Splitting the divine soul was no longer unfamiliar to Lin Bai.
When his master, Ling Tianzi, had taught him the art of flying swords, it had already contained a secret method for splitting the divine soul. Now, the Nine Yuan Devil God Art also contained such a method.
Lin Bai first carefully studied the secret method for splitting the divine soul in the art of flying swords and the one within the Nine Yuan Devil God Art. In the end, he discovered... the two were largely alike, both achieving the same result by different means, with no great difference between them.
But to be safe, Lin Bai still decided to use the secret method from the art of flying swords. After all, this was the result of Lin Bai's many experiments, and he had sufficient confidence in it.
After a short while, Lin Bai closed his eyes. A mysterious force within his body seemed to transform into a sharp blade, moving straight toward that ethereal divine-soul body and gently slicing off a sliver of divine soul.
That sliver of divine soul slowly drifted down from between his brows. Like bone and blood, it floated before Lin Bai.
After losing a rib, a drop of vital blood, and a sliver of divine soul in succession, Lin Bai suffered a severe loss of vital energy. His face was deathly pale, cold sweat streamed down his body, and he collapsed weakly onto the ground.
His mind had already grown somewhat muddled, and his vision had blurred. His head felt heavy and his feet light, and he was about to drift into sleep.
Yet his instincts told him that now was not the time to sleep. The vital blood, rib, and divine soul had all been extracted, and he still needed to use the