Ouyang looked at Hu Tutu crouching beside the fire, then sat down beside it himself and poked at the firewood.
Suddenly remembering something, Ouyang looked at Chen Changsheng, who wore a guileless grin, and asked, "Third Brother, is the divine soul something you can only master at the Soul Departure stage?"
Chen Changsheng's guileless grin froze on his face. Somewhat awkwardly, he asked, "Senior Brother, what suddenly made you think to ask about that?"
Ouyang said casually, "I was just curious. You know how low my cultivation is. I can't even get the hang of the Five Elements Escape Technique, let alone something as advanced as the divine soul."
Chen Changsheng considered his words before saying, "In principle, at the Qi Refining Stage, you gather true qi in your dantian. At the Foundation Establishment Realm, you condense true qi into true essence. At the Core Formation Realm, you condense true essence into a golden core. At the Nascent Soul Realm, the core shatters to form a nascent soul. The hallmark of Soul Departure is the divine soul leaving the body! That's the consensus in the Cultivation World!"
Ouyang nodded, signaling for Chen Changsheng to continue.
Choosing his words carefully, Chen Changsheng said, "But there's no shortage of people with extraordinary talents who can sense the existence of their divine souls at lower cultivation levels."
"Like you?" Ouyang asked curiously.
At Ouyang's question, Chen Changsheng would have been drenched in sweat if this body hadn't been a puppet. He gave a couple of dry chuckles and said, "I am a little unusual. I can just barely sense my divine soul's existence, so I know a little about using it."
Listening to his Third Brother's modest account, Ouyang curled his lip. A wave of his hand could summon over a hundred puppet