After the black hole devoured the vast number of demon souls, they became soul fragments. Refined by the Soul-Banishing Technique, these fragments merged into Song Wen's Sea of Consciousness, becoming nutrients that nourished it.
At the same time, Song Wen divided his attention between two tasks.
He devoured the divine sense imprint on the Mount Tai Ring and began refining the treasure.
To his pleasant surprise, the imprint on the Mount Tai Ring proved to be a potent tonic for him.
The Mount Tai Ring was a pseudo-spirit treasure. Naturally, it was not a true spirit treasure, but it was considerably stronger than a supreme-grade magical treasure. As long as it was not a spirit treasure, Song Wen could refine it with his current cultivation. It would merely take a little more time.
The treasure combined defense, attack, and enemy confinement, but its true strengths lay in defense and confinement. Its offensive power was not particularly strong, falling even slightly short of the Twelve Capital Corpse Formation formed by the twelve black coffins.
Time flowed away, and ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Song Wen emerged from his cave abode, feeling rather helpless.
After devouring vast quantities of souls, the strength of his divine sense could advance no further. Yet his three souls still showed no sign of merging, forcing him to end his seclusion.
Still, this period of seclusion had not been entirely fruitless.
Over those years, he had fully refined the Mount Tai Ring. He had also used the dark orchid wood purchased from the Two Forms Sect to craft two Heaven-and-Earth Avatars and ten Death-Substitute Puppets.
After giving Fang Xian and Shu Niang a few brief instructions, Song Wen left the Limitless Sect and headed once more for the Teleportation Array in the Southern