Blazing crimson divine light sank into the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword, into Gao Xian's pure-yang spirit, and into the very source of his soul.
At that moment, Gao Xian's pure-yang spirit melted away first. The source of his soul and the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword ultimately dissolved into a mass of intense scarlet light.
Strangely, Gao Xian felt no breath of death. Instead, he experienced the exhilarating, unburdened release of shattering every restraint and sweeping away all filth.
The source of a person's soul was simply too frail; it was an innate imprint of spiritual nature. An ordinary person's soul was like a single candle flame—encounter a slightly formidable Evil Spirit, and that soul-light would be snuffed out.
As cultivators continuously advanced in cultivation, their souls were tempered by mana and steadily strengthened. Yet this improvement was exceedingly slow. Even after attaining a pure-yang spirit, the source of one's soul remained a light of utmost yin spiritual nature.
Only when a seventh-rank cultivator condensed a divine wheel would the soul merge with the pure-yang spirit and transform into a pure-yang nature. Only then did a cultivator's soul undergo a true qualitative transformation.
The Taiyuan Divine Image had condensed a divine wheel, and Gao Xian's soul had likewise turned pure yang. Yet a pure-yang soul was ultimately still fragile. Even the pure-yang spirit could not withstand the Great Sun Samadhi True Fire, much less the soul.
Gao Xian had thought he would turn to drifting smoke, body and soul annihilated. Yet unexpectedly, the Great Sun Samadhi True Fire seemed to cause his soul no harm. Instead, it possessed a wondrous quality that cleansed his soul within and without, tempering away every trace of filth and baleful corruption.
Through this tempering, the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword fused even more deeply with the