Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 332: Nine-level God-Evolution, Soul-Separation

"I devoured other people's souls in the past, feeling superior and ignoring their death curses. My current downfall is karma..."

"Li Ye! I can't escape this curse, and neither can you! My today will be your tomorrow..."

Kong Xing's voice came out intermittently from the natal puppet, and finally stopped abruptly between the flickering lightning.

"Too much nonsense..."

Li Ye's eyes were cold and hard, and he decisively destroyed the remaining soul completely.

The torture and soul-stealing during this period has weakened his spirit to the extreme, and he is very close to being shattered into pieces.

At this point, he had almost squeezed out enough information. Continuing would only be torture. There was no point, so Li Ye wouldn't do it again.

What Kong Xing said before his death might not be without reason.

Today he regards this person as a supplement and devours his soul power to enhance his spirit, but tomorrow he may become food in the eyes of others and be swallowed up at will.

But since he already knew the problem with the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art, he had already made up his mind to give up this technique. Now it was only of temporary use, so he would not be shaken by the words.

What's more, with his current speed of physical improvement, if he could successfully obtain the fourth level of the Tiangong Sutra.

He used body training to solidify his soul and thoughts, and used the Tiangong Sutra to temper his soul and establish a new foundation. If the envoy of Yanshen Sect really came again, no matter his own combat power or soul, he might not be without some resistance!
He drew out the last and most powerful soul power, sucked it in with his soul, and swallowed it all.

Li Ye only felt that his soul was as if he had eaten too much, and gradually swelled up in this tonic. The Thousand Thoughts Divine Art was running quickly, improving rapidly, and digesting everything.

Soon, a bottleneck in the technique appeared, but it seemed so insignificant.

Thousands of spirits gathered together and swirled around the soul, as if strange runes were thrown into it. Li Ye only felt his soul tremble, and a tearing pain spread, but it was calmed by the runes constructed by the spirits, and the loss was compensated by the soul power he had just swallowed.

The next moment, about one-third of Li Ye's soul suddenly broke away from his sea of consciousness and became an independent being surrounded by his separate spirits.

Li Ye held on to his mind, suppressing the severe pain. His spirit moved forward to mobilize his split spirit to break into the restrictions, completely controlling it and setting up a backup plan. Then he used a secret method to start copying most of his own memories, gradually shaping the split spirit into his own shape!

Although this process was supported by many methods of martial arts, it was still quite dangerous. Li Ye had already completely activated the formation and had thorough protection to prevent any unexpected interruptions.

As the main steps of splitting his soul were completed, he sensed this other part of himself, then calmed his mind and began to practice Qigong to nourish himself and his split soul, completing the final consolidation...

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"This soul-splitting method is similar to the digital lifeforms developed by previous generations' technology... Both replicate one's own memories and create new carriers. The only difference is that the split souls also originate from the individual, sharing an essential connection..."

Li Ye looked at his natal puppet, which had transformed into the same appearance as himself and had a vivid expression.

Now, he has completely sealed the split soul that was integrated with his natal puppet deep into the skeleton of the Sky Realm Tree, no longer showing any trace of it, and completely handed over the control of the puppet to the split soul.

Although that mind is the core of the natal puppet, after breaking through the fourth level of the Tiangong Sutra, it should be able to produce more wonderful uses, allowing it to evolve into a clone with a puppet mind, or other forms.

But now that it is under the control of the soul fragment of the same origin, there is no hindrance at all!
"So you and I are still the same person. Isn't that much more reliable than the rigid replication of digital life?"

The split soul laughed and had the same style as Li Ye.

"You make a lot of sense..."

Li Ye also smiled, "Then you should know what to do now?"

The soul fragment's expression froze slightly, and then he accepted the storage magic tool handed to him by Li Ye with resignedness. He nodded to him and went straight out of Pingyang Mountain, coming to a ground fire channel and entering it. With Li Ye's improvement of Pingyang Mountain's spiritual veins, the spiritual energy radiation had benefited the entire Red Land Mountains, and the spiritual energy concentration in many places had increased.

At the same time, Li Ye's attainments in formations have long surpassed those of before.

The conditions for setting up the formation are very different, so Li Ye has upgraded the sealing formation of all the underground fire channels to a higher level.

Since they are not large in size, they have basically all reached a stable quasi-third-level strength. If necessary, it is enough to increase their power in a short period of time and withstand the impact of the Jindan fire beast.

As a result, even though there have been some disturbances down there over the years, there have even been Jindan fire beasts attacking the outside world, trying to reveal the treasures of the lava palace below once again, attracting the covetousness of many cultivators.

However, they were all blocked and suppressed by Li Ye, and no trouble was caused at all.

On the one hand, most of the information was not actually leaked to the outside world.

Even if it was spread to the outside world, basically no one reacted much to it.

After all, today is different from the past.

Even though many people knew that there were hidden treasures down there, and had even forgotten the past events of the Golden Core Fire Beast wreaking havoc and slaughtering cultivators, they knew even more clearly that the Red Mountains were the location of Master Li's Taoist temple.

No matter what they think, they don't have the courage to do anything out of the ordinary in this place.

After all, the consequences of provoking Master Li were that the third-order black dragon in Qiandao Water City and the demons who had been wiped out and killed by Master Li, with not much trace left in this world, were all there!
Haven’t you seen how respectful Master Ou Cha of Qiandao Water City was towards Master Li after he achieved the Golden Elixir?

Even a sect with two golden elixir combat power is like this.

How could other cultivators or forces dare to covet this lava palace beneath the red mountains!

Therefore, no matter how much the underground struggled over the years, there was no effect.

Up to now, no one knew whether it was because all the fire beasts had been killed and there were not many left, or the existence behind these things had given up and gone back to dormancy. For quite some time, there had not been any disturbance underground that required Li Ye's personal attention.

But Li Ye still did not hold any hope on this trip. He just sent his split soul down, while he stayed in the outside world to deal with situations that his own puppet could not resolve.

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"My original body is so cautious that it has no moral integrity. It just separated me and is taking such a risky and suicidal action..."

Li Ye released many small puppets in front of him to go deep underground to find out the situation. He slowly fell down behind them, shaking his head and complaining.

"But I am him, and he is me... If I have to choose, I have to go down!"

He carefully sensed the sights, sounds, and movements of the many puppets, and was a little surprised.

"To be so quiet, there must be something fishy going on..."

Thinking of this, Li Ye had already arrived at the underground cave and saw the lava palace which seemed to have not changed at all from the past.

He looked at the magnificent building, then approached it without hesitation.

If the real person comes, you might need to be cautious, but if it’s just a clone... then there’s nothing to be afraid of!

(End of this chapter)