Three Souls, Seven Spirits

"The souls and spirits are separating already?"

Li Yan quickly made his judgment. Souls and spirits were originally blended together like milk and water, forming one whole; only then could they manifest the seven emotions and six desires, good and evil, virtue and poison.

To separate them was no different from flaying a living person and pulling out their tendons.

Yet this was merely the beginning of separating one's own souls and spirits. If it could not endure even this trial, the later "Burning Soul, Refining Fire" would be even more like extracting the soul and refining the spirit.

Under such extreme pain, the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant's consciousness could scatter at any moment. That would be the true inferno.

Li Yan gathered the spiritual power throughout his body. He was ready to act at any moment.

Very soon, another ten breaths passed. That mass of purple light rapidly dimmed, while the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant's chanting continued without pause, though the aura fluctuations it emitted alternated between strong and weak.

Li Yan's expression grew increasingly grave. Even cultivators did not dare casually touch matters involving Divine Sense, souls, and spirits.

The slightest mistake in the process of touching a soul could lead to the miserable end of one's soul scattering and spirit dispersing. That being would vanish completely from this world, without leaving behind even the tiniest trace of aura.

Just as Li Yan rapidly considered under what circumstances he would need to strike, the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant's chanting suddenly stopped.

Then, seven blurry figures of the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant appeared within Li Yan's Divine Sense, drifting upward from that mass of purple radiance.

Li Yan looked closely. Those seven figures, which seemed as though they might disperse at any moment, were like