Published: March 3, 2025
In the cultivation world, it is universally recognized that a yuan ying cultivator must have a spiritual consciousness range of at least one thousand miles to successfully elevate to divine transformation. Otherwise, they face certain death, with no possibility of success in breaking through; they won't even qualify to challenge their bottleneck.
This shows just how precious spiritual objects for spirit refinement are. The Black Heaven Ice Soul Wind, Yellow Springs Mystic Ice, and Ice Fairy Tear Crystal are such treasures, which have good effects even on great cultivators and pinnacle demonic kings who already possess strong spiritual consciousness.
Especially the "Black Heaven Ice Soul Wind," which was renowned in ancient times as the top-tier spiritual object for spirit refinement. This item originated from "Ancient Black Heaven" and has extraordinary effects on condensing the soul, being a low-tier version of the "soul-draining wind." Unfortunately, with the shattering of the ancient nine heavens, this object has long been extinct in the cultivation world. Perhaps it can only be found in the few secret realms that have survived since ancient times.
The art of spirit refinement is profound and can be specifically divided into strengthening the soul, condensing the spirit, and calming the spirit. Strengthening the soul aims to enhance the power of the Primordial Spirit and increase the strength of spiritual consciousness. However, if the Primordial Spirit is improved too quickly, instability will arise. At this point, it is necessary to pause and stabilize the soul to solidify the foundation, which is known as calming the spirit. Otherwise, blindly enhancing one's abilities may lead to madness.
Additionally, the Primordial Spirit could be shattered, obstructing the pathway to enlightenment. Under normal circumstances, spiritual objects for the Primordial Spirit are hard to come by, and most cultivators do not have this worry. Even Liu Yu does not reach the point where he needs to specifically pause his cultivation for spirit calming.
With his level of spiritual consciousness, he naturally will not make such a mistake. He simply takes breaks for a period, waits until he has fully digested before consuming the next Green Lotus Seed. Those who usually need to calm their spirits are typically demon cultivators practicing demonic arts. Some demonic arts directly devour the cultivator's soul for rapid advancement, but they come with significant risks.
Every so often, they must perform spirit calming to purge impurities from their Primordial Spirit. Of course, whether they can clean it thoroughly and whether "I" can still be considered "I" is a subjective matter.
As for condensing the spirit, once the soul has strengthened to a certain extent, it must be further refined to continue growing. Each time the soul is refined, it solidifies the foundation. This is easy to understand; only with a solid foundation can a taller building be constructed, similar to the "purity of magical power" in qi refinement.
Condensing the spirit is like changing the construction materials for a high-rise building. In normal situations, cement and steel are clearly superior to mud when it comes to building taller and larger structures. In terms of strengthening the soul, Liu Yu already possesses a fourth-stage supreme spiritual object, the Green Lotus Seed, so he temporarily does not need other spiritual objects.
At this point, the only limitation on the improvement of his Primordial Spirit is the aspect of condensing the spirit. Due to the lack of spiritual objects for condensing the spirit, he has had to stop his cultivation at times and operate the art of spirit preservation to refine his soul before he can enter the next stage of cultivation.
Thus, upon seeing the "Black Heaven Ice Soul Wind" for the first time, Liu Yu felt a connection to it! According to their previous agreement, he had the priority to choose and was entitled to the most rewards.
Nodding to the two companions, Liu Yu moved swiftly towards the glowing orb of "Black Heaven Ice Soul Wind" above the black lake.