Chapter 154: Refining the Stone Spirit

  "Hong" Shi Ling's eyes gleamed with a fierce light, his powerful hind legs kicked out, and he fearlessly charged forward, colliding with the giant sword, a dull thud echoing from the beast's soul.

  That impact was extremely fierce, and both the giant sword and the stone spirit were transformed into a stream of energy that sprinkled every corner of the beast soul.

  A familiar scene appeared next, with white energy surging from all corners and re-condensing into a massive toad, its body even larger than before, with thicker limbs.

  "How could this be? Can't we refine the Stone Spirit with normal methods?" Yi Chen furrowed his brow, this Stone Spirit was like something that couldn't be killed, and every time it was dispersed, it would reassemble into an even larger form.

  In fact, Shiling was born against the sky and has endless potential. Yi Chen's actions made it truly feel the danger, completely triggering its potential.

  This is also the terrible place of Yu Chan Ling Shi, some cultivators even if they really got it, may not be able to refine it, and some cultivators forcibly refined it, only to lose their own lives.

  A deafening roar burst out from the beast soul, and the enraged Shi Ling launched another attack, constantly colliding with the beast soul, each time causing Yi Chen to suffer injuries.

  "Give me death!" Yi Chen's heart was anxious, constantly pinching the law, controlling the soul power to form a cage, wanting to restrain Shi Ling's actions.

  At this time, Shi Ling was very powerful. The comprehensive strength of Shi Ling was not much weaker than Yi Chen's. It only saw its forelimbs sweep away with force, and the cage condensed by Yi Chen was shattered.

  This situation made Yi Chen feel powerless, he didn't have time to think too much, controlling his soul power to form eighteen long swords, carrying a deadly aura, stabbing towards Shi Ling, extremely fast, in the blink of an eye, he rushed to Shi Ling's front.

  The previous few attacks had enraged Shi Ling greatly, and upon seeing the eighteen long swords shoot towards him, he directly opened his large mouth and sucked in fiercely, releasing a powerful suction force that absorbed and digested all eighteen long swords cleanly.

  Such a move made Yi Chen's heart skip a beat. Shi Ling was too powerful at this moment, giving him a feeling of powerlessness.

  "Hiss!" After absorbing the eighteen soul-force condensed long sword, Shi Ling let out a belch, and then his body actually expanded another size, releasing an extremely terrifying aura.

  "It's the aura of the Yellow Soul Realm, this Stone Spirit already possesses the power of the Yellow Soul Realm." Yi Chen's heart was shocked, at this moment the Stone Spirit's power had become extremely terrifying, far surpassing his own, and could tear him apart at any time.

  "Hiss!" The Ling Stone let out another angry voice, then opened its big mouth again and started absorbing Yi Chen's soul power.

  The Ling Stone is now in the Beast Soul, and Yi Chen can only launch an attack with his soul power. If even his soul power is absorbed, then he will be like a fierce beast that has had its teeth pulled out, without any ability to resist.

  "Damn it!" Yi Chen cursed in his heart, mobilizing his soul power to resist.

  A Stone Spirit with a Yellow Soul Boundary cultivation was fundamentally an existence that he couldn't resist, and that surge of soul power was completely absorbed by the Stone Spirit in the blink of an eye.

  After absorbing all of Yichens soul power, Shiling let out a satisfied burp, and then its body expanded again, releasing an even more terrifying aura.

  "It's the aura of a quasi-Huangxuan Soul Realm." After sensing that aura, Yi Chen's face turned ugly, and the stone spirit of the quasi-Huangxuan Soul Realm became even more terrifying.

  Shi Ling glanced around and found that in Yi Chen's beast soul, there was a flame emitting scorching high temperatures.

  That flame was what Yi Chen obtained when he tempered his body in the magma, and it had been stored directly in the beast soul all along without being used.

  Quack

  Unexpectedly, when he saw the flames, a glimmer of fear flashed in the eyes of the massive Stone Spirit, and it immediately launched an attack on Yi Chen's beast soul, wanting to quickly leave this place.

  "Peng" strongly kicked his four limbs, and the Stone Spirit rushed out with a whistling sound, violently colliding with the Beast Soul. A muffled noise was heard, and Yichen's Beast Soul appeared with fine cracks.

  "Ugh!" Yi Chen spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, and the intense pain almost made him pass out.

  "Peng" had yet to recover from the pain, Shi Ling was reading out a mobilization attack, continuously colliding with Yi Chen's beast soul, wave after wave of muffled sounds coming from his dantian.

  "Damn it." Waves of pain came, Yi Chen clenched his teeth tightly, his face full of anxiety.

  Shi Ling is the only one who can launch an effective attack on Beast Soul with his soul power, but now Yi Chen's soul power has been completely exhausted, and he can only watch as Shi Ling collides with Beast Soul.

  "If this goes on, the beast soul will shatter sooner or later." The pale-faced man spoke these words, and Yi Chen's head spun rapidly.

  The beast soul is the foundation of a cultivator. If one loses their beast soul, they cannot store soul power and are no different from a useless person. More importantly, a cultivator can only accept a beast soul once in their lifetime.

  "It can't go on like this." Yi Chen gritted his teeth, but he was also powerless now. Even if he absorbed the soul power of the Soul Spirit Stone to resist, it would be too late.

  "Just now, Yu Chan Ling Shi, why didn't you absorb that flame, and why did you show a fearful look?" At the critical moment, Yi Chen thought of Ling Shi's performance earlier and quickly shifted his gaze to the flame.

  "Shi Ling, it's not a physical entity at this time, it's equivalent to being in a spiritual state. Is it afraid of the flames?" His gaze shifted to the ball of fire, and Yi Chen's slightly narrowed eyes flashed with an unusual color.

  "Just try it out."

  That flame was derived from magma and had become one with Yi Chen, who could control it as easily as his own arm.

  "Hiss" With a slight movement of his mind, Yi Chen controlled the flame and transformed it into a large net that flew towards Shi Ling Gai, releasing a terrifying high temperature.

  Quack

  For that flame, Shí Líng seemed to be afraid of the timing, and did not dare to collide head-on. With a strong kick from his hind legs, he escaped from the fiery net.

  "It seems it really is afraid of flames!" Shi Ling's performance made Yi Chen extremely surprised.

  ""Gulu"" Stone Spirit began to get restless, its massive body leaped forward, continuing to charge towards Yi Chen's beast soul. Now it wanted to leave this place quickly.

  "You dare to let me pull!" Yi Chen sneered, how could he let Shi Ling have his way, the flames burning even more fiercely, rushing to Shi Ling's landing point at an even faster speed.

  In mid-air, Shi Ling was unable to turn around and directly charged towards the flames, being enveloped by them.

  A miserable cry of "Ah ah" came from the Stone Spirit's mouth, as that flame continued to scorch it, causing it unbearable agony, completely losing its majestic appearance from just before.

  "Hiss" did not have a hint of sympathy, Yi Chen continued to crazily control that flame, the temperature kept rising, and Shi Ling's miserable cries became even louder.

  "Peng" under the high-temperature barbecue, Shiling's reminder shrinks at a visible speed to the naked eye, and his breath also begins to weaken, no longer as strong as before.

  "Whoosh!" In just an instant, the Stone Spirit's warning had shrunk by half. With a powerful leap, he burst out of the sea of flames, wanting to continue colliding with the Beast Soul and escape.

  "Wants to run, but there's no door!" Yi Chen would not let it get its way. That flame under his control transformed into a pair of large hands, directly grabbing onto its two thick hind legs.

  The "Pong" of terrifying flames once again enveloped the Stone Spirit, and although it struggled constantly, it was ultimately unable to break free from the large hand formed by the flames, its body shrinking once more.

  A mournful cry continued to emanate from the Stone Spirit's large mouth, but Yi Chen had no intention of letting it go and instead continued to urge on the flames, releasing an even higher temperature.

  In such a situation, Shi Ling had no power to fight back, and the result was simply beyond people's expectations.

  According to the situation earlier, Yi Chen was bound to die without a doubt. Fortunately, on that day when he was tempered by the magma, he coincidentally obtained a strange flame, and it just so happened that the bane of the Stone Spirit was precisely high-temperature flames.

  It was precisely this coincidence that allowed Yi Chen to escape danger, otherwise, most other cultivators would have been doomed.

  "Quack quack"

  The final Shilie couldn't withstand the high temperature of the barbecue, let out a few mournful cries, and then released an extremely intense light, transformed into a green gas, floating in the beast soul.

  "Finally, I've refined the Stone Spirit!" Yi Chen's face showed surprise and delight as he hastily pulled out a Soul Spirit Stone, grasping it tightly in his hand and absorbing the soul energy contained within.

  Immediately afterwards, Yi Chen will absorb the soul force and continuously inject it into the green gas transformed from Shi Ling.

  Although the Shí Líng has been refined, there is still one last step, which is to make the Shí Líng one's own, and this requires using soul power to nourish it.

  "Hiss" With the infusion of soul energy, that green gas gradually underwent a transformation, re-condensing into a physical form. From its current outline, it appears to be a gecko.

  "Success!"

  He infused the last bit of his soul power into the green gas, and Yi Chen let out a loud shout. With a swift hand gesture, the gas trembled and a complete green toad materialized before him.

  It looks about the same size as a Yu Chan Ling stone, emitting a jade-like glow, without any energy support, quietly floating in the beast soul, with Yi Chen having a kind of blood connection.

  At this moment, Yi Chen could also clearly sense that the Yu Chan Ling Stone's entity had a very mysterious connection with him.

  "There is a very powerful soul force in the Yu Chan Ling Stone." Yi Chen pinched off his finger technique and brought the Yu Chan Ling Stone to his front to carefully examine it.

  Before the Yu Chan Ling stone was discovered, it had already absorbed countless years of soul power in that dark river, and the amount of soul power contained within it was extremely vast.

  "The amount of soul power contained within might be enough to rival a seven-star Soul Spirit Stone." Yi Chen sensed it, and his face revealed a look of surprise.

  "According to records, the Yu Chan Ling Stone can not only absorb and refine soul power, but also has some secret functions." Yi Chen thought back to the strange stone record he saw earlier, a curious expression floating on his face.

  The "Records of Strange Rocks" gave a very high evaluation of the Yu Chan Ling stone, but did not make a very detailed introduction to it, which made Yi Chen feel regretful.

  "What kind of mysterious effects does the Yu Chan Ling Stone really have? I can only explore it myself." Yi Chen's mouth curled up, and he was full of anticipation.