The instant this eerie chanting began, Liang's soul trembled violently. To his horror, he discovered that his soul power had actually been suppressed by the sound. Moreover, as the grand chant continued to spread, the amount of soul power he could control kept decreasing!
"Impossible! How is this possible?! I clearly erased your consciousness, and I even refined your soul power while devouring it. Why... why is this happening..."
Liang's face was filled with disbelief. Faced with the situation before him, he was completely dumbfounded.
Soul Refining Sect disciples devoured the souls of others—this was something everyone in the cultivation world knew. However, Soul Refining Sect disciples were not the only ones capable of devouring other people's souls. As long as one knew the method, anyone could potentially do it!
But why were only Soul Refining Sect disciples willing to do so, while others, even if they possessed methods for devouring souls, dared not use them? Because only the Soul Refining Sect could minimize the risks during soul devouring, even reducing them to nothing. If others devoured someone else's soul, a single misstep could result in backlash. At best, they would fail; at worst, they would suffer severe injuries from the backlash or even be devoured in return!
The dangers involved could not possibly be explained in just a few words. Once something went wrong, however, the damage would be permanent and irreversible. Even someone with heaven-defying abilities would find it difficult to recover. Thus, soul devouring was basically something only the Soul Refining Sect practiced!
The reason they dared to do this was because they had developed an entire set of soul-refining methods capable of protecting them throughout the devouring process. For example, erasing the soul owner's consciousness, and using the Soul Refining Sect's secret techniques to refine every