Chapter 140: The Soul at Perfection in Mortal Realm!
With a wave of his hand, Hulei gifted Jiang Lin another valuable treasure, the Soul Jade Slip.
This was something even Hulei, a Sixth-Rank Weapon Refiner, found difficult to craft. These Soul Jade Slips were given to him by his master as a casual gift.
"Thank you, Master!" Jiang Lin excitedly accepted it. Hulei truly was like a treasure-giving old man, always giving away valuable items.
"Hehe, this is what you deserve," Hulei chuckled. Then, he removed the surrounding barriers and said to Jiang Lin, "Go ahead and study it. If you don't understand something, you can come back and ask me. Next week, I will begin teaching you Soul Forging."
After saying that, Hulei waved his hand, signaling that Jiang Lin could leave.
"You can slowly study the Soul Refining Technique. If you don't understand anything, we'll discuss it next week," Hulei had imparted two soul techniques to Jiang Lin. Considering Jiang Lin's soul level, Hulei understood the importance of balancing rest and work. He wanted Jiang Lin to study on his own first and then come to him for guidance when needed.
Hulei wanted Jiang Lin to recover fully because he intended to teach him two complete soul techniques at once. If Jiang Lin was mentally exhausted, it could lead to a failed transmission and harmful side effects like fainting, soul damage, or dazedness.
Jiang Lin felt a bit strange. Hulei had said that he would be taught Soul Forging today, and while he had been taught the theoretical foundation, he had gained two new soul techniques in his mind. He didn't say anything more and quickly bid Hulei farewell, returning to his room to organize the soul techniques he had obtained.
After seeing Jiang Lin off, Hulei reactivated the basic silent barriers around them. He then approached the Chi Long Ding, his hands glowing with purple Dou Qi. He poured the Dou Qi into the Chi Long Ding, causing the red dragon scales on the surface of the Ding to light up as if they had come to life.
As the Weapon Refiners' Guild was fully immersed in the frenzy of creating the Feathered Sheath Wings, Hulei was no exception. He was preparing to forge a Sixth-Rank Feathered Sheath Wing for himself.
However, unlike the standard Four-Leaved Feathered Sheath Wings, Hulei was going to try and use his own understanding of Jiang Lin's flight logic to forge a unique version of the Feathered Sheath Wing.
Boom!
Suddenly, a thunderclap struck the Chi Long Ding, and the Ding absorbed the strike. To everyone's surprise, a red dragon phantom appeared above the Ding, moving around the vessel, alive and vivid.
Blazing fire for refining gold, thunder to forge the soul!
In this moment, Hulei understood why the Tianzi Refining Field was open-air: it was because Hulei needed to summon lightning.
Hulei didn't keep the Qingxuan Qiankun Ding for himself either, because it had been struck by lightning too many times, and now it reacted negatively to thunder. Hulei felt it wasn't suitable for him, so he gave it to Jiang Lin, who hadn't yet refined a Ding.
"Old man, why are you summoning lightning in broad daylight?" On the other side of the Imperial City, Fama, in the Alchemist Guild, couldn't help but use his Dou Qi to transmit a message.
"I'm just testing the weather. In three days, there's a heavy storm, which is a great day for refining. But now that I've been recruited, I can't go too wild. Otherwise, I could summon lightning whenever I want using the restrictions here. It's much better than Black Corner Domain, where there are endless thunderclouds." Hulei smiled and replied, having only casually tested his skills.
Outside the Gama Empire, there was a place called Black Corner Domain, often filled with thunderclouds. Hulei, coming from there, naturally missed the weather conditions there.
"You sure know how to make a scene!"
"Don't worry, it won't last long. I'll head to the Central Continent soon, but the Guild still needs you to settle a few things."
Meanwhile, Jiang Lin had returned to his room with the Soul Jade Slip Hulei had given him.
"I'll organize the Soul Refining Technique first. Fortunately, Hulei didn't hand it all to me at once, or I'd have to spend quite a bit of time sorting it out," Jiang Lin thought as he sat cross-legged on his bed. He placed the Soul Jade Slip in his storage ring and began organizing the contents of the Soul Refining Technique in his mind.
"The first volume focuses on cultivation, the second on soul usage."
"This one has a soul strength detection skill. Let me try it."
While organizing the Soul Refining Technique, Jiang Lin suddenly saw a technique in the first volume that could detect the strength of the soul. After carefully understanding and memorizing it, he began to meditate in his mind, visualizing a small human figure.
Focusing, Jiang Lin attempted to manipulate his soul power. Since his soul power was so ethereal, he hadn't known how to control it before. But now he had a reference.
As Jiang Lin's focus deepened, he soon entered a meditative state. His thoughts moved like a phantom brush, sketching out a small figure in his mind made up of countless meditative nodes. Over an hour passed, and Jiang Lin finally completed a three-dimensional drawing of 'himself' in his mind.
"This is exhausting," Jiang Lin muttered. But before he could finish his sentence, the three-dimensional figure in his mind suddenly vanished.
Rubbing his temples, Jiang Lin raised an eyebrow.
"The first step of the Soul Refining Technique is to use your thoughts to construct the 'self' in your mind, concentrating your soul power to solidify the scattered soul energy. This self-construction must be repeated over and over until you can form it instantly in one thought, gathering the soul power, and then proceed to other soul techniques."
"And this process must not go wrong."
Jiang Lin felt his mind was a bit numb. The soul cultivation was so abstract that he felt a sense of emptiness, not knowing where to start.
"Starting from scratch, the Soul Refining Technique mentions that this phase could take anywhere from a month to a year... A year for excellent progress? What nonsense. Non-Soul Clan cultivators might need even longer to get started?"
Jiang Lin furrowed his brow, lightly massaging his temples.
"How can I afford so much time to get started? In that case..."
An idea flashed through Jiang Lin's mind, and instantly, he created a three-dimensional space made entirely of latitude and longitude lines in his mind.
"Then... the punctuation, establish coordinates."
This time, Jiang Lin decided to cheat a little. He quickly grabbed paper and pen, sketched a few 2D diagrams, then tore them out and built a background with sticks to create a three-dimensional space.
Next, he used a fine transparent thread to establish the physical grid lines. This meticulous work took Jiang Lin the entire day.
Later, Jiang Lin marked each soul node on the thread, creating a 3D figure made of red dots. This task took Jiang Lin three more days. Despite the fierce winds and pouring rain outside, he was fully absorbed in the work.
Afterward, Jiang Lin marked over a thousand coordinates and then spent an hour jumping from one to the next, building the self in his mind.
With the real-world reference, Jiang Lin's meditation no longer felt empty. It became much faster. His memory, already strong because of his powerful soul, helped him quickly grasp the standard pattern, speeding up his meditation even further—an hour, fifty minutes, thirty minutes, then one minute, ten seconds, and finally, three seconds.
Three days later, Jiang Lin's consciousness flashed, and a miniature figure resembling himself sat in the center of his sea of consciousness.
The Soul Refining Technique—entry completed.
At the same time, Jiang Lin realized his soul's current level.
Jiang Lin furrowed his brow.
Perfection in the Mortal Realm?
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