Chapter 294: Nothing Found

“Due to the unique nature of the Divine Soul, the Array Pivot device can be mass-produced on a large scale.”

“However, the activation of each Array Pivot in the Heavenly Mystery Spirit Locking Array requires a Formation Master to personally guide it. Furthermore, to ensure the accuracy of the Formation, a Formation Master needs to debug and calibrate it periodically.”

“And this is the reason you are here for training.”

Ji Hongdao suddenly produced a small golden sphere, which was the same item that had been distributed to everyone earlier along with their clothes.

“This is a Soul Gathering Pearl, crafted from Yin Spirit Jade. As the name suggests, it has the function of gathering and imprisoning Divine Souls.”

“Do you see the golden light inside?”

“Those are the Divine Souls of Five Old Men Association Cultivators we captured!”

As soon as Ji Hongdao uttered these words, the Cultivators present all changed their expressions.

Through the live experiment of extracting Divine Souls just now, everyone learned that the golden light within the Divine Souls of the Five Old Men Association Cultivators was a trace of the Soul Contract.

However, the golden light only accounted for a tiny fraction of each Cultivator's Divine Soul.

How many Divine Souls would it take to condense such a large amount of golden light, almost tangible in form?

A thousand? Or even ten thousand?

The more they thought about it, the more horrified they felt.

Some Array Dao Geniuses had been immersed in the study of Formations since they began Cultivation, rarely encountering such a cruel side of the Cultivation World.

At this moment, they couldn't help but turn pale, their hearts filled with panic.

Ji Hongdao said in a deep voice, “What? Scared? Do you think we are too cruel?”

“But you must know that in the Tianling State battle alone, the number of Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance Cultivators who died was hundreds or thousands of times the number of Divine Souls in the Soul Gathering Pearls in your hands!”

“Not to mention the various large and small wars that have successively broken out over thousands of years.”

“Leniency towards the enemy is the real cruelty.”

Ji Hongdao looked deeply at the many young Cultivators before him, making his point without delving deeper into the topic.

Instead, he continued to introduce the golden Soul Gathering Pearl.

“What you need to do is to constantly observe and interact with these Divine Souls at close range, to comprehend the traces of the Soul Contract.”

“Ultimately, you must reach a point where you can distinguish the differences without external aid.”

“This way, when you construct the Heavenly Mystery Spirit Locking Array, you will be capable of debugging and calibrating the Array Pivot.”

“This process of comprehension consumes Divine Souls. You had best achieve this before the Divine Souls in the Soul Gathering Pearl are completely consumed.”

“Otherwise…”

Ji Hongdao's voice turned cold: “We will deem you incapable of constructing the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation. Not only will we expel you from this Haunyu Manor, but we will also charge your recommenders for the training loss fees.”

At these words, the Faces of all the Cultivators turned somewhat unsightly.

If they failed to meet the requirements and were thus expelled, it would not just be a matter of losing Face.

It would likely ruin their future, forever severing their connection with the Array Dao.

These Geniuses, who had been recommended, couldn't help but feel immense pressure.

“However, rest assured. To reduce your difficulty, we have already processed the Divine Souls of these Five Old Men Association Cultivators using special methods.”

“Most of the memories within the Divine Souls have been completely cleared.”

“With a pure Soul Body, without facing the impact of memories and emotions, comprehension will be much easier.”

“As long as you are not merely Trash here to gain experience, there should be no problem.”

Ji Hongdao's tone then shifted, encouraging the young Geniuses once more.

Finally, he laid out the study plan for everyone for the upcoming period.

During the day, the Cultivators followed Ji Hongdao, learning to construct the Heavenly Mystery Spirit Locking Array.

In the evening, each returned to their respective courtyards to comprehend the Soul Contract imprints.

Every month, an assessment would be conducted to check everyone's learning progress.

…

Thus, Li Fan began his advanced studies at this Haunyu Manor.

This Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation truly lived up to the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's high hopes, a Formation they hoped would turn the tide.

It was incredibly profound and complex.

The outer structure of the Formation alone had a full thirty-six million Formation patterns.

Each basic pattern was composed of various different and numerous basic Formations.

Even the simplest one was a composite of tens of thousands of different Formation units.

To master all the Formation structures of Tianxuan Locking Spirit was not an easy task, even for these Geniuses selected from various States.

However, Li Fan had the assistance of the Mystic One Transformation Dao secret art.

Everything he learned, saw, and even thought and did, was recorded in the blue hua dao stone in his Sea of Consciousness without the slightest error.

He could consult it at any time, cross-referencing information.

Li Fan's mastery of the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation could be described as making rapid progress.

He was among the top performers among the Geniuses.

In stark contrast was Li Fan's ability to sense the Soul Contract.

By the time roughly a quarter of the golden light in the Soul Gathering Pearl had been consumed, Li Fan was still like he was at the beginning, with almost no progress.

However, Li Fan also let nature take its course, without any pressure.

Words like being expelled from Tian Yu State or charging his recommender fees could not threaten him, Li Fan.

If there were no accidents, by then, Zhang Zhiliang would probably have already returned his Dao to Heaven.

So Li Fan still maintained a normal mindset, calmly and patiently comprehending at his own pace.

Time thus slowly flowed by.

On this day, Li Fan once again extracted a Divine Soul from the Soul Gathering Pearl, just about to comprehend it.

Two massive surges of Cultivation suddenly emerged from within his body.

Like surging rivers, flowing endlessly.

In just a moment, they filled half of his third Tribulation Body.

And the feedback Cultivation continued to increase steadily.

Li Fan's heart filled with joy, and he subtly sensed: “Are Ye Feipeng and Xiao Heng both Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm?”

He instinctively wanted to activate Formless Killing Intent to check the situation there.

But the distance was too great, making it impossible to know what was happening to the two of them.

This made Li Fan feel somewhat uncomfortable and unaccustomed.

“Judging from the amount of feedback Cultivation, both of them are at least Three-Law Golden Core.”

“Such a wonderful scene, yet I cannot witness it. It's a small regret.”

“It seems I need to find a way to upgrade my Formless Killing Intent.”

Calming the faint joy in his heart, Li Fan's Divine Sense skillfully rushed into the blank Divine Soul in his hand.

It was as if he had arrived in a vast, boundless, white space.

Li Fan traversed through it, attempting to find traces of the golden Soul Contract.

But just like before, he found nothing.

The imprint of the Soul Contract was deeply hidden within the Divine Soul, like a drop of water merged into the ocean, extremely difficult to detect.

Violently extracting the Divine Soul for observation was equivalent to boiling the ocean to force the Soul Contract imprint to appear.

Forcibly taking a Divine Soul was no different from killing someone.

It was simply impossible to use such a method for large-scale identification.

One could only enter the Soul Body's interior through Divine Sense, through close contact.

To comprehend the existence of the Soul Contract imprint.