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From within the main hall, amid surging gusts of force and billowing masses of red mist, everyone sensed a dense bloody stench and fluctuations of soul energy.
Even the vital essence of a Profound Tier cultivator—let alone a Spirit Severing stage cultivator—contained conspicuous soul energy.
It could be said that as long as a cultivator had connected their sea of consciousness with their Pill Sea, their vital essence would contain their own unique soul aura.
Of course, the souls of low-level cultivators also contained some soul aura, but it was simply too scant to compare with the soul aura within the vital essence of cultivators at the Spirit Severing stage or above.
The blood-droplet soul-binding ritual that cultivators commonly used actually worked because their vital essence contained their own soul energy. Through the empowerment of special incantations, that energy was imbued into the soul-binding object and acted within its sea of consciousness like a contract.
When magic treasures were refined, talismanic patterns and incantations that could accept a soul contract were likewise integrated into them.
That was also why a cultivator could control another person's magic treasure by erasing their imprint.
Precisely because a cultivator's vital essence contained soul aura, cultivators would never casually give their vital essence to others. Even if some were lost, they would inevitably use various means to make the soul energy within the scattered blood essence dissipate and vanish.
But now, the masses of blood mist drifting through the main hall contained an unknown amount of the vital essence of the two