No cultivator was unfamiliar with soul power, but to say that someone could wield their soul power like Leng Sha's—forming a colorless, intangible blade that directly attacked an opponent—even Zhuang Daoqin, who had already advanced to the Integration Realm, found it difficult to accomplish.
Another manifestation of the soul was divine sense. Anyone in the Core Formation realm could almost always manifest it into form.
However, manifesting divine sense was different from manifesting true soul power. Even the lowest-level cultivator could manipulate divine sense through the low-level Object Control Technique.
As cultivators advanced deeper into cultivation, almost every high-grade cultivation method contained secret arts for manipulating divine sense. If a cultivator wished to skillfully control magic treasures and various secret arts, divine sense was the most important link.
Soul power, however, was different. It was the immense energy contained within a cultivator's vital soul. To manipulate soul energy, a cultivator needed not only a powerful vital soul but also a corresponding cultivation method and secret art passed down with it.
Yet secret arts capable of manipulating soul power were exceedingly rare in the Human Realm, such a lower realm.
Even back then on the Yuanwu Continent, the soul secret art unleashed by Shi Su, the mid Integration stage Supreme Ancestor of the Hualong Sect, could hardly compare with the soul-power attack Leng Sha had just unleashed.
Sensing an immense surge of soul power suddenly shooting forth and transforming into a several-zhang-long blade invisible to the naked eye, which flashed toward Qin Fengming, the tens of thousands of cultivators present immediately held their breath.
Faced with such an attack, whether Core Formation cultivators or late Nascent Soul stage and peak Nascent Soul cultivators, none of them had ever seen anything like it before.
As the enormous soul-power blade slashed forth, a