The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 307 - 185: Untrustworthy
Soul cultivation, as the name suggests, focuses on cultivating one’s own soul. Only when the soul can leave the body without fearing the exposure to the True Sun Fire is one considered to have entered the gateway. Ordinary cultivators and demons cultivate their physical bodies. However, the founder of soul cultivation took a unique path, daringly abandoning the physical body to focus solely on the path of the Divine Soul. This way, no matter how poor one’s physical aptitude is, it will no longer hinder the progress of cultivation.
Moreover, a soul cultivator uses the soul as their identity and the body as a shell, even capable of detaching from physical restraints to possess others, steal their memories, and use their Divine Skills, making it extremely secretive and powerful.
However, such a heaven-defying Technique naturally has significant flaws. Firstly, it is not the Righteous Path, and those who cultivate it are constantly tempted by the Heart Demon, easily becoming possessed; secondly, although the path of soul cultivation can be quickly advanced, its foundation is unstable. After reaching the Void Refining Stage, it becomes difficult to make any further progress, let alone cultivating to the later stages like the Body Integration Realm, Mahayana Realm, or even Crossing Tribulation and Ascension.
All these were clearly written on the pages of cultivation techniques obtained by Tu Yusheng, but he clung to them like a drowning man grasping for a straw. How could he let it go? All he wanted was a chance to change his own strength and destiny, a qualification to roam freely between heaven and earth, without caring for fusion, Mahayana and beyond.
Thus, his progress in cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and naturally, he fell into possession. Soul cultivation has one vicious Technique that allows the absorption of others’ souls for personal use, a method even more dreadful than the "Star Absorption Technique" Ning Xiaoxian read about in the books. The methods in the books only absorb others’ Inner Strength, whereas soul cultivation draws out the living soul itself to boost one’s own cultivation.
Such a Technique is, of course, not tolerated by the world. Yet, he acted very carefully and cautiously, and was always undiscovered. Until Qin Shiyu arranged a marriage for his daughter, and the groom was a high disciple of another Great Sect’s Sect Leader. The news drove Tu Jin into a violent rage, releasing his suppressed demonic nature and he recklessly slaughtered nearly a hundred civilians, then traveled thousands of miles in a day to severely injure Qin Suxia’s fiancé.
The Devil emerged, harming numerous lives. Especially since it hurt a young hero with limitless potential. When his whereabouts were exposed, and he was surrounded and attacked by Yunxiao Palace and several Great Immortal Sects, he had already amassed over a thousand lives, rightfully earning the title "Great Demon."
However, by then Tu Yusheng had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, just a step from the Divinity Transformation Stage. Additionally, with the special techniques of soul cultivation allowing him to fight against Divinity Transformation Stage cultivators without defeat, he was only seriously injured in this encirclement. In front of everyone, he changed his name to Tu Jin and, laughing madly, vowed to annihilate everyone in Yunxiao Palace, then swiftly fled.
The Immortal Sects chased him for three days and nights without success. Everyone eventually assumed he escaped into the Ten Thousand Mountains in the Central Nan Zhanbu Continent and had no choice but to give up. Little did they know, Tu Jin, audacious to the core, secretly sneaked back to the rear mountain of Qingjing Mountain, where he recuperated and waited for the chance to deliver a fatal blow to the sect.
The only person who saw through his whereabouts was Fairy Su Xia, leading to that soul-eroding, bone-melting night. She captured this Great Demon, who was intolerable by the world, but curiously, did not turn him over to the Immortal Sect for handling. Instead, she confined him in a Sealed Land she had painstakingly created. Since then, the demonic presence of Tu Jin disappeared from the world, and Fairy Su Xia, after taking charge of Yunxiao Palace for two hundred and sixty years, resigned from the position of Sect Leader and vanished without a trace.
The story of Fairy Su Xia ends here, but that of Tu Jin naturally does not. After being confined in the Sealed Land, he daily pondered how to escape. He never intended to harm his once beloved Su Xia, yet he yearned to fulfill his promise, to slaughter everyone in Yunxiao Palace thoroughly, to let this woman also taste the pain of a shattered heart!
"No woman in this world can be trusted!" With these words as his conclusion, there was a moment of silence within the God Demon Prison. Everyone thought that all Fairy Su Xia did was to protect Yunxiao Palace. Yet, who knew how unpredictable life can be? The sect was indeed not massacred by powerful enemies but could not withstand the ravages of time. Two thousand years of hard work, passed down to this day, had only turned into a medium and mediocre sect; the former glory of Fairy Su Xia’s era had long since vanished. If she knew of today’s matters back then, would she still disregard her own happiness and solely protect this sect?
