Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 1408 - 1364: Spirit Rank, Heavenly Fate whereabouts!

Chapter 1408: Chapter 1364: Spirit Rank, Heavenly Fate whereabouts!

[A Blessing for the Dragon Boat Festival]King Grade Medicine, undoubtedly akin to the Supreme Rulers in terms of the rank of living beings, contains power as vast as the ocean and can only be refined by a king. Of course, a rare exception like his disciple, Zi Yuan.

These Spirit Medicines known for their soul-mending effects are even rarer. Do not be fooled by the abundant King Grade Medicines in Xiao Chen’s possession, but remember, these were extracted from the ancient Desolate Wilds through time.

On the Vast Wilderness Continent today, among the ten Supreme Rulers, at most two or three possess Spirit Medicines, treasuring them like precious gems.

Sometimes, unless absolutely necessary, these rulers are reluctant to refine these King Medicines. Instead, they continuously extract the medicinal power and then choose a spiritually rich land to nurture them anew.

Buzzing!

The enveloping Purple Qi shrouds the Undying Spiritual Soul, continuously merging with the multicolored divine light. The soul subdivision annihilates, a portion of the soul power of the Undying Spiritual Soul is lost, which simply needs replenishment.

After a warrior ascends to a king, their soul power no longer remains ethereal and formless but condenses into a tangible Undying Spiritual Soul.

It’s more like a special kind of soul body, which is why, even if the body of a king collapses, the Undying Martial Soul can still survive.

However, Xiao Chen is different from the Supreme Rulers of the Vast Wilderness Continent. The Undying Martial Soul and Undying Spiritual Soul are not just different in name but fundamentally different!

Since his advancement to the Seventh Heavenly Layer of kings, his cultivation path has started to transcend the martial arts of the Desolate Wilds, reaching towards broader aspects.

If the Dao of Divinity is a surface, then the martial arts of the Desolate Wilds would be a line drawn from this surface, a branch.

Since Xiao Chen entered the Dao through martial arts, he has begun to cultivate from this line towards the entire surface.

According to the Divine Cultivation Technique, his Undying Spiritual Soul still encompasses three major strata: Turbid Realm, Enlightenment, and Dao Manifestation!

Xiao Chen’s Undying Spiritual Soul currently is at the lowest, the Turbid Realm, which was deduced by the Desolate God in the past; a realm indicative of the soul still being murky and impure.

However, for a martial arts king, the Undying Martial Soul only has two major levels: Transcendence and Immortality!

In the eyes of martial arts kings, after ascending to Supreme Ruler, the Martial Soul has already transcended the mundane, possessing the qi of immortality. Yet, in the eyes of the Dao, even transcendence remains impure.

Xiao Chen speculates that his Turbid Realm might correspond to the same level as Transcendence, but the nuances between them require careful discernment.

Naturally, Immortality and Enlightenment are on the same level, whereas the final Dao Manifestation of the Divine Dao Soul is likely what is referred to as the realm of the Wild Gods – truly akin to the soul of a deity.

According to the information left by the Desolate God, his soul realm was only at the peak of Enlightenment!

The Turbid Realm can further be divided into three minor levels: Murky, Clarity, and Bright World. Meanwhile, the Transcendent Martial Soul is divided into Lower Rank, Upper Rank, and Peak, corresponding to the soul stages!

And Xiao Chen is currently in the Murky stage. For any warrior on the Vast Wilderness Continent, the martial arts are easy to advance, but the Martial Soul is hard to elevate.

Even if a king has ascended to the Seventh Heavenly Layer, it’s common to still see souls at the lower transcendence stage. Take Xiong Shouguang, also of the Seventh Heavenly Layer, as an example. He’s been at this stage for so long but has not yet managed to elevate his Martial Soul to the upper level!

This is one reason why many are stuck at the peak of the Seventh Heavenly Layer, unable to progress. It’s not that they can’t advance, but after advancing, the power of martial arts is insufficient to control their own combat power.

This involves a profound mystical realm of battle techniques and godliness!

Only a strong Martial Soul can meticulously control one’s body, unleashing every bit of hidden combat power to its fullest, a state known as the realm of battle techniques and godliness.

Achieving this realm, however, is not easy!

The soul power contained within a King Grade Medicine is immensely vast. Right now, in Xiao Chen’s Undying Spiritual Soul, filled with brimming Purple Light, it becomes even more dazzling and colorful, like a painted figurine.

Tiny Purple Stars are scattered across the soul body, radiating a sense of spirituality.

Immersed in a deeper layer of the soul body, Xiao Chen’s perception also begins to change.

In his perception, the originally pristine soul body is infinitely magnified, composed of tiny particles.

Apart from the soul body’s origin, which emits the divinity of law, and the newly entered purple particles of King Medicine, between them, there are dense tiny black particles.

These are the murky impurities within the soul body, but they also emit a faint soul power.

Only within a deeper layer can they be fully manifested. Despite being tiny particles, they form an indispensable part of his soul, or it could be said each particle has a specific position!

To remove these impure particles from the soul body, new soul power particles are needed to fill their positions.

Buzzing!

Right now, Xiao Chen is replacing these impure particles, although they are part of his soul, having grown together with his soul to this stage.

It could be said that these particles are also soul power, just contaminated during their descent into this world!

Buzz!

In the burst of nine-colored divine light, an extremely tiny particle, wrapped in nine colors, detached from the spiritual soul. However, the turbid particle that emerged independently, collapsed utterly just as it appeared, transforming into a streak of murky air and disappearing into the Small World.

Although extracting this soul power is simple, for Xiao Chen, it required enduring severe pain originating from the deepest part of the spirit. If he wanted his spirit to become clear, he had to see if he could endure this intense pain!

Of course, ample resources are also necessary; otherwise, recklessly extracting the turbid particles would only cause great damage to his Primal Energy!

Buzz buzz buzz!

Accompanied by a buzzing sound, the nine-colored divine light exploded, each appearance taking away a black particle, followed by the integration of Wang Yao soul power into the stripped position.

This is the deep pain originating from within, almost every time he extracts a particle, Xiao Chen needs to stop for more than ten breaths to ease his own pain!

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Beast Underworld!

Thousands of miles south of the Yuji Ghost Realm, under an Ancient Mountain within a Mountain Cave, Tian Fang sat cross-legged, recuperating his own losses. In one day, he had scouted the entire area around Mount Yuji.

However, it did not stir any divine metal fluctuations; even the wilderness around did not have any formation or prohibition fluctuations detected.

Because he needed to conceal his figure, he was practically moving close to the Earth, and when encountering the Royal Beast Race’s Aristocratic Families or Warriors, he invariably bypassed them from afar.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, Tian Fang opened his eyes and expelled the turbid air congregated within his body while continuously contemplating. According to the location left by the explosion of the seal, the King’s Heavenly Fate should be in this territory.

But there was not the slight hint of Qi leaking, which is theoretically impossible.

King’s Heavenly Fate usually means that a King can conceal their Qi very well. Plainly put, it should not be possible for there to be no phenomenon after a King has left without constraints!

Swoosh!

The next moment, Tian Fang’s figure vanished from the cave, followed by the collapse of the ancient mountain behind him, covering his Qi.

This time, he didn’t dodge but headed straight to the nearest Royal Beast Race Aristocratic Family. This family originated from a very small branch left by the Supreme Wind Clan, and the whole family was only on par with an ordinary human marquisate.

Like that, Tian Fang’s figure turned into a stream of light, entering the small Aristocratic Family, directly rushing towards the center of the tribe.

Almost before anyone could react, Tian Fang had already taken control of the family head and all the elders of this Aristocratic Family.

However, Tian Fang felt disappointment as, after checking their memories, there had been no abnormalities on the land nearby for a hundred years!

The reason he had not used this method before was because if a Strong One appeared, it would be easy to find that these people’s memories had been searched, which would essentially leave a clue for the Royal Beast Race!

However, if he killed them all, destroying one Aristocratic Family is feasible, but if it happened to multiple Families, it would certainly arouse suspicion. Now he could only hope to delay more time, hoping to find clues about the King’s Heavenly Fate quickly!

Thus, Tian Fang’s figure constantly moved across the vast land searching for signs of unusual phenomena while simultaneously using divine metal to sense the King’s Heavenly Fate.

The next day, there were still no sightings; his search area had already crossed the Yuji Mountain Range, moving southward by a hundred thousand miles.

The third day, still no results!

The fourth day, Tian Fang was at the border of Huai River, which is a larger branch of the Azure River. It was almost entering deep into the river’s territory!

Similarly, the Royal Beast Race Aristocratic Families and the Warriors coming and going became more frequent here. On the Huai River, boats continually moved through the water.

Above Huai River, on a small boat of just over thirty meters flowing downstream, a person sat cross-legged in the cabin, constantly listening to the surrounding noisy sounds.

A thousand miles downstream from the source of Huai River Channel lies the Huai River Marsh, with vast waters spanning tens of thousands of miles.

Soon, the small boat followed the current into the Huai River Marsh, though it didn’t move towards the riverbanks like other boats.

Instead, it stopped in a water region thousands of miles away. However, there were too many boats on the marsh, and this small boat didn’t stand out at all.

On the pavilion of the boat, a somewhat indistinct figure with hands in prayer slightly opened a gap between them.

Buzz!

Instantly, a buzzing sound emanated from the palm, emitting a faint purple light!