It didn't take long for Austin to conclude that it was a special space into which he and Violet had been sucked in by a secret weapon.
They had gained a lot of rewards during their journey of the Ghost Valley. But, being stuck in this strange place and not being able to get out of it, would be a big loss. It was not just about wealth now; it was their lives that matter.
'Those vital energy crystals, mineral resources and the sacred weapons that we have found in the cave must be the treasures of the Ghost Sect. The four men had stopped me from leaving. Are they serving the Ghost Sect? Yes, they surely are. I had met men like them once in the outer range of the Grand Desolation Mountain. The four of them are the same as the cultivators of the Ghost Sect whom I had met earlier. I could identify them with their scents and dresses. That means, those dry corpses were also made by the Ghost Sect. And now I'm stuck in this weird space. It must be the four cultivators of the Ghost Sect who did this. But how did they do it? And how will we escape from here? The Ghost Sect seems to deal exclusively with ghosts and monsters. It's really evil. They must have come after me because I took away the vital energy crystals and precious minerals which they had stored in that cave for so long. And of course! There is that book of martial art that I took. Since the Ghost Sect especially deals with ghosts and monsters, maybe the book records various kinds of formulas and skills. They can help me deal with this situation. Why don't I take out that book and check out if there are any skills recorded about it! Let me look for some skills that can deal with these ghosts, in order to cope with the present predicament!'
Thinking this, Austin pulled out the jade slip immediately. He had taken it from the cave earlier. He took it out from his Space Ring and placed it over his forehead.
Suddenly, streams of information about several skills rose from the jade slip like radiations and penetrated through Austin's forehead into his mind.
Good lord! There were so many of them! The Soul-capturing Secret Skill...
The Primary Corpse-refining Formula...
The Intermediate Corpse-refining Formula...
The Primary Corpse-controlling Formula...
The Intermediate Corpse-controlling Formula...
The Venomous Corpse Palm...
The Corpse Miasma Releasing Secret Skill...
The Soul-transforming Skill... . . .
The long list of weird skills flowed into Austin's mind. There were more than a dozen skills in that jade slip. These were all heretical skills of refining souls or corpses.
Austin raised his eyebrows as he took in the information pouring into his head. He had heard that many years ago the Ghost Sect was once attacked by all the sects of Violet Orchid Empire. Was it because all the weird skills which they cultivated were heretical and evil?
Of course the cultivators of the orthodox path would detest and reject it. It was much beyond their thought.
Austin kept looking over and over again at more than a dozen skills which were written on the jade slip. Suddenly his attention was caught by a skill called Soul-transforming Skill.
After reading about the skill in detail, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
This Soul-transforming Skill was a skill that transformed the soul energy into the power of spiritual sense by refining the souls.
Austin studied the Soul-transforming Skill several times, thoroughly. He couldn't believe it. The skill was beyond his expectation, and it was fascinating that such an uncharacteristic skill existed in this world.
It was originally a skill that cultivated the power of spiritual sense. However, it used soul as its energy because souls were figures of spirituality.
The spiritual souls sometimes were left off after the humans had died. The bodies were dead but the souls contained their power of spiritual sense.
The Soul-transforming Skill intended to refine the power of spiritual sense from souls and blended them into the cultivator's power of spiritual sense.
Austin recalled the incident when once a little monkey's spiritual soul broke into his Soul Sea. The little monkey's figure of spiritual soul shattered into pieces after it was bounced off by Austin. He had absorbed these pieces of spiritual soul, and his power of spiritual sense had improved a lot since then.
It indeed worked on the same principle as the Soul-transforming Skill recorded in that jade slip.
With all these thoughts running in his mind, Austin raised his head and looked at the numerous souls in the dark space around him. Suddenly, he became excited. This was a gift! He was so excited that his eyes were filled with the spark of desire. He was aware of what powers he could attain by that skill.
If he cultivated this skill, the souls lingering in front of him would become the nourishment of the power of his spiritual sense. That would make his power of spiritual sense increase quickly.
If it worked out, the whole thing would turn into a lucky chance for him.
However, the introductions of the Soul-transforming Skill emphasized that it was a skill with high risks, so in order to cultivate this skill, the vital energy cultivation base of the cultivator had to be higher than the medium stage of Earth Realm.
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