Sitting cross-legged on the couch, Xiao Ying did not immediately take out the Spirit-Infused Puppets. Instead, he first studied the Myriad Spirits Method, the closely guarded secret within the Myriad Artifacts Sect's supreme scripture, the Myriad Artifacts Sacred Canon, paying particular attention to rare secret arts such as the Spirit-Drawing Method, Spirit-Sealing Method, Spirit-Transforming Method, and Spirit Command Method.
The Myriad Spirits Method was not only an extraordinary art required to control Spirit-Infused Puppets, but also exceptionally effective at strengthening the primordial spirit, a rare art dedicated to cultivating it. It was also essential for capturing, sealing, refining, and controlling souls. To fuse the mermaid sisters' demon souls into Spirit-Infused Puppets and bring out their greatest power, Xiao Ying naturally had to learn these methods first.
As its name suggested, the Myriad Spirits Method was an extraordinary art that divided the primordial spirit into myriad parts, a heaven-defying secret technique that forcibly split it into countless strands, each retaining its own sentience. It had ten levels, each involving another division of the primordial spirit while preserving the sentience of every resulting strand, producing an effect akin to directing one mind toward multiple tasks. Each primordial spirit could then be cultivated separately, greatly reducing the difficulty of cultivation and dramatically increasing the speed and efficiency with which their combined power grew. After all, the stronger a primordial spirit became, the harder it was to cultivate and strengthen. In plain terms, it broke a whole into parts to spread the burden!
According to the Myriad Artifacts Sacred Canon, many gifted individuals had successfully mastered the first nine levels of the Myriad Spirits Method, but exceedingly few had reached the tenth.
For Xiao Ying, the difficulties in the early stages of the Myriad Spirits Method were merely the agonizing pain of "splitting the