The petals melted the moment they entered his mouth. They tasted a little like frozen lotus seeds, cool and refreshing.
Then, a cool energy flowed down his throat and instantly spread throughout his body. But the very next second, he sensed something unusual.
That cool energy passed through his flesh and entered the depths of his soul.
In an instant, he could clearly feel his soul being strengthened. The sheer comfort of it made Su Mu gasp in amazement.
Most importantly, it was not his soul power that had grown stronger—it was the very origin of his soul that had been elevated!
Any cultivator who had come into contact with immortal cultivation knew that the soul was the most mysterious thing, the most important thing, and also the most fragile thing.
Immortal cultivation was divided into body refinement and Qi Refinement, yet one rarely heard of Soul Refinement.
Because a person's soul was determined from the moment they were born. It could not be changed, nor was it possible to change it.
The change referred to here was the soul's origin. The essence of a soul could not be changed.
Just as a human soul could never be changed into the soul of a Divine Beast, or the soul of some other higher race.
Still, certain ancient texts offered glimpses of legends concerning the soul.
Legend had it that there were peerless experts across the myriad worlds whose fleshly bodies perished, yet whose souls survived. After falling into reincarnation and lying dormant through hundreds or thousands of years of twists and turns, they would be reborn again, enter a new body, cultivate anew, and live another life.
That was the importance of the soul. Once cultivation reached a certain realm, the fleshly body was merely a shell. So long as