Today's fourth update: Chapter 2330! 4/4!
With my essence blood, I summon the divine marvels of the Nüwa Stone!
As Xu Kun drained away all his essence blood, his entire body withering until he was skeletal, as though he might fall apart at any moment, the Nüwa Stone finally changed.
Five-colored Divine Light spilled forth, illuminating the world he stood in.
"Just one more step." Like a withered old man at death's door, Xu Kun shakily took out the Spirit Coffin Lamp.
"Soul, Return!..."
Truthfully, Xu Kun was not sure whether this step would succeed.
Yuan Huang'er's soul had shattered into fragments. By all reason, it should have long since dispersed between heaven and earth.
She could not be like the true god Goumang after her fall, whose soul fragments had remained adrift in the world, allowing Mu Qingxuan to scour the four seas and eight wastelands to gather them all.
That had been the soul of a true god. Once a mortal's soul shattered, all that remained was dust returning to dust and earth returning to earth.
It would scatter throughout heaven and earth, becoming the most primal soul power, leaving behind not the slightest trace.
But now, Xu Kun was within the testing ground of the second trial.
Whether this testing ground had been created by his second aunt, Yuan Lichang, or fashioned by his grandmother through heaven-reaching Creation, Xu Kun sensed that though Yuan Huang'er's soul had shattered, it had not left this space.
After using the Spirit Coffin Lamp to summon her soul, just as he had expected, he felt a familiar fluctuation of soul energy.
Even he could not help growing excited.
"Huang'er... treasure!"
"Brother Kun..."
The weak soul fluctuation answered Xu Kun, as if Yuan Huang'er were weeping.
"Don't be afraid. I'll bring