Divine Realm on Earth

Southern Wilderness, Wooden Fish Island. Jiang Chen's Yang Spirit quietly returned.

"Quite the haul."

As his Yang Spirit returned, Jiang Chen opened his eyes and gazed toward the Central Region, where the Impermanence Sect lay. A smile appeared on his face.

"With the Impermanence Sect's support, I can truly spread the Peaceful Church throughout the Southern Wilderness. By then, gathering the power of incense offerings from the entire Southern Wilderness will be enough to sustain a fourth-rank divine position."

"This will be of considerable use to both the Spirit Lord and me. But before that, I need to further understand the Divine Dao. The Divine Dao inheritances I obtained before were far too shallow."

As his thoughts turned, Jiang Chen reached out and seized a remnant soul from the void. It was none other than Eyeless Daoist.

"Refine!"

The power of his Yang Spirit evolved, dividing into water and fire that formed a furnace. Jiang Chen tossed Eyeless Daoist's divine soul inside.

After successfully advancing to the Yang Spirit realm, he immediately felt that his previous soul-devouring method had been far too crude. Thus, he incorporated that original method into the Water-Fire Furnace, using the turning cycle of water and fire to refine divine souls and minimize the hidden dangers of devouring souls as much as possible.

Whoosh. Water and fire surged. Under Jiang Chen's refinement, Eyeless Daoist's divine soul did not hold out for long before it began to separate—first into fragments of memory, then insights into cultivation methods, and finally the essence of the divine soul, tempered repeatedly by water and fire.

"Although Eyeless Daoist has not successfully passed his tribulation, under the influence of the divine talisman, both his fleshly body and divine soul underwent transformation. It simply was not thorough enough."

"Compared to the divine souls