Stellar Transformation-Chapter 459: Episode 14 - 32 Do You Have a Soul?

"Artifact Hall? Fire Refining Hall?"

Qin Yu felt his heart skip a beat, and he could guess the status of the owner of the Mishen Palace in the Divine World. The treasures left behind by such a person must be astounding.

"The palace opposite the front hall is the Artifact Hall, and the palace on the left side of this courtyard is called the ’Transfer Hall’; the one on the right is the Fire Refining Hall," Uncle Fu explained as he pointed at the three palaces.

Qin Yu’s gaze involuntarily shifted towards the three palaces.

The doors of the Transfer Hall were wide open, and it should be easy to enter. However, the doors of the Artifact Hall and the Fire Refining Hall were tightly closed.

"The master’s ability in artifact refining can be said to look down upon the entire Divine World. The Fire Refining Hall is where the master normally practiced artifact refining. Inside the hall, there are his insights into artifact refining and many tools for the practice," Uncle Fu said with a smile.

Qin Yu’s eyes blazed with intensity as he looked at the Fire Refining Hall.

Qin Yu was well aware that in worlds like the Divine World, as well as the realms of immortals, demons, and mortals, strength is everything. In a world where strength reigns supreme... the status of a master with the topmost artifact refining abilities can be imagined.

Che Hou Yuan had once mentioned that there were God King level experts who had requested his help in refining Hongmeng Spiritual Treasures. Reaching the level of ’Che Hou Yuan’ in artifact refining meant that sometimes even Divine Kings had to ask for assistance. One could imagine Che Hou Yuan’s status.

"If I learn this artifact refining ability, the difficulty of making Li’er my wife should greatly diminish," thought Qin Yu, his heart beginning to flutter. He also knew that although acquiring these artifact refining insights, it would take a vast amount of time for him to possibly become an Artifact Refining Master. But without these insights... even with his utmost effort, achieving great success in artifact refining would be difficult.

After all, the pinnacle figures in every field cannot succeed by effort alone. They also need extraordinary aptitude!

Uncle Fu continued, "Although there aren’t many treasures within the Fire Refining Hall, it contains the master’s artifact refining insights, making it the most important place in the Mishen Palace. There are two requirements to open the Fire Refining Hall."

"What requirements?" Qin Yu asked involuntarily.

Even someone as composed as he couldn’t suppress his longing for those artifact refining insights.

"The master once said that only his disciples are qualified to inherit the Fire Refining Hall. Thus, the two requirements to open the Fire Refining Hall are... one is that the True Fire within the body must reach the ’White Pure Fire’ realm," Uncle Fu said with a faint smile.

"White Pure Fire?" Qin Yu felt his heart constrict, and it took him a moment to catch his breath, "What level of flames is White Pure Fire?"

Uncle Fu explained, "Under normal circumstances, the True Fire within a divine being is ’Black Divine Fire,’ while the True Fire within Heavenly God experts is ’White Pure Fire.’ And to learn the master’s artifact refining methods, even the entry requirement is White Pure Fire."

The entry requirement is White Pure Fire? Qin Yu felt bitterness in his heart.

The insights of the Artifact Refining Master are precious, but the requirements to learn them are astonishingly strict. Fortunately, his cultivation technique, "Star Transformation," is also special. Now, at the Origin Realm, his True Fire is already Black Divine Fire.

Qin Yu suddenly thought, "Che Hou Yuan once mentioned the Mishen Palace would keep the people of the Divine World out, so how could anyone below the Divine Being realm have White Pure Fire?"

Seeming to guess Qin Yu’s thoughts, Uncle Fu continued, "The master had already considered that the True Fire in beings from the realms of immortals, demons, and monsters cannot possibly be White Pure Fire. So, he transferred one of the items in the Fire Refining Hall to the Artifact Hall."

Qin Yu fixed his gaze on Uncle Fu.

"What’s inside the Artifact Hall?" Qin Yu inquired.

"There are many things hidden in the Artifact Hall, such as some precious artifact refining materials. All of the master’s refining materials are stored in the Artifact Hall. There are also some Heavenly Divine Artifacts and even a few Hongmeng Postnatal Spiritual Treasures," Uncle Fu said solemnly.

Even with prior knowledge, Qin Yu couldn’t help but look again towards the Artifact Hall not far away.

Che Hou Yuan’s artifact refining materials? The treasured heavenly divine artifacts? The treasured Hongmeng Postnatal Spiritual Treasures?

"The Artifact Hall is where various treasures of the owner are stored, and you still have a chance to obtain them," Uncle Fu said with a smile. "There are many and varied things in the Artifact Hall. There are also precious items like Divine Spirit Crystals and even some machines refined by the owner."

Qin Yu nodded.

It seemed that almost all the treasures of the entire Mishen Palace were stored in the Artifact Hall. As for the Fire Refining Hall, it was related to insights on artifact refining as well as some tools for refining.

Qin Yu suddenly asked, "Uncle Fu, you just mentioned that the owner of the Mishen Palace once transferred something from the Fire Refining Hall to the Artifact Hall. What was it?" Qin Yu had a feeling that this transferred item would not be ordinary.

Uncle Fu smiled and said, "It was nine ’Purple Origin Fire Pearls’."

"Nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls? What are Purple Origin Fire Pearls?" Qin Yu became puzzled; he had never heard of Purple Origin Fire Pearls before.

Uncle Fu explained, "The Purple Origin Fire Pearls are nine fire beads born from the nurturing of heaven and earth, and they can be considered as Hongmeng Innate Spiritual Treasures."

Since they were Hongmeng Spiritual Treasures, they should be worthwhile, Qin Yu thought to himself.

"However, the Purple Origin Fire Pearls can only be considered third-class Hongmeng Spiritual Treasures. In terms of preciousness, they’re not as valuable as your upper-grade heavenly divine artifact, the Residual Snow Divine Spear," Uncle Fu said with a light smile.

Qin Yu nodded thoughtfully.

He knew that Hongmeng Spiritual Treasures merely represented the inclusion of Hongmeng Spiritual Energy; their power was not necessarily stronger than heavenly divine artifacts—it all depended on the level of the Hongmeng Spiritual Treasure. A third-class Hongmeng Spiritual Treasure wasn’t much to speak of.

Suddenly, Uncle Fu’s tone changed, "However, the nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls have been refined by the owner. I don’t know by what method, but the owner managed to almost merge the nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls into one entity, greatly increasing their power, and simultaneously making them the core of the entire Mishen Palace."

"The core?" Qin Yu felt as if he had thought of something.

Uncle Fu nodded, "Right, these nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls used to be in the Fire Refining Hall, because extracting fire energy from them could make it much easier for the owner to refine artifacts. When the owner left this time, he placed the nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls in the Artifact Hall... As long as you refine the nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls into your body, the entire Mishen Palace will belong to you."

A joy arose in Qin Yu’s heart, "This is somewhat similar to the Qingyu Immortal Mansion, which also has a core in the form of the Primordial Spirit Essence. The Mishen Palace, too, has its core."

"The owner once told me that opening the Fire Refining Hall is difficult. As long as you can open the Artifact Hall and refine the ’nine Purple Origin Fire Pearls’, it’s the same as gaining the Mishen Palace, and you can carry the Mishen Palace on your body. Once your strength is sufficient, you can naturally go open the Fire Refining Hall," Uncle Fu said.

Qin Yu suddenly remembered something.

"Uncle Fu, you just mentioned that there are two major requirements to open the Fire Refining Hall. You mentioned one is having True Fire reaching the White Pure Fire Realm in your body. What about the other?" Qin Yu suddenly asked.

"The second requirement is much more difficult," Uncle Fu sighed, "Once your True Fire reaches the White Pure Fire Realm, you can open the Fire Refining Hall’s doors. However, upon entering the Fire Refining Hall, you will face three great arrays, and you must break through all three of them. The second requirement is that your understanding of the Divine World’s array formation restrictions must reach an extremely high standard."

Qin Yu was at a loss for words.

Formation, restrictions?

Qin Yu knew this was his greatest weakness, as his time spent in cultivation was far too short. Array formation restrictions required a lot of time to study.

Moreover, the Fire Refining Hall demanded a significant understanding of the Divine World’s array formation restrictions, whereas Qin Yu’s knowledge of the array formation restrictions in the Immortal, Demon, and Demon World were only at a basic level.

"What level does the Illusion Array outside the Mishen Palace belong to?" Qin Yu asked.

"That? That’s just the most basic one among the Divine Illusion Arrays. Qin Yu, imagine, even someone from your Immortal, Demon, and Demon World can enter this part of the Divine Illusion Array; see how low level this array is," Uncle Fu said indifferently, "This array was casually set by the owner, to prevent people from the Immortal, Demon, and Demon World from constantly disturbing the Mishen Palace."

Qin Yu let out a long sigh and began to smile, "Forget it, I don’t want to deal with opening the Fire Refining Hall for now. I’ll start with the Artifact Hall."

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In the courtyard, Qin Yu and Uncle Fu walked up to the great doors of the Artifact Hall.

The great doors of the Artifact Hall were dark red throughout. The doors did not swing open but had to be slowly raised to reveal the entrance.

"The master once said that the requirements to open the Artifact Hall doors aren’t high, the first being to use Divine Sense to find the mechanism of the door. The second requirement... I’ll tell you once you find the mechanism," said Uncle Fu, looking at Qin Yu.

Qin Yu confidently released his Divine Sense.

His Divine Sense carefully covered the entire door, inspecting every detail.

Once.

Without any findings.

"Let me give you a hint, the mechanism is above the door," stated Uncle Fu indifferently.

Qin Yu nodded, then searched again even more cautiously, going over the door back and forth. Despite the door being only so big, Qin Yu found nothing after several searches.

"Hm?" Qin Yu’s Divine Sense locked onto two spots at the bottom of the door. When his Divine Sense had passed over these two places earlier, he felt something unusual.

"What are these two spots for?" Qin Yu produced a Divine Sword in his hand and used it to tap on these two areas, channeling the Origin Power inside him through the sword onto these spots.

Instantly—

Green light burst forth from the two spots just as two protrusions emerged.

"Good, you have met the first of the two requirements to open the Artifact Hall. I had initially thought your soul was at the Soul Golden Core Realm, but it seems your soul has reached the ’Nascent Soul’ level," said Uncle Fu with a smile.

Qin Yu looked at Uncle Fu, puzzled.

Soul Infant?

"Uncle Fu, you’re saying my soul has reached Nascent Soul level?" Qin Yu asked again.

Uncle Fu replied matter-of-factly, "To my knowledge, to find the hidden room’s mechanism, the soul level must be close to that of an Upper Divine Being. And to find the door’s mechanism, the soul must reach Nascent Soul level. How could you have found it if you weren’t at that level?"

Qin Yu nodded in understanding.

"Could Uncle Fu be a high-ranked Heavenly God?" Qin Yu wondered.

Qin Yu knew well that he was merely at the Soul Golden Core level. His fortunate discovery of the mechanism was probably due to the aid of the Meteor Tear, making it easier for his Soul Power to probe.

"If Uncle Fu were a Heavenly God expert, he should be able to detect my soul’s level. But since he can’t... then he isn’t a Heavenly God. But why can’t I detect any trace of Uncle Fu at all?" Qin Yu was puzzled.

With Qin Yu’s current soul level, if Uncle Fu were a Divine Being, Qin Yu would certainly be able to sense it.

Qin Yu couldn’t help feeling confused.

"Qin Yu, now that you’ve found the mechanism and the protrusions have appeared, what you need to do is hold these two protrusions with both hands and lift this door using your own strength," Uncle Fu instructed.

Qin Yu snapped out of his contemplation.

"Lift the entire stone door?" Confident, Qin Yu walked over to the two protrusions, which were only about a foot above the ground, spaced perfectly for him to grasp with both hands.

Grasping the protrusions, Qin Yu suddenly exerted himself.

"Heave!"

Qin Yu shouted, his arm muscles bulging, but the door did not budge at all.

"You may use your physical strength or your internal energy, as long as you can open the door," Uncle Fu commented from the side.

Qin Yu was now squatting, firmly holding the protrusions.

Nine Transmutations Force, Power of Gold, Origin Power... Qin Yu channeled all his strength into his hands, his muscular power also burst to the limit, his face flushing red.

"Rise!"

Qin Yu roared, his muscles trembling, each muscle vividly straining, but the door merely vibrated slightly before becoming still again.

"Being able to make the door tremble means... if you increase your strength to three times what it is now, you’ll probably be able to fully raise the door," Uncle Fu said from the side.

Qin Yu felt deflated and let go.

"According to the master’s design, to open the door, one needs the strength of a Lower Heavenly God. To find the mechanism, a Lower Heavenly God Realm soul level is required. The master said... only those who have reached this level are deserving of Mishen Palace," Uncle Fu said slowly.

"A Lower Heavenly God?" Qin Yu exclaimed in surprise.

Is my strength a third of a Lower Heavenly God’s?

"Your soul has reached the Nascent Soul Realm, with continued effort, you should be able to increase your strength to the Lower Heavenly God level," Uncle Fu suggested.

Qin Yu became puzzled once again. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Uncle Fu, do you have a soul?" Qin Yu suddenly asked.

Qin Yu couldn’t think of any reason to explain why he couldn’t detect even the slightest trace of Uncle Fu. There was only one possibility—Uncle Fu had no soul. But is it possible for a person to lack a soul?

Uncle Fu looked at Qin Yu with surprise, then calmed down and smiled, "You’ve noticed? Indeed, I don’t have a soul."

(End of Chapter Two!)

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