Soul Refinement

"Splash—"

The instant his soul entered the pool, it did not make the usual sound of someone falling into water. Instead, it brought a suffocating sensation, as though his mind and spirit had been wrapped in something viscous, icy, and filthy, then dragged downward!

The moment Lin Ming's Soul Body sank into the pitch-black water, his five senses and six perceptions were completely twisted and submerged.

Everything outside—the desolation of the Myriad Beast Hall, Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan's worries—vanished.

In its place came boundless darkness, along with a torrent of icy, bone-piercing yet soul-burning malice surging in from every direction!

This was not a physical attack, but erosion and contamination that acted directly upon the Soul Origin!

"Roar—!"

The first thing to assault him was countless violent Beast Soul Remnants!

They were the unwillingness and resentment left behind by countless Magical Beasts that the Beast Taming Sect had suppressed, tamed, and ultimately watched perish here throughout the generations.

The swipes of Giant Bears, the bites of Fierce Tigers, the coils of Poison Pythons, the seductions of Demon Foxes... all kinds of bestial savagery, cunning, and cruelty became countless warped Soul Shadows that madly battered Lin Ming's Soul Body, trying to tear him apart and assimilate him into the Grudge Pool Water!

Excruciating pain as though his soul were being torn apart struck him, hundreds and thousands of times worse than any injury to the physical body!

Lin Ming's Soul Body trembled violently. The Soul Barrier of Spirit Realm Grand Perfection bloomed with dazzling light, forcibly keeping those initial attacks at bay.

He firmly upheld the method of the Turbid Lotus Spirit Quenching Art, visualizing his soul as a flawless, perfectly rounded Lotus Seed radiating pure light. No matter how fierce the storms outside became, he remained unmoved, buried deep