356: Yuanling!

Lin Chen's original body instantly appeared before the crimson monster.

This figure had already been imprisoned by his powerful True Spirit Power.

"You... what are you going to do!"

The crimson monster stared at Lin Chen, having an ominous premonition.

At this moment, he was incomparably weak, without a shred of strength to resist...

Lin Chen did not speak. With a thought, surging and violent True Spirit Power instantly flooded into the crimson monster's head.

Eh?

No true spirit?

Lin Chen grew puzzled. Was it not in the head?

Immediately, his True Spirit Power permeated the crimson monster's entire body.

The crimson monster seemed to realize what Lin Chen was doing, and he suddenly burst into mocking laughter.

"Kid, you're far too naive... trying to perform a Soul search on me?"

"Ignorant ant... you—"

Bang!

Lin Chen slapped out, directly shattering the crimson monster's head into pieces.

"Noisy!"

Buzz—

A flash of blood-light occurred, and the crimson monster recovered.

This time, the look he gave Lin Chen was full of resentment, but he no longer spoke.

He seemed certain that Lin Chen had no way of dealing with him.

And indeed, that was the case.

Lin Chen's true spirit carefully explored the crimson monster's interior but found nothing similar to a 'true spirit.'

In his perception, the crimson monster before him was merely a body of flesh and blood...

"How is this possible... this crimson monster is considered an intelligent being..."

"Could this be the Guixu Clan..."

Lin Chen sighed softly in his heart. He now understood more clearly why the Guixu Clan, an outside race, could dominate the Main World of the Five-Dimensional World in such a short time.

Abnormalities, magic creatures, and the crimson monster before him—true spirit attacks were all useless...

"It seems I can only rely on the System..."

With a flash, Lin Chen returned once more to the Seventh Layer of Time and Space.

The crimson monster was left to be imprisoned and guarded by his Clone.

This time, Lin Chen still entered the Martial Dao Space.

Each time the Martial Dao Space opens, it can be maintained for one month, and the Time Acceleration effect had not yet worn off.

Lin Chen looked at the system panel, thinking of deducing a Soul-searching Battle Technique, and it had to be one capable of searching that crimson monster's Soul...

Buzz—

The system panel flickered and immediately began the deduction.

Lin Chen subconsciously looked at his Energy Points; it had consumed several trillion Shi...

"It seems it's another Battle Technique that fuses multiple Great Daos..."

The progress bar for this deduction was even slower than the previous deduction of the Time River Reflection Method.

Lin Chen simply took out those one hundred origin profound crystals.

"I'll take this time to convert all of these into Energy Points..."

Each origin profound crystal was the size of a fist, and the crystals were deep purple.

Even before absorbing them, he could sense the vast energy matter within!

The level of this energy matter was terrifyingly high...

Absorb!

With a thought from Lin Chen, all the origin profound crystals before him exploded with a bang.

Immediately following that, an extremely exaggerated scene appeared.

It was as if Lin Chen were at the mouth of an energy spring; with him as the center, countless energy streams surged forth.

In an instant, a vast ocean of energy appeared, its scope so large it nearly enveloped the entire Martial Dao Space...

Lin Chen's expression was excited beyond measure; he couldn't believe his eyes.

Happiness had come too suddenly!

"This... this is too terrifying!"

"How many Energy Points must this be..."

Rumble—

The ocean of energy began to frantically pour into Lin Chen's body.

He was now like a black hole, devouring this vast energy to his heart's content.

One week... two weeks... one month...

Three years later.

Finally, all the energy was completely absorbed.

Lin Chen's expression was incredibly excited. Since the System had upgraded so many times, how long had it been since he'd spent this much time absorbing energy...

Energy Points: 10,004.1 million trillion Shi

"How much?"

Lin Chen's eyes bulged, suspecting he had misread it.

One must know that 10,000 trillion Shi is 100 million billion Shi!

A single origin profound crystal contained 100 million trillion Shi in Energy Points!

A Rank Nine Eternal Treasure Artifact only contained 3 trillion Shi in Energy Points; that's an energy gap of over 30,000 times!

With so many Energy Points, his strength would once again welcome a qualitative leap!

It was very likely he could break through directly to Eternal Middle Stage!

It took a long time for Lin Chen's excitement to subside.

Only then did he discover that the Battle Technique deduced by the System was ready.

Great Method of Yuan Spirit Extraction (Creation Mid-rank) (0/50 trillion Shi)

(Yuan Spirit is the intelligence collective of special lifeforms, similar to a true spirit. This Great Method of Yuan Spirit Extraction uses Karma and Reincarnation as a guide, manipulating the Dao of Life and Destruction to lock onto the target's life mark, then converting Primal Spirit Power to extract their primordial spirit body and learn everything.)

Yuan Spirit?

Lin Chen's expression froze.

What is this?

It was his first time hearing of a Yuan Spirit.

"The System description says it's similar to a true spirit."

One must know that the true spirit is the core of an intelligent lifeform, a collective entity of Soul, will, thought, emotion, and so on.

Lin Chen had suspected before that since the Guixu Clan was an intelligent race, why was there no mention of a true spirit.

true spirit attacks were ineffective against the Guixu Clan.

It turned out they didn't have a true spirit at all, but a Yuan Spirit!

This was another type of special intelligent life distinct from them.

Yuan Spirits were something they could not perceive...

"I'll know once I learn this method!"

Lin Chen couldn't wait and directly spent 50 trillion Shi in Energy Points.

Instantly, countless memories regarding this method flooded into his mind...

This method contained the Profound Truths of Karma, Reincarnation, Creation, and the Daos of Life and Destruction.

No matter how special the Guixu Clan was, they could not escape Karma and Reincarnation; they likewise left life trajectories within heaven and earth...

Lin Chen comprehended the Great Method of Yuan Spirit Extraction under the bodhi tree at a startling speed.

In less than a day, he had reached Perfection!

"So that blood-colored mist is a manifestation of the Yuan Spirit..."

Lin Chen now understood completely.

Abnormalities and magic creatures actually all possessed Yuan Spirits.

A Yuan Spirit is not like a true spirit, which has a true spirit body.

For special lifeforms like the Guixu Clan, their Yuan Spirits were all different...

Some were physical, some were illusory, in all sorts of strange forms...

For example, the 'core' inside a magic creature was actually a type of Yuan Spirit!

It could be said that Lin Chen could now lock onto a Guixu Clan member's Yuan Spirit with a single thought.

Once locked, this method he mastered could instantly convert True Spirit Power into Primal Spirit Power through the Profound Truths of the Dao of Creation!

Having Primal Spirit Power, he could perform Soul searches on the Guixu Clan, and even true spirit will attacks!

And most importantly, in the future, when he encountered the Guixu Clan, he could directly find their vital point by locking onto the Yuan Spirit!

After learning all this, Lin Chen was filled with wonder.

He hadn't expected there to be such strange things in this world.

The next moment, Lin Chen teleported directly to the side of that crimson monster.

Three years in the Martial Dao Space was only a few minutes in the outside world.

Seeing Lin Chen's original body appear, the crimson monster had a look of disdain.

Lin Chen ignored him. With a thought, he began to execute the Great Method of Yuan Spirit Extraction.

Instantly, his True Spirit Power was converted into Primal Spirit Power through this method.

Then, he saw a cluster of blood-colored mist inside the crimson monster's body. This cluster of blood mist was the crimson monster's core vital point—the Yuan Spirit!

"It really is this..."

The corners of Lin Chen's mouth curled up slightly.

He had guessed before that it was likely that blood-colored light.

It turned out that the blood-colored light was just the appearance; the true core essence was this cluster of blood mist.

If he didn't also master Primal Spirit Power now, he wouldn't have been able to discover this cluster of blood mist at all...

"This primordial spirit body is truly marvelous, allowing the Physical Body to constantly regenerate, though this cluster of blood mist doesn't have much energy left."

"In the future, when facing similar crimson monsters, I only need to lock onto the opponent's Yuan Spirit and wipe it out, or devour it for Energy Points..."

The next moment, a surging Primal Spirit Power flooded into the crimson monster's primordial spirit body.

"No... what did you do!"

"How could you possibly discover my primordial spirit body!"

The crimson monster's face was full of terror, and his body trembled incessantly.

As Lin Chen began the Soul search, the crimson monster let out a miserable scream, and his face began to contort...