Jade Slip Xiao Hua turned the wheel with his fingers. As it spun, a faint Buddhist radiance emerged from within, accompanied by the barely audible sound of sutras being chanted. It looked even more like a Buddhist artifact than an ordinary Buddhist artifact. Looking at it, Jade Slip Xiao Hua secretly laughed. "This Xiao's Soul Cultivation has already achieved some success, yet I have no handy soul artifact or soul technique to use. If these tens of millions of top-grade Qi Stones can be exchanged for a soul artifact meant for killing, that would be excellent indeed! Still, since it is a soul artifact, it should be wielded by fellow Soul Cultivator."
After speaking, Jade Slip Xiao Hua's figure swayed, and he arrived outside the mysterious dark cloud. By now, the mysterious dark cloud was entirely different from before. Though it had begun condensing previously, and the cloud threads within had started to stabilize, it had ultimately not taken shape. It had even shown signs of collapse under the Underworld Judge's soul-seizing chains last time. Now, however, it could no longer be called cloud or mist. The entire dark cloud had completely solidified, crystalline throughout. Yet within that crystalline body were layers upon layers of cloudlike crystals spreading outward. The Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed once inscribed outside the mysterious dark cloud had sunk deeply into the crystal. Moreover, wherever Jade Slip Xiao Hua's gaze fell, the multicolored radiance outside the crystal resembled one small thousand worlds after another. Once his eyes entered it, they almost could not be drawn back out.
"The path of cultivation is truly unfathomable. The mysterious dark cloud of merely the Witcher realm has undergone such changes that even this Xiao cannot see through it. If it were cultivated to the utmost extreme, who knew how