12: Chapter 12 Soul Splitting Technique

As for why Ye Yisong knew that a certain old man's Talisman Making success rate was less than ten percent back in the day, it was all thanks to the Fifth Elder, Ye Jiesheng. During a Family gathering, he got drunk for some reason and inadvertently blurted out this shocking secret.

Ye Jiexin was a total novice at Talisman Making back then.

Ye Yisong left Lingmu Peak and opened the Storage Pouch he had just picked up. With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he discovered that inside was a fourth-tier Mental Energy Cultivation Technique called the Soul Splitting Art.

Ginger is spicier when it's old—he had only met Ye Yisong once and already discovered the difficulties he was facing due to excessive Talisman Making.

Don't let the name of the Soul Splitting Art fool you; it is a genuine fourth-tier Cultivation Technique.

Moreover, Mental Energy Cultivation Techniques cannot be bought on the open market. Whenever such things appear, they are pre-purchased by local powerful families; they would never allow them to circulate among the common folk.

This is also the foundation upon which powerful families stand. If your Mental Energy cannot break through to the fourth tier, you will never even dream of becoming a Martial Ancestor. Without reaching the level of a Martial Ancestor, how could one even talk about having the confidence to resist?

As for those who managed it on their own, well, there is nothing that can be done about that; it can be considered a stroke of Luck in the Martial Dao.

Returning to his residence, Ye Yisong opened the Soul Splitting Art in his hand and studied it carefully. In less than three hours, Ye Yisong had finished reading the entire Secret Manual.

Ye Yisong discovered that this Secret Manual was quite helpful to him. It mainly explained how to Cultivate one's "Spirit" to be stronger, allowing one to persist longer during battles or Talisman Making.

The book proposed two feasible methods in total:

The first method encourages people to exhaust their "Spirit" to the limit and then rest for a sufficient amount of time, allowing the "Spirit" to naturally recover. The sages discovered that during this process, one's "Spirit" would slowly grow a little. When grown to the limit, it could even reach 1.5 times that of the same tier; this discovery was quite terrifying.

Ye Yisong had stumbled into doing this himself a few days ago. He felt this method was too simple, though it was a bit taxing on the person.

Therefore, he thought this first method was nothing special. He didn't realize what kind of idiot would be bored enough to keep exhausting their own "Spirit," unless one knew of the immense benefits within.

Moreover, he hadn't noticed any changes in his "Spirit." If it weren't for the fact that this book was given to him by Ye Jiexin, he would have thought he had encountered a fake book peddler.

The second method is relatively worthy of the book's name. It instructs people to use meditation to divide their "Spirit" into two parts, and then combine them again. By repeating this process, one's "Spirit" is kept in a state of splitting and combining, much like a Breakthrough, causing the "Spirit" to be passively in a state of growth. Unconsciously, the "Spirit" becomes stronger than before.

However, there is a drawback: the splitting and combining cannot be too frequent, otherwise one is prone to a mental breakdown and becoming a cripple.

The second method is Advanced, but could you at least tell me how to split it and how to meditate!

That damn author is just doing useless things, like taking off one's pants just to fart.

It's better to honestly follow the first method to slowly improve. Although it's slow, painful, and boring... the final result is still quite good. As for that damn second method, he would just have to wait until he could figure it out through meditation one day.

Just a moment ago, he had been praising Ye Jiexin in his heart, but the old man was unreliable after all. It seemed that the cause of revitalizing the Family would still depend on the efforts of Comrade Little Ye himself.

No, that's not right; there are too many "Little Yes" in the Family. Maybe he should call himself "Comrade Little Song"? That doesn't seem right either; there seem to be a few people in the Family with "Song" in their names. Maybe he should just have them all change their names? Hmm, not bad, that's what he would do.

He just didn't know if a certain Grand Elder in the Family with "Song" in his name would beat him to death to appease the spirits of their ancestors in heaven.

After Ye Yisong learned the method to solve the mental exhaustion from Talisman Making—er... it seemed it wasn't actually solved—he took out the remaining Talisman Making Materials from the Storage Pouch, prepared to turn them into Great Fireball Talismans, Black Tortoise Shield Talismans, and Water Spear Talismans, and continue his plan to get rich.

Ye Yisong looked at the Materials on the table, his eyes shining with a golden glow; this was all money.

He had teased Ye Jiexin today and lost over two thousand Spirit Stones; his mouth was truly loose. He was now one step further away from financial freedom. He had originally intended to take the results of his work from these past few days and exchange them with Ye Jiexin for more Talisman Making Materials, but now that was all ruined.

Ye Yisong calculated his major losses for the day in his heart, but his hands were not slow at all as he held a black tortoise shell and gently carved the patterns of a second-tier Black Tortoise Shield Talisman.

"Speed limit 30 ahead."

"Red light camera ahead, please slow down."

"Highway entrance ahead, minimum speed 80."

...

Amidst the rhythmic humming of the 798, one Black Tortoise Shield Talisman plate after another appeared on Ye Yisong's desk. Next, he infused each plate with Qi, turning them all into second-tier Talismans to sell for money—yes, just selling them for money.

In the process of infusing each Talisman plate with Qi, Ye Yisong inexplicably found himself recalling the feeling of working on an assembly line during his sophomore summer vacation. MMP, truly, "the spirit of a worker, the soul of a worker; workers are the masters of the world"—that motto held true everywhere.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, that dizzy feeling appeared again; he felt as if he could ascend to the Western Paradise to meet the Tathagata Buddha at any moment. Who could endure this? No matter how great the profit, one's life was paramount.

If Ye Yisong hadn't read the Soul Splitting Art given to him by Ye Jiexin today, he probably would have given up after doing it a few times.

The results behind the hard work were pleasing. Looking at the fifteen finished Talismans on the table, Ye Yisong felt that his hard work had not been in vain. Ten second-tier Low Grade and five second-tier Medium Grade Talismans—that was another 2,500 Spirit Stones. If the Family found out about this 100% success rate in wealth creation, he would be finished; he would likely spend the rest of his life dancing in a small, dark room.

For the sake of his own bright future, he still had to lay low, especially to avoid being discovered by Ye Jiexin. With that miserly and stingy nature of his, Ye Yisong would at least have to work for him for ten years. Ye Yisong had even thought of the excuse already: repaying him for ten years of education.

Checking the time on the wall, Ye Yisong felt it was still early. After resting for a moment, he picked up the ice jade on the table again, rubbing its surface while recalling the patterns of the Water Spear Talisman in his mind.

Hard work pays off; his first Water Spear Talisman was successfully crafted into a first-tier High Grade Talisman. It was truly strange—why couldn't he succeed on the first try every time? Could it be that his first life-and-death crisis also involved this kind of situation? This data test was a bit terrifying!

Uh! It seems he experienced that last time. Thank goodness, thank goodness...