C648 A Microscopic Solar Spirit!

In the dimly lit room, a palm-sized seal radiated an icy chill, glistening and spinning effortlessly.

Within the seal twinkled points of light, like stars in the night sky.

With a faint sound, a speck of light emerged from the seal, threatening to dissipate like smoke upon contact with the air outside.

The Crucible of Evil glided over, its opening enveloping the escaping light.

Inside the cauldron, the Frost Queen's detached gaze fixed on the speck, feeling the unsettling electricity emanating from it.

Silently, she drew her form in, edging towards the periphery of the little world within the cauldron.

Beneath the seal, Xie Bin sat tense, his gaze locked on the light. Sweat beaded on his forehead and palms.

"This is the first step!"

His breath was as laden as his mood. The success of reuniting with his heaven soul hinged on this moment.

A surge of bizarre soul vibrations emanated from the shadowy cauldron, drawing on the Glacial Storm Seal's interior, where his fragmented soul had been sealed for over a century.

"Hold!"

Yu Yuan's voice was a soft command, his eyes intensely focused on the light within the cauldron.

In that instant, his spiritual sense and the cauldron spirit melded seamlessly, guided by his will, infusing the Crucible of Evil. The glyphs along its inner walls flowed like liquid.

"Soul Nexus Formation!"

His spiritual sense merged with a cluster of glyphs, understanding instinctively the meaning of the symbols etched into the cauldron's side.

"Anchoring Soul Nexus!"

"Gathering Soul Nexus!"

Streams of spiritual sense navigated through various glyphs, ancient Soul Nexus patterns emerging silently in his mind, imprinting themselves onto his earthly soul, becoming part of his memory.

He suddenly realized that since acquiring the Crucible of Evil, he had not truly grasped the depth of this sect's treasured artifact.

His previous level of attainment had been insufficient.

Before, when he observed the Crucible of Evil with mere thought, he could only scratch the surface, unable to fathom its mysteries.

The Soul Forging through Enlightenment technique he practiced had refined his heaven soul, sharpened his senses, and cleared his wisdom, but had not awakened his spiritual sense.

Without spiritual sense, he could not access the Crucible of Evil's deepest secrets.

It was like the sword scars on his arm bone, clearly remnants of the Moon Slayer's swordsmanship, yet beyond his comprehension.

The mysteries of the Crucible of Evil required him to attain the Subtlety Realm and solidify his spiritual sense before he could begin to understand them.

The realm acted as a natural barrier. Without reaching that milestone and the formation of spiritual sense, one simply couldn't perceive what lay beneath.

His spiritual sense coursed through the glyphs lining the cauldron's interior, experiencing the marvels of the Soul Nexus. He concentrated intently on the pinpoint of light.

His ability to perceive details surged a hundredfold in an instant.

It was at this moment that he recognized himself as the new master of the Crucible of Evil. Because he was the master, and because the cauldron spirit echoed his presence, he could discern the subtle intricacies of the light and the inner workings invisible to the average eye.

He observed that the speck of light was composed of innumerable glimmering particles of lightning.

Magnified many times over, the speck revealed thousands of minuscule crystals.

Each crystal bore the imprint of a lightning spell, brimming with astonishing electric power.

Among these tiny crystals, there were scattered gray remnants of a soul.

These were the fragmented pieces of Xie Bin's heaven soul.

"Condense!"

With a mere thought, the multitude of glyphs surged with energy, manipulated by the cauldron spirit, and collectively pressed upon the speck of light.

The speck burst open with a resounding explosion within the Crucible of Evil.

Thousands of strands of lightning, ten times finer than a strand of hair, erupted from the light, striking the cauldron's walls with a sizzling sound.

Startled, the Frost Queen and the Second Bane immediately concealed themselves at the periphery.

That tiny light was a fragment of Xie Bin's Solar Spirit Body, his Solar Spirit forged with the most refined Divine Thunder, melding spiritual energy and heaven soul.

Each crystal was a conduit of lightning, possessing the formidable power to obliterate souls.

At his zenith, Xie Bin was a Solar Spirit, possibly less formidable than the Frost Queen and the Second Bane, before their transformation into banes.

Now, the Frost Queen and the Second Bane were merely devils.

Such aberrant beings were inherently vulnerable to the might of lightning and thunder, their powers diminishing upon impact.

As the lightning dispersed, even tinier gray remnants of souls emerged within the Crucible of Evil, invisible to the naked eye.

Yu Yuan, as the Crucible's master, could sense their presence. He could faintly make out about a dozen gray remnants, subtly influenced by the cauldron's glyph array, quietly coalescing.

Dozens of remnant souls converged, merging into a cluster so minuscule it was invisible to the naked eye.

"How is it?" Xie Bin asked, his voice quivering as he peered intently at the Crucible of Evil, the Glacial Storm Seal resting atop his head.

The brilliance in Yu Yuan's eyes faded slightly. After taking a deep breath, he responded, "It's feasible! The Solar Spirit fragment's explosion scattered the lightning power that constructed the Solar Spirit, yet the tiny remnant soul within the cauldron hasn't dissipated!"

"It truly is the Crucible of Evil!" exclaimed Xie Bin, his excitement palpable.

Without the Crucible of Evil, the Solar Spirit fragment would not be contained within the cauldron. Upon explosion, the minuscule remnant soul within would have vanished into thin air.

Even more likely, his remnant soul could have been obliterated alongside the fragment.

The Crucible of Evil shielded the fragment, with Yu Yuan and the cauldron spirit exerting their power to meticulously manage the explosion process through a series of intricate arrays designed for the soul.

"Let's do it again!"

Yu Yuan rallied, summoning his strength to extract an even larger piece of the Solar Spirit from the Glacial Storm Seal.

This piece, the size of a fingernail, shimmered like a translucent diamond with an entrancing luster as it was placed into the cauldron.

Within the shard lay tens of thousands of tiny lightning crystals, along with a small remnant soul.

"The Solar Spirit, upon close inspection, appears just like this," Yu Yuan remarked, a smile breaking across his face.

With the aid of the Crucible of Evil, he could directly observe the composition of Xie Bin's shattered Solar Spirit Body and understand its intricate creation.

In his past life, he had encountered numerous Solar Spirits and even more advanced cultivators.

Yet, without having embarked on the path of cultivation or refining his spiritual sense, he could never truly perceive the inner workings of a Solar Spirit Body.

Now, through the fragments of Xie Bin's Solar Spirit, he had uncovered many wonders.

This insight would be invaluable for his future cultivation and the condensation of the Solar Spirit Body through the heaven soul.

In this moment, as he engaged the glyphs with his spiritual sense and delved into the subtleties of the array, he found himself aiding Xie Bin in reassembling the heaven soul, an alternative form of cultivation.

With a resounding boom, the diamond-like shard of the Solar Spirit shattered, scattering Divine Thunder in all directions.

Tiny remnants of the soul, revealed within the cauldron by the Solar Spirit's detonation, began to coalesce.

Assisted by the array within the Crucible of Evil, these soul remnants swirled and fused into one.

The previously isolated remnants, now slowly converging, allowed Yu Yuan to discern a wisp of gray mist through his eyes—

That was a fragment of Xie Bin's heaven soul.

"Continue!"

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