“Firm divine soul, the sea of knowledge has multiplied, the range of divine soul exploration seems to have doubled, and even the mana has increased a lot. So this is the feeling of entering the Nascent Soul stage, it’s simply wonderful!” Shen Luo exclaimed joyfully in his heart, unable to resist raising his head towards the sky and shouting.
However, he quickly calmed down again, resuming his meditative state to further stabilize his realm.
With a flicker of thought, Shen Luo recalled the depiction of the Nascent Soul stage in the Nameless Cultivation Technique, understanding the spirit leaving aperture was incredibly miraculous but also quite risky.
The divine soul is ultimately a spiritual body that can easily be attacked by strong winds and intense sunlight before strengthening completely. Furthermore, during the spirit leaving aperture phase, the physical body becomes a defenseless object susceptible to attacks from outsiders, just like fish on a butcher’s chopping block.
However, according to the Nameless Cultivation Technique, the human divine soul is inherently a power that can be upgraded. It’s just beginning to show its strength upon entering the Nascent Soul stage, and with continuous cultivation, it can grow into another power comparable to the physical body and mana.
Some True Immortals of Great Luo can even use their divine soul power alone to take a person’s life from thousands of miles away.
About two to three hours later, the strange sounds from around the heaven and earth gradually ceased, and the sky in the distance started turning a shade of fish-belly white.
Shen Luo’s energy had become stable again.
“The voice of preaching the Dao is indeed profound. If it could further strengthen the divine soul, it would be even better,” he contemplated. Following this thought, he once again held his breath, focusing his attention to listen to the preaching carefully.
Shen Luo discovered that after advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, the preaching on the square could still cause his sea of knowledge to tremble greatly. Meanwhile, the intense pain that struck the divine soul disappeared, and his sea of knowledge stopped expanding, with no change in his divine soul.
He stood up and walked off the square, the preaching sound vanished again, and the memory of the preaching in his mind also became blank again.
Seeing this, Shen Luo was still somewhat unresigned, returned to the square once more and even got closer to the high platform than before.
However, the result was the same. Although the preaching and the rumbling sounds were still there, his sea of knowledge and divine soul no longer benefited from them.
“It seems that it can only reach this level; listening further would be useless,” Shen Luo sighed and shook his head.
He sat on the edge of the square, rested for a while, and then stood up and left.
Behind the square was a jade stone path extending forward, with no end in sight.
Shen Luo stepped onto the jade stone path. With a light tap on the ground, he flew forward several yards as if weightless, moving briskly until the square behind him disappeared from view.
Gradually, on both sides of the road started to appear large golden trees, seemingly made of gold, obviously not ordinary trees, but did not emit strong spiritual power fluctuations either.
Shen Luo looked curiously at these golden trees a few times but didn’t stop his steps, continuing forward. A green mountain peak standing over a hundred meters high appeared in front of him after walking for a while and the jade stone path finally ended.
A dilapidated building could vaguely be seen on top of the peak, but his vision was drawn to the smooth green cliff at the foot of the mountain.
On the cliff was a tight-fitting green stone door, with several dark red lines drawn on it forming a non-word, non-picture pattern, holding a sense of profoundness.
Next to the stone door were three ancient seal characters of human-head size, “Observing Dao Cave”, which emitted a sense of unyielding simplicity and depth that seemed to have endured for tens of thousands of years.
“Observing Dao Cave!”
Shen Luo muttered these three words, his eyes slowly lit up.
Going by this name, this must have been an important place in the sect in the past, and as there were no traces of destruction nearby, if there were any treasures inside, they would probably be in good condition. Ɍ𝖆ɴ𝖔ᛒЁȿ
Although a wave of excitement swept over him, he didn’t rush forward, instead raising his hand, making a gesture, and waving.
The water light flashed in the air, creating two water palms the size of millstones. They landed on the stone door, pushing hard.
But the stone door remained unmoved, and there were no signs of any prohibition being triggered around it.
Seeing this, he walked to the Stone Door, raised his hand to knock on it, and a low thud echoed from within the Stone Door. It was obviously very thick. It probably wouldn’t be easy to open this door.
However, Shen Luo had just broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage and his strength had greatly increased. He was full of confidence and had few worries.
He closed his eyes and spread out his Divine Sense carefully towards the interior of the Stone Door and the nearby mountain wall.
Shen Luo’s actions were very careful. He still remembered the prohibition that could counteract the Divine Sense.
But this time when his Divine Sense came into contact with the Stone Door, he didn’t encounter the force of the previous prohibition. Instead, he was blocked by a flexible force and couldn’t penetrate it at all.
The Divine Sense that was exploring the nearby mountain wall entered a certain distance, but was soon blocked by a gentle force and couldn’t continue to go deeper. There was no sign of any door-opening mechanism inside the nearby stone wall.
Shen Luo frowned slightly, retreated a few steps, sat down cross-legged, urged his soul to fly out of his body, summoned all his strength, and flew towards the interior of the Stone Door.
With the confirmation that there were no prohibitions on the door that could rebound the Divine Sense, he had no more hesitation.
A prohibition which blocks the Divine Sense cannot resist the spirit of a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
The gentle force on the door blocked him again, but the power contained in his soul far exceeded that of a strand of divine sense. He withstood this gentle power and moved a bit deeper into the Stone Door.
He felt happy in his heart and was about to exert more force to move forward when suddenly the humming sound rose and a layer of white light appeared on the Stone Door. A powerful repelling force seeped out.
Shen Luo’s soul had no power to resist and was immediately pushed away, completely expelled from the Stone Door. The white light on the door then disappeared.
He stared at the Stone Door for a while, then returned to his body, his face looking somewhat ugly.
After pausing for a moment, he made a hand gesture.
Two streams of water appeared once again, spun into two conical blue water blades, a glaring blue light entwined around the water swords, swiftly flowing, making a piercing whistling sound.
Shen Luo shouted in a low voice, and swung both his hands forward.
The two water blades spun rapidly, making a sharp whistling sound, just like two rapidly spinning drills, they fiercely hit the Stone Door.
“Clang” “Clang” Two loud explosions erupted!
The two water swords exploded directly and turned into a rain of water droplets.
The Stone Door once again emitted a faint white light. It flashed lightly, and then quickly returned to its normal state. There was not even a scratch.
Shen Luo’s gaze turned serious. He once again performed a gesture and waved. The Half-moon ring flew out.
The nine layers of formations on the ring all emerged, and a dazzling silver light burst out, and with a spin, it condensed into a giant silver full moon. In a flash, it crossed several tens of feet of distance, appearing before the Stone Door.
He waved a finger in the air and the silver moon lit up vigorously, again doubling in size. It made a thunderous howl, churning the nearby air like water ripples, and ferociously slashed at the Stone Door.
A loud “boom” echoed!
The unparalleled silver full moon, like a wave crashing against a reef, easily exploded, turning into numerous large and small light blades that rebounded back, raining down in a range of several tens of feet around the Stone Door.