment.

“Master, long time no see,”

Ji Yin said with a cold smile.

The other flame from the skull floated into his hand, instantly transforming into the Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire.

At the same time, within the banner behind him, more than ten skulls crackled and leaped, eager to fight. These were demons transformed from the Heavenly Capital Corpse.

Without the constraints of flesh and blood, those Heavenly Corpse Demons became even more sinister.

“Traitor, you’ve managed to live a respectable life all these years…”

Xuan Gu sneered.

Holding the half-finished Asura Sacred Flame, the three-colored flames illuminated his face, making him appear extremely sinister and eerie.

From within the banner behind him, a massive skeleton of a thunder whale leaped out and landed at Xuan Gu’s feet.

At this moment, its aura was even more sinister.

“Gentlemen, please don’t be like this. We’re all on the same side now.”

Without Han Li needing to activate it, the third Soul-Controlling Banner spontaneously produced an elderly man with white eyebrows and a white beard, exuding an air of otherworldly elegance.

It was Elder Ximen.

Behind him, the banner was carved with a golden longsword, a two-headed giant tiger with fierce eyes, and ten strange flying birds.

The flying sword was his natal magic weapon.

The ten strange, gray-black flying birds were Soul-Hooking Spirits.

The giant tiger was a highly intelligent level 7 vengeful ghost from the Ghost Mist District of the Void Heaven Palace.

After being coerced and lured, this old fellow voluntarily separated his primordial spirit from his Nascent Soul and transformed into a ghost cultivator, thus forming a three-way balance of power with the master and disciple in front of him.

“Your subordinate, Ximen Jie, greets Master.”

…

The Soul-Controlling Banner, also known as the Soul-Honoring Banner, is another great ghost-path treasure in Han Li’s possession.

The three main souls within it are nourished and strengthened by the Soul-Nourishing Wood, growing much faster than ordinary ghost cultivators.

In addition, they retain most of their original abilities, making their strength not to be underestimated.

“With three more powerful combatants, we should no longer fear the three demonic noble birds.”

…

Of course,

this is still not enough.

“If Yanli could also form a Nascent Soul, that would be great.”

Having one more Nascent Soul-level combatant, even if it’s the weakest, would still be of great use.

However,

Yanli’s foundation is ultimately lacking.

Although she has reached the peak of the late Core

Formation stage, she is still a bit short of the Pseudo-Nascent Soul realm.

Mainly, her primordial spirit strength is not up to standard.

She either needs to endure for decades or even centuries, nourishing her primordial spirit with the Golden Core and the Soul-Nourishing Wood. Alternatively, he could master the third level of the Great Evolution Technique to significantly increase his divine sense.

With an insufficient primordial spirit and a significantly weaker divine sense, forcibly shattering the core and condensing the nascent soul under these circumstances would be extremely dangerous.

“Forget it.”

“I can only try my best to improve the cultivation of my main body.”

During this time,

he also considered splitting his primordial spirit in two, planting half of it into Feng Hun’s body, and shattering the core and condensing the nascent soul again.

However, the price of doing so would be a severe loss of his main body’s cultivation and vital energy, potentially causing him to drop in cultivation level.

After all,

the nascent soul is a perfect fusion of the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit.

In other words, the main primordial spirit is already bound to the main body’s nascent soul. Let alone losing nearly half, even losing a third, like the loss of a forbidden divine tablet, would render one an idiot. Even a nascent soul cultivator cannot withstand such torment, nor can they bear the division of nearly half of their primordial spirit.

If the main body’s nascent soul is injured, how could its cultivation not drop?

This time,

there was no essence left by Feng Hun’s nascent soul after it dissipated to help the main body recover its cultivation.

Once he falls from his cultivation level, it will take at least several years, even a decade, to recover.

Even if he uses the Great Evolution Technique to separate hundreds of strands of his consciousness and then merge them together, sending them into the Wind Soul’s body to attempt to form a Nascent Soul,

the risk is still very high.

If he fails to form a Nascent Soul, it would mean that Han Li loses the Wind Soul, a major force, in a short period of time, and also loses hundreds of strands of his consciousness.

This would also severely damage his vital energy and spiritual sense.

Therefore,

he abandoned the idea.

Either he could obtain the Supreme Wood Spirit Nascent Soul to refine a second Nascent Soul,

or he could obtain the Daoist sect’s top-level clone technique, “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones”!

He just didn’t know if the Tai Zhen Sect in Tiannan had any related techniques?

Or perhaps he could try his luck in the Blood Forbidden Land?

Before leaving Biling Island, he took the remaining one-foot-long trunk of the Soul Nourishing Wood, leaving only one foot of root to grow.

He refined this one-foot-long trunk into several small items,

including: a ring, a bracelet, a pendant, a necklace, a mask, and a hairpin.

He didn’t waste the remaining scraps either, but instead used his refining techniques to reforge and polish them into a string of beads—

a bracelet similar to Bodhi beads.

He wore the bracelet, the ring, and the string of scrap beads himself.

Qu Hun wore a Soul-Nourishing Wood ring on his left little finger.

Feng Hun wore a Soul-Nourishing Wood bracelet on his left wrist.

The string of beads was worn on the left ankle of his main Nascent Soul, and the mask was worn on the face of his main Nascent Soul.

Nourishing the soul, of course, had to be done on the Nascent Soul.

He didn’t waste a single piece of material from the Soul-Nourishing Wood tree.

Afterward,

he took over the palace here, dug up hundreds of high-grade spirit stones, and took away a number of top-grade spirit stones that restored a lot of top-grade spiritual energy.

Then, with a burst of light, he headed straight for Meteor Island.

Upon seeing Yuan Yao and Yan Li, he presented them with a pendant and a necklace respectively.

“Here, see if they fit.”

After stroking the two women’s hair, Han Li put the headdress pendant on Yuan Yao, further highlighting her wild beauty.

“Husband, what is this?” “

A pendant made of Soul-Nourishing Wood, it can nourish the primordial spirit and enhance divine sense. It will greatly benefit your future cultivation. When cultivating the subsequent Great Evolution Technique, it will be twice as effective with half the effort.”

As Han Li explained briefly, he took out the necklace and personally put it on Yan Li. He

then casually praised,

“Indeed, even the worst craftsmanship becomes a beautiful embellishment on you.”

His words made the two women smile.

“Eh? Husband, your cultivation level…”

Previously, Yuan Yao could sense her man’s cultivation level.

But now, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, she could no longer see through Han Li.

“While traveling, I stumbled upon a small stroke of luck. I was just trying to see if I could break through. But I broke through right away,”

Han Li said with a smile,

telling a white lie.

A day and two nights later:

“You two should rest well.”

Before leaving, Han Li kissed the foreheads of both women, coaxing them into a deep sleep.

(End of Chapter)