Only a few months had passed in the outside world.
But within the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the two Void Refining souls had undergone hundreds of millions of cycles. They had been reborn countless times as cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs, and ordinary people; as emperors, beggars, officials, merchants, and bandits. After living through every manner of life, aging, sickness, and death, their sense of self was on the verge of collapse, and their defenses had weakened drastically.
Now, within the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Jiang Ding could see some of Swamp True Venerable's memories. He could search his soul directly.
Such a soul search was extremely crude, however. He might not obtain all the information, and many parts could be missing.
That was only natural. Searching the soul of someone at the same level worked like this. Achieving even this much was exceedingly rare.
In fact, soul searches between cultivators of the same level hardly ever occurred.
Even if a cultivator could not beat an opponent at the same level, self-destruction was still an option. Few ever ended up in such a predicament.
Jiang Ding took out two objects.
"A quasi-seventh-tier Soul-Searching Talisman."
"Still incredibly expensive. Even at the Immortal Sect's cost price, one costs seven Void Refining merit credits, and I made these myself... Unless it's necessary, I should stop searching souls."
Muttering to himself, Jiang Ding took out two dark-blue talismans and pressed them against the foreheads of Swamp True Venerable and the Jade-Green Toad.
Yes, he had made these talismans himself.
With the aid of the Central Array-Spirit Computer and the seventh-tier optical talisman inscriber the Immortal Sect had built several centuries ago, Jiang Ding could produce quasi-seventh-tier talismans and treasures. That immense immortal-industrial machine came complete with a seventh-tier software operating system and all the