Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The golden ape's divine soul has strengthened! And it's a very noticeable strengthening!

A continuous stream of divine soul power could be attributed to great potential. But a sudden surge in divine soul strength can only be explained in two ways: either it's playing dumb and only revealing a portion of its divine soul, or it's a natural talent that allows its divine soul to rapidly strengthen when faced with attacks targeting the divine soul.

The former, Bao Xueyang absolutely refused to believe. Not to mention demon beasts, even cultivators who've obtained profound inheritances couldn't pull off such a feat with their divine souls. So, it could only be the latter.

He was instantly frustrated. He'd heard of demon beasts with talents related to the divine soul, but those were all near-legendary divine beasts and rare insects, which were beyond the reach of cultivators like him.

Now, one suddenly appeared right before his eyes, and he already had it under control. Naturally, he desperately wanted to tame it. However, this kind of divine soul talent was inherently resistant to beast taming methods.

If he forcefully suppressed it, either the beast's divine soul would shatter, or his own would be damaged. After all, he was the one invading, and if something went wrong, it would inevitably affect him.

While he hesitated, Qian Fanghong, Xu Fangchu, and Ji Fanggu were beginning to falter. When a demon beast was being branded with a divine soul imprint, its physical body would instinctively struggle wildly.

Ape Thirteen possessed formidable qi and blood. If it truly went berserk, the two Core Formation middle-stage cultivators and one Core Formation early-stage cultivator would definitely be unable to restrain it.

"Sect Leader?" Xu Fangchu couldn't help but ask softly.

Bao Xueyang glanced at the three of them and coldly snorted, "Hold on for another half hour! If you can't, each of you consume a Blood Spirit Pill!"

The three didn't dare to complain and obediently swallowed the pills, simultaneously stimulating their magic power and qi and blood. The six silver chains swirled, quickly suppressing the increasingly agitated Ape Thirteen once more.

Bao Xueyang, becoming ruthless, focused his mind and sent all the profound and obscure divine soul power from his sea of consciousness into Ape Thirteen's brain.

Deep within the earth, Zhang Yuanjing, whose divine soul power was overdrawn, was drowsy and teetering. Although he had Mind Nourishing Pills to replenish it, these pills couldn't be directly converted into divine soul power. They needed to be processed by the divine soul itself to generate it.

Therefore, it wasn't a matter of simply having enough Mind Nourishing Pills to keep going indefinitely. If the divine soul couldn't support it, taking more Mind Nourishing Pills would be useless.

He didn't know what crisis Ape Thirteen was facing, but since it involved the divine soul, it was bound to be a matter of life and death. Therefore, he couldn't give up.

He gritted his teeth and weakly whispered, "Ape Brother, don't give in!"

He took out a jade bottle containing three high-grade Mind Nourishing Pills, his last resort. If these three pills didn't work, he would be out of options.

He opened his mouth and swallowed a high-grade pill. As the vast medicinal power raged within him, he guided it with his divine sense into his vast Niwan Palace.

Sounds like thunder rumbled incessantly, and the entire Niwan Palace trembled. The spirit god hidden in the void momentarily revealed its true form, but quickly disappeared again.

However, even for that fleeting moment, the clear outline, like a mirror image of himself, seemed to reflect his true self in a glimpse.

Suddenly, Zhang Yuanjing felt as if he had taken another step on the endless path of seeking truth and returning to the origin. Countless old scenes flowed through his sea of consciousness, revealing many truths he had never noticed or savored before.

His divine soul suddenly strengthened by more than double. This wasn't an increase purely obtained by consuming Mind Nourishing Pills during the Foundation Establishment stage, but a breakthrough from within, achieved through high-intensity tempering of the divine soul.

He understood that as long as his magic power accumulation was sufficient, he could directly enter the Core Formation middle stage without any bottleneck. However, Mind Nourishing Pills were no longer useful for his divine soul.

The powerful divine soul energy, like a torrent, surged toward an unknown space.

Ape Thirteen's eyes suddenly opened, golden light radiating from them as it fiercely glared at Bao Xueyang.

Bao Xueyang was stunned, an incredible expression on his aged, handsome face. Then, he retreated in panic, looking lost and dejected.

"Roar!"

Ape Thirteen let out a powerful roar that shook the entire mountain wilderness. Even the nearby Scarlet Flame Mountain, tens of miles away, seemed to tremble slightly.

Bao Xueyang spat out a mouthful of blood with a "噗嗤" sound, and angrily shouted, "Control the silver light chains with all your strength! Don't let it break free!"

Just now, he had used all his divine soul power, wanting to suppress the golden ape's shadow in one fell swoop. If he couldn't, he wouldn't regret destroying it.

However, under the suppression of his powerful divine soul power, the golden ape's shadow, which was like a candle in the wind, suddenly swelled up as if inflated, noticeably strengthening by a level.

Then, a violent divine soul force ruthlessly crashed over, actually shattering the soul thought he had invaded its sea of consciousness with. And those divine soul forces that had lost the control of the soul thought also collapsed and dissipated.

His divine soul instantly suffered a heavy blow, falling into a weakened state.

Qian Fanghong, Xu Fangchu, and Ji Fanggu were all startled, knowing that Bao Xueyang had failed to imprint the soul mark and was probably seriously injured. This undoubtedly showed that the strength of the golden ape in front of them far exceeded expectations. If they couldn't suppress it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The three of them used all their magic power to stimulate the potential of the silver light chains, wanting to rely on the light waves to restrain Ape Thirteen.

Ape Thirteen slowly tightened its arms, pulling the silver chains binding its hands straight. Xu Fangchu and Qian Fanghong, who were holding the two silver chains, were also pulled forward a few steps.

The two were shocked, wanting to muster all their strength, but all their magic power had already been used, and even the power of the Blood Spirit Pills had been released. They were simply unable to exert any more pressure.

Madness flashed in the golden-backed giant ape's eyes. It suddenly pressed its arms against the silver chain locking its neck, and then, before Ji Fanggu, who was holding the chain, could react, it forcefully pulled him over, then opened its ferocious mouth, ready to bite him.

Ji Fanggu tried his best, but couldn't stop his footsteps. Seeing himself getting closer and closer to this ferocious golden ape, and Bao Xueyang seemed to be closing his eyes to heal his injuries, completely unable to care about the battle between the three men and the ape, he couldn't help but panic, and the two silver chains in his hands suddenly loosened.

With the suppression of two fewer silver chains, Ape Thirteen felt the pressure greatly reduced. It turned its hand to grab the silver chains locking its arms, pressed and shook them, and threw Xu Fangchu and Qian Fanghong off.

The six silver chains lost control, withering like eggplants beaten by frost.

Once Ape Thirteen was free from restraint, the anger accumulated for many days erupted like a volcano. Unable to find a handy mixed sky cudgel for a while, it swung the silver chains, lashing out at the three.

Qian Fanghong, Xu Fangchu, and Ji Fanggu all retreated, but Ape Thirteen recognized Bao Xueyang, stepped forward, and swung the silver chains to smash towards his head.

Bao Xueyang hadn't stabilized his divine soul injuries and had to stop healing, releasing a bull and a bear, two spirit beasts, to block him, while he himself flashed back, angrily shouting, "Even with all six chains, it can break free, what a waste of so many years of cultivation! Quickly attack and kill it!"

He had already given up on subduing this golden ape.

Ape Thirteen was covered in golden light, its face ferocious, like a killing god descending. It kicked away the bull demon with one foot, grabbed the bear demon's arms with both hands, and tore it in half with all its might.

So violent and bloody, the bull demon was so frightened that it didn't even follow Bao Xueyang's orders, and retreated tremblingly.