Battle Through the Heavens: Obtaining the Extraction System at the Start

There, a head-sized sphere of light floated in midair. Its entire body was clear as glass, yet it radiated a profound glow. Vast, surging soul fluctuations spread outward like tides.

This was Xiao Ling's ultimate goal for this journey: Soul Origin.

Xiao Ling shot forward like a streak of light and arrived before the Soul Origin in an instant. He extended a hand, his fingertips hovering three inches from the soul light as he sensed the gentle radiance spilling from the rotating sphere.

The soul was the foundation of all living beings.

All things in heaven and earth that possessed life contained souls, and deep within every soul lay an indestructible trace of Soul Origin. It was the foundation that allowed a soul to be born and endure—a strange energy stripped of all impurities and refined to the utmost purity, one of the most primordial powers in the world.

It was said that Soul Origin could not only temper Soul Power to the extreme, allowing a cultivator's soul strength to advance by leaps and bounds, but that if one gathered a sufficiently vast amount of Soul Origin and encountered a heaven-defying opportunity, one might perhaps glimpse the true essence of the soul and enter the legendary realm of the Emperor Realm Soul, a realm recorded only in ancient texts.

Soul Power coiled around his fingertips and entered the sphere. After briefly sensing the strength of the energy within, Xiao Ling raised a brow and murmured to himself.

The Earth Fiend Hall has ultimately gathered too few souls. Even if this Soul Origin contains the essence of over ten thousand living beings, it is merely a drop in the bucket to me. Even if I absorb it all, it will hardly provide any substantial improvement to my current Spiritual Power.

"Fine.