Chapter 312: Nine-Turn Soul Herb
"What was that?" Yu Nianzhen suddenly exclaimed and looked back.
As soon as he crossed from land to the abyss, he felt like he had passed through a thin film.
The film was a little cold and left his body feeling cooler than normal.
However, when he looked back, he saw nothing.
There was no film and his divine sense didn’t detect any abnormalities.
At a loss, Yu Nianzhen took a step back, planning to experience the sensation again.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.
When he tried to get back to land, his foot landed at the edge of the abyss and couldn’t step on the land.
"Did I step into a formation?" He muttered and refocused his divine sense.
The divine sense examined the area around him but he still didn’t find anything.
At this time, a soul beast flew out from the soul raising tree and cantered towards him.
The soul beast was at the fourth level and Yu Nianzhen tensed when he saw it approach.
’I can’t get involved in an unnecessary fight.’ He thought and immediately took a few steps to the side.
However, Yu Nianzhen thought too much.
Although the soul beast walked in his direction, it didn’t seem to notice him. It just walked its way and casually left the abyss.
With a sigh, Yu Nianzhen looked at where the soul beast left and his eyes hardened.
’It’s not a solution to stay here. I need to get to the soul raising tree.’ He thought and began to walk forward.
At first, Yu Nianzhen could get by with a thin coating of soul power.
However, the more he walked, the more fervent the call of the abyss.
In reaction, he continually thickened the soul power around his body and swallowed soul replenishing pills.
This allowed him to continue walking forward but his soul was always in a tense state.
’My previous experiments are completely useless.’ He thought and tried to suppress the gloom in his heart.
His stone experiments gave him a sense of confidence and he thought he could easily cross the abyss.
However, it was not until he stepped into the abyss that he realised his experiments were wrong.
Although stones could cross the abyss easily as long as they were coated with enough soul power, the same could not be said of cultivators.
This was because cultivators had souls and the abyss had a significant effect on souls.
"What a careless mistake." Yu Nianzhen muttered and closed his eyes.
With his eyes closed, he was more sensitive to the abyss and he focused on dispelling its effect on his soul.
After one hour, he opened his eyes and his demeanour became a little relaxed.
’This place is quite good at training and improving my willpower.’ He thought and continued walking toward the soul raising tree.
Four days later, Yu Nianzhen finally arrived at the base of the soul raising tree.
The tree was more than one hundred metres tall and two hundred metres wide. It had thousands of thick branches and millions of palm-sized leaves.
Soul beasts emerged from the trunk and branches while the leaves were always shaking although there was no wind in the abyss.
"It took four days to get here and my soul is a little exhausted. I don’t know if I can rest on the soul raising tree..."
After saying that, Yu Nianzhen looked at the soul raising tree.
Ordinarily, he would use his divine sense to investigate a herb or treasure.
However, he was a little afraid of using his divine sense on the soul-raising tree so he could only settle for a physical investigation.
"It looks solid enough but..." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
He didn’t notice it at first but now that he was close, he noticed that the tree was absorbing aura from the abyss.
The aura was clear but it didn’t spread in the surroundings like heaven and earth qi.
’This abyss is too complicated.’ Yu Nianzhen thought but didn’t regret his decision to venture in.
Since the arrow had already been shot, all he could do was handle the consequences of his actions.
"I will take a seat first."
With that, Yu Nianzhen found a low branch and cautiously climbed up.
When he realised that the tree was truly solid and he wouldn’t fall into the abyss, he relaxed a little and found a comfortable place to sit down.
’It’s a good thing I left the ancient palace on land.’ He suddenly thought.
Although Yu Nianzhen knew Jiang Yue wouldn’t come out of seclusion for a while, he still shuddered at the thought of what would happen if he unexpectedly came out.
At that time, Jiang Yue would directly fall into the abyss and Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be frightened by the thought.
"This is not the time to think about that. I need to rest my soul." He said and shook his head to shake out the frightening thoughts.
A moment later, his mind cleared and he closed his eyes to replenish his soul power.
However, he opened his eyes soon after closing them.
"What was that?" He wondered, feeling a little shaken.
As soon as Yu Nianzhen began to cultivate, soul power drilled into his soul from the places that touched the soul-raising tree.
The soul power was extremely pure but the quantity was too much and his exhausted soul was replenished in a breath.
If Yu Nianzhen didn’t stop when he did, the soul power would have continued to drill into his body, causing damage to his soul.
’It seems I can’t be careless.’ He thought and lay on the tree branch.
As he rested, his eyes fell on an upper branch and a gasp involuntarily escaped from his mouth.
"That..., could it be..." He stammered and his eyes widened in shock.
Initially, Yu Nianzhen thought the soul raising tree was the only treasure in the abyss.
However, when he looked up, he saw more than a dozen herbs growing on different branches.
The herbs were one foot long, and each had one leaf and a white flower at the top.
"How could there be so many?" Yu Nianzhen wondered in shock.
Because of Li Futian’s situation, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen had done a lot of research on soul-related matters.
Most of this research related to the nine-turn rebirth pill and the materials needed to refine the pill.
Among the materials, the most important was the flower of the nine-turn soul herb.
Unfortunately, the nine-turn soul herb had long been extinct in the Cangxing world.
For this reason, Jiang Yue, Yu Nianzhen, and Xuan Ke weren’t optimistic about reviving Li Futian.
"Did Li Futian know we would find the nine turn soul herbs in the Nine Treasures secret realm?" Yu Nianzhen wondered and a faraway look entered his eyes.
After thinking about it for a moment, he chuckled and shook his head.
"He probably did." He muttered and continued to look at the nine turn soul herbs.
The nine-turn soul herb was not only the main ingredient of the nine-turn rebirth pill but also played another role.
In the case of an incomplete soul, the herb could be used to replace the missing soul.
However, the herb’s effect was not infinite.
One herb could last a maximum of one hundred years.
If the missing soul was not recovered within that time, the person would once again fall unconscious.
"Fortunately, there are many nine turn soul herbs on this tree." Yu Nianzhen said and continued to look around.
At the moment, they didn’t have enough materials for the nine-turn rebirth pill. Even if they did, Hongzhu couldn’t refine the pill with her current ability.
In that case, they could only rely on the nine turn soul herbs to wake Li Futian.
With him awake, he could take the opportunity to refine his origin treasures and make plans for the future.
"Hongzhu will need a few herbs to practice before she can refine the nine turns rebirth pill. If we reserve ten herbs, there are still five." Yu Nianzhen said as he did some mental calculations.
With five herbs, Li Futian could stay awake for five hundred years.
In that time, Yu Nianzhen believed they would find all the ingredients for the nine turns rebirth pill and Hongzhu’s ability would have reached an appropriate level.
"I should cut more branches and leaves of the soul raising tree." Yu Nianzhen said thoughtfully.
From his previous experience, he knew that the branches and leaves contained a lot of pure soul power.
On one hand, this would give them a way of quickly replenishing their soul power. On the other, the branches and leaves could be used to raise Li Futian’s soul.
With the material from the soul raising tree, maybe the effect of the nine-turn soul herbs could be stretched for a longer time.
If that happened, they would have more time to figure things out and prepare the nine turns rebirth pill.
