I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy

Chapter 417: Chapter 227: Soul-searching Secret

Technique, Rebuilding the Mysterious Pill_2

Translator: 549690339

On the edge of the sea of blood, Han Yi practiced the [Ninefold Soul Tower] for three months, because he didn’t want to make drastic movements.

On this very night.

He hoped to make a breakthrough.

On the highest floor of the tower, Han Yi sat quietly with his eyes closed. In the Sea of Consciousness Space, his Divine Soul transformed into a tower, drawing in the grayish-white Qi.

One hour later.

Han Yi’s whole body gently trembled, and in the Sea of Consciousness Space.

The Divine Soul, which had turned into the Soul Tower, had condensed the third layer on top of its original two layers.

With the condensation of the third layer, a Soul Skill appeared, instantly flowing into Han Yi’s mind, as if he had practiced this skill for a long time and completely mastered it.

Soul Skill Soul Searching.

Han Yi opened his eyes with a flicker of surprise. This was a traditional Soul Skill, far superior to ordinary Soul Searching Skills.

This Soul Searching had three characteristics.

The first one: it could be used against Divine Souls or living humans.

The second one: the degree of application could be chosen. It could achieve perfect Soul Searching without affecting the target at all, or it could perform violent Soul Searching, directly destroying the Divine Soul and plundering memories.

The difference between the two was that perfect Soul Searching took a longer time to perform, while violent Soul Searching only required an instant.

Due to this second characteristic, this Soul Skill was not only an auxiliary skill for searching memories but also an indirect offensive skill, directly and crudely destroying a cultivator’s Divine Soul.

The third characteristic: when using this Soul Skill, the memories obtained from Soul Searching could be stored in the Sea of Consciousness Space, forming Soul shadows, which could be reviewed when needed.

Judging from these three characteristics, this traditional Soul Skill was extremely powerful, much more potent than other Soul Searching Skills.

Up to now.

Han Yi’s three Soul Skills.

Divine Soul Decline, Soul Snatching, Soul Searching.

Among them, besides being indifferent to Soul Snatching, the other two, Soul Decline and Soul Searching, were both potent skills.

One-third of the way through the Ninefold Soul Tower—however, each subsequent layer would be infinitely more difficult than the preceding one.

Nevertheless, Han Yi had the confidence that as long as he persisted, he would eventually condense a complete Soul Tower.

After condensing the third layer, Han Yi tried again to explore the black pearl in the Sea of Consciousness, but the black pearl remained unresponsive as before, leaving him no choice but to give up.

Then he continued to cultivate.

The next day.

Han Yi left the tower and flew into the sky, gazing down at the Immortal Peaks below. They were few, but each was several times larger than the original Xuandan Sect’s Immortal Peaks.

Above the peaks were courtyards, filled with Spirit Energy, and towering lofts rising from the ground.

Yuan Beast Mountain was actually located at the junction of Luofeng Country and Huaibei County. Heading north would lead to Evil Mountain.

Han Yi hesitated for ten breaths before releasing the Red Moon Immortal Boat and heading west.

One day later.

Han Yi passed Mengshan City and Hongluan City before making a turn towards Xuandan Sect.

However.

By the time he got here, he had changed to a Human Immortal-level Immortal Boat, using a Disguise Technique to appear as an ordinary loose cultivator he had met before, suppressing his breath to the Foundation Building Middle Level, without revealing his Golden Core Divine Transformations.

The closer they got to the Xuandan Mountain Range, the more Immortal Boats they saw heading to or returning from the mountains.

Han Yi’s heart was cold, but he remained unhurried, riding the Immortal Boat onward.

About five kilometers away from the Xuandan Sect, Han Yi stopped.

Within this range, not only was his Immortal Boat stopped, but more than a dozen others were as well, and many Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators were wandering back and forth on the ground.

Standing on the Immortal Boat, Han Yi gazed at the front, his heart churning, his face filled with astonishment.

The entire Xuandan Mountain Range was covered in a thin layer of mysterious fog, even spreading three kilometers away from the mountains—this thin fog resembled the dense fog that had been on Xuandan Peak before.

However, the dense fog could not be investigated by Divine Sense. In contrast, this thin fog did not prevent the probing of divine consciousness.

Moreover.

Han Yi controlled the Immortal Boat to move directly into the thin fog. Being cautious, he sealed his respiratory channels and pores, then stretched out his hand, using magical power to gather the fog around it. In the palm of his hand, the density of the fog increased; however, no matter how much Han Yi compressed it, he could not make it as dense as the fog on Xuandan Peak.

Most importantly.

The dense fog on Xuandan Peak had no strange aura. It looked and felt like ordinary fog.

But now.

The dense fog gathered in his hand was more accurately called… Corpse Qi.

That’s right.

The thin fog that enveloped the entire Xuandan Mountain Range was Corpse Qi.

The whole mountain range had become a Corpse Domain.

This was consistent with what Zhuge Wu You and Qin Wuxian had said.

However, Han Yi felt a chill in his heart.

If this thin fog was the dense fog that had been dispersed from Xuandan Peak, did that mean that the dense fog on Xuandan Peak was also Corpse Qi?

Han Yi shook his head, put away the Immortal Boat, and flew out on Sword Control. This time, in order to hide his identity, he chose a top-grade sword tool from Yuan Shun’s Qiankun Ring—a sword named Autumn Light.

With so many people at Xuandan Mountain at the moment, there might be enemies, and Han Yi chose to keep a low profile.

Moreover.

Yuan Shun had killed Jiang Jiuge and severely injured Liu Su Monarch, so if a True Monarch or Gold Core cultivators from the Southern Dipper Divine Palace recognized Han Yi, they might take action..