201: Chapter 201 Shock

Inside the room.

Ji Yebai stood leisurely in front of Bai Zhu.

At this moment.

Bai Zhu was also looking at Ji Yebai with a solemn expression.

His heart was filled with shock.

Being stronger and at a higher Realm, he naturally saw things more clearly and understood more.

But it was precisely this clarity and understanding that made his heart tremble.

There is a saying in cultivation.

Sometimes the more you know, the less you understand.

At this moment, Bai Zhu felt the depth of this saying very deeply.

When Ji Yebai acted, he seemed to understand in a daze, but upon careful thought, he discovered there was even more he didn't understand.

But right now.

He knew that the person before him was extremely strong.

And most importantly, he was a Martial Artist.

A Martial Artist even stronger than himself!

"Stacked consciousness!"

"Disorder of Essence, Qi, and Spirit."

Ji Yebai scrutinized and examined Bai Zhu's injuries carefully.

He had also walked the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path and clearly knew some of its conditions.

Now, from his superior vantage point, he clearly grasped the full extent of Bai Zhu's injuries.

The Soul is wondrous.

It is also extremely difficult to control.

The Soul is ethereal and invisible; only upon becoming a Saint Grade can the Soul be manifested.

Similarly.

On the path of Martial Arts, below the Nirvana Realm, one cannot manifest the Soul either.

Will is a characteristic of the mind, and Mental Energy is a derivative of the Soul.

The Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path is the process of continuously integrating Mental Energy into the cells of the Physical Body.

Nine turns mean nine layers.

This process is like stacking building blocks.

Integrating Mental Energy into the flesh layer by layer.

The Mental Energy integrated into the flesh will constantly stimulate the flesh cells until the entire Mental Energy is completely merged into them.

The process of stacking blocks must be careful.

Because the blocks are very fragile and complex, a single mistake will cause a massive collapse.

If it were normal building blocks, a collapse would be harmless, but these are blocks of mental will.

If this collapses, it will affect the ethereal Soul.

This is why the consequences of failing the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path are so severe.

It involves the Soul; those below the Saint Grade don't even know what the Soul specifically looks like, so naturally, they cannot repair it.

Of course, the Soul is very profound and is not something an ordinary Saint Grade can repair at will.

It requires specific methods to be repaired.

"Who are you!?"

Bai Zhu looked at the person before him, who was silent and stunned, and asked in a deep voice.

Although his heart was somewhat heavy, he had never felt fear.

As the undisputed number one in the world since the recovery of Spiritual Qi for the Blue Star Civilization, Bai Zhu had his own poise.

Whether in the era of Spiritual Qi recovery or the Great Migration Era, he had always left everyone far behind.

Coupled with the slaughter he experienced during the Great Migration Era.

Bai Zhu's heart had long since become extremely resilient.

Even facing an even stronger opponent, he could not be made to feel fear.

Moreover, the person in front of him was also a Martial Artist.

To be able to reach a Realm he couldn't see clearly as a Martial Artist was quite thought-provoking.

Add to that how the person before him had rendered everyone unable to move in a single breath just now without dealing a single killing blow, Bai Zhu knew this person was extraordinary.

Bai Zhu was only puzzled that such a Martial Artist, one stronger than him, could exist on Blue Star.

Who exactly was this!?

Bai Zhu, who had led the way for several eras, was exceptionally baffled.

"Who I am is not important!"

"Control your injuries first!"

Ji Yebai smiled slightly and didn't answer, instead reaching out to tap on Bai Zhu's major acupoints.

"Control my injuries!?"

Bai Zhu paused, then looked at Ji Yebai with a strange gaze.

"No one knows better than I how severe the consequences of failing the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path are!"

"Controlling the injuries is impossible!"

Bai Zhu shook his head self-deprecatingly: "The Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path touches the Soul; failure means death or severe injury. I have now failed at the ninth layer. At this moment, I can even feel the sound of my Soul collapsing."

"I am beyond cure!"

Saying this, Bai Zhu's voice became cold.

He was originally curious about what this person wanted to do, but he didn't expect such a sentence to come out.

The Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path.

He was the one who invented it!

No one in this world understood its principles better than he did.

Perhaps the person before him had a Cultivation Technique he himself had invented, or perhaps the person's strength was greater than his own.

But as the creator of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path, Bai Zhu had unparalleled confidence in this; no one could surpass him on this path.

However.

Ji Yebai did not waste words with him.

An extreme black divine light suddenly extended from his fingertips, instantly tapping all the core acupoints across Bai Zhu's body.

The extremely dense black light sank into Bai Zhu's body bit by bit in an instant.

In that moment.

Wisps of unspeakable coolness began to travel through Bai Zhu's body along his major acupoints.

Then, like thousands of swimming dragons, they continuously gathered in his mind.

A warm, moist sensation washed over him.

In this instant, Bai Zhu felt as if he were soaking in a hot spring, incredibly comfortable.

"This...!?"

Bai Zhu's eyes snapped open, looking at Ji Yebai in disbelief.

In an instant, he felt the sound of his Soul collapsing dissipate.

Not only that, but the constant sense of comfort in his mind clearly made Bai Zhu feel that the tearing sensation from the depths of his Soul had completely vanished.

The pitch-black divine light from Ji Yebai's fingertips completely entered Bai Zhu's body.

He paused slightly, his finger hovering in mid-air.

Under Bai Zhu's astonished gaze, a streak of crimson-white divine light condensed.

Following that.

Ji Yebai once again tapped on Bai Zhu's major acupoints.

As the crimson-white divine light touched Bai Zhu's body, a surge of blazing, extremely masculine and yang aura poured into his frame.

Failure of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path meant not only the destruction of the Soul but also the collapse of the essence and energy within the cells.

But now.

As this extremely yang and masculine power merged into Bai Zhu's body, his collapsing cells actually stopped directly.

Not only that.

Wisps of pitch-black divine light carried his Mental Energy out from his Sea of Consciousness, merging with the crimson-white, extremely yang divine light within his flesh.

Then, his shattered cells miraculously began to recover.

Furthermore, under these two auras of Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang, the recovering cells rapidly became stronger.

These recovering, glowing cells quickly opened up a huge gap compared to the other glowing cells in Bai Zhu's body.

Feeling the earth-shaking changes within his body, Bai Zhu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he gave Ji Yebai a deep look.

Although he could only see a blurred figure.

Bai Zhu then immediately closed his eyes and decisively began to regulate the aura within his body.

His collapsed Sea of Consciousness recovered, his ethereal Soul was no longer tearing, and his lightning-filled fleshly body began to overflow with the breath of life once more.

At this moment, his Essence, Qi, and Spirit reached a Peak.

Bai Zhu did not delay and launched an assault directly during this Peak moment.

He once again began to charge at the ninth layer of the Soul Refining Path.

And at this time.

Ji Yebai slowly withdrew his hand.

The crimson-white divine light at his fingertips also gradually dissipated.

Meanwhile, Daoist Taixu and the others, who were suppressed and unable to move, already had stormy waves churning in their hearts.

Given the situation, they were already certain that this person had come to save Bai Zhu.

Although they didn't understand what he had done.

Bai Zhu's chaotic and complex aura began to become steady and unfathomable again.

It even became increasingly condensed and powerful.

"This... he was actually saved!?"

"Who is he!?"

"The Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path can still be saved!?"

"That's impossible..."

For a moment, everyone was filled with suspicion and uncertainty.

If failure on the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path could be saved, then the cultivation of Life and Death Realm Martial Artists would no longer be hindered by fear.

By then, the cultivation of the Blue Star Civilization would explode once more.

Ji Yebai watched the meditating Bai Zhu, his thoughts drifting.

In a daze, he returned to those years past, the days when he chased after Bai Zhu as his goal.

"On the path of cultivation, you mustn't fall behind!"

"Before I was chasing you, now it's your turn to chase me!"

Ji Yebai let out a soft sigh.

After a moment of silence, he turned and left.

Bai Zhu's cultivation would take some time, and among the people present, he only recognized Daoist Taixu, but they weren't well-acquainted.

To Ji Yebai, the rest were all strangers with whom he had nothing to talk about.

He simply left directly.