Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

For the next half month, Zhang Ling stayed in the Scripture Pavilion all day. He went directly to the second floor.

It costs three spiritual stones a day to read the Kung Fu(Kung Fu: Skill) classics on the second floor. This is also the highest level for Qi Refining disciples to access.

Most of the books on the second floor are jade slips, which are what cultivators really need. They contain Kung Fu(Kung Fu: Skill), secret techniques, and knowledge of immortal cultivation arts such as spiritual herbs and alchemy. This time his goal was to find classics on spiritual insects.

Sure enough, he found information about the Soul-Devouring Insect in it, which was basically the same as what the silver-haired old man said.

The Soul-Devouring Insect is a savage and exotic insect that can devour human souls. A Soul-Devouring Insect mother can split into many sub-insects, which can continuously become stronger by devouring the souls of living beings, and can even devour the souls of Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

This is an ancient ferocious insect, but fortunately it is small in number and difficult to advance.

Because this kind of spiritual insect can only survive by living in the souls of living beings, wild Soul-Devouring Insects basically do not have this opportunity. They can only become stronger by devouring the remnant souls of living beings.

The remnant souls of living beings do not have much of the soul power from their previous lives, so this method of advancement is slow, so wild Soul-Devouring Insects are difficult to become powerful.

However, because this strange insect has the talent to devour souls, it is often used by Demonic Path cultivators to sacrifice secret techniques.

The silver-haired old man is one of these people, and the Soul-Devouring Insect in his body is a sub-insect split from the mother insect in this person's hand.

In addition to the information about the Soul-Devouring Insect, Zhang Ling also searched for ways to solve this insect in a large number of classics and secret techniques.

A month later, according to the information he had, there were roughly only three feasible solutions.

The first is to obtain the mother insect and lure out the Soul-Devouring Insect in his sea of consciousness. He directly abandoned this method.

He didn't believe that the silver-haired old man would keep his promise and take out the Soul-Devouring Insect in his sea of consciousness for him.

The second method is to let a high-level cultivator use powerful soul power to directly enter his sea of consciousness and kill the Soul-Devouring Insect.

This is also impossible. Although the Soul-Devouring Insect in his sea of consciousness is not strong, it lives in his sea of consciousness. As long as the silver-haired old man moves his mind, he can control it to devour his divine sense.

If part of his soul is devoured by the Soul-Devouring Insect, then even if he doesn't die, he will become incomplete. It is unknown whether he can maintain a complete consciousness.

Moreover, to kill the Soul-Devouring Insect directly without harming his soul, at least a Golden Core stage high-level cultivator must take action.

Where could he invite such an expert? Even if he could persuade a Golden Core cultivator, he wouldn't do so.

The soul is the foundation of a person, how can he easily let others invade it, even if it is a close relative, parents and brothers, he will not let others invade the soul.

There are countless secret techniques in the world of cultivation, and seizing the body is to use one person's soul to devour another person's soul to occupy the body.

The third method is to cultivate secret techniques related to the soul. As long as he can split the soul occupied by the Soul-Devouring Insect, he can solve it.

It's easier said than done.

This involves understanding the soul. The soul is the power for a living being's clear mind, and it is produced by inheriting the innate essence. It is the foundation of life and the source of the soul.

Divine sense is the derivative of a cultivator's soul, which is equivalent to a cultivator's perception. Cultivators can control magical artifacts and magic weapons, which will consume divine sense.

Cultivating secret techniques, controlling puppets, breaking formations, etc. are also the same.

High-level cultivators can also release divine sense to generate pressure on low-level cultivators, and even imprison them. It is said that Nascent Soul stage cultivators can also transform their divine sense to severely damage the enemy's divine sense, thereby harming the cultivator's soul, and can even turn the other party into an idiot.

In general, the stronger the soul, the stronger the derived divine sense.

To solve the Soul-Devouring Insect in his sea of consciousness, he needs to use part of his soul to trap the Soul-Devouring Insect. Then, using the soul splitting secret technique, he can directly abandon this part of his soul. This can avoid the entire soul being devoured by the Soul-Devouring Insect.

The soul splitting technique is just to forcibly split a small part of the original divine sense, mostly used to control incarnations and puppets.

However, the soul division technique directly points to the soul, and if it is not done well, it will become an idiot. This is different from the soul division technique, and it is very dangerous to practice.

However, this method is indeed the solution that Zhang Ling values.

The Soul-Devouring Insect in the sea of consciousness is still very weak. Although it devours his soul every day, the speed of devouring is very slow.

At this speed, his soul will not have problems within two or three years. As long as he cultivates the soul division technique during this period, he can solve this insect by cutting off a very small amount of soul.

The reason why he values this method of self-damaging the soul is also a helpless move, which is also the feasible method he can think of now.

However, he is also somewhat confident in daring to use this method. In the nameless soul refining technique obtained from the black paper a few days ago, there are soul division techniques and divine division techniques and other soul refining techniques.

After studying this soul refining technique, he had a detailed plan. This also uses his biggest trump card "mysterious bead."

This is his reliance on deciding to practice the soul division technique. As long as he finds spiritual herbs to enhance the soul, with the heaven-defying catalytic effect of the treasure bead, he can minimize the hidden dangers of the soul division technique.

As long as his soul continues to strengthen, it will eliminate the hidden dangers of practicing the soul division technique.

For this reason, in the next few days, he was still in the Scripture Pavilion looking for information about soul spiritual herbs.

This is the benefit of being a disciple of the sect. If he were in Falling Star City, there would be basically no channels to understand this information.

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On this day, Zhang Ling used the Wind Control Technique and went straight to the east of Haoyang Mountain Range.

An hour later, he came to a valley full of mist. He stopped next to a waterfall under a cliff in the valley.

This is Qingwu Valley(Qingwu Valley: Green Mist Valley), the cave dwelling of the silver-haired old man. Zhang Ling took out a sound transmission talisman from his arms, then said a few words in a low voice, and threw it forward.

The sound transmission talisman turned into a yellow light and rushed into the water curtain of the waterfall and disappeared.

What should come will come. His nominal master has found him. At this moment, his heart is uneasy.

He also has some understanding of the silver-haired old man. It has been more than a month since he joined the Haoyuan Sect. During this time, in addition to being in the Scripture Pavilion, he also inquired about this person's identity.

This person is named Wei Shen and has a great reputation. He is a powerful cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. This news made his mood plummet.

This person is indeed not a simple foundation building cultivator, but is a bit more powerful than he estimated. It is said that this person is about to cultivate to the completion of foundation building. This kind of strength is not common among the foundation building cultivators of the Haoyuan Sect.

A cultivator of this strength is already qualified to attack the Golden Core stage. With such a powerful opponent, Zhang Ling is naturally depressed.

Soon, the waterfall water curtain suddenly flashed with light, splitting to both sides, revealing a cave, and a clear and cold voice came out.

"Come in."

Passing through the water curtain, a natural cave appeared in front of him. Zhang Ling hesitated slightly and walked in. After walking through a passage more than ten feet long, he came to a hall in the cave.

He saw the silver-haired old man, his nominal master. The silver-haired old man was sitting cross-legged on a stone platform, seemingly meditating.

"Boy, don't you know how to salute when you see me, your master."

The old man opened his eyes and looked at him with a narrowed gaze.

The corners of Zhang Ling's mouth twitched twice, and he quickly lowered his head and saluted.

"Disciple pays respects to Master."