Chapter 7: The Appearance of Soul Spirits

Soul spirits also have their own mental fluctuations, which they use to sense the primal souls of human cultivators, thereby determining their targets for attack.
The aura emitted by mid-grade immortal artifacts is already at the level of earth immortals, so naturally, such soul spirits cannot deal with it. Thus, when the five mid-grade immortal artifacts hidden in his primal soul appeared, they instantly shattered the soul spirits, which were then consumed by Qu Yi’s primal soul.
After consuming the soul spirits, Qu Yi also felt their benefits—his own primal soul could be reconsolidated to some extent.
“Well then, I’ll keep scanning the Four Elements Path while continuing to walk on this planet, waiting for those soul spirits to attack me. With these five mid-grade immortal artifacts at hand, not a single soul spirit in this Five Souls Desolation can withstand their aura,” Qu Yi exclaimed happily.
Immediately afterward, Qu Yi flew to the grassland below the stone peak.
“Qu Yi, let any soul spirits that come in enter your primal soul. Moreover, even if any of the Five Souls Spirits come, I can make them submit to you. If you capture all of them, I can even teach you a cultivation technique that will boost your strength by five times,” the Artifact God suddenly said.
“Huh? There’s such a good thing? Do the Five Souls Spirits hold great significance for me?” Qu Yi asked curiously.
A five-fold increase in strength—how astonishing! Currently, Qu Yi could already fight against those at the Great Vehicle stage. If his strength increased by another five times, it wouldn’t be impossible for him to kill them as well.
“Don’t ask. We’ll talk about it once you’ve captured the Five Souls Spirits,” the Artifact God said mysteriously.
Qu Yi could only bite his lip and continue walking across the grassland, hoping that powerful soul spirits would emerge to attack him.
Unfortunately, since Qu Yi had just defeated a soul spirit in the middle stage of the tribulation, it seemed the other soul spirits had learned of this, so none dared to attack him.
“Perhaps there are no soul spirits in the later stages of tribulation on this grassland,” Qu Yi thought to himself as he walked far without incident.
In silence, Qu Yi continued walking across the grassland without giving up.
Of course, he used one part of his spiritual awareness to sense his surroundings, while the other five parts continued scanning the Four Elements Path. Qu Yi had estimated that in another year, he should be able to reach the later stage of the tribulation in terms of his soul realm, and then he could undergo the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
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At this moment, on the outer planets of the Five Souls Desolation, ten powerful beings from the Immortal Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Fiend Realm, each leading their own group of strong fighters, had already flown to various planets to continue searching for the soul compasses that Qu Yi had left there.

As soon as these powerful beings from higher realms, those at the Great Vehicle stage, and those in the later stages of tribulation entered a planet, they immediately dispersed and searched each area separately. On the planets of the Five Souls Desolation, trees, grass, stones, and various objects seemed to emit a unique spiritual fluctuation aura. If Qu Yi’s soul-related magical artifacts appeared, they would naturally not blend in with this aura of the Five Souls Desolation.

These powerful beings were using this characteristic to search for Qu Yi’s scattered soul compasses.

The members of the Taiyuan Sect arrived on a planet covered entirely in ancient forests, with not a single mountain in sight. They could only fly over each leaf, using their spiritual senses to quickly scan the surroundings.

A powerful being in the later stages of tribulation, slightly plump and looking tired, climbed to the top of a tall tree, intending to rest there. Unbeknownst to him, inside that tree, a spiritual essence was moving, about to enter his body through the leaves.

Since the spiritual essence was inside the tree, its spiritual fluctuations could not be detected, so the powerful being in the later stages of tribulation would never notice it.

Suddenly, a green mist emerged from the leaf where the Taiyuan Sect warrior was sitting, emitting spiritual fluctuations typical of those in the later stages of tribulation. In an instant, the warrior tried to fly away in alarm, but the mist had already entered his body.

“Damn it! There’s a spiritual essence!” the Taiyuan Sect warrior cried out in agony.

He knew well that if a spiritual essence entered his body, he had no way to drive it out except by escaping with his Yuan Ying. Of course, if a warrior had strong soul magic skills, they could disperse the spiritual essence. Unfortunately, this warrior had never practiced any soul-related spells.

As soon as the spiritual essence entered his body, it immediately located his Yuan Shen and tried to envelop it and devour it right away.

“Damn it! My entire life’s cultivation!” the Taiyuan Sect warrior screamed in pain.

Suddenly, the warrior’s Yuan Ying flew out of his body, taking his Yuan Shen along, while his body exploded.

Boom!

With a loud explosion, his physical body burst open like a planet, unleashing a storm of blood and chaos. Although the powerful warrior from Taiyuan Gate lost his physical body, he managed to kill the spiritual essence that had entered his body. However, his path of cultivation was essentially over. Even if he were to absorb energy to form a new body, it would be extremely difficult for him to refine the primal energy within the five elements in order to advance to the Mahayana stage. The warrior’s Yuan Ying quickly absorbed spiritual energy in the air to form a temporary body, but since its energy wasn’t fully consolidated, it was equivalent to the body of someone at the Golden Dan stage. The warrior took out his flying sword and began flying using it. Soon, he reached the vicinity of other warriors from Taiyuan Gate and found another one. “Ugh, Shan Mai, what happened to your body?” exclaimed another warrior from Taiyuan Gate in surprise. “Shan Li, don’t even ask. I’m so unlucky—as soon as I sat on a tree branch, I was attacked by a spiritual essence. I self-destructed to kill it,” said Shan Mai, frustrated. Shan Li sensed Shan Mai’s body and sighed, saying with distress, “Qu Yi is really cruel. While fleeing, he came up with this Five Souls Desolation—wanting the spiritual essences here to attack us while also using the Five Souls Spirits to attack the immortals, so that he could survive safely.” “Yes, this Five Souls Desolation is filled with spiritual essences at all times, and we can’t even sense them. It’s truly a terrifying place,” said Shan Mai, extremely depressed. Shan Li looked at him and sighed, “Shan Mai, from now on, stay by my side. At least I can protect you. If you keep moving around on that planet with your current body, I think those spiritual essences will leave the forests and lands to attack you directly.” If the spiritual essences discovered that although Shan Mai had soul fluctuations typical of the later stages of tribulation, his body was so weak, many of the weaker ones would likely attack him, devouring his Yuan Shen, thereby rapidly boosting their own strength. Shan Mai understood what Shan Li meant and nodded gently. Not only was Shan Mai from Taiyuan Gate attacked by spiritual essences, but on the other nine planets, warriors from the other nine sects also suffered attacks from spiritual essences during their searches, with several even dying. By devouring the Yuan Shen, the spiritual essences consumed the soul within it, completely erasing life.

After the powerful warriors were attacked by the spirit beasts, the ten beings from the Upper Realm also realized the danger of the Five Souls Desolation. They understood that Qu Yi had fled there precisely to use these spirit beasts to exhaust the warriors from the ten sects. If the warriors of the ten sects died, even though the ten beings from the Upper Realm were extremely powerful, it would be difficult for them to capture Qu Yi. After all, without the help of those from the ten sects, once Qu Yi entered the cultivation world, the ten beings from the Upper Realm would have no way of tracking him. Their mission to fulfill the orders given by the rulers of the Upper Realm could essentially be considered a failure.

“Everyone, only fly in the air!”
To ensure the safety of the warriors from the ten sects, the ten beings from the Upper Realm issued this order. As a result, the warriors from each sect on the ten planets flew in the air, using their spiritual senses to search the ground for Qu Yi’s scattered soul compasses.

A month passed, and the ten beings from the Upper Realm along with the warriors from the ten sects almost believed that Qu Yi had left the Five Souls Desolation. Suddenly, news of Qu Yi appeared in the inner area of the desolation—Qu Yi was actually being chased by a soul beast. Out of the only five soul beasts, one was currently pursuing him. The ten beings from the Upper Realm and the warriors from various sects flew into space and saw Qu Yi’s desperate situation on a nearby planet.