Chapter 254 The Origin of the Soul
It has to be said that Hunxuzi likes laissez-faire education. He teaches Yaoyan what needs to be taught once, and then ignores him and lets him learn on his own. Only Yaoyan has a strong ability to learn. If it were someone else, he would be left to waste. To be honest, Hunxuzi is really not suitable to be a teacher, and he is not cut out for it.

However, Hunxuzi also has his advantages. He is extremely powerful and has a high enough status to provide Yaoyan with sufficient resources for cultivation, as long as Yaoyan's body can withstand it.

The hard days of seeking resources for cultivation on one's own are obviously gone forever.

Yao Yan looked at Hun Mie Sheng, not daring to show any arrogance. He politely bowed and said, "I will trouble you next, Palace Master."

This old guy Hunxuzi is still so annoying!

Hun Mie Sheng cursed inwardly, he had no intention of helping Hun Xuzi to train a disciple, but the other party was the chief alchemist of the Hun clan, and he usually needed him to refine pills for him, so even if he was reluctant, he had to agree. Looking at Yao Yan who bowed in front of him, his unhappiness eased a little.

He chuckled and said, "It's not a big deal. As long as your soul can bear it, you can absorb the soul essence in the Heavenly Palace at will."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hun Mie Sheng raised his hand and distorted the space around him, and disappeared on the spot with Yao Yan.

Yao Yan only felt a flash before his eyes, and he and Hun Mie Sheng appeared in a magnificent palace. It must be said that the control of space by the Dou Sheng strongman has reached an incredible level. In contrast, the control of space by the Dou Zun is still at the beginner's stage and there is no comparison at all.

As for Hun Mie Sheng's spatial shift, Yao Yan couldn't even feel any fluctuation of spatial force.

Hunmie Sheng took Yao Yan to the center of the palace, where there stood a huge stone pillar thousands of feet long with extremely complicated blood-colored patterns carved on it. It was extremely strange, and just by looking at it, one would have the illusion that the soul was about to leave the body. Even though Yao Yan possessed soul power at the heavenly level, he was still affected.

"Concentrate your soul power... There is a soul-capturing formation here, which is specially used to target some disobedient souls." Hunxuzi reminded him, and then looked at the stone pillar covered with blood-colored patterns, as if looking at his most outstanding work. With a little smile, he continued, "Do you know the purpose of my creation of the Soul Palace?"

Yao Yan hesitated for a moment before slowly saying, "I'm not sure, I just know that the Soul Palace has always targeted alchemists with powerful souls, and because of this, it has a very bad reputation in the Douqi Continent."

"Reputation means nothing, strength is everything!"

Hun Mie Sheng was obviously also the kind of person who valued strength above all else, and his tone was quite cold and overbearing.

As he spoke, he raised his hand and condensed a pitch-black flame, which he shot into the stone pillar in front of him. As the flame of Void Devouring Flame sank into it, the tall stone pillar instantly glowed with a black and red light, which was extremely dazzling.

After a while.

A black and red portal appeared in front of Hunmie Sheng.

"The difficulty of cultivating soul power is far greater than that of fighting spirit. The natural treasures that can increase soul power are extremely scarce, and most of them have no effect on soul power at the Heavenly Realm level. If you want to raise your soul power to the Heavenly Realm, even a peerless genius will have to spend hundreds of years, not to mention the Emperor Realm!" A burning look appeared in Hun Miesheng's eyes. After a pause, he continued, "Most people in this world, even those eighth-grade high-level alchemists, cannot raise their soul power to the Heavenly Realm in their entire lives... But here, if I want, I can cultivate a Heavenly Realm Great Perfection being in a few years!"

As he finished speaking, he stepped into the light gate, and Yao Yan followed closely behind him.

As the scene in front of him became hazy for a moment, an extremely dreamy world appeared before his eyes. Like a dream bubble, countless transparent and pure light balls floated in it, surrounding a milky white light ball several feet in size, emitting a gentle light.

Hun Miesheng looked at everything in front of him and explained to Yao Yan softly, "These balls of light are the soul essences collected by the Soul Palace... Just this small ball contains the soul essences of tens of thousands of people, which can easily allow an alchemist to break through to the spiritual realm."

He raised his hand and held a small ball of light, then looked at the milky white light ball in the center, the burning look in his eyes becoming more intense.

“Did you see that milky white ball of light in the center? The soul essence contained in it is enough to equal the soul essence of tens of millions of people. If you absorb it, you can easily raise your soul power to the Heaven Realm Great Perfection. Even if you are at the Emperor Realm, there is still a chance to sprint forward!”

It would be better to change the name of Soul Palace to the Underworld... Yao Yan sighed in his heart. To condense so many soul origins, it was obviously not enough to rely on alchemists alone. Besides, there was Danta to support the alchemists. The remaining choices were naturally ordinary people. Who knew how many people the Soul Palace had slaughtered over the years!
"If your alchemy skills can reach the ninth level, you will be qualified to obtain it in the future!" Hun Mie Sheng looked at Yao Yan and said temptingly.

Then I have to kill Hunxuzi first!

Yao Yan was not brainwashed by Hun Mie Sheng's words. He was very clear about the situation within the Hun Clan. Emperor Hun Tian's soul realm had already reached the Emperor Realm, and Void Devouring Flame should be about the same. The only one left was Hun Xuzi. However, in the original novel, Hun Xuzi's soul realm had not yet broken through to the Emperor Realm. It was understandable that Hun Mie Sheng's words were nonsense.

It’s not even his turn!

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Junior will work hard."

"With your talent, this is a matter of time." Hun Miesheng smiled faintly, and then handed the soul origin in his hand to Yao Yan, "Absorb it, and be careful during the process. Use the strange fire to refine it before absorbing it. Don't be affected by the negative emotions in the soul origin. If it affects your future, your teacher will have to trouble me."

Yao Yan nodded and solemnly took the fist-sized soul origin. There were many such soul origins here, which showed what the Soul Palace had done over the years.

But he didn't seem to be qualified to point at anything.

Revenge them?
Yao Yan was not that great. He just pondered for a moment, and a purple-blue flame surged out from his palm, instantly covering the soul origin. As the temperature gradually increased, the power of the strange fire penetrated into the soul origin. Suddenly, the black air condensed from countless negative emotions was forced out and turned into nothingness as the flames rose.

As the black gas dissipated, the soul light ball became more and more transparent and crystal clear, dreamy and unreal. "Be careful, although the strange fire can remove most of the negative emotions, the obsessions in the soul origin are not so easy to refine, and can only be slowly worn away by absorption!" Hun Miesheng reminded him that everything has its gains and losses. Although the soul origin can make one's soul power soar, the risks are also great, which can easily affect one's future.

Because these soul origins are condensed from a large number of soul bodies, and the process is full of killing and blood, naturally these soul origins are also filled with negative emotions as well as obsession and resentment before death. This part is very difficult to refine with strange fire, because those obsessions and resentment are almost integrated with the soul origin. If it is completely refined, then this group of soul origin will also dissipate.

But after all, they are just the negative emotions of some dead people. As long as your strength is strong enough and your will is firm enough, you can still slowly grind them away!

Yao Yan looked at the transparent soul origin in front of him and could vaguely sense the rejection emanating from it. He naturally knew why, but he was not a good person. How could he give up the opportunity just because of the resistance of a dead thing? Purple-blue flames rose in his eyes. After a moment, he closed his eyes slightly, and the soul power at his brows surged out, transforming into a soul body that was exactly the same as Yao Yan's body. He sat cross-legged in front of the ball of light, and then took a sudden breath, swallowing the soul origin in front of him into his mouth.

As the soul origin entered the body, an extremely pure soul origin dissipated, nourishing Yao Yan's soul. At the same time, it also brought a large amount of negative emotions. Even though a lot of it was refined by the strange fire, the fear, resentment, and unwillingness before death... were still entangled with the soul origin, rejecting Yao Yan's absorption.

In response to this, Yao Yan accepted it all and suppressed all the negative emotions. At the same time, he felt the rapid strengthening of his soul body. The growth rate was terrifying. In just a few hours, he entered the middle level of the heavenly realm. A powerful soul pressure instantly swept over him, forcing the surrounding soul origin light groups to escape into the distance.

After several more hours, Yao Yan's soul body completely absorbed this part of the soul essence, and then turned into invisible and merged into the body.

"How does it feel?" Hun Mie Sheng asked softly when he saw Yao Yan had finished absorbing it.

"Negative emotions are a bit troublesome." Yao Yan opened his eyes, and a scarlet halo floated in his eyes. It was the manifestation of negative emotions, and it even affected his mood at the moment.

"Just refine it slowly. Compared with the rapid growth of soul power, this little trouble is nothing." Hunxuzi smiled faintly.

"It's not that troublesome~" Yao Yan suddenly thought of something and directly activated the Soul-Devouring Clan bloodline in his body. Suddenly, an evil vertical pupil appeared between his eyebrows, making his handsome face even more weird.

As the vertical pupils opened, a tyrannical and bloodthirsty aura instantly emanated. At the same time, the scarlet halo deep in Yao Yan's eyes quickly faded, and in just a moment, it turned invisible.

The vertical pupils that had swallowed up a large amount of negative emotions seemed to have been nourished, and the light they emitted became increasingly strange.

"The power of the Soul Devouring Clan?!" Hun Mie Sheng obviously knew Yao Yan's physique. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but ask. He really didn't know that the Soul Devouring Clan could feed on negative emotions.

"I don't know, but I can indeed digest negative emotions." Yao Yan licked his lips and showed a somewhat perverted smile, "It tastes not bad, hehehe~"

Such a familiar taste~
Hearing Yao Yan's laughter, Hun Mie Sheng was stunned for a moment. He inexplicably felt that Yao Yan had become much more friendly, and immediately smiled and said, "Do you want two more groups?"

"I couldn't ask for more!" Yao Yan nodded in response.

Hun Miesheng was not stingy. He raised his hand and pulled out two larger balls of soul essence, handed them to Yao Yan, and said, "With your current Dou Qi cultivation, it is best not to exceed the middle level of the Heaven Realm, otherwise it will affect your future breakthrough to Dou Sheng."

"Why?" Yao Yan was stunned when he heard this. He really didn't know this. His cheap master Hunxuzi had never told him these things. After all, his realm was too low before.

“It takes a huge amount of energy for a Dou Zun to break through to a Dou Sheng, so during this period one needs to transform the Dou Qi nine times and compress the Dou Qi nine times. Only in this way can one have a chance to transform oneself and enter the Semi-Saint level. And Semi-Saint is a process of transformation. Only when the Dou Qi, physical body and soul power are all transformed can one become a true Dou Sheng… If your soul power is too strong, the future transformation process will become extremely difficult!” Hun Mie Sheng said softly.

Yao Yan nodded and roughly understood what Hun Mie Sheng meant. To put it simply, the stronger his own accumulation is, the more energy he will need to break through to the Dou Sheng in the future. If Yao Yan's soul power reaches the level of heavenly realm great perfection, then his accumulation of nine revolutions of Dou Qi may not be able to support the transformation of his soul power and body.

"Only monsters like you need to consider things like this. Ordinary people can't possess heavenly-level soul power with this level of cultivation." Hun Mie Sheng joked, with a hint of emotion in his eyes.

Soul power at the Heavenly Realm level is almost standard for a Fighting Saint, because during the transformation process, the soul power will grow to the Heavenly Realm level. However, most of them will remain at the lower level of the Heavenly Realm. If they want to go up, it depends on their own opportunities.

As for the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm, there is almost no need to consider it for those below the Douluo Saint level, because if someone below the Douluo Saint level possesses such a powerful soul power, the physical body may not be able to support it. The soul power of that level is already almost physical, and it can move freely even if it is separated from the physical body, just like a living person. How can a physical body of a Douluo Zun level accommodate it?

I can't force it in!
The size is too big!
It's easy to burst directly.

"Absorb it. If you feel your body can't bear it, stop." Hun Mie Sheng said softly.

Yao Yan nodded and swallowed the two balls of soul origin handed over by Hun Mie Sheng into his mouth. This time, he even skipped the process of tempering with the strange fire and directly swallowed and refined them in an extremely barbaric manner. As a person with the blood of the Soul-Swallowing Clan, he did not need to worry about negative emotions at all. After all, he had always swallowed people directly before!
The negative emotions from the origin of his soul could not have any effect on him at all.

As Yao Yan entered the state of cultivation, the light filled in the opened vertical pupil became more and more intense, as if it had come alive. The pupil moved slightly and looked into Hun Mie Sheng's eyes. Suddenly, an indescribable feeling surged in Hun Mie Sheng's heart.

"The Soul-Devouring Clan...what a weird race!" Hun Mie Sheng looked at Yao Yan, and for a moment, he was curious about how much Yao Yan could grow.

Other imperial clans may not be able to tolerate the existence of an alien species like Yao Yan, but the Soul Clan does not care. As long as Yao Yan is valuable enough, the Soul Clan can cultivate him.

As for whether the other party will betray you?
Apart from the Soul Clan, who else in the world could accept him? The other party was destined to be a member of the Soul Clan, so there was no need to worry about betrayal.

(End of this chapter)