Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 234 - 234 224 The Great Soul Refining Array

234: Chapter 224: The Great Soul Refining Array 234: Chapter 224: The Great Soul Refining Array What was Jiang Chen’s greatest gain?

It wasn’t the Innate White Jade, nor the few feathers.

And certainly not the weapons of those little demons, either.

Instead, it was the corpses of the Demon Clan that covered the entire island!

Why is that, you might ask?

The answer lies with Empress Nuwa.

Empress Nuwa held two treasures in her possession.

One was the Innate Treasure, the Heaven and Earth cauldron, which had the power to refine Heaven and Earth and reverse innate conditions.

The other was the top Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Demon Refining Pot.

Although it is called a Demon Refining Pot, what it refines is not just demons, but all spirits under Heaven and Earth.

Any creature could be refined by it.

It’s worth noting that Di Jun Taiyi’s definition of a demon was any sentient being outside of the Witch Clan and Innate Divine Demons.

This reveals Di Jun’s ambition.

Unfortunately, he was never able to achieve this until his death.

Both the Heaven and Earth cauldron and the Demon Refining Pot were treasures of Empress Nuwa.

Therefore, in the Ancient Era, human powerhouses who cultivated at the Emperor Wa Palace could interact with these two treasures to some extent.

Beyond these two treasures, Empress Nuwa was not stingy.

If Human Clan masters wanted to observe, they could borrow any treasure within the Emperor Wa Palace for comprehension.

You have to admit, the Human Race is best at creating miracles.

Some mighty human beings studied the Soul Refining Pot for tens of thousands of years, and astonishingly, they figured out a supreme magic formation: the Innate Soul Refining Array!

This array should have been called the Innate Demon Refining Array.

But at the time, the Demon Clan was extremely strong.

In order to avoid violating the Demon Clan’s taboo, the Human Clan’s mighty being deliberately changed the word “demon” to “god”.

This Innate Soul Refining Array is exactly like the Demon Refining Pot, possessing the power to refine all spirits under Heaven and Earth.

It’s as if the Human Clan mighty being turned the Demon Refining Pot into a magic formation.

Once the Innate Demon Refining Array was activated, it was as if the Demon Refining Pot was present.

Its power depends on the level of the array builder.

The higher the level, the stronger the power of the grand array, and it can reach its peak around the strength of the original Demon Refining Pot.

If someone could grasp a supreme magic formation from the Demon Refining Pot, naturally someone else could also comprehend a supreme magic formation from the Heaven and Earth cauldron.

Human ancestor Suirenshi sat quietly in front of the Heaven and Earth cauldron for a million years.

One day, he suddenly understood the laws of Heaven and Earth.

He was able to gather the power of Heaven and Earth within himself and broke into the quasi-Saint realm because of this.

He also comprehended a supreme magic formation – the Innate Heaven and Earth Array.

The Innate Heaven and Earth Array, simplified from the Heaven and Earth cauldron, possesses the ability to refine Heaven and Earth and reverse the innate conditions.

At its peak, this array is said to equal half of the innate treasure, the Heaven and Earth cauldron, though it’s not known whether this is true or not.

However, after being improved by the human experts of countless generations, this array has become more perfect and profound than when it was first created.

It might even be able to compete with the Innate Treasure.

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Being the inheritor of ancient martial arts, Jiang Chen indicates that he is well-acquainted with both arrays.

Therefore, the seemingly useless corpses of the Demon Clan have turned into treasures in Jiang Chen’s eyes.

He planned to use the Innate Soul Refining Array to refine all the corpses of the Demon Clan, so as to transform them into the purest original source and strengthen his power.

The reason he chose the Soul Refining Array over the Heaven and Earth Array is simple: Jiang Chen was not yet capable of setting up the latter.

Both were magic formations, and naturally, there was a difference in strength.

Undoubtedly, the Heaven and Earth Array, originating from the Innate Treasure, was superior to the Soul Refining Array, which originated from the Innate Spiritual Treasure.

It was not only more difficult to build, but also required more conditions.

Based on Jiang Chen’s abilities, he was barely able to establish the Innate Soul Refining Array.

As for the Innate Heaven and Earth Array, he could wait until his strength improved before attempting to set it up.

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In the ancient era, the practitioners of ancient martial arts used to cultivate in this way, enabling them to advance by leaps and bounds.

However, they used not the bodies of the Demon Clan but the corpses of stronger Fierce Beasts.

The blood and vitality of those Fierce Beasts were so potent that they were not inferior to the Witch Clan, let alone the Demon Clan.

In the ancient era, human powerhouses often hunted down powerful Fierce Beasts to baptize and temper the bodies of their young, enabling them to possess a powerful body from a young age.

While the present Human Clan leads a better life compared to the ancient Human Clan, their environment for cultivation is far inferior.

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Without rushing to set up the magic formation, Jiang Chen first summoned the Demon Suppression Heavenly Soldiers.

He intended to tally the battle losses.

The previous intense battle witnessed nearly a hundred thousand Demon Soldiers falling.

The Demon clan paid a heavy price.

How could the Demon Suppression Heavenly Soldiers not have suffered losses?

After a count, Jiang Chen found that of the initial 7800 heavenly soldiers, only around 4000 remained.

Nearly half were dead or injured.

The rest were also injured.

The losses were heavy, to say the least.

However, Jiang Chen wasn’t too upset.

He just felt a bit regretful.

This was not because he was cold-hearted or indifferent to the death and injury of the heavenly soldiers, but because in theory, heavenly soldiers shouldn’t die.

Just like the gods listed on the Investiture of the Gods, as long as the Investiture of the Gods isn’t destroyed, the titled gods, even if their physical bodies are ruined and souls scatter, won’t truly die.

They can be resurrected from the Investiture of the Gods at any time.

The principle of the heavenly soldiers is similar to that of the titled gods in the Investiture of the Gods.

As long as their object of sustenance isn’t destroyed, they won’t actually die.

However, the object of the heavenly soldiers’ sustenance is not the Investiture of the Gods, but the Heavenly Soldiers Pool.

Heavenly Soldiers are born from the Heavenly Soldiers Pool.

From the moment of their birth, their life stamps are naturally imprinted on the Heavenly Soldiers Pool, becoming their eternal sustenance.

It can be said that as long as the heavenly soldiers’ stamps are still on the Heavenly Soldiers Pool, those that died do not count as truly dead, and they can be revived at any time.

The reason why Jiang Chen felt regretful was that the resurrection of heavenly soldiers by the Heavenly Soldiers Pool is not without cost.

The Heavenly Soldiers Pool can create heavenly soldiers freely, but it doesn’t resurrect them for free.

To resurrect the heavenly soldiers, their master must exchange merit in return.

Quite a rip-off.

Merit is hard to come by, much more precious than innate spiritual energy.

Normally, everyone would be reluctant to spare it for their own use, so who would waste it on resurrecting the Heavenly Soldiers?

One could say that unless one has absolute trust, no one would use merit to resurrect heavenly soldiers.

It’s too extravagant and not worth it.

While this might sound a bit uncomfortable, it’s the reality, a brutal one at that.

So what would be the fate of those heavenly soldiers who were never resurrected?

The Heavenly Soldiers Pool has too many heavenly soldiers’ stamps and simply cannot preserve all of them.

Therefore, with the passage of time, some of the heavenly soldiers’ stamps will be eroded by time, vanish into thin air, and be replaced by new heavenly soldiers’ stamps.

If the heavenly soldiers are not resurrected over time, they truly die, without even a chance to reincarnate.

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