Soul

Xu Yue felt like she was floating in the sea. She opened her eyes and saw a large light blue mist surrounded by what seemed like a limitless frozen ocean.

"Where am I?" thought Xu Yue.

When she looked at the blue mist, Xu Yue couldn't help but feel a certain sense of familiarity.

As Xu Yue regained her bearings, she suddenly remembered something her mother had told her.

"So this is my soul," thought Xu Yue as she tried to remember all the things she knew about the soul.

"The realm in which most cultivators first discover their own soul is the Soul Enlightenment realm," said Wu Jing.

"This realm is divided into 3 stages: Soul Awakening, Soul Control and Soul Condenstion."

"In the first stage, Soul Awakening, the cultivator can gain access to their sea of consciousness, where their souls are located. The size and properties of the sea of consciousness depend on the strength and talent of the soul.

"If you ever find yourself in your sea of consciousness before the Soul Enlightenment realm, you must immediately leave. To leave, you must simply will for it to happen."

"The second stage, Soul Control, is the point at which cultivators must learn to be able to control their soul."

"The third stage, Soul Condensation, is the most important stage of this realm. By condensing their soul, the cultivator will have both their livespan and strength vastly increased."

"At this stage, the soul can also survive without the body, which marks the beginning of spiritual cultivation," finished Wu Jing.

"So this is my sea of consciousness," thought Xu Yue.

Immediately after that, she went a certain distance away from her soul.

"I should be more cautious. The last thing I want is to cause damage to my soul."

After this, Xu Yue immediately concentrated on leaving.

After a few seconds, Xu Yue found herself on the floor of the trial room.

"Have I passed the trial?" after realizing where she is asked Xu Yue.

"Yes, you have passed the first trial," said the monotonous voice of the artifact spirit.

After hearing this, Xu Yue breathed a large sigh of relief. She did not want to have to go through that again, even though she knew it would probably be easier this time.

"You have a day to prepare for the second trial."

Xu Yue was quite happy when she heard that, even though she had fully recovered because of the padoga.

A few minutes later, Xu Yue began to think about everything that had happened during the trial.

"I instinctively use the power of my soul," mumbled Xu Yue as she remembered the cool feeling that had numbed the pain.

"I should try not to do that if my life is not on the line," thought Xu Yue.

Fortunately, the artifact spirit was there in case anything went wrong. As she thought of this, Xu Yue silently thanked the artifact spirit in her mind.

"So they also have spirits," mumbled Xu Yue as she thought of the trial she had faced.

"It's probably an ice and a fire of high rank," Xu Yue realized, wanting to curse the fire in its face now that the trial was over.

"It's quite impressive that it could resist my cuteness." None of the people that she had ever met, except for the artifact's spirit, and that fire, could resist her cuteness.

As Xu Yue thought of this, she couldn't help but want to kill anyone that didn't find her cute.

At that moment, both the artifact spirit and a red figure felt a small killing intent coming towards them.

As both of them felt where it came from, their nonexistent mouths couldn't help but twitch.

"I'm waiting for you, little girl," said the red figure, whose true body Xu Yue had guessed correctly as a fire.

What he didn't know was that a blue figure was looking at him from a distance, and as he said that, the blue figure barely managed to hold back her killing intent as veins seemed to appear on her forehead.

As this was happening, Xu Yue suddenly remembered something.

A middle-aged man in a dark blue robe was kneeling.

"This shall not happen again, sect master," said the man as he nearly smashed his head against the ground.

"Do not let it happen again. I will not be so merciful next time," said Xu Chao.

Just as he said this, the door to the room opened, as the head of a 5–6 year old Xu Yue peaked inside the room, her eyes sparkling.

As Xu Yue remembered this, she couldn't help but fantasize.

An adult Xu Yue was sitting on a golden throne. Several hundred figures were kneeling before her, including a red one.

As Xu Yue thought of this, she suddenly decided to not kill those who dared repent.

The moment the artifact spirit felt the killing intent recede, he looked at Xu Yue.

As he looked at Xu Yue, who was trying to look domineering, he felt if he had taken a human form, his mouth would have become numb by now.

As he stopped paying attention to Xu Yue, he looked towards Yun Che, who was howling in pain as his soul was being frozen.

He wanted to say something to the blue figure, but as he saw the dark look on her face, he stopped himself.

When he felt the killing intent coming from the blue figure, the artifact spirit couldn't help but say.

"You don't need to hold back too much, I can fix his soul."

The artifact spirit regretted saying this almost instantly.

Yun Che felt a mind-bending burst of pain errupt as his soul seemed to freeze.

The artifact spirit felt a wave of pain at the thought that he may have to use merit to fix Yun Che's soul.

He immediately took Yun Che to the red figure to try and fix his soul without using merit.

When the red figure looked at the artifact spirit that was coming towards him he couldn't help but want to leave.