"Could it be that this sudden weakness was caused by the Treasure Refining Ghost Art's full consumption of soul energy?" Qin Fengming's brows furrowed deeply. After pondering for a long while with a grave look on his face, he muttered to himself.
He could still unleash the full power of the Mountain Shaking Palm, but just now, the Treasure Refining Ghost Art had suddenly left him feeling weak and powerless, as if the soul energy in his sea of consciousness had been completely hollowed out.
This situation suddenly reminded Qin Fengming of something.
When cultivators unleashed secret arts and divine abilities, they generally needed their soul energy and magical power to work together. Magical power provided the force for offense and killing, while soul energy assisted with control.
There were almost no divine abilities or secret arts that used no soul energy at all.
Even if there were, they were generally low-grade techniques practiced only by low-level cultivators. The divine abilities of Spirit Severing and Profound Spirit realm cultivators required incantations and talismanic patterns to empower them when unleashed, carrying tremendous Vital Energy and Power.
But there was one exception—the Treasure Refining Ghost Art Qin Fengming possessed.
The Treasure Refining Ghost Art consumed only the soul energy within a cultivator's body, and required only the soul energy in the sea of consciousness. It could be said that it used not even a trace of magical power or Heaven and Earth Origin Energy for support.
Although Qin Fengming did not know exactly what strange change had occurred in his sea of consciousness, he had now become certain that the sudden weakness in his body was absolutely connected to his Profound Soul being purified by the strange soul energy within the black liquid below.
He simply could not determine what that connection