Biting the Hand That Feeds

As the final memory scene in the Jade Slip froze, a crisp cracking sound rang out. The Jade Slip, now completely black, immediately shattered into several fragments and utterly lost its function.

Chu Mu frowned slightly, closed his eyes, and sensed the state of his Sea of Consciousness.

In the Cultivation World, soul-searching methods were naturally extremely common.

However, the vast majority of soul-searching methods used one divine soul to refine another, and the memories seized were mostly perceived directly through the divine soul.

Thus, almost without exception, every soul search would become tainted by the filth of the searched person's divine soul.

This filth stemmed from the searched person's memories, desires, and the like. In principle, it was much the same as the existence of Blood Qi Pills.

It simply was not as severe as Blood Qi Pills.

Yet clearly, no matter how little the filth, when divine souls intertwined, contamination was undoubtedly unavoidable.

Thus, in the Cultivation World, Soul Searching Techniques were often also called "forbidden arts."

The so-called prohibition came from this filth.

For this very reason, although Soul Searching Techniques were widely circulated throughout the Cultivation World, their range of use was not broad. After all, contamination involving the divine soul might not be fatal, but for the vast majority of cultivators, it was absolutely something against which they were helpless.

As for him, under the protection of the Divine Soul Blade, this sort of filth naturally had no effect whatsoever.

However, he clearly could no longer be as composed as before. The wounds to his divine soul were still a complete mess.

Under such circumstances, he naturally had to eliminate every unexpected factor.

His Soul Searching Technique used a relatively ingenious method: taking a Jade Slip as its vessel to carry all memories and desires