Free Web NovelChapter 266: Equal Body and Soul
Tang Yin brought out a small blue orb imprinted with the pattern of beasts on its surface, it was the Beast Soul Receptacle. He sent his divine sense inside it casually.
He could feel the Beast Souls of several hundreds of thousands of Rank 1 Demonic Beasts, the Beast Souls of a hundred thousand Rank 2 Demonic Beasts, the Beast Souls of several tens of thousands of Rank 3 Demonic Beasts, the Beast Souls of several thousands of Rank 4 Demonic Beasts, the Beast Souls of several hundreds of Rank 5 Demonic Beasts and finally the Beast Souls of a few Rank 6 Demonic Beasts.
Tang Yin casually devoured a couple hundred Rank 1 Beast Souls. It took him a minute to completely digest them. He utilized the Soul Refinement Technique to efficiently strengthen his soul with the soul force of the Beast Souls.
Once he did this, Tang Yin repeated the same process once again.
Like this, another year flowed by quickly.
Tang Yin fundamentally spent all of his time devouring the Beast Souls inside the Beast Soul Receptacle.
It only took him mere seconds to Devour a single Beast Soul. However, there were around 400,000+ Beast Souls inside the Beast Soul Receptacle. It naturally took a long time to Devour all of them.
Fortunately, it only took Tang Yin a year to completely Devour over four hundred thousand Beast Souls.
Although a single Beast Soul was negligible, 400,000+ were not.
Even with the terrifying amount of resources required by his soul to advance in his strength, the number of Beast Souls was too much.
Tang Yin’s soul had advanced to the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm and had solidified its strength.
His divine sense’s range had also increased to 1,200 Kilometres. It was even larger than the Heavenly Bamboo Region’s sole Principle Manipulation Realm cultivator’s divine sense.
Tang Yin felt happy. He did not expect his soul’s strength to reach the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm. At most, he had expected it to reach the peak of the Early-stage Principle Manipulation Realm. This was a surprise to him.
He also knew that the strength of his soul would stagnate for a long time.
The reason for this was simple.
He only had 1 more type of resource, Demonic Beast corpses.
The Demonic Beast corpses could only be used to supply for the Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique, not his soul.
Also, since his soul was at the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm, the number of resources he would need to advance it further would be terrifying.
It wasn’t just about quantity anymore, unless he somehow obtained millions of low-quality resources to supplement his soul, quantity was useless.
Tang Yin would now need extremely high-quality soul-type resources to advance the strength of his soul. The only way to obtain these resources would be to be very powerful and trek through all the obstacles and dangers on the way. The current Tang Yin was not powerful enough to do so yet.
The same would also apply to his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique after he finished his supply of Demonic Beast corpses.
At that point, the best way to increase his strength would be to focus on his cultivation or learn new Martial Skills.
Tang Yin did not dwell on this though. He would be able to fight cultivators at the peak of the Principle Comprehension Realm. Maybe he could even fight Early-stage Principle Manipulation Realm cultivators with the Abyss Emperor Transformation.
All of this could be accomplished whilst Tang Yin was still in the Early-stage of the Spirit Ascension Realm. Even the best genius under heaven would be unable to compare to him.
Tang Yin swiftly took out the corpse of around a hundred Rank 1 Demonic Beasts, he manifested the Heaven Devouring Abyss. A large black vortex crackling with red and black lightning shrouded the underground cave.
Tang Yin then devoured the hundred or so Demonic Beast corpses. After doing this, he repeated it once again, creating a cycle.
Like this, another year passed.
There was an equal number of Demonic Beasts corpses to the Beast Souls Tang Yin had devoured last year, 400,000+.
Naturally, most of the Demonic Beast corpses consisted of Rank 1. However, the sheer quantity was still frightening.
Tang Yin also did not consume all of the Demonic Beast corpses. He conserved several tens of Rank 5 Demonic Beast corpses and even a few Rank 6 Demonic Beasts.
The simple reason for this was that he would require Rank 5 and Rank 6 Demonic Beast corpses every time he wished to execute the Life and Death Seal, Rank 4 Demonic Beast corpses would not cut it anymore.
Of course, the power of the Life and Death Seal would be much more powerful than fuelling the Martial Skill with a Rank 4 Demonic Beast corpse.
The results were just as Tang Yin had expected. The Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique had reached the Early-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm. It was even half a step away from reaching the Mid-stage.
Tang Yin was currently pondering something with a tense expression.
If he devoured the Rank 5 and Rank 6 Demonic Beast corpses he had reserved for the Life and Death Seal, he was sure that the Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique would advance to the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm.
After a quick internal struggle, Tang Yin decided to Devour the corpses. He would just obtain more later once he left seclusion.
The process of devouring the remaining Rank 5 and Rank 6 Demonic Beasts barely took half a day. After all, there were not even a hundred corpses to Devour.
As expected once again, the Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique advanced to the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm.
Now Tang Yin’s soul and body were on the same level! Only his cultivation base and techniques were lagging behind.
By now, he had spent a total of 5 years in seclusion.
However, Tang Yin did not plan to egress anytime soon.
If he wanted to make good use of his soul, he would need to learn Martial Skills which relied on the power of his soul and Soul Energy.
Currently, the only Martial Skill he possessed that relied on the power of his soul was the Sun-Moon Great Illusion Art.
Although the Sun-Moon Great Illusion Art was extremely useful, It would not work on Mid-stage Principle Manipulation Realm or even stronger cultivators.
Even Early-stage Principle Manipulation Realm cultivators would possess means to defend against the Sun-Moon Great Illusion Art, rendering it useless. frёewebηovel.cѳm
He need a larger variety of attacks which utilized his soul and Soul Energy to attack his opponents.
Another reason why Tang Yin wanted to learn soul-type Martial Skills was because he did not possess any means to defend his soul.
If a Principle Manipulation Realm cultivator attacked him with their soul, Tang Yin would essentially have no way to counterattack the soul attack due to the lack of defensive soul-type Martial Skills.
Soul-type Martial Skills were something Tang Yin had wanted to learn ever since he had reached the Spirit Ascension Realm. However, he did not have the time back then.
But now things were different. He had been in seclusion for over 5 years, and he still had plenty of time. He could even stay in seclusion for over 100 years, and nobody would discover him.
However, before doing all of this, Tang Yin still had 2 more types of resources left. Myriad Spirit Milk and Spirit Stones.
He possessed a lake’s worth of Myriad Spirit Milk. Just like the rest of the resources he had once possessed, Tang Yin wanted to Devour most of the Myriad Spirit Milk to increase the power of his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique.
But after a long moment of consideration, Tang Yin decided to scrap that idea.
His Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique was already at the Mid-stage Principle Manipulation Realm. Even if it reached the Late-stage, the increase in power would not be too prominent. freewebnσvel.cøm
Besides, Myriad Spirit Milk had many different purposes. Devouring it just to advance the power of his body even further would be sort of a waste. After all, Tang Yin could Devour almost any type of resource to boost the power of his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique. However, only a very few amounts of rare and precious treasures on par with Myriad Spirit Milk would be able to carry out its similar properties.
Everything pointed to the Myriad Spirit Milk not being worth devouring to increase the strength of his Heaven Devouring Abyss Physique. And in the end, Tang Yin decided against doing so.
Instead, he would use the Myriad Spirit Milk to instantly refill his reserves of Soul Energy in battle and for other purposes which only something as precious as the Myriad Spirit Milk could do due to its special properties.
As for the billions of Spirit Stones in his possession, Tang Yin decided to Devour all of the Low-grade and Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
