After entrusting all affairs to Xuan Ziwen, Jiang Hai returned to the secret chamber aboard the Civilization and began his secluded cultivation.
Within his body, only three layers of curses remained in the Golden Seven Absolute Seals, eroding his battle aura, magic, and hellfire attributes. With the aid of the profound Ninefold Coffin Scroll art, however, the seals on his battle aura and magic had transformed into seals on his ultimate ice and heavenly tribulation power.
Jiang Hai had four soul cores in total: a blood qi soul core in his heart, a soul power soul core in his dantian, a spatial soul core in his middle dantian, and a battle aura soul core in his liver. He could now condense two more soul cores.
A Soul Master could establish at most three soul cores, one in each of the upper, middle, and lower dantians. Anyone who condensed three soul cores already possessed strength approaching that of a god.
Jiang Hai had pioneered a method of condensing soul cores in the five internal organs, adding five more locations in the human body where soul cores could be condensed. If a Soul Master condensed soul cores in all eight available locations, even Jiang Hai dared not imagine what heights they might reach.
In truth, Jiang Hai, who had already established four soul cores, was already immensely powerful. Had the Ninefold Coffin Scroll not been so unusual, separating the nine powers he cultivated and allowing them to run parallel as though they occupied nine different parallel universes, only merging into one when he activated the Ninefold Coffin Scroll, his four soul cores would already have been enough for him to attain godhood on the path of a Soul Master.
The Ninefold Coffin Scroll did not diminish Jiang Hai's strength, but raised his