The scene was somewhat chaotic; conflict could erupt at any moment.
Yet Li Tianming calmed himself and focused his attention on the Little Sky Stele itself.
"I heard before that it can draw in heavenly souls?"
There were two kinds of heavenly souls: those of the living, and those of the dead.
The dead possessed only pure memories of cultivation, while the living were bound to the life soul within the body.
Only now did Li Tianming understand that when he had once entered the Eastern Emperor Sword and seen the five great gates, cultivating within the golden Heavenly Patterns on those gates, it had actually been his heavenly soul that was drawn inside, not his life soul.
If the life soul left the body, then unless one was Ye Lingfeng, they were finished.
The Huan Tian Realm also made use of heavenly souls.
A heavenly soul was in truth the interface between a cultivator and the universe of heaven and earth. Anything related to comprehension and insight was connected to the heavenly soul. That was why Li Tianming's heavenly soul could cultivate in the Huan Tian Realm.
And now, when he concentrated on the wondrous shifting light upon the Little Sky Stele, that light gradually formed a vortex and absorbed the invisible heavenly soul above his head.
This followed the same principle as Li Tianming's heavenly soul entering the Eastern Emperor Sword.
Simply put, at this moment the Little Sky Stele functioned much like the Huan Tian Realm. The difference was that Li Tianming's life soul remained awake, and after his heavenly soul entered, it could only observe and rely on the life soul to think; it could not fight as it did in the Huan Tian Realm.
He stood far away, yet his heavenly soul smoothly entered the