Chapter 45: Origin Soul Revival Pill!
[Ding!]
[Host has invested: Protected Dao companion from a life-threatening attack.]
[Triggering critical multiplier... calculating...]
[Congratulations to the Host! You have triggered a 1,000,000X Return!]
[Reward: Origin Soul Revival Pill!]
[Origin Soul Revival Pill]
[A supreme divine pill born from the Source of Souls.]
[Effect 1: Perfect Soul Restoration]
[Completely restores all damage sustained by the soul, regardless of its severity. Tears, fractures, burns, corruption, and hidden injuries are instantly repaired, returning the soul to its absolute peak state.]
[Effect 2: Soul Reconstruction]
[As long as even a single fragment of the soul remains, the pill will reconstruct and restore the entire soul to completeness.]
[Effect 3: Primordial Spirit Regeneration]
[Instantly regenerates a damaged or destroyed Primordial Spirit, restoring it to its peak condition without leaving behind any defects.]
[Effect 4: Soul Foundation Enhancement]
[Permanently strengthens the soul’s foundation, greatly increasing Divine Sense, spiritual perception, soul defense, and innate talent for Dao comprehension.]
[Effect 5: Absolute Purification]
[Purifies all soul impurities, karmic corruption, curses, resentment, Heart Demons, and lingering negative influences, returning the soul to its purest state.]
[Effect 6: Dao Heart Restoration]
[Repairs all damage inflicted upon the Dao Heart, restoring conviction, mental clarity, and the cultivator’s ability to continue pursuing the Great Dao.]
[Effect 7: Primordial Spirit Foundation]
[For cultivators who have yet to form a Primordial Spirit, establishes an unparalleled soul foundation, ensuring the future Primordial Spirit far surpasses ordinary cultivators.]
[Effect 8: Origin Soul Mark]
[Engraves an Origin Mark upon the user’s soul. Upon death, the mark shields the soul from the erosion of reincarnation, preserving the user’s true self according to the limits of the Heavenly Dao.]
Lin Yuan was completely and utterly stunned. His breathing hitched, as he processed the unfathomable implications of the supreme divine pill.
He eyes began at the bottom list of effects,
Effect 8... Lin Yuan thought, a profound awe shaking his Core Formation foundation.
In the Nine Provinces, and even in the higher realms, death was the absolute equalizer. When a cultivator perished and their soul was dragged into the cycle of reincarnation, the River of Forgetfulness washed away all memories, attachments, and identity. To reincarnate meant the absolute death of the "self." But this pill... this single pill possessed the ability to shield the soul from the erosion of reincarnation!
With this pill, Lin Yuan would no longer fear the cycle of reincarnation. Even if his physical body were destroyed and his soul cast into the River of Forgetfulness, the Origin Soul Mark would preserve his true self, shielding him from the river’s erosion and Meng Po’s Soup. His memories, his Dao Heart, and his very identity would remain intact. So long as the mark endured, reincarnation would no longer signify an end, but merely the beginning of another journey. Death itself had ceased to be his greatest enemy.
It was an item that fundamentally broke the rules of life and death, an artifact that even immortal emperors would wage wars to possess!
But before his mind could fully celebrate the sheer magnitude of the reward, the cold, razor-sharp edge of logic sliced through his euphoria.
Lin Yuan’s eyes widened, the glow within them suddenly flaring into a raging inferno.
He rapidly reread the initial prompt.
[Host has invested: Protected Dao companion from a life-threatening attack.]
Protected Dao companion.
Lin Yuan’s heart plummeted into his stomach, instantly turning to ice. He was currently hovering miles away from Azure Cloud City. He had not lifted a finger to protect his wife in the last three weeks. He hadn’t been there.
There was only one possible way the system could register him as having successfully defended her from a life-threatening attack.
The Eye of Heavenly Retribution.
The autonomous spell he had extracted and left hovering above their courtyard. He had keyed it to a singular command: anyone who stepped within a hundred yards harboring killing intent toward his wife would trigger it.
If the system had just rewarded him for protecting her, it meant the Eye had just fired.
It meant someone had just tried to murder Bai Qingyue.
The pieces fell into place with terrifying speed. The violent purple lightning hex that had just struck his soul, locking onto his coordinates... the lingering aura of hostility... it was all connected. Whoever had just attacked his home had triggered the Eye, died, and inadvertently alerted their superiors, who had then tracked his residual spiritual signature directly to here!
"Qingyue..." Lin Yuan whispered, his voice trembling with a mixture of dread and rage. The mere thought of his wife bleeding, injured, or worse, completely shattered Lin Yuan’s composure.
He had to get back to her. Now.
Ignoring the rapidly expanding spatial tear manifesting just ten yards in front of him, Lin Yuan violently mobilized.
"Get out of my way!" Lin Yuan roared, as he unleashed Immortal Cloud Step at maximum capacity, intending to break the sound barrier and bypass the spatial anomaly entirely to rush back to his home.
But just as he shifted his weight to launch himself forward...
BOOM!
The crimson spatial tear violently detonated, unleashing a concussive shockwave of compressed spatial energy that forced Lin Yuan backward.
The Phoenix Thunder Teleportation Array completed its transit.
The sky above was instantly saturated with a suffocating spiritual pressure. The sheer weight of four gathered Core Formation powerhouses caused the trees hundreds of feet below to groan and snap.
Stepping out from the dissipating crimson lightning were four figures, their auras blazing like miniature suns against the clear blue sky.
There was a youthful man with a carefree smirk holding a massive wine gourd. There was a bare-chested brute clutching a ten-thousand-pound nine-ringed halberd. There was a lean, glacial man with short swords.
And standing at the forefront, crackling with violent arcs of purple lightning, was a terrifying middle-aged man possessing the absolute, overwhelming aura of the late-stage Core Formation realm.
Patriarch Xu Canghai’s bloodshot eyes instantly locked onto Lin Yuan. The Clan Head’s lips curled into a sneer of pure hatred, his lightning expanding to completely seal off the surrounding airspace.
"Where do you think you’re going, rat?" Xu Canghai boomed, his voice echoing with the wrath of the numerous thunderstorms.