Chapter 416 Signs, Giving Up, Preparing to Cross the Tribula

ced. The numbness in his arms vanished, and with a flick of his leg, similar to a serpent's tail strike, he slammed into the heavy hammer.The entire valley was filled with flying sand and stones. The...The golden mantis was a rare dual-element beast, possessing both the attributes of gold and wood. Its two forearms were incredibly powerful, able to withstand his earth-shattering blade with ease. It also possessed immense explosive force. However, as a sixth-rank physical cultivator, he wasn't lacking in explosiveness himself. Coupled with his magical prowess, unless it was a formidable sixth-rank beast like the Abyssal Elephant or the Mountain Ridge Beast, most sixth-rank beasts wouldn't find it easy to overpower him.

The emerald-green mantis spirit wanted to escape, but Lu Xia Tian's soul capturing technique at this time had reached a certain level of proficiency. The gray line that popped out between his fingers quickly solidified into a fine net, trapping it.

It's not easy to completely refine a complete demon beast spirit, even if it ultimately fails, it takes a considerable amount of time in the process.

Lu Xia Tian's hands moved with lightning speed, weaving intricate hand seals that shimmered like phantoms. After two hours of tireless effort, a massive arcane rune enveloped the Jinlü Mantis’ divine essence and soul.

The golden-green mantis's spirit shuddered, struggling violently. However, the hatred in its eyes quickly changed to a look of confusion. The method Lu Xiaoteng was using now was somewhat similar to the Soul-Dissipating Seal he had refined when subduing Di Kun. However, the Soul-Dissipating Seal did not cause any side effects to Di Kun's soul, it only made him lose his memory, but it took too long. The secret technique in the Swallowing Souls Art once mastered, the time required to erase memories from a demon beast's spirit core was much shorter. But the spirit core refined by the Swallowing Souls Art completely lost its autonomy. The two methods each had their advantages and were completely different cultivation techniques.

After refining the primordial spirit and essence of the emerald mantis for the first time, Lu Xia Tian opened his mouth. The primordial spirit and essence, stripped of their own consciousness, was swallowed by Lu Xia Tian in one gulp.

At the same time, the internal magical energy circulates according to the secret art in the "Soul Devouring Art," undergoing a second refinement. Removing its autonomous consciousness was the first step. The second step is to invade this primordial spirit with the caster's own consciousness and breath, refining it. This process takes a little longer, depending on one's cultivation level and the strength of the golden green mantis's primordial spirit. After one's breath and the mantis's essence completely merge, it can be sealed into the Soul Battle Orb, becoming a Mantis Soul Battle Bead.

However, when refining the Mantis's soul and essence, it seemed that a gray shadow in the shape of a mantis fused with Lu Xia Tian's main soul from within this soul and essence.

Lu Xia tian was taken aback. He didn't expect that cultivating the "Swallowing Soul Art" would have such a phenomenon. The Swallowing Soul Art did not mention this point.

Lu Xia Tian hurriedly checked his main primordial spirit to see if there was anything unusual, but after carefully examining it, he found nothing different. His primordial spirit neither strengthened nor weakened in the slightest. Even sensing nothing out of the ordinary, Lu Xia Tian couldn't help but feel doubtful. Could it have just been his own illusion Lu Xia Tian quickly dismissed this thought. With his primordial spirit's strength, there was no reason for him to have an illusion out of nowhere.

I don't know if practicing this Swallowing Souls Great Art would cause any illusions. Lu Xiaoteng’s face flickered with uncertainty, thinking back and forth for a while before deciding to temporarily give up. After all, he was on the verge of forming his golden elixir, and he didn't want to be troubled by a cultivation technique at this time. The intention behind practicing the Swallowing Souls Great Art was to refine the fire dragon spirit core into a Dragon Soul Battle Bead. This way, even before forming his golden elixir, he wouldn’t be completely helpless against early-stage Golden Core cultivators. But if practicing this technique would affect his formation of the golden elixir, it clearly wouldn't be worth it. Once he successfully formed the golden elixir, his need for a Dragon Soul Battle Bead would diminish significantly.

After studying the Soul Devouring Great Law for so long, it turned out to be just a useless technique. Lu Xia Tian let out a wry smile, spit out the nearly refined golden-green mantis spirit core, sealed it with the Soul War Orb, and then put it away.

Soon, Lu Xia Tian recovered from his initial disappointment. The Jiaohun Zhàn Zhu was originally just a means of self-preservation he had prepared. In fact, for the sake of his life, many preparations he had made were never used. Including that Qianli Shen Xing Fu which he had finally managed to exchange for. It's just that cultivating this Swallowing Souls Great Art takes longer than other techniques. It's not a big deal to give up now. However, this Swallowing Souls Great Art is also quite remarkable. Some of the methods for dealing with demonic beast Yuanshen are worth learning from. This period of time wasn't completely wasted.

After putting away the beast soul orb, Lu Xia Tian took out the gray stone that he still hadn't figured out what it was for and examined it. Then, he gave it to the Third Yuan God for research.

Cultivation, alchemy, deducing formations, practicing the five-element formation, and studying that ever-shining gray stone. As for his leg injury, the ice-blue flames had completely enveloped the two pieces of star-silent stones. At this time, even his divine sense couldn't penetrate the ice-blue flames to control the star-silent stones. However, every period of time, a wisp of the ice-blue flames enveloping the star-silent stones would diminish, which somewhat comforted Lu Xiaoxiaotian. At this rate, it would probably only take two years for his leg injury to fully heal.

Time flies. These simple yet fulfilling days passed in a blink of an eye, three and a half years. On a stormy night after three and a half years, Lu Xia Tian let out a breath, his aura becoming even more introverted. With a whoosh, the window in the room shook open. Lightning flashed and thunder roared outside, but not a single raindrop seeped in.

The next day, at daybreak, the sudden downpour finally subsided. The rain had moistened everything, bringing forth a fresh wave of vitality. Lu XiaTian's body sprung back to life, leaping out of his wheelchair with a jolt. He flashed several times in mid-air before vanishing into the sky above Fengye Valley, flying directly towards the edge of the Mount望月 Range.

After a moment, Lu Xia tian arrived at a place brimming with spiritual energy, as familiar as returning home. He patted his spirit beast bag and gave Di Kun a few instructions. Di Kun let out an excited roar, flapping his wings a few times before circling above Lu Xia tian's head. Finally, he landed on a high mountain peak, overlooking the surroundings. Di Kun didn't hide the powerful aura of a sixth-order peak demon beast emanating from him, proclaiming his ownership over this region.

The overwhelming aura of Di Kun sent the weak demon beasts scattering in disarray. Even sixth-order demon beasts, upon sensing this aura, were too frightened to approach, lest they invite disaster. The instinct of demons to seek benefit and avoid harm is sometimes even stronger than that of human cultivators.

Seeing this scene, Lu Xia Tian couldn't help but smile. He reached out and took out dozens of large and small formation disks, which were arranged separately around him. In addition to the Xuan Lei Yan Stone Formation, the Wooden hairpin woman had also refined two sets of ordinary formations with slightly weaker defense for him. There were a large number of magic weapons piled up inside Lu Xia Tian's barrier. Over the past few years, he had also re-refined these magic weapons. Because when he was in Lingxiao Palace's library, he had learned about the process of Jindan and Yuanying crossing the tribulation. Under the thunder tribulation, one or two magic weapons would be useless at all. They would be destroyed by the powerful thunder tribulation very soon, or their spirituality would be greatly lost. Even a Dan Yuan magic weapon might not last long.

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