The Great Heavenly Venerate's physical body, through painful tempering, had all impurities removed. Although its size had shrunk, it had become more refined and pure. Its bones exhibited a jade-like luster, and its muscle fibers were as tight as dragon tendons, faintly radiating a powerful sense of strength. A perfect Puppet shell of the Two-Star Dou Saint level was taking shape.
After the Great Heavenly Venerate 'Great Heavenly Venerate physical body was refined, his soul was also forcibly separated and extracted from the depths of his Consciousness Sea by Lin Ming using supreme means while his body was being tempered by the World Origin Fire!
However, compared to Hun Yan's soul, the Great Heavenly Venerate's soul appeared much dimmer and weaker, after all, his physical body had already been severely injured, and his soul had also been affected.
Looking at the suspended Soul Body that represented the lifelong cultivation and memories of two Dou Sheng Experts, an even bolder, even insane, thought suddenly arose in Lin Ming's mind!
"Since the Puppet being crafted this time are all made from top-tier materials, then the soul core... should be as strong as possible!"
For ordinary Puppet making, a powerful Soul Body is sufficient. But what Lin Ming pursues is the ultimate! A perfect creation that surpasses the human puppets of those Ancient Ruins!
"What if we could merge the souls of these two into one?"
Once the idea took hold, it spread like wildfire and was difficult to contain.
Hun Yan, Late Stage Three-Star Dou Saint, is skilled in high-level management of the Soul Hall, soul secret techniques, and spatial arts. He is knowledgeable and has mastered even more core secret techniques of the Hun Clan.
The Great Heavenly Venerate, Two-Star Dou Saint soul, is slightly inferior, but as the actual manager of the Human Hall, he has a thorough understanding of the Soul Hall's structure, personnel distribution, and resource allocation. His fighting style leans more towards ruthless and direct necromancy and bone-based Dou Technique.
If the two can be integrated, taking the essence and discarding the dross, then the new core of the soul will combine the strengths of both!
Its Soul Essence will be more powerful and vigorous, its combat experience and skills will be more comprehensive and rich, and the Dou Technique it masters will be all-encompassing and Cultivation Method!
Admittedly, if used for other purposes, such as possession or creating life, forcibly merging two completely different souls will inevitably produce violent rejection, leading to confusion of consciousness and a proliferation of distracting thoughts, and ultimately most likely turning into a mad, bloodthirsty, and uncontrollable monster.
But what about a combat Puppet?
"Bloodlust? Madness?" A cold smile curled at the corner of Lin Ming's lips.
"For a weapon, is this... a drawback?"
Wouldn't a killing machine that is fearless of pain, absolutely obedient, and ruthless with a ferocious and bloodthirsty fighting style be even more terrifying to the enemy?
As long as its core absolute obedience Restriction remains unbreakable, this madness and bloodlust will become its most terrifying weapon!
"Feasible!"
A glint flashed in Lin Ming's eyes, and he no longer hesitated. With a thought, the power of the World Origin transformed into two invisible hands, which slowly drew the Soul Body belonging to Hun Yan and the weaker Soul Body belonging to the Great Heavenly Venerate closer together.
The instant the two Soul Body made contact—
"Buzz!!!"
A violent rejection reaction erupted instantly! Like the collision of water and fire, two completely different Soul Fluctuation clashed and tore at each other wildly, emitting a piercing Mental Shriek!
Hun Yan's Soul Essence is stronger, carrying a domineering, predatory desire; the Great Heavenly Venerate's soul is more sinister, clinging and resisting like a maggot clinging to a bone.
A chaotic surge of mental energy swept outwards, and had it not been firmly suppressed within Lin Ming's world, it would likely have already triggered Soul Storm.
"Hmph! In my world, how dare you act so presumptuously! Merge!"
Lin Ming snorted coldly and mobilized an even greater power of the World Origin, like a hammer forging divine iron or a scale for mixing medicinal liquids, forcibly intervening in the conflict between the two souls!
The World Origin Fire of the Chaos world reappeared, but this time, the temperature and the power of calcination were controlled within an extremely precise range.
It is not destruction, but rather a flux that permeates every corner of the two soul energies, burning away the most subtle spiritual imprints belonging to individual independence. At the same time, it forcibly soothes and straightens the violently conflicting flow of soul energy with the power of the world's rules.
This is an extremely dangerous and meticulous process, requiring an abnormal level of control over Soul Power. Only someone with the Soul Realm at the Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, like Lin Ming, and with absolute control over his Inner World, would dare to undertake such a crazy attempt.
The intense Soul Fluctuation continued like a tsunami. The boundaries between the two energies began to blur, and their energies, fragments of memory, and even the lingering traces of their battle instincts, once stripped away, began to slowly and painfully permeate and merge with each other, like paint being dropped into water...
However, during this forced fusion process, something unexpected happened to Lin Ming!
Due to the Purified and fusion power of the World Origin Fire, a large amount of top-secret information about the Soul Hall and the Hun Clan, which was originally to be erased by Lin Ming and belonged to the personal consciousness and emotions of the two, surged out uncontrollably like a flood with its gates opened. In this fused soul energy flow, it was clearly reflected into Lin Ming's perception!
The first thing to flood in was a detailed architectural diagram of the Soul Hall!
No longer a vague rumor, but the precise location of the Earth Hall, down to its exact spatial coordinates! It was an Ice Hell hidden beneath towering glaciers in the far north of the Middle Continent!
And, the location of the mysterious and unpredictable Heaven Hall, which is the true headquarters of the Soul Hall!
It is not fixed in one place, but like a ghost ship, it travels over the Middle Continent along a specific spatial trajectory. Its trajectory and spatial anchor points are now laid out before Lin Ming like a map!
Furthermore! All known and registered Branch Hall of the Soul Hall, including the precise locations, Hall Master information, and defensive strength assessments of those destroyed by the Ancient Void Dragon at Lin Ming's behest!
Densely packed and spread throughout the Middle Continent and even other parts of the continent, it forms a vast and terrifying dark network!
Next came information about the entrance to the Soul Realm, its general internal layout, the location of some important facilities, and even some patrol patterns and weaknesses in the spatial Restriction!
Although incomplete, by combining and supplementing the memory fragments of the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master, Hun Yan Vice Hall Master, and the Great Heavenly Venerate Venerable, a map of the Hun Clan's lair has been drawn up that is far more detailed than any information from the outside world!
"This... this is truly heaven's help!" Even with Lin Ming's composure, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy at this moment!
The value of this information is immeasurable! Possessing it means that the Soul Hall is practically transparent to him! In the future, any precise strikes, the elimination of the Branch Hall, or even the planning of actions against the Earth Hall and the Heaven Hall will become traceable, no longer a blind search! This is undoubtedly a dragon-slaying sword delivered to his doorstep!
The surprises aren't over yet.
As the fusion of their souls deepened, the World Origin Fire, like the most precise probe, continued to excavate the more hidden corners of their souls. More and more detailed information was extracted, like peeling away layers from an onion:
The Soul Hall's internal personnel list, strength levels, and factional struggles; some of the Hun Clan's secret outposts and resource warehouses; their collusion with other dark forces; and even some hidden intelligence about other Ancient Races that the Soul Hall has collected over the years...
This information is vast and fragmented, but each piece may play an unexpected role in the future.
Finally, when the fusion of the two soul energies stabilized and no new fragments of information emerged, Lin Ming had almost completely scavenged all the valuable memories about the Soul Hall and the Hun Clan from their minds!
His mind raced, and his powerful Soul Power instantly categorized and organized this massive amount of information clearly. At the same time, the World Power before him condensed, transforming into more than twenty blank Spirit Jade Slip.
"Freeze!"
Lin Ming's consciousness was like a knife, and he began to categorize and imprint the sorted information into these Jade Slip.
<Detailed Architecture and Spatial Coordinates of the Soul Hall>
<Earth Hall Defense System and Personnel Configuration>
<Heaven Hall Execution Trajectory and Spatial Nodes>
<Summary of Locations and Information for All Branch Hall of the Soul Hall>
<Analysis of the Soul Realm Entrance and Internal Areas>
<Known Hun Clan Strongholds and Resource Distribution>
<List of High-Ranking Members of the Soul Hall and Their Strength Assessment>
<Secrets of the Hun Clan and Their Relationship with Other Powers>
<Index and partial outline of the Soul Hall (Hun Clan) Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills>...
One by one, the Jade Slip were quickly filled, shimmering with different lights, and piled up in front of Lin Ming. There were more than twenty Jade Slip! The contents contained within were a veritable mobile intelligence treasure trove about the Soul Hall and the Hun Clan! Its value was enough to drive any Ancient Races mad!
After doing all this, Lin Ming turned his gaze back to the newly formed soul core that had already been fused together.
At this moment, it presented a deep dark silver color, its size larger and more solid than any of the previous individual Soul Body. Although the spiritual fluctuations it emitted were restrained, they carried a heart-palpitating sense of chaos, rage, and bloodlust, like a Primordial Evil Soul imprisoned!
However, at the same time, the absolute obedience Restriction imposed on him by the rules of Lin Ming's world, which were bound to his core, acted like the strongest shackles, firmly binding everything and ensuring that his ferocity would only be directed at the enemy designated by Lin Ming.
"Perfect!" Lin Ming exclaimed.
The strength of this fused soul core has surpassed that of Late Stage Three-Star Dou Saint, directly reaching the level of Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint soul! Moreover, the combat experience, skills, and various insidious Dou Technique, soul secrets, and spatial arts contained within it have reached an astonishing quantity and quality.
Lin Ming stared excitedly at the completed body and the fused soul core, as well as the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core floating to the side, surging with energy.
Next, it will be time to perfectly fuse these three elements into one using the Ancient Human Puppet Secret Art, allowing it to unleash a terrifying power surpassing that of the Ancient Ruins of the Dou Sheng.