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Chapter 18 Original Spirit Source Core

Zhao Zhen and the Purple Cloud Golden Beetle waited in the cave for a quarter of an hour before Shen Yao's soul emerged from the Spirit Awakening Seal.

The golden beetle hurriedly said, "You're out! What's inside? Tell me quickly! Just now, the phantoms of ten of my spirit source beasts flew in. Did you see them?"

Shen Yao: "I spent a long time inside, but I didn't see the Spirit Source Beast."

Then he asked Zhao Zhen, "Master, how long have you been waiting outside?"

Zhao Zhen replied, "I waited for about fifteen minutes."

"Only a quarter of an hour?" Shen Yao asked in surprise. "It feels like I've been inside for months."

Zhao Zhen: "There are some spatial treasures in the world, where time hardly flows within the treasure's space."

Is it almost non-flowing? But the soul threads of the Spectral Immortal Venerable have waited for ten thousand years according to the outside time. For her inside the Spirit Awakening Seal, wouldn't hundreds of millions of years have passed?

I can't even imagine how unbearable it would be to wait through such a long time for an expectation that may never come!

Shen Yao secretly made up her mind to find the other five Spirit Awakening Seals as soon as possible.

Thinking it over, Shen Yao respectfully bowed to Zhao Zhen: "Master, I have obtained the cultivation technique memories of the Spectral Immortal Venerable from the Spirit Awakening Seal."

"The Radiant Immortal Venerable!" Zhao Zhen exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be the Radiant Immortal Venerable, the second disciple of the True God?"

Shen Yao: "It was the second disciple of the True God, the Spectrum Immortal Venerable. I encountered a wisp of the Spectrum Immortal Venerable's soul inside. The Immortal Venerable asked me to refine her soul core and inherit her cultivation techniques and memories."

Zhao Zhen: "First, return to your body, and then explain the acquired techniques to your master in detail."

"Yes, Master." Shen Yao tried to crawl back into Bai Luo's body, but she couldn't get back in no matter what she did.

Golden Beetle: "Don't try anymore, there's no going back."

"What? We can't go back?" Shen Yao exclaimed in shock. "Then what will we do without a body?"

“When I brought you here, Bai Luo wasn’t quite dead yet,” the golden beetle said. “I brought your soul in before she died, but now that so much time has passed, her body has stiffened, and you can’t go in anymore.”

Shen Yao felt wronged: "Does this mean I'll become a wandering ghost from now on?"

“No, that won’t happen,” said the golden beetle. “I’ll find you another body.”

Zhao Zhen listened to their conversation with a furrowed brow.

"Tell me first what kind of cultivation technique you obtained," Zhao Zhen said.

“Okay, Master.” Shen Yao tidied up and said to Zhao Zhen, “The Immortal Venerable Banlan mainly cultivates the Golden Spiritual Root and the Qi Spiritual Root. After refining the Immortal Venerable’s Soul Core, I discovered that there are two spiritual orbs in my head, which are filled with Golden Spiritual Qi and Qi Spiritual Qi respectively.”

“That is the Spirit Source Core,” the golden beetle said. “Also, it’s not in your head, it’s in your Soul Core.”

"Me, a human from Earth, with a soul core?" Shen Yao blurted out, making no attempt to hide it from Zhao Zhen.

Golden Beetle: "How could there not be? Whether they are immortals, demons, monsters, or ordinary humans, they all have soul cores. Humans of all races in all planes have soul cores."

Shen Yao felt that her worldview had been refreshed once again.

Having lived on Earth for nearly thirty years, this is the first time I've learned that I also possess a soul core.

"Silly girl, are you confused?" the golden beetle prompted, "The one above your eyebrows that looks like a walnut."

"Wow!" Shen Yao suddenly realized what an incredible secret this was!

Blue Star, ordinary people, plane, walnut. Zhao Zhen pondered these unfamiliar terms. His little disciple seemed to come from a very interesting place.

Shen Yao then asked, "Then why can't the people of Blue Star cultivate?"

"Why can't we cultivate?" the golden beetle said. "We can all cultivate, it's just that the Blue Star plane is suppressed, and the spiritual energy is thin and barren, so many cultivation techniques were lost long ago."

In front of the golden beetle, Shen Yao was like a walking encyclopedia of questions: "What is the Spirit Source Core?"

Golden Beetle: "This spiritual source core is formed by a high-level cultivator of level three or above, who has cultivated their spiritual root to a certain degree and whose own spiritual root power has been condensed."

"Refining it into a spiritual source core indicates that this spiritual root has been cultivated to its peak," the golden beetle added. "Refining it into a spiritual source core is one of the conditions for cultivating into a god."

Shen Yao asked, "Are there any other conditions?"

Golden Beetle: "Ten superior spiritual roots, a divine-level Heavenly Spirit Array, ten original spiritual source beasts, recognized by the Heavenly Dao, none of which can be missing."

Shen Yao: "I understand everything else, but how does Heaven approve of it?"

The golden beetle chuckled: "I'll tell you a secret, it's about accumulating merit."

"Wow!" Shen Yao exclaimed.

"Heaven's will not allow everyone to become a god," said the golden beetle. "Even if a cultivator meets the other four conditions, if he reaches the top by indiscriminately killing innocent people, he will never become a god."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhen felt a surge of emotions.

Those who indiscriminately kill innocent people will never become gods!

This means that everything those enemies did was in vain. Those enemies who killed his father, senior brother, children, fellow immortals, and disciples will never become gods!

Zhao Zhen took this as divine retribution for his actions.

Zhao Zhen asked Shen Yao, "What other cultivation techniques are there?"

Shen Yao: "Master, there are divine-level body tempering techniques, divine-level golden spirit shields, divine-level qi spirit concealment techniques, divine-level beast taming and spirit communication techniques, and divine-level spirit return techniques. These require a physical body and spiritual roots, and I can't practice any of them."

Zhao Zhen: "Master will help you think of a solution."

"Thank you, Master." Shen Yao didn't know what solution Zhao Zhen could come up with for her, but she thanked him anyway, as he was an elder.

“There’s also the Divine Soul Meridian Opening Technique, which I can practice.” Shen Yao said, “In the Spirit Awakening Seal, the Spectacular Immortal Venerable helped me open my soul meridians. This Divine Soul Meridian Opening Technique can help me cultivate my meridians.”

"Okay." Zhao Zhen was very happy: "From now on, you should focus on cultivating the Divine-level Soul Meridian Opening Technique. Don't worry about anything else. Your master will take care of everything."

"Thank you, Master! I will definitely cultivate diligently and live up to your expectations." Shen Yao solemnly accepted the order.

Zhao Zhen found a propitious burial site to bury Bai Luo's body.

My heart is filled with grief. On the day of the sect's annihilation, apart from the four disciples who were traveling outside, only Bai Luo's complete corpse remained.

After his meridians were repaired, he used the sect leader's token to send a message to his four disciples who were away: "The sect has been destroyed. You are not allowed to return to the sect. You are forbidden from using your disciple tokens, and you are not allowed to reply to messages. You must live in anonymity and are not allowed to seek revenge."

He could no longer protect his disciples. He only hoped that they would follow their master's orders, live in anonymity, and spend the rest of their lives in peace, without being burdened by revenge.

Bai Luo left his storage ring to Shen Yao.

Bai Luo's disciple token was also buried.

Presumably, news of the sect's destruction had already reached Qingfeng Town. After Zhao Zhen woke up, he discovered that Bai Song had sent countless messages to Bai Luo.

Sending messages using tokens also consumes spiritual energy, so Bai Song's spiritual energy must have been depleted these past few days.

Zhao Zhen didn't reply to a single message.

If you've already implicated the sect, don't implicate your disciples' families as well.

There was no tombstone in front of Bai Luo's grave; it was just a simple little mound of earth, and you couldn't tell it was a grave.

Zhao Zhen really wanted to erect a monument for his disciple, whether it was a piece of wood or a stone, as long as it was a monument.

But he can't.

He cannot expose his disciples who are still alive and in danger for the sake of his already dead disciples.

Shen Yao wandered around the mountains and forests and found a very healthy peony tree.

Zhao Zhen used the Wood-Moving Array to move the Hu Mu Tree to the front of Bai Luo's grave.

Zhao Zhen will never see that little disciple again, who used to ask his master to carry him down the mountain to see his parents every day.