Without soul division, just manipulation... It's like how Hongling controls the Sword Qi pre-buried everywhere, that's not a soul division either.

Zhao Changhe flicked his finger again, and the blood figure "whoosh" entered the Heavenly Vault.

Endless yellow sand, a thousand miles of flying snow. Yuan San Niang stood with her hands behind her at the edge of the ice pool, watching the ice Qi rise within and lowering her head in contemplation.

Her initial breakthrough was the earliest by Zhao Changhe's side, just like her reputation in the Worldly Society, understated, without remarkable glory, yet the strongest and most uniquely gifted - inheritor of the Sea Emperor's "Divine," the faith of millions of sea people, also the Xuanwu belief of the Four Symbols Sect. If Xia Chichi could not directly utilize the Mountain and River Dragon Energy, purely in terms of the speed of cultivation through the power of faith, no one in the world could match San Niang, not even Zhao Changhe at this moment.

But cultivation is one thing, enlightenment is another. If she wanted to break through to the Imperial Realm Second Layer, she still lacked a certain key understanding.

San Niang flicked her fingers lightly, instantly transforming the frozen lake surface into shimmering water, without even a gradual transition, akin to a divine miracle. Many Ba Tu Tribe nomads in the distance knelt in worship, praising the deity.

The tribe lacks water, resolved in an instant, if not divine, what else?

Ba Tu was telling people: "Did you see? That's my godmother."

But San Niang, worshipped as a deity, shook her head slightly, somewhat dissatisfied.

The exchange between ice and water, she hadn't meticulously studied before, once believed it was the key to her breakthrough, but it proved irrelevant. The firmness of Mystic Ice was indeed meaningful for her defense, but such an exchange, which even ordinary people could perceive, couldn't lead to the threshold of breakthrough, much less to advance to the Second Layer.

If there is anything related to the Second Layer... the firmness of ice, the softness of water, Mystic Turtle's steadfastness, Mystic Snake's endless transformations. Turtle and Snake entwined, Yin and Yang revolving.

Isn't it normal for the Four Symbols to have a fifth... could it be considering soul division, dispersal and unification, would that be the path to the Third Layer?

As she was pondering, a blood-red little figure suddenly twirled and fell in front of her, grinning.

What evil demon dares to provoke me? San Niang instinctively slapped, dispersing the blood figure into smoke.

"Crap..." Under the Heavenly Vault, Zhao Changhe covered his face: "Stupid turtle..."

This is not a soul division, but his own Divine Soul controlling it, the sensation of a slap felt just like hitting his own face.

But how should it be put... after all, it's no longer the pure soul wandering of the past, but a soul stored within things, to a certain extent akin to separating a part of the Divine Soul into an object, while the person can still handle their own matters, at least it counts as multitasking, progressing a bit further. That feeling of becoming all things and being omnipresent has found a sliver, capturing some semblance.

This was also how the Sea Emperor's water figure was controlled before. To put it simply, using Sword Qi to control a Sword Slave, using the power of life and death to control a Corpse Puppet, should all be similar routes, just with different Magic Skills by each, essentially similar in nature. In other words, continuing to train in this direction might at least reach the Sea Emperor's level; it doesn't seem to require soul division or soul splitting, the idea of a multi-core processor isn't about splitting the processor...

So it's not about the quantity, but still the quality, at a certain pinnacle, it wouldn't be called a Yin God, could it be a Yang God instead?

The path is right.

Over there, San Niang looked at her own hand, doubting: "Is it an illusion? I seem to have hit the little man, that irritating face's sensation..."

"He seems to be researching soul division... using the method of soul storage to control items as a starting point?"

"Then I seem to find it easier to attempt this... Did the little man come specifically to remind me?"

San Niang beckoned with her jade hand, and suddenly a vortex appeared in the lake, from which a chubby water figure emerged, bowing: "My master..."

San Niang pointed towards Ba Tu in the distance: "Hit him."

The water figure rolled up its sleeves and ran over, knocking Ba Tu over for a beating: "Calling yourself my mother everywhere; can anyone become a Divine Son?"

Ba Tu held his head and cried out miserably: "I only recognize one godmother, Ba Tu!"

San Niang blinked her eyes and snapped her fingers. The chubby water figure wobbled back.

San Niang pulled out a grass tube, inserted it into the water figure, and sucked water: "Interesting... it seems I can try more... What advances me further compared to the little man is, that under the name of Sea Emperor, the water figure I summon has a certain self-awareness, and its death doesn't greatly affect me. This seems to count as a form of Creation to some extent..."

The entire tribe bowed even more devoutly: "Our God..."

San Niang gazed at the sky with her hands behind her back, appearing proud and stern, but in reality, her eyes turned into crescent moons with laughter: "Hurry up and invade, without even being able to sleep peacefully in such a place, how irritating."

Zhao Changhe also smiled: "Just wait, it won't be long now."

He gazed westward towards Kunlun's Yuxu Peak, a town beneath the mountain where battles once occurred.

Li Shentong was supporting Yuxu, who had just arrived here.

They didn't necessarily need to return to Kunlun, as finding any countryside to recuperate would have been ideal, but Yuxu felt differently. This area was full of evil people, and after the Chaotic World Book reported his "temporary loss of power," what would happen?

No need to guess.

Some of the evil have already scattered into the regions of the Divine Continent, no longer under anyone's control. Some have been subdued by Jiuyou or the Bodhisattva, becoming their henchmen.

And some have occupied Yuxu Peak, searching for the possible "Tao Venerable's soul storage treasure."

This is bound to exist, as Ancient Demon Gods could survive and revive mainly due to treasures. This item would either be with Yuxu or left in Yuxu Palace.

When Yuxu appeared in the town, he wasn't met with awe and welcome as one might expect for a former ruler. Almost everyone there harbored strange glimmers in their eyes, and amidst their bows, malice and ferocity were all they could see.

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