Looks like I'll still have to find time to learn a secret technique for extracting and searching souls, as a safeguard.
Qing Chen pondered inwardly. Though soul-searching secret techniques were demonic methods, they were nevertheless a way of obtaining intelligence.
Once this matter was settled, he would certainly find a superior soul-searching technique to prepare for unforeseen needs.
Soul-searching secret techniques were highly controversial arts in the cultivation world.
They were not something cultivators at the Qi Refining Stage or ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could practice.
This was because performing such a technique required powerful divine sense to handle a lifetime of memories as vast as the sea.
Consider a life stretching across decades or a century-how many trivial, insignificant things did it contain?
If one's divine soul was not strong, yet one rashly drew all those memories into one's sea of consciousness,
it was no different from channeling a towering flood into fragile embankments.
The slightest carelessness could unsettle a cultivator's own divine soul, jumble their memories, or even plunge them into eternal ruin.
Thus, soul-searching tested not only a cultivator's divine sense cultivation, but also required an unyielding mind.
Only then could they find a thread of clarity within that tangled ocean of memories.
Yet even so, soul-searching was not all-powerful, and obtaining all of another person's memories was difficult.
This was because soul-searching secret techniques were far too overbearing!
Often, the moment the secret technique seized its target, their divine soul would shatter all too easily.
For precisely this reason, their memories were often like a guttering candle in the wind, flickering in and out, difficult to grasp.
All the cultivator could obtain were a few divine soul fragments.
Like a broken puzzle, they were difficult to assemble into complete memories.
Only when one's cultivation was extremely