My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 312: 292 – Numerous Attempts but No Avail

Translator: 549690339

“Due to the unique nature of divine souls, the Array Hub Device can indeed produce on a large scale.”

“But each Array Hub’s activation in the [Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array] requires the guidance of an Array Master. Moreover, to ensure the accuracy of the array technique, the Array Master needs to debug and calibrate it from time to time.”

“And that, is why you are here for this training session.”

A small golden orb suddenly appeared in Ji Hongdao’s hand, which was the same object previously distributed to everyone along with the clothing.

“This is a Soul Gathering Bead, made from Yin Spirit Jade. As the name suggests, it is used for gathering and imprisoning divine souls.”

“Do you see the golden lights inside?”

“They are divine souls of the monks from the Five Elders’ Organization who were captured by us!”

The moment Ji Hongdao said this, the cultivators present showed a change in their expressions.

Through the recent field trial of extracting divine souls, they have learned that the golden light in the divine souls of the Five Elders’ monks is a trace of the [Soul Contract].

But in the divine soul of each monk, the proportion of golden light is just a slight bit.

How many divine souls would be needed to form such a substantial amount of golden light, to the point of concreteness? Thousands? Or tens of thousands?

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

Some young juniors who have been immersed in studying array techniques since they started cultivating, rarely encounter such a cruel side of the Immortal Cultivation World.

At this moment, they couldn’t help but show pale faces, and they were mentally disturbed.

“How?” Ji Hongdao said solemnly “Are you frightened? Do you think we are too cruel?”

“But you should know that in the battle of Ling Province alone, the number of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals monks killed in battle is hundreds or thousands more than the number of divine souls you have collected in this Bead!”

“Not to mention various more wars that have been waged continuously over the past thousands of years.”

“Mercy to the enemy is the real cruelty.”

Ji Hongdao gazed deeply at the many young cultivators in front of him, stopped at this point, and did not delve further into this topic.

He turned to continue introducing this golden Soul Gathering Bead.

“What you have to do, is to learn the traces of the Soul Contract through constant close observation and touching these divine souls.”

“Eventually, you can discern their differences without relying on external forces.”

“Only in this way, you could calibrate and debug the Array Hub when you construct the [Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array].”

“The process of this kind of comprehension requires the consumption of divine souls. As such, you should aim to do this before all the divine souls in the Soul Gathering Bead have been consumed.”

“Otherwise… ”

Ji Hongdao’s voice dropped in temperature, “We will deem you incapable of constructing the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array. We’ll not only expel you from the Universal Courtyard, but we’ll also charge your nominators for the cost of training.”

At these words, the faces of the cultivators around became darker.

If they fail to meet the requirements and simply get sacked, it wouldn’t just be a matter of losing face.

They fear they would also lose their futures and be cut off from the world of array techniques forever.

The young Junjie who were recommended to come here were under great pressure.

“However, rest assured. To make things easier for you, we have specially processed these divine souls of the Five Elders’ monks.”

“The majority of the memories inside the divine souls have been thoroughly erased.”

“With a pure soul body, you won’t have to face the impact of memory and emotion. This makes comprehension much easier.”

“Unless you’re simply here to mix and add experience, there shouldn’t be any problems.”

Ji Hongdao finally changed the topic and started encouraging the young Junjie.

In the end, he drew up a study plan for everyone for the upcoming period.

During the day, the cultivators would follow Ji Hongdao, learning how to construct the [Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array].

At night, they would each return to their own courtyards to comprehend the imprint of the Soul Contract.

A test would take place every month to check on their learning progress.

In this way, Li Fan began his schedule of training in the Universal Courtyard.

The Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array, which was highly valued the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, truly lived up to its expectation of being an intricate and complex array technique that could potentially change the course of events.”

It was extremely arcane and complicated.

The outer structure of the array technique alone consisted of as many as thirty six million array formulae.

Each basic formula was made up of various different and numerous basic array techniques.

Even the simplest one was a combination of tens of thousands of different array technique units.

To grasp the structure of the whole Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array, even for these geniuses selected from various provinces, it was no easy task.

However, Li Fan had the aid of the Secret Technique of [Transmutation God One].

Everything learned and seen, even thoughts and actions, were recorded in detail in the blue Transmutation Stone in his sea of consciousness.

He could refer back to them at any time, cross-verifying the past and the present.

The level of Li Fan’s mastery over the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Array Technique was advancing by leaps and bounds.

He was among the top in a group of young prodigies.

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

When the golden soul in the Soul Gathering Bead was about a quarter consumed, Li Fan had hardly progressed since the beginning.

However, Li Fan was quite relaxed about it and was not under any pressure at all.

Words about expulsion from Tianyu Province and asking nominators to pay the cost won’t intimidate Li Fan.

If nothing goes wrong, Zhang Zhiliang would probably have returned to the heavens by that time.

Thus, Li Fan continued to perceive with a calm mind and a slow pace, not arrogant nor impatient.

Time passed by slowly.

One day, Li Fan once again extracted a divine soul from the Soul Gathering Bead and was about to perceive it.

Two surges of colossal cultivation force suddenly welled up from within his body.

Like a mighty river, it flowed ceaselessly.

In just a moment, half of the third tribulation body was filled.

And the cultivation feedback was still continuously increasing.

Lit with delight, Li Fan quietly sensed: “Is this Ye Feipeng and Xiao Heng achieving breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm?”

He instinctively wanted to activate the Formless Killing Machine to check on the situation.

However, the distance was too far, and he could not know what happened to the two of them.

This made Li Fan feel a bit uncomfortable and unused to it.

“Judging from the amount of cultivation feedback, the both of them should at least have a Three Law Gold Pill.”

“Such a spectacular scene, yet unable to witness, is a bit regrettable.”

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

Calming his slight joy, Li Fan’s consciousness skillfully surged into the blank divine soul in his hand.

It was as if he had arrived at a huge plane of emptiness, barren and boundless.

Li Fan treaded through it, trying to find the traces of the golden Soul Contract.

However, just like before, he got nothing.

The imprint of the Soul Contract is deeply hidden within the divine soul, like a drop of water blending into the ocean, making it extremely difficult to detect.

Extracting the divine soul violently to observe is akin to boiling the ocean, forcing the Soul Contract imprint to show itself.

Forcefully extracting divine soul is no different from murder.

If they want to identify at large scale, they all knew it’s impossible to employ this method.

The only option is to enter the soul body with one’s consciousness, and experience it closely.

To sense the existence of the Soul Contract imprint.