Cultivation through Skin Making

Border of the Snow Country.

Light snow, silent.

Song Yan sat cross-legged on a quiet cliff, allowing the falling snow to obscure the sky and blur his eyes.

Behind him, a black banner fluttered fiercely.

What his Divine Soul once achieved, transforming hundreds of thousands of living souls within the Myriad Souls Banner into vengeful spirits that could still reside within, was no longer possible.

His Divine Soul was now a great furnace flowing with gray light.

He could melt hundreds of thousands of living souls onto the surface of his Divine Soul, but could no longer let them leave.

The increase in quantity would not result in a qualitative change, it would only make his Divine Soul unwieldy, a state perhaps useful in certain scenarios, but certainly not suitable for daily existence.

However, this was unimportant, for Song Yan, through intelligent deduction, had discovered a better solution.

The mutation of the Ghost Profound Root, the calculations with the Earth Profound Root, after spending 48,520 years, he had mastered a whole set of "magic trees."

This set of magic trees included the power to "strip the causal fragments of the Great Cause and Effect Divine Soul, instantly refining them into Evil Qi, Slaughter Liquid, or even Slaughter Solid, then calmly detonating the Slaughter Solid."

The power to detonate the Slaughter Solid was called the "Purple Mansion Primordial Explosion Technique."

The Slaughter Solid was the lingering obsession in the remains after the death of a Purple Mansion, but Song Yan could "handcraft Slaughter Solid that would naturally arise from the death of a Purple Mansion Realm by compressing and accumulating causal fragments of ordinary people."

One can imagine how terrifying the causal power within this Slaughter Solid was. Its power equaled that of detonating a Purple Mansion Cultivator, naturally surpassing the power of the "Giant Soul Swallowing Technique."

While the "Giant Soul Swallowing Technique" could roam through the Purple Mansion, the "Purple Mansion Primordial Explosion Technique" was entirely the power of the Divine Infant level.

Song Yan could instantly consume the living souls within the Myriad Souls Banner, refine their causes and effects, forming Slaughter Solid entirely under his control, then detonate the Slaughter Solid.

As for the wild Slaughter Solid, that wouldn't work.

Because the key to "detonation" lay in preemptively refining every bit of cause and effect within the "Slaughter Solid."

This was impossible.

Only the Myriad Souls Banner's cunning technique could achieve it.

The principle of the Myriad Souls Banner is to refine the living souls within it, thereby refining every piece of cause and effect inherent to them, then through the method of gathering living souls, transform their cause and effect into Slaughter Solid. Only when fully controlling the cause and effect within the Slaughter Solid, can it be detonated.

In other words, this "Purple Mansion Primordial Explosion Technique" had to be refined and used immediately, advance preparation was impossible.

Nevertheless, the future of this "Purple Mansion Primordial Explosion Technique" still looked promising.

Song Yan's understanding of evil was in a relatively closed environment, and with ample Profound Qi...

Ordinary people and Refining Profound cultivators' deaths produce Evil Qi;

Crimson Palace deaths produce Slaughter Liquid;

Purple Mansion deaths produce Slaughter Solid.

Once a certain concentration level is reached or falls to a certain level, the three types of ferocity can transform into each other.

But above Slaughter Solid, what exists?

Song Yan didn't know before, but he now had some understanding.

Above Slaughter Solid was part of the Obsession Layer of the Sea of Suffering.

Whether demon monks of the Celestial Demon Lineage, demon infants, or novice monks born from faith obsession of the sects all belong to this category.

Today he can detonate a Slaughter Solid at the Purple Mansion Cultivator level, tomorrow he may be able to detonate even higher levels...

With this thought, the ideas of the "Path of Explosion" broaden significantly.

At the very least, this "Purple Mansion Primordial Explosion Technique" still has a promising future.

And the "Obsession Layer of the Sea of Suffering" was something he heard from Tang Xiaoxuan, the clan leader of the Formless Ancient Race.

As the head of a clan, Tang Xiaoxuan knew many secrets and, seeing that he was on the verge of the soul threshold, naturally shared many soul threshold secrets with him, who was a "possible inheritor."

Thus came the Obsession Layer of the Sea of Suffering.

Song Yan slightly closed his eyes, the voice of Tang Xiaoxuan still echoing in his mind.

"The soul threshold is formed because of the Sea of Suffering, but no one knows how vast the Sea of Suffering is, where its end lies, is also unknown.

Our clan's predecessors at the late stage of the Divine Infant once attempted to cross the Sea of Suffering by distributing the power of obsession with Evil Treasure.

During the process, that predecessor sent back some messages...

The Sea of Suffering, at the very least, has two layers, the upper Obsession Layer, accompanied by wind, frost, rain, and snow, it's a place where obsessions are active and is relatively safe, the truly terrifying dangers of the Sea of Suffering do not originate here.

The lower layer is the Rotting Thought Layer, relative to the Obsession Layer, it's calmer, without much turbulent, surging obsession flow, but... there are existences that feed on obsession.

If given the opportunity, they might even leap out of the Sea of Suffering water...

Our clan's predecessor at the late stage of the Divine Infant advised, until reaching the late stage, and without ample Evil Treasure, never attempt to cross the Sea of Suffering.

As to what happens after crossing the Sea of Suffering?

Our clan's predecessor at the late stage of the Divine Infant said, perhaps all the secrets of the ancient race, and even the Mountain and Sea Demon Race's life and death secrets are hidden within."

These words let Song Yan understand that the former ancestor Yanzhang did not really want to go to the Ancient Sword Community of the Mountain Range to investigate some secrets, but that path was the route before crossing the Sea of Suffering.

Yanzhang's ancestor went there just to prepare for crossing the Sea of Suffering.

'Obsession Layer...'

'Rotting Thought Layer...'

'Crossing the Sea of Suffering...'

These matters are quite distant from him for now.

If possible, he never wants to touch them.

As he was thinking, a respectful voice of a female cultivator came from behind.

"Upper Envoy, the clan leader has already set up a banquet, it will be held in three days, inviting you to proceed swiftly."

"Mm."

Song Yan responded, then stood up, put away the Myriad Souls Banner, and in the fearful and reverent gaze of the female cultivator, drifted into the flying palanquin high above.

The messenger female cultivator immediately followed by the side of the flying palanquin.