This trip had been utterly exhausting. In Cangzhou Immortal City, despite his cultivation being only at the Foundation Building stage, Luis had become the main force on the battlefield. His performance even attracted the attention of Master Shen Jue—he was nearly killed by him.
After traveling hundreds of thousands of miles to relieve his family from the siege on Hartmann Island in Guang’an Prefecture, Luis was completely spent. He slept for an entire day and night.
When Luis finally woke up, his energy was restored. The first thing he did wasn’t to attend to the piled-up clan affairs, but to examine the changes in his sea of consciousness.
Ever since the "Vortex" in his sea of consciousness had absorbed the divine light fired by Shen Jue, it had undergone some changes.
Although Luis hadn’t had time to check on it immediately, now that he had finished everything else, he finally had the opportunity.
He sank his consciousness into the depths of his mind, focusing on the center where the Vortex resided. Deep within, balls of light flickered and emerged like a sky full of stars.
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Luis concentrated on the Black Vortex and, finally, discovered new changes. Originally, this Vortex had contained nothing but an almost invisible black wall of text floating around it.
But now there was a vague record of new content. Luis hadn’t had time to examine it before, but suddenly that vague content solidified, turning into a ball of light that flew deep into his sea of consciousness.
Luis looked at the scene in shock. This was the first time the Vortex had changed since he had obtained it. Previously, the Vortex had been a motionless, inert object at the center of his consciousness, but now it had transformed.
This change made Luis nervous yet also filled him with anticipation. The ability of the Vortex to travel between worlds had allowed Luis to soar along the path of cultivation, leaving many talented cultivators far behind. Now that the Vortex itself had changed, how could he not be extremely surprised?
With great anticipation, he probed his consciousness into the knowledge released by the Vortex. In the next moment, countless pieces of information poured into his sea of consciousness, nearly overwhelming it.
It’s hard to say how much time passed, but eventually, after suffering a splitting headache—the worst he’d felt in a long time—Luis came back to his senses. He realized that this headache was a result of a severe loss of spiritual consciousness.
Recognizing the urgency, he did not delay. Soon, in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, all his depleted spiritual consciousness was miraculously restored—a truly magical occurrence.
Once his energy was back, Luis checked his magical power once again. It turned out that this power was none other than the unique ability that Shen Jue had inherited from the immortals: "The Soul-Fixing Divine Light."
Let’s talk about it in detail.
The most astonishing aspect of the Soul-Fixing Divine Light is not its method of attack. Although secret techniques for assaulting spiritual consciousness are rare in the Sea of Ten Thousand Stars—and secret methods of spiritual defense can also be found in the Qianyuan Sword Sect—if the Soul-Fixing Divine Light were merely another such technique, no matter how precious it might be, it wouldn’t justify Master Shen Jue’s arrogance.
What truly sets the Soul-Fixing Divine Light apart is its approach to cultivation.
Everyone knows that divine consciousness exists within the sea of consciousness, which is naturally invisible and intangible.
However, the immortal king who created this power took a different route by forging the divine consciousness into a tangible sea of light.
At its first level, the Soul-Fixing Divine Light opens up a sea of divine light within the sea of consciousness.
Then it begins to refine the practitioner’s spiritual consciousness and expand this sea of light.
As the sea of divine light grows, it further expands the sea of consciousness, thereby enhancing divine awareness.
In this way, the larger the sea of divine light, the broader the sea of consciousness, and the stronger the divine consciousness becomes—a virtuous cycle.
Originally, expanding the sea of consciousness was achievable only by increasing a cultivator’s overall cultivation level.
However, with the magical power of the Soul-Fixing Divine Light, such expansion is no longer limited by one’s current level.
Theoretically, even a cultivator at the Qi Refining Stage could develop spiritual awareness comparable to that of a Foundation Building cultivator or even higher, because practicing this magical power is a process of continuous expansion.
It’s like building a bridge—the Sea of Divine Light—between the sea of consciousness and the invisible, intangible realm of divine consciousness.
This magical power is extremely potent. When practiced to its later stages, a cultivator’s spiritual consciousness can reach unmatched strength, and the divine light that soothes the soul can mend almost any injury.
However, there is an inherent limitation: the process of refining one’s spiritual consciousness and strengthening the sea of divine light consumes a great deal of that consciousness.
Once it is depleted, recovery takes a very long time unless the cultivator possesses special elixirs to restore it. Otherwise, it is doubtful whether a cultivator could fully recover his spiritual consciousness within ten days.
This is also why Master Shen Jue has been so desperate to acquire spiritual medicines capable of restoring spiritual consciousness.
"Huh!"
After reading the first training requirement for the "Soul-Fixing Divine Light," Luis let out a relieved sigh, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
Restoring spiritual consciousness is extremely challenging for most cultivators—but for him, it seemed almost effortless.
Ever since he obtained the "Vortex," he had developed three key abilities: the Tunnel between Worlds, Infinite Energy, and Body Mutation (which bestows talent upon others).
For Luis, the Tunnel is by far the most important, followed by Infinite Energy.
Now, with these tools at his disposal, Luis could hardly wait to master the magical powers passed down by the upper-realm immortals.
As time slowly passed, he gradually gained insight. Strictly speaking, the power of the "Soul-Fixing Divine Light" doesn’t fit neatly into the category of traditional magic.
Usually, spells and techniques are seen as external methods, while skills for self-cultivation are considered internal practices.
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However, the "Soul-Fixing Divine Light" uniquely blends both: it not only strengthens divine consciousness by expanding the sea of divine light but also uses that very light to launch attacks against foes. In effect, it is a magical power that directly channels the Great Way.
"No wonder Master Shen Jue can use it to defeat even a Nascent Soul cultivator with his Golden Core—its power truly seems infinite!"
After a full three days of study, Luis opened his eyes and murmured. Theoretically, there is no limit to this magical power.
Had Master Shen Jue not been constrained by the need to recover his spiritual consciousness, he might have been able to overthrow the Qianyuan Sword Sect using it.
At that moment, Luis’s heart began to race.
He realized that if this power were to fall into his hands, it would be ten, perhaps even a hundred times stronger than if Shen Jue possessed it. Shen Jue simply cannot cultivate under conditions as favorable as Luis’s—where the "Vortex" continuously restores his spiritual consciousness.
"However, although the Soul-Fixing Divine Light is powerful, it is not easy to get started."
Luis frowned. "According to the records of this magical power, to begin its practice, one needs a small source of divine light.
The divine light that Shen Jue inherited came from the immortal monarch of the upper realm. But where can I obtain this source of divine light?"
"The God of Gods!" Luis thought, and his eyes grew determined. After all, he must find the real Shen Jue.
The so-called source of divine light is derived from the one who originally cultivated the Sea of Divine Light—he intercepted a fragment of its origin to help later generations open up their own Sea of Divine Light.
Without this inheritance, the difficulty of opening up the Sea of Divine Light would increase exponentially.
Even the Immortal King from the upper realm, who created this magical power, took ten thousand years to successfully open up the Sea of Divine Light.
One can only imagine how high the threshold is for practicing this technique.
Perhaps for immortals, ten thousand years pass in the blink of an eye, but for a young cultivator like Luis, who is still in the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would take 10,000 years—or even more—to achieve such a breakthrough.
For now, Luis has decided to temporarily give up practicing this magical power.
"So, the hope of cultivating this magical power lies in Master Shen Jue—or in that immortal corpse," Luis mused.
Thinking of the immortal corpse clone suppressed by the Lord of Zhenhai Palace, his mind suddenly became active.
The fact that Shen Jue was able to master the Divine Light so quickly must mean that he obtained the source of divine light left by the immortals.
The source of divine light exists within the Sea of Divine Light; in other words, it is preserved within the damaged sea of consciousness of an immortal corpse.
People who have become immortals are entirely different from cultivators who have not. After attaining immortality, a cultivator reshapes his immortal body into what is known as a pure yang immortal body, or simply an immortal body.
This immortality not only renders the physical body incorruptible but also preserves the damaged sea of consciousness even after death, preventing it from dissipating immediately.