Nine Heavens Martial Emperor

Chapter 389: Chapter 385: World-Shaking Divine Soul

The moment Lin Hao activated his Divine Soul, a vast wave of energy burst from the center of the Tai Chi Array Map, flooding his eight extraordinary meridians. The energy then converged in his head, rushing toward the point between his eyebrows.

That was the location of the Upper Dantian.

Lin Hao’s Upper Dantian was immediately filled with a misty energy. The True Self Divine Soul, which had been hidden deep within the Tai Chi Array Map, left behind a drop of True Blood before leaping out of the map’s center. It came to rest upon the vast, misty energy within the Upper Dantian.

At that very moment, Lin Hao completed his ascension, his cultivation advancing from the Peak of Elemental Realm to the Soul Gathering Realm First Layer.

When a Martial Artist’s bloodline evolves a Divine Soul, and the Divine Soul enters the Upper Dantian, it signifies that their cultivation has entered the Soul Gathering Realm.

Unfortunately, at that time, Lin Hao was in the middle of a battle with four Martial Artists at the Soul Gathering Realm First Layer, so he had no time to consolidate his cultivation.

Afterward, Lin Hao fought against more than ten Martial Artists of the Soul Gathering Realm, consuming a great deal of his power.

Now, Lin Hao sat cross-legged in the secret chamber and began to regulate his body.

The Emperor Art and the External Avatar Secret Skill began to operate in tandem. The Tai Chi Array Map in Lin Hao’s Dantian started to spin, and an incomparably pure True Essence surged forth. The injuries Lin Hao had just sustained healed almost instantly.

Lin Hao circulated his True Essence through his eight extraordinary meridians again and again. Only after completing a full Grand Circulation did he guide the True Essence toward his Upper Dantian.

Inside Lin Hao’s Upper Dantian, the True Self Divine Soul was only the size of a fist, but its facial features were distinct—it was clearly a miniature version of Lin Hao.

At this moment, the miniature Lin Hao was sitting cross-legged, surrounded by a swirling, misty energy.

When the True Essence guided by Lin Hao entered the Upper Dantian, the True Self suddenly opened its eyes.

Its pair of eyes were very small, but they appeared large on the miniature Lin Hao’s body, and they shone with a divine light.

Lin Hao’s Upper Dantian was very small, just big enough to contain this True Self Divine Soul.

Now, the True Essence entered the Upper Dantian, instantly submerging the True Self. A misty energy filled the entire space. The True Self flickered in and out of view, but its eyes remained, like two divine lamps that seemed eternally indestructible.

Lin Hao’s head throbbed with a slight, sharp pain.

’My Upper Dantian was just recently opened; it’s too small. This True Essence is too potent. My Upper Dantian can’t handle it at all.’

Just as Lin Hao was considering withdrawing the True Essence, the True Self sitting cross-legged in his Upper Dantian suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled.

The True Essence that had filled the Upper Dantian vanished without a trace, all of it sucked into the Divine Soul’s mouth. The sharp pain in his head disappeared instantly.

Lin Hao wasn’t surprised by this.

The Divine Soul is a Martial Artist’s second life, and it is crucial for all future cultivation.

When a Martial Artist enters the Soul Gathering Realm, the amount of heaven-and-earth primordial energy they need is unimaginably vast; normal absorption methods are simply not enough. The purpose of the Divine Soul is to directly absorb this primordial energy and then transport it throughout the body.

Therefore, it was perfectly normal for a Divine Soul to be able to absorb True Essence.

In reality, only a freak like Lin Hao would find this normal. If what was happening to him right now were to be known by others, the entire Celestial Yang Continent would probably be shaken to its core.

This was because although a typical Martial Artist at the Soul Gathering Realm First Layer would awaken a Divine Soul, it would only be in its most primitive state. To use an analogy, if a Divine Soul were a human body, the newly awakened Divine Soul of an ordinary cultivator at this level would be like an unformed fetus, still in the early stages of gestation.

But Lin Hao, who was also only at the Soul Gathering Realm First Layer, had a Divine Soul that was already a fully formed infant with all its organs intact.

If word of this got out, the entire Celestial Yang Continent would explode into chaos.

And Lin Hao’s Divine Soul was a hundred times more terrifying than a typical infant’s!

Because, in the period that followed, the performance of this True Self Divine Soul would shock even Lin Hao himself!

Seeing his True Self absorb the True Essence, Lin Hao didn’t hesitate. He circulated his technique once more, gathering True Essence and sending it toward his Upper Dantian.

And whenever the Upper Dantian was filled with True Essence, the True Self Divine Soul would open its mouth and inhale, completely and cleanly absorbing all of it.

This continued for so long that Lin Hao lost track of time. Eventually, the rate at which his Dantian produced True Essence couldn’t even keep up with the rate at which his True Self Divine Soul was absorbing it.

What made Lin Hao want to cough up blood was that all the True Essence absorbed by the True Self was claimed as its own; none of it was fed back to his physical body.

The fist-sized True Self was like a bottomless pit. While feeling frustrated enough to cough up blood, Lin Hao was also shocked by this discovery.

After a moment of stupor, Lin Hao, refusing to believe it, chugged a jar of wine and circulated his cultivation technique again.

The result was the same.

Lin Hao ceased his cultivation and muttered to himself, "Such a vast amount of True Essence, and my cultivation hasn’t advanced an inch. It seems I need a new Cultivation Technique."

As for which Cultivation Technique to choose for the Soul Gathering Realm, Lin Hao had already made up his mind: it had to be Emperor Hongtian’s technique.

Emperor Hongtian was invincible in the Soul Gathering Realm. The Cultivation Technique he practiced was definitely what Lin Hao needed most.

Unfortunately, after all this time, Lin Hao had no clues about this Cultivation Technique.

’The place where Emperor Hongtian’s Soul Gathering Realm Cultivation Technique is most likely hidden is the Heaven-Stepping Sect. It looks like I need to resolve things here as quickly as possible and get back there.’ Lin Hao’s eyes lit up, and he began to feel an impatient urgency.

Knowing his next goal, Lin Hao didn’t linger. He walked straight toward the deepest part of the secret chamber.

This place was built by Chu Tiandu, and Lin Hao was very familiar with everything here. Back then, Chu Tiandu had left some "useless" things in the deepest part of this chamber.

Of course, they were only "useless" to the Chu Tiandu of that time. If anyone else knew about them, they would surely go crazy.

That thing was behind this secret chamber.

Reaching the end of the secret chamber, Lin Hao struck the wall with his palm in a flurry of movements. It seemed random, but there was an indescribable rhythm to it.

GRIND! GRIND! GRIND!

When Lin Hao pulled back his hand, a doorway appeared in the wall, revealing pitch-black darkness within.

Lin Hao stepped inside.

Lin Hao’s pace was not slow, but he still walked for more than ten minutes before his surroundings suddenly opened up.

He was greeted by the sight of a red ocean.

A massive cavern had appeared before Lin Hao. When he came to a stop, he found himself standing on the edge of a cliff.

Lin Hao looked down and saw rolling, red-hot magma.

This was the Earth Core beneath the Celestial Monarch’s Mansion!

Right in the center of the magma, a mass of white substance stood out from its surroundings. freewebnσvel.cѳm

This was the center of the magma, where everything was burned red-hot. Yet this substance remained white, a testament to how extraordinary it was.

And that was the purpose of Lin Hao’s trip.

Seeing it, a smile appeared on Lin Hao’s face, and he dove straight down.

The temperature in this Earth Core was frighteningly high; an ordinary person would likely be incinerated in an instant upon entering. But even the Flowing Light Divine Flame couldn’t harm Lin Hao, so this level of heat was nothing to him.

Lin Hao stopped in the center of the magma and reached out, grabbing the white substance in his hand.

Holding it up, Lin Hao murmured, "Chu Tiandu, I really have you to thank for this. This is quite a treasure."