Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start
Chapter 1024 - 93: Breakthrough, God Transformation Realm (Three updates of 10,000 words, please subscribe!)

Whoosh!

At that moment, Gu Chen flipped over his palm, and three strands of lustrous mist, resembling fog, appeared as lights of the soul. With a twitch of his nose, he gently inhaled and merged them into his body.

Hum!

Clasping the broken jade, after absorbing the three strands of soul light, Gu Chen's spirit became even more lucid. At the same time, his forehead pulsed as if it were about to split open.

To condense the soul one must first create the sea of consciousness!

The sea of consciousness is located at the ancestral orifice of the forehead and requires an extremely strong mind to shatter the limitations of the ancestral orifice and then create the sea of consciousness.

"Open for me!"

With a flicker of light at his forehead, Gu Chen exhaled loudly. Assisted by the broken jade, the light of the soul, and the focusing incense, all of his thoughts converged, became highly condensed, and fiercely collided with the ancestral orifice at the forehead.

Boom!

In that moment, even Gu Chen's body shuddered slightly, his vision went blank, and with the first collision, he had opened a sizeable gap in the ancestral orifice.

"Again!"

Without giving up, Gu Chen endured the discomfort and gathered his thoughts for another assault.

For other cultivators, creating the sea of consciousness requires utmost caution; it's rarely achieved in a single attempt.

Take Chen Xuan of the Yuexiao Sect, for example. After reaching the complete stage of the Cave Heaven Realm, he had to try many times to create the sea of consciousness, and it wasn't until he obtained the light of the soul that he was greatly assured of success.

But Gu Chen, being a man of great talent and courage and possessing elixirs such as the thousand-year-old Heavenly Origin Liquid, as well as assistance from the broken jade's soul light and the focusing incense, could not afford to fail with so many conditions in his favor. Otherwise, he might as well have dashed his head against the wall and died.

Pop!

A slight sound resounded within Gu Chen's mind, like a silver bottle suddenly shattered, and the contents burst forth.

Finally, after hundreds and thousands of collisions, the gate of the ancestral orifice was blasted open by Gu Chen. A small crack also appeared at his forehead, from which a trickle of fresh blood flowed.

The intense impact in such a short period left Gu Chen somewhat dizzy and in extreme pain, unable to focus his mind.

Normally, this would be the time to recuperate, waiting for the spirit to recover before attempting to condense the soul.

But Gu Chen didn't need to do so, for he had merit points.

"Soul Diagram, enhance!"

Accompanied by a shout from the depths of his heart, in an instant, a full eight hundred merit points vanished from the panel, and the Soul Diagram, a technique he had acquired from the secret realm of the Gray Domain, immediately reached the first layer.

Whoosh!

In an instant, as the Soul Diagram broke through, a surge of mental power emerged from within the depths of the ancestral orifice and the sea of consciousness, replenishing what Gu Chen had just expended, causing his spirit to become firmly focused.

And the splitting headache he suffered seemed to subside by more than half in an instant.

However, the soul had still not appeared; it was not yet considered a breakthrough to the God Transformation Realm.

"Again!"

This time, on the panel, a full one thousand and two hundred merit points disappeared, and the Soul Diagram was correspondingly elevated to the second layer.

Hum!

Another surge of mental energy emerged, at least twice as pure as the first and poured into Gu Chen's sea of consciousness.

The two layers of the Soul Diagram significantly enhanced Gu Chen's spiritual essence. Invisible forces surged and gathered all his mental power and his entire soul—or rather, his three souls and seven spirits, his spiritual essence—into one.

At this moment, within the sea of consciousness at the ancestral orifice of his forehead, a vague and unreal figure appeared, looking as if it might dissipate in the next second.

This was the embryonic form of the soul. Typically, reaching this stage meant that with patience and time to accumulate strength, one could successfully condense a soul.

Gu Chen could not wait, nor did he want to. His merit points on the panel were still plentiful.

"Soul Diagram—Fifth Layer!"

In one breath, Gu Chen spent more than ten thousand merit points, propelling the supreme technique of the Soul Diagram from the second layer directly to a quantum leap to the fifth layer.

No one had ever cultivated a technique like Gu Chen did; it was utterly unreasonable!

With a thundering sound, the spiritual power from the fifth layer of the Soul Diagram was monumental, completely filling the newly opened ancestral orifice and sea of consciousness.

Simultaneously, due to the enhancement of the Soul Diagram, Gu Chen instinctively manipulated his mental power to gather his soul and all things related to the "divine" into one place.

Even the illusions that one normally encounters while condensing the soul were crushed by this formidable mental force.

"Soul, coalesce!"

The next moment, as naturally as water flows along its course, accompanied by a burst of blinding light, Gu Chen's soul became solidified. The ethereal figure turned vivid and lifelike.

As the light faded, it was visible that in the very center of the sea of consciousness, a little person sat cross-legged, looking incredibly cute and exactly like Gu Chen as a child.

That was his soul!

Generally, when a soul is initially formed, it resembles an infantile version of oneself, and as one's realm grows and the soul strengthens, it also matures, eventually assuming the current appearance of the cultivator.

At that point, it signifies that the cultivator has reached the complete stage of the God Transformation Realm and may attempt the Divine Return to Void to break through to the Huanxu Realm.

But, because of practicing many mental techniques and the fifth layer of the Cycle of Reincarnation technique, Gu Chen's spiritual essence was already extremely profound, and he had also boosted the Soul Diagram to the fifth layer, which made his achievement all the more extraordinary.

Hence, as soon as Gu Chen's soul appeared, it already assumed the form of his childhood, a great leap beyond what other cultivators could achieve. Sitting upright in the sea of consciousness, the little figure even held a jade piece in its hand.