The main ingredient for a Great Soul Pill was an unusual resource, but not a rare one.
Luo Chen had even obtained some before.
It was called Soul Essence!
All living beings possessed Three Souls and seven spirits.
They had no shape or substance, no form or breath.
Only when one's cultivation reached profound heights would the soul condense into something tangible and become visible.
Ghost Generals and Ghost Kings appeared to have solid bodies, but most were actually filled out with Yin Qi.
Cultivators throughout the ages had devised secret arts to extract the essence from vast numbers of insubstantial souls, creating what was known as Soul Essence.
According to legend, Soul Essence was an extraordinary resource seldom found!
Taken with the aid of a secret art, it could greatly strengthen a cultivator's Divine Soul Foundation.
And if someone refined Soul Essence into a means of attack, its power would far surpass ordinary divine-soul attacks.
Luo Chen had obtained his Soul Essence during the Ten Thousand Immortals Society's demon-hunter assessment. Duan Li had been struck by a killing move from a remnant of the Primal Devil Sect's Soul Refinement Lineage, and after Luo Chen treated his injury, the Soul Essence within it had become Luo Chen's.
Later, Luo Chen had relied on that Soul Essence to unravel the Dragon Slaying Art's god-slaying, soul-shattering effect.
That, in turn, had laid the groundwork for the battle in his Consciousness Sea ten years ago, when he had killed Han Zhan with his own hands.
Now, after all those twists and turns, cultivating Han Zhan's Soul Splitting Art required him to gather large quantities of Soul Essence to refine Great Soul Pills. There was a certain twist of fate to it.
At the thought of Duan Li, Luo Chen's expression darkened. He wondered