Chapter 1384 - Refining the Soul
Fiery tensed under the pressure of the two tianlin souls. Even after a million years, each remnant still held perhaps a ten-thousandth of its peak power, and that alone felt suffocating. From that pressure alone, Fiery felt certain that, at their prime, these tianlins had stood at the Quasi-Immortal Realm.
"Let's wait and see," Liu Wuxie said quietly.
He still didn't understand why the tianlins' souls had chosen to appear before him and Fiery; their motive eluded him as well. Countless cultivators had sent their soul energy into the statues, yet the tianlins had only responded to Fiery.
Had it not been for Fiery's presence, Liu Wuxie believed he wouldn't have seen them at all. The two light spheres circled the strands of their soul energy again and again, like a pair of fish swimming around each other.
Around them, cultivators who had withdrawn their soul energy wore lingering fear on their faces.
"These two monsters are bizarre. Their soul fluctuations are terrifying," many experts muttered under their breath.
"What exactly are they? How come they aren't in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"
The Classic of Mountains and Seas was an ancient compendium that cataloged demonic, astral, and divine beasts, yet no one had ever seen creatures like those depicted in these statues.
Each statue had an oversized head, razor-sharp teeth, a curved horn, thick hooves, and a swollen belly like a colossal ox. Most unsettling of all was the crescent mark on their foreheads—anyone who stared at it felt their soul sea tremble.
After circling for a long moment, the two light spheres suddenly shot forward and entangled themselves with Liu Wuxie and Fiery's soul energy.
Fiery screamed as his soul strand tore free of the statues and shot back to his body. Liu Wuxie felt the same jolt of release—only for one of the light spheres to dive straight into his soul sea.
He reacted instantly. The Soul Forge Art flared to life, and the Heavenly Dao Book snapped open in his soul sea.