Chapter 356: Soul Burning

The moment Mo Xian turned around, Chen Xiao felt his heart twitch violently.
He still couldn’t see Mo Xian’s face as before, but this time, Chen Xiao clearly sensed two pairs of eyes as clear as waves—no, to be precise, it was their gazes.
Although Chen Xiao still couldn’t see the appearance of the demon fairy, he sensed Mo Xian’s gaze this time—two pure, innocent gazes like those of a baby.
Would someone with such eyes save him without any ulterior motives? Even Chen Xiao, who had always been cautious and distrustful of everyone, began to doubt his earlier thoughts at this moment.
By the time he regained his senses, Mo Xian had already taken those children into the slanted valley and disappeared without a trace.
Chen Xiao wanted to send his mental energy to see what they were doing, but the moment his mental energy left his body, a sharp pain surged from the depths of his soul. Almost instinctively, his mental energy retracted immediately.
“The physical wounds have healed, but the wounds to the soul are extremely troublesome.”
Chen Xiao closed his eyes and sensed slightly. At this moment, his soul was extremely weak, with even tiny cracks on it. If his soul hadn’t already reached the level of a Supreme God, it would likely have collapsed long ago.
“That Fallen Heavenly Lord is truly ruthless. If it weren’t for my last moment of reaction, even a hundred of me would have been killed by him.”
Chen Xiao was secretly relieved. The Fallen Heavenly Lord was terrifying—his current strength was already enough to confront a Sovereign head-on, yet in front of that Fallen Heavenly Lord, he could only barely escape by sheer luck.
Moreover, Chen Xiao knew clearly that if the Fallen Heavenly Lord was determined to kill him, he wouldn’t be able to escape at all.
Chen Xiao looked around. The environment was peaceful and elegant, free from noise—perfect for recuperating.
He stepped out of the small courtyard and sat down in front of the small forest. Immediately, the “Zhou Tian Ming Gu Fa,” which had almost been forgotten by Chen Xiao, began to function slowly.
The “Zhou Tian Ming Gu Fa” was a strange technique that could cultivate the soul directly from within. Even Supreme Gods couldn’t cultivate the soul in this way, and nowadays, even in the heavens, techniques for directly cultivating the soul were probably extinct.
The technique that Chen Xiao obtained from the Soul of China was likely the only one left in the world.
At this moment, Chen Xiao’s consciousness sea resembled a universe of stars, with countless stars shining brightly within.
Among them, 365 brightest stars were arranged in the order of the 365 constellations, continuously drawing in infinite star power from the outside.
Star power was, in fact, a combination of the forces of the earth, sky, various elements, and attributes, forming a power close to chaos. Yet, this star power was gentler than chaos.
Furthermore, star power was a pure energy that cultivators of any attribute or faction could absorb and refine. However, the star power in nature was too weak and scattered.

Without special techniques, it is very difficult to achieve anything by directly absorbing the power of the stars. However, the “Zhou Tian Ming Gu Fa” that Chen Xiao obtained allows him to directly draw and concentrate the starlight from nature to refine his soul. In the celestial realm, the power of the stars is extremely abundant, even surpassing that of universes filled with countless stars. Just half an hour after practicing the Zhou Tian Ming Gu Fa, a dazzling beam of starlight gathered above Chen Xiao’s head, forming a nebula. The light from these stars even overshadowed the brilliance of the giant sun in the sky. At this moment, Chen Xiao seemed to be covered in a thin layer of starlight. Moreover, his soul was continuously refined by this immense power of the stars, and the tiny cracks in his soul began to heal slowly. By then, Mo Xian had already led seven or eight children out of the valley. They had seen Chen Xiao practicing. Those children, transformed from beasts, merely glanced at Chen Xiao for a while before running off elsewhere. Mo Xian frowned slightly, tilted her head, and observed the nebula above Chen Xiao’s head for a moment. Then, she pointed at the nebula with one finger. Boom! With a muffled sound, the nebula exploded, turning into specks of starlight that merged into Chen Xiao’s body. Whoosh! But in the next instant, the flame of laws within Chen Xiao’s dantian suddenly surged upward, rushing into his sea of consciousness. At that time, Chen Xiao’s soul was immersed in an ocean of stars, and his sea of consciousness was filled with the power of the stars, to the point where an entire starry universe seemed to be submerged within it. Yet in the next instant, the entire sea of consciousness erupted in flames, and even Chen Xiao’s soul was ignited by the black-and-white flame of laws. The soul burned!