The next step was to completely eliminate the remnants of the original Nascent Soul Realm expert's soul from his sea of consciousness.
Otherwise, once his own soul moved in, the two would clash.
If his soul were destroyed then, all his efforts would be wasted.
When a Nascent Soul Realm expert died, the soul in their sea of consciousness gradually drifted away.
The process was extremely slow.
The higher one's cultivation, the slower the soul dissipated.
That was why some powerful beings, after falling, still had a chance to live another life centuries or even millennia later.
The soul was the root of all life. As long as it hadn't completely dissipated, there was still a chance to live again.
When Ye Lin probed into the Nascent Soul Realm expert's sea of consciousness, he found that a remnant of the soul still lingered there.
"Good thing I checked. Otherwise, all my efforts really would have been wasted."
Seeing the remnant soul, Ye Lin said with lingering fear.
Then he began to slowly wear it away.
The whole process was extremely long.
Even though it was only a tiny remnant of a soul, it wasn't something a Golden Core cultivator like him could simply drive out.
He had to wear it away bit by bit.
Time trickled by. Ye Lin, the person at the center of it all, couldn't feel time passing at all.
It might have been a fleeting instant, or it might have been centuries.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
That day, Ye Lin slowly opened his eyes. His exhausted face was full of excitement.
The soul had been completely worn away.
"Now, it's time to move in."
Ye Lin slowly expelled the half of his soul he had cut off.
The soul drifted out