The Sky-Gazing Hound coughed lightly and sent Xu Chunniang a divine thought containing the precise method for altering one's soul aura.
Xu Chunniang committed the method taught by the Sky-Gazing Hound firmly to memory and nodded.
"Rest assured. I won't pass this technique on to anyone else."
Xu Chunniang closed her eyes and focused, continuously kneading and refining her soul according to the method taught by the Sky-Gazing Hound.
As her soul was kneaded and refined, it felt as though an invisible pair of great hands were constantly squeezing it, bringing waves of intense pain that steadily wore away at her soul.
No wonder the Sky-Gazing Hound had said that prolonged use of this technique would damage the soul.
However, after leaving the human territory from here and heading west, she would only need to use this technique when entering cities. There was no need to worry about it causing too much damage to her soul.
Xu Chunniang steadied her mind and continued refining her soul.
As her soul was refined more deeply, its aura changed accordingly, becoming utterly different from what it had been before.
At first, the soul aura refined through her soul was still unstable, and it was easy for others to spot flaws.
As her proficiency increased, the soul aura gradually stabilized, leaving behind no trace that it had been altered.
It worked!
Xu Chunniang inwardly relaxed and took out an identity token, imprinting a strand of soul aura into it.
The identity token in her hand belonged to Xu Dahai, a Rogue Cultivator she had killed not long ago.
The main reason she had chosen to impersonate Xu Dahai was that he was a lone Rogue Cultivator without companions, making it unlikely that anyone else would see through her disguise.
Only after she had mastered