Condensing Innate Soul Light?

Inside the Soul Embedding Hall at the Myriad Stars Tower headquarters in the Profound Dragon Domain, a gray-robed old man sat cross-legged in the center of the hall, looking bored as he occasionally glanced at the rows of jade slips on the jade pavilion before him.

A sandalwood plaque hung every three inches above the jade pavilion, each one engraved with a name. Beneath every plaque lay a jet-black jade slip, within which soul light flickered faintly.

These were Soul Embedding Jade Slips, exceedingly rare throughout the True Profound Continent. Even with the Myriad Stars Tower's wealth, it could not equip every core member with one.

Only martial artists holding high positions within the Myriad Stars Tower, whose roles were of critical importance, could leave a Soul Embedding Jade Slip here—such as those with important duties at headquarters, tower masters and deputy tower masters of branch towers in every domain, stewards of key markets, vital undercover operatives stationed in various places, and the Myriad Stars Tower's elders.

Of the Myriad Stars Tower's several million martial artists, barely over a thousand were qualified to leave a Soul Embedding Jade Slip here.

Soul Embedding Jade Slips were precious for two reasons. First, the materials were limited. Yin Spirit Jade, required to create Soul Embedding Jade Slips, was exceedingly scarce, and it was one of the few materials in the world capable of preserving a soul from dispersing.

Second, only a handful of supreme experts within the Myriad Stars Tower could perform the Soul Embedding Secret Art. Ordinary people simply were not qualified to trouble them into casting it.

Still, Soul Embedding Jade Slips were merely a precaution against a rainy day. Given the Myriad Stars Tower's reputation across the True Profound Continent, there truly were not many who dared lay hands on