Chapter 56: Refining the Soul

  Tang Hao finished reciting the formula and wanted to find a place to convert his previous spiritual power. Fortunately, there was information about his own room on Zhong Ying's identity token, although it was a bit troublesome, he still found Zhong Ying's room.

  Zhong Ying's room was decorated quite elegantly, mainly using white gauze and silver decorations. After all, white is somewhat helpful for cultivating golden spiritual energy, so most cultivators of golden spiritual energy wear white clothes. Of course, those who are not particular about this are another matter altogether.

  Inside the room, there was also a divine sense that isolated the outside world, but it was only set up by the foundation-building cultivators. Tang Hao knew that this wasn't a place for long-term cultivation, so since he had found the technique, he would find an excuse to leave early.

  It's okay, converting spiritual energy doesn't require using a spiritual vortex, even if a Nascent Soul stage cultivator saw it, they wouldn't notice anything unusual and would think it was just ordinary cultivation. Tang Hao quickly sat down to convert his spiritual energy.

  With the experience from last time, Tang Hao's transformation was particularly smooth. However, Tang Hao's current Mysterious Wooden Path was not comparable to his original Green Wood Technique, and his cultivation naturally decreased, reverting back to its original state after just breaking through the fifth layer of the Practicing Qi stage.

  However, Tang Hao's spiritual power became even more condensed, and his strength did not decrease but increased instead. The two different attributes of spiritual power circulated within his body, unfortunately suppressing the Golden Wood attribute. Although these two spiritual powers were extremely obedient and would not have any adverse effects on Tang Hao, they also lost their mutually enhancing effect.

  Although the spiritual energy of Lufeng Zong couldn't be compared to that of Lingxian Pavilion, it was still a world apart from the outside. Tang Hao tried to cultivate it, but after just a short while, he furrowed his brow and stopped cultivating.

  Nowadays, Tang Hao can only cultivate one technique, and the capacity has become that of three people. At this rate, it will be a long time before he can even build his foundation, let alone achieve immortality.

  Tang Hao didn't think that even as a possessor of the Five Elements Spirit Root, cultivating five different attributes of spiritual power would be just as slow, but they at least had their cultivation speed to rely on, whereas Tang Hao could only advance at a snail's pace.

  At this time, Tang Hao even regretted swallowing Zhong Ling. Just as he was worried, a sudden flash of insight made him remember the explanation of Liang Ziyu's shadow clone, which stated that while it could divide cultivation evenly, it couldn't divide the spiritual root, meaning that using the shadow clone to double cultivate was impossible.

  Tang Hao was delighted, others only had one spiritual root, but he had two, who knows if it would come in handy.

  Tang Hao concentrated his energy and tried to use a different kind of shadow clone. As expected, Tang Hao transformed into two people: one was the fake but convincing Zhong Ying, and the other was the real Xue Hua Liangzi.

  Unlike the previous use of Shadow Clone, now it's manipulating two completely different people, even the spiritual power inside their bodies is not the same. The current Ryouko is wearing Zhong Ying's white palace dress, which doesn't have a bit of Japanese woman's appearance, but rather an authentic Chinese beauty.

  Tang Huan controlled Zhong Ying to slowly walk towards Liang Zi, supporting her to the bedside, wanting to untie her waistband. Suddenly, Tang Huan slapped himself and gritted his teeth: "Damn it, taking advantage of one's own benefit too."

  Although it's no different from playing video games, Tang Hao still felt a bit strange and thought of the manga Naruto he read before, wondering if Pain had done something like this in the past.

  After all, this is the territory of Lü Fengzong, Tang Huan dare not stay for long, and hurriedly tried to cultivate a bit, found that he can cultivate at the same time, so dispersed the shadow clone, turned into a combination of Zhong Ying and Liangzi.

  Tang Hao climbed onto Zhong Ying's bed, wanting to rest for a while, but suddenly the sound of a horn came from somewhere, Tang Hao opened the door and saw that many disciples were walking in one direction.

  Tang Hao was after all an impersonator of Zhong Ying, but he didn't know the meaning of this horn. Fortunately, there was a new disciple nearby who was also confused and had to ask around.

  Tang Hao happened to hear the sound of the gate, which was a summons for all disciples and elders of both the outer and inner courts to gather at the West Plaza of Lushan Sect.

  Tang Hao knew he was also among those being summoned, so he followed the crowd and walked over.

  Xīguǎng is located in the inner courtyard, and under normal circumstances, Táng Huǎng does not have the qualifications to enter. However, after all, Táng Huǎng is an outer courtyard disciple, so he can only wait on the periphery of the square.

  In the center of the square, on a high platform, it was like holding a memorial service, but Tang Hao knew that Song Shizu, although in a good position in the Five Elements Temple, was not an important figure for the Luofeng Sect, which had a Transcendent cultivator. As for convening both the inner and outer courts to hold a memorial service? It seemed that things were not as simple as imagined.

  Song Ningwei appeared in the center of the square, wearing a plain white robe, with tears streaming down his face. Beside him stood an old man in black clothes, whose hair was gray but had a ruddy complexion and smooth skin. His cultivation was completely invisible, but even from several hundred meters away, Tang Hao could faintly feel that the spiritual pressure emanating from him was much stronger than Song Shizu's.

  On the high platform, there was a loud and clear voice, Song Ningwei cried out: "Thank you, Master Zhu, for taking charge of this matter for me."

  Master! Song Ningwei has already reached the foundation-building period, then Master, isn't this a primordial infant cultivation? The number of primordial infant cultivators in Lvfeng Sect was originally small, and with the heavy casualties from the last assault on Qingmu City, there are only a few remaining primordial infant cultivators.

  "Ah, don't mention it," said the old man with a surname of Zhu, "After all, Donghu is my disciple. It's just that he has been in seclusion for too many years and hasn't asked about the affairs of our sect. I didn't expect... You can rest assured, from now on, you are my nominal disciple, no one will dare to bully you."

  Song Ningwei knelt down and said: "Thank you, Master."

  The old man with the surname Zhu nodded and said to the people below the stage: "Does everyone still remember what the first rule of our Lu Feng Sect is?"

  "Deceive your master and destroy your ancestors, kill without pardon, cut off reincarnation."

  An old man with the surname Zhu nodded and said, "Very good, everyone remembers that in the past hundred years, our sect has not had any cases of deceiving one's master or destroying one's ancestors. Dong Hui is kind-hearted and treats people with kindness, during his tenure as the Grand Elder of the Wuxing Temple, he cared for every disciple as if they were his own."

  The disciples around Tang Hao all nodded, it seems that this Song Shizu is not just talking about it.

  The old man with the surname Zhu's face turned stern, and he said: "Unexpectedly, Lin Yun Dan, without regard for his master's guidance, actually killed his own master who was extremely important to him, all for a auxiliary treasure, and used extremely despicable means, almost causing a catastrophe in the cultivation world. You tell me, should this kind of person be killed or not?"

  "Kill him! Kill him!" rose from below the stage.

  Tang Hao heard two key words: treasure and catastrophe. It seems that this treasure and catastrophe are not simple, but no matter what, Lin Yun Dan killed his own master for a treasure, regardless of other people's lives.

  Tang Hao became more and more convinced that Lin Yun Dan was the one who had ordered his murder, perhaps she had really changed, or perhaps she hadn't changed at all, but he just hadn't noticed it before.

  "Alright, from now on, anyone from the Lu Feng Sect who encounters this demon will kill it without mercy and then extract its soul!"

  Compared to the scattered soul of Ning Yan before, extracting and refining the soul is quite cruel. Scattered souls only disperse the opponent's soul, making it impossible to extract information from the dead person's soul, but in front of the wheel of reincarnation, they can still condense their soul and have a chance at reincarnation. However, extracting and refining the soul tortures and disperses the soul completely, leaving no opportunity for reincarnation. Moreover, extracting and refining the soul is extremely exhausting to one's spiritual energy, even a Yuan Ying cultivator would be exhausted after doing it, so nobody can do it easily.

  Song Ningwei knelt down again and said, "Thank you, Master!"

  The old man with the surname Zhu shook his head: "I'm just doing things according to the rules." After that, he left.

  People on the square also began to disperse one after another, but following a principle: leaders go first.

  Tang Hao was waiting in the square when suddenly someone walked up to him and punched him right in the face.

  The force was not ordinary, and even Tang Hao, who had a Golden Attribute Spirit Root, was beaten out of a mouthful of blood.

  "What's wrong with Tang...Wan Er?" Needless to say, the one who hit her was Guo Jing.

  Tang Hao wanted to explain but didn't have a chance to explain, so he simply said: "I don't know, after everything was over, they also disappeared."

  "You this newcomer, just arrived and don't understand the rules, even dare to hit Zhong Shimei?" Wu Luan stood out.

  Tang Hao rubbed his own face, unsure if he had broken his appearance, and said: "Forget it, I'm also responsible, let's call it even."

  Wu Zan said instead: "Zhong Shimei, this doesn't seem like you. You've always been one to press for what's right and not let go."

  Tang Hao was afraid of this sentence, after all he didn't have Zhong Ying's memory and didn't know her way of treating people, so he coldly said: "I'm not in the mood to care about these things now, and you, this dead fatty, consider yourself lucky today, next time I see you, I'll beat you up every time."

  Kuang Jing heard what Daobei said and was taken aback, because he wasn't fat now, but didn't say anything and left.

  Tang Hao was beaten, but his heart felt warm. Although he didn't know what would happen in the future, Guo Jing was still his true brother for now.

  Tang Hao was about to leave when he heard a cold and elegant voice, "Zhong Ying, come with me for a moment."

  Tang Hao turned his head and looked back, it was Song Ningwei!