Chapter 693: Chapter Six Hundred and Eighty-Nine: The Unseen Divine Soul

However, with the overflow of spiritual energy in my sea of Qi this morning, these ambitions have come to nothing. I’ve always known that my body isn’t like that of normal martial artists, but this is too different!

Who on earth has ever broken through to the Fierce Realm while just sitting on a chair?!

Where’s the expected purification bath, finding a tranquil place for secluded cultivation, connecting with the earth’s spiritual energy to awaken the three souls and seven spirits within, and sculpting a divine dwelling to congeal my soul within, so as to use my divine shadow to influence my physical body’s evolution to ascend to the martial artist’s Fierce Realm?

Did I just skip all that? And what about my divine soul?!

Tang Luo, scrutinizing his inner self, stared speechlessly at the black ball inside his divine dwelling.

What on earth is this thing?

An egg? I’ve never heard of a person’s divine soul being an egg!

Moreover, it’s pitch black, looking more like a rock.

But who on earth has a stone as a divine soul? A divine soul should certainly be a living thing!

Even though it’s not some elite stuff like a dragon, a phoenix, or a Qilin, what’s the point of a black ball even resembling a divine fairy flower?

The dream of using the Seeking Truth Method to create a high-multiple attack divine soul was shattered. The black ball outlined his destiny clearly, and Tang Luo inexplicably felt an urge to cry.

According to records of clashes among top martial artists in the Fierce Realm, what is truly competed for at this stage is imagination, but even that is restricted.

To put it simply, it’s not sheer imagination – it’s structured fantasy-building within a particular framework provided by the martial artist’s divine soul!

For example, the Great Elder Tang Siyuan has a divine soul that deals over twice the spiritual damage. That’s why his Extreme Mang Finger Strike is so intimidating, supplemented by his congenitally fortified metallic Qi, even top martial ancestors tremble at his finger strike.

Another example is Tang Sen, my father. Although his dual power bloodline only grants him unparalleled physical structure and unrivaled strength, his true endless combat capability stems from his Gold and Rock Battle Body. The core of this battle body is the earth-controlling technique obtained by subduing the earth Qilin’s fierce soul and the manifestation of his top-tier divine soul.

Because he possesses a top-tier physical body, Tang Sen’s divine dwelling is not like others. His divine soul is tens of times more condensed and massive than those of ordinary martial artists in the Fierce Realm. Divine souls do have a volume. Ordinary Fierce Realm martial artists may amplify their divine souls to intimidate others, but an amplified divine soul is an illusion without combat power. Tang Sen’s divine soul is different. Even when enlarged to several dozen feet, it remains incredibly condensed. This is why he can use his divine soul as a skeleton, constructing the Golden Rock Giant, increasing his already formidable force beyond measure.

So, a martial artist’s divine soul basically determines their future fighting style. For Tang Luo, who has always been well-planned, the Fierce Realm is considered the most crucial stage of a martial artist, and he has done many designs and ideas revolving around the divine soul. One might say that his entire 2.0 strengthening plan was designed around a divine soul created using the Seeking Truth method.

But due to this inexplicable black ball, Tang Luo’s hard-earned strengthening plans turn to rubbish. Worse still, he knows absolutely nothing about this black ball. Because he has read many historical records, he has never heard of any powerful person’s divine soul being a black ball!

In other words, he has no reference whatsoever. He starts his journey blind. He’ll need to blaze his own trail!

Now, let’s talk about the disadvantage of lifeless things.

Usually, lifeless things have souls depicted by visualization talisman seals. But even if most people visualize lifeless things, they generally choose eternal things, like the sun, moon, stars, violent storms, endless deserts, or majestic mountains.

Like the Grandmaster who once appeared on the battlefield, the sun overhead was probably his visualization object. Those who can become divine souls by observing celestial bodies are rarely mediocre.

Apart from these eternal things, there is a profound difference between many other lifeless things. For example, even Du Sha’s visualization of Xuan Ding to condense his divine soul is ridiculed by Mi Yang as a joke.

Once again, a lifeless thing is simply dead. It has its own limits. For instance, if your visualization object is a tower, then until you can break free from shackles, the image of that tower will restrict the power of your divine soul.

This is precisely why, when condensing the divine soul, everyone visualizes either Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Dapeng or Kun whale. Even stars and vast sea come secondary.

Tang Luo’s black ball is unquestionably a lifeless thing. Lifeless means he has to develop the magical uses of his divine soul. Many people like to say, “There’s no such thing as a useless spiritual soul, only useless warriors.”

They believe that as long as a warrior is competent enough, any strange, eccentric thing could turn into a miracle in their hands.

Stop dreaming, wake up!

A useless ability is a useless ability. It’s called useless because its upper limit and ceiling are too low. Even if an ant evolves a hundred times, or even a thousand times, it might at best be able to contend with a newborn young dragon. This only shows that both the lower and upper limits of an ant as a creature are much lower than that of a dragon.

So, it’s obvious who’s stronger and weaker when comparing the divine soul of a dragon and an ant’s soul. Even if the martial artist eventually surpasses another martial artist who visualizes a dragon through his unique talent and creativity after developing an ant soul,

But didn’t you think, if this extraordinary talented martial artist started visualizing a dragon soul from the beginning, the achievement would have been immeasurable?

Hence a martial artist’s talent and creativity determine the lower limit of their martial arts path. But what really decides its upper limit is too many other factors.

He rips the thick stack of strengthening plan in the drawer into pieces and throws them in the dustbin. Tang Luo, who has exited from the inward view, pulls out another stack of paper and starts writing: Stronger Plan 3.0, Soul Research and Development.

Life always gives us unexpected surprises. Your divine soul, once formed and irreplaceable, will accompany Tang Luo for life.

Even though it’s embarrassing to think that one day my manifested divine soul will be a black egg, Tang Luo decides to develop this black egg to the maximum. Whenever one version of the plan goes to waste, just write another one. A lively person can’t be choked to death by piss, right?

But before that, he needs to do another thing. With the breakthrough in the Fierce Realm, Tang Luo can congeal new human-level stars again. Just like his judgment, this time the maximum limit of human level stars reaches twenty-seven. The size of the Transhuman level star has thought come to nine. Even those stars for the Fierce Realm can be condensed to three – each consuming 29999 points of spiritual power.

He puts the drafted writing aside and sinks into the Sea of Consciousness to command the stars.

With the expenditure of 5382 spiritual power points, eighteen mortal level stars neatly coded on the table, and Tang Luo’s spiritual power retreated from 30002.4 to 24618.4.

“Summon the shopkeeper immediately to see me in my study.” Having given an order to the servant outside the door, Tang Luo leans over his desk and starts designing his intensified Fierce Realm pathway.