Chapter 1408: The Myriad-Year Heavenly Soul Stone

A warm current stirred in Ye Yuan's abdomen, and his divine sea was slowly expanding.

This was the fifth Weeping Spirit Fruit he had swallowed, and he finally found an opportunity for a breakthrough.

At this moment, he was breaking through a bottleneck, further widening his divine sea!

Ye Yuan's divine sea exuded an ancient and weathered aura, as if it had come from time immemorial.

The power of the Weeping Spirit Fruit was continuously refined by the Chaotic True Scripture and infused into the divine sea.

Finally, the divine sea began to swell and expand, forcibly enlarging the space in Ye Yuan's dantian by a large margin.

With this expansion, the divine sea suddenly became empty and vast.

Then, Ye Yuan began to frantically absorb external spiritual energy, pouring it into the divine sea.

After who knows how long, everything returned to calm.

"This Chaotic True Scripture truly seizes the wonders of heaven and earth. The divine essence in your divine sea is becoming increasingly viscous, almost turning into paste! The thickness of this divine essence is unparalleled among the same realm!" Wuchen exclaimed.

Other people's divine seas were like a vast ocean.

But the divine essence in Ye Yuan's divine sea was extremely thick, nearly turning into a paste.

That is to say, although they were at the same realm, the thickness of Ye Yuan's divine essence was beyond the reach of others.

Ye Yuan said, "In the blink of an eye, I've cultivated to the Great Perfection of the first layer. It seems that my task for the next period is to create the second layer of the Chaotic True Scripture. But after so many years, I still have no clue."

Over the years, Ye Yuan had been trying to create the second layer of the Chaotic True Scripture, but all attempts ended in failure.

Ye Yuan knew that the higher the realm, the more difficult it was to create this technique.

Especially since the Chaotic True Scripture had once triggered celestial phenomena, the difficulty was even more imaginable.

The more profound the technique, the clearer and more comprehensive the understanding of the Heavenly Dao required, which was no easy feat.

Ye Yuan's Insightful Void realm had not yet reached perfection, and his understanding of the Heavenly Dao was still based on his insights from the Lesser Tongtian Mountain, so naturally he could not create the second layer.

Now that Ye Yuan had cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Insightful Void realm, his next major goal was to create the second layer of the Chaotic True Scripture.

"You should go out and gain experience. Working behind closed doors, this second layer technique probably won't be easy to create," Wuchen suggested.

Ye Yuan nodded, "Indeed, since arriving in the Tongtian Realm, I've spent too much time in seclusion. That's why I participated in the Hundred Cities Trial this time. The battle with Jin Yu was quite rewarding."

Wuchen nodded, "Mm, it's good that you have this mindset. But there's something you need to pay attention to."

Ye Yuan asked curiously, "Senior, please speak."

Wuchen said, "The Soul-Calming Pearl can preserve Mu Lingxue's consciousness, but it doesn't mean it can keep it forever! You know my state. It's only by borrowing the power of those evil spirits that I've recovered some abilities. But I'm still far from my peak state."

Ye Yuan's expression changed, and he frowned, "Senior, why didn't you tell me this before?"

Wuchen smiled, "What could you have done if I told you? For you, the most important task is cultivation! Some things, I'll naturally tell you when the time comes."

Ye Yuan took a deep breath and said seriously, "What should I do now?"

Wuchen said, "Go find the Myriad-Year Heavenly Soul Stone! The impurities in the evil spirits are too many; they can't sustain my ability to keep this girl's consciousness for long. The Myriad-Year Heavenly Soul Stone is a treasure for nurturing the soul, and it can help me further recover my strength. As long as my soul recovers to the two-star level, I can keep this girl's soul immortal for ten thousand years!"

Ye Yuan's heart sank, "Only ten thousand years?"

Ye Yuan knew that future cultivation would likely take hundreds or thousands of years at a stretch, and ten thousand years was really not that long.

Wuchen nodded, "When a person dies, the dissipation of consciousness is a natural principle. Keeping her consciousness from fading is itself an act against heaven. Unless one reaches the height of a Dao Ancestor, no one can guarantee that her consciousness won't dissipate at all! With your current strength, you can barely enter the martial world to train and search for the Myriad-Year Heavenly Soul Stone there. In your previous state, telling you such a thing would only interfere with your cultivation and do no good."

Ye Yuan admitted that if Wuchen had told him this news earlier, it would indeed have affected his cultivation.

Haste makes waste. Knowing that Mu Lingxue's consciousness could not last forever would inevitably make him impatient, which would likely have a great impact on his future.

Ye Yuan nodded, "Senior, I'll go to the academy to accept a mission and enter the martial world!"

Ye Yuan knew that inner academy students could accept missions and go out for training.

Some were like Wang Song, serving as city lords in various places.

However, Wang Song and his ilk lacked confidence in their own strength, or rather, they didn't dare to enter the martial world.

True experts would all enter the martial world to train and complete the missions assigned by the academy.

And the Xianlin World was one such martial world!

The Tongtian Realm had existed for who knows how many billions of years, accumulating countless experts.

Those who could cultivate to the Divine Lord realm could open up an inner world, which could further evolve into a small world—that was the martial world.

Thus, the Tongtian Realm had many spatial rifts connecting to martial worlds.

Those ownerless martial worlds were excellent places for experts in the Tongtian Realm to explore and seek treasures.

Because each martial world had its unique aspects, it might nurture heavenly materials and earthly treasures not found in the Tongtian Realm.

Some ancient martial worlds might have been left behind by Heavenly Emperors, or even Supreme Heavenly Emperors, and might contain the techniques and treasures left by these great beings.

If someone with extraordinary luck obtained them, they could even leap over the dragon gate.

Besides that, there was one thing in the martial world that everyone coveted—the Dao Fruit!

Experts above the Divine Lord realm would condense their own Dao Fruits.

They usually hid their Dao Fruits in their small worlds to nurture them. If an explorer obtained a Dao Fruit, they would truly soar to the heavens.

Just like the Nine-Entropy Heavenly Emperor, he had obtained a Heavenly Emperor's Dao Fruit, which allowed him to advance to Heavenly Emperor before Xianlin Heavenly Lord!

Of course, the martial world also contained great dangers; one could easily perish and vanish.

First, there were also Divine Path experts in the martial world, some of whom were very powerful.

Second, there were some deadly regions in the martial world, such as the Godfall Mountain Range in the Xianlin World.

Many martial artists who entered to explore never came out again.

Wuchen said, "Don't rush. I know you're worried about that girl, but I have a plan. It will probably be some time before you break through to the Insightful God realm. But before you go to the martial world, first cultivate your Sword Dao Law to the Great Perfection of the First Heaven and complete the move 'Star Severing'!"