Faced with the giant beast's pounce, Yue Wen wanted to flee, but as a mere soul body, he possessed nowhere near the power to fly through the skies or burrow through the earth. He had barely turned and taken two steps before an enormous shadow engulfed him.
A massive maw descended, clamping down on Yue Wen amid a thunderous sound of shattering, as though heaven and earth were collapsing.
The imagined sensation of being swallowed and chewed apart never came. The entire Visualization Diagram world collapsed in an instant!
Yue Wen's Spiritual Sense returned to his true self along with it.
"This divine ability isn't particularly difficult to cultivate. You could even call it simple," he muttered thoughtfully. "The most important thing is to restrain one's greed. Moonlight Soul Molding is the slowest method, but the soul flame it produces is the purest. Soul Breath Harvesting lets one absorb a small portion of another person's soul power. It is faster, but one will also be affected by the other person, leaving the soul flame impure. Soul-Seizing Refinement is the fastest, but the ultimate result of doing that is going insane and suffering cultivation deviation."
"This Visualization Diagram is less a method for teaching divine abilities than a warning, telling those who cultivate it not to greedily pursue rapid progress and defy the harmony of heaven. Fundamentally, this isn't even an evil Cultivation Method. It was merely acquired by evil people. In the hands of us righteous cultivators, it is entirely different." The path of the soul was profoundly mysterious. Every person's soul carried countless divine thoughts, and whether cultivators harvested another's Soul Breath or plundered their living soul, those divine thoughts would enter their bodies as well.
In Yue Wen's understanding, there was no true concept of "soul-seizing." It was