One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count Chapter 45: Breakthrough to the Soul Tempering Realm!

["Ahhhh! It hurts too much!! I can't take it anymore!!"]

[Hundreds of demonic souls simultaneously rush into your seven orifices and five senses!]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner uses this grand array to instantly refine them, transforming them into energy to temper your soul, helping you break the shackles of your bone structure and break through to the Soul Tempering realm!]

[However, this process can be imagined as forcibly pouring one liter of water into a half-liter container!]

[Under normal circumstances, you should explode and die.]

[The fact that you're not dead yet is entirely due to the Ten Thousand Souls Empowernt Array stabilizing your flesh body and soul.]

[But, it's too painful.]

[It should be damage at the level of bodily explosion, yet you're not dead now and are still conscious. One can imagine how unbearable that pain is.]

Chen Yi outside the simulation wore a mask of agony.

"Miscalculated, I should have equipped 'Superbeast's Pain Threshold'..."

Chen Yi was grateful he had the Simulator.

All the difficulties and tornts along this cultivation journey were borne by his simulated self.

The real him rely watched the simulation progress, selected simulation options, and adjusted traits.

It was really too easy.

"Little bro... calling myself 'little bro' feels weird... Little bro! Hang in there! Next year I'll give you 'Dragon Plays with Phoenix'!"

["Oh, resilient middle-aged man! Without enduring the bone-chilling cold, how can one get the fragrant plum blossoms? Unafraid of being hamred a thousand tis, to leave purity in the world!"]

["Stop spouting random poetry already..."]

[While you were here in life-or-death agony, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was just watching the show.]

[You feel like if it had a phone, it would be taking pictures to post on social dia right now.]

[It's really full of malicious sches!]

[Until the dead of night.]

[Your screams of agony finally stopped.]

[Your clothes had been soaked through, dried, soaked again, and dried again, who knows how many tis it repeated.]

[You took them all off and casually struck out with a flaming palm, burning them to ashes.]

[Then, bare-assed, you went to a small stream not far away to soak and relax.]

["It's finally over..."]

[You have completed the breakthrough and have now officially stepped into the Soul Tempering realm!]

[While soaking, you glanced at your current personal data.]

[Na: Chen Yi]

[Realm: Soul Tempering, First Tempering]

[Techniques:

——External Technique: Heartfla Profound Art (High-Grade, Proficient)

——Internal Technique: Pure Yang Spirit-Guiding Profound Art (High-Grade, Proficient)

——Heart Art: Azure Fla Heart Art (High-Grade, Beginner)

——Martial Arts: Chixin Fist (High-Grade, Beginner), Dragon Fla Profound Art (High-Grade, Beginner), Rocket Step (Mid-Grade, Skilled), Cloud-Scorching Hand (Mid-Grade, Small Achievent), Shen Family Spear (Mid-Grade, Small Achievent), Wind Wave Palm (Mid-Grade, Skilled), Cloud-Shattering Sword Technique (Mid-Grade, Skilled)...]

[Equipped Traits (7/9): Simulator[Mythic], The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans[Gold], Photographic mory[Purple], Treasure-Sniffing Nose[Purple], Low-Grade Bone Structure[Green], Spider Sense[Green], Monster Aura[Green]]

[Acquired Traits (147): Sudden Inspiration[Purple], The Only True Prophet in the Whole Ga[Purple], Ginger Gets Spicier With Age[Purple], Foreign Languages Should Be Learned[Green], Effort Guarantees Reward[Green], Luckier with Age[Green], Silent Step[Green]...]

[Current Trait Probabilities by Quality:]

[White Common 69%, Green Rare 20.8%, Purple Epic 8%, Gold Legendary 2%, Prismatic Mythic 0.2%]

Through the mories obtained from previous simulations, Chen Yi knew.

The so-called Soul Tempering realm, as the na implies, is about tempering a martial artist's three hun souls and seven po souls.

Humans have three hun souls: the Heavenly Hun, the Earthly Hun, and the Human Hun.

Among them, the Human Hun governs the seven po souls: Corpse Dog, Hidden Arrow, Sparrow Yin, Thief Swallower, Non-Poison, Filth Remover, and Stinking Lung.

After martial artists enter the Soul Tempering realm, they use Heart Arts, Spiritual Energy, and Vitality Energy to wash over and temper their three hun and seven po souls, thereby strengthening their soul body and spirit.

Each ti the tempering of one hun or one po soul is completed, it represents one minor realm within the Soul Tempering realm.

Therefore, the Soul Tempering realm has ten layers, called Ten Temperings.

The process of soul tempering, to a certain extent, increases a person's wisdom and comprehension.

The power used to represent the strength of the soul body is Essence Energy, which can also be called Soul Power.

It's similar to how a stronger physical body results in stronger Vitality Energy.

Only upon reaching the Soul Tempering realm is a martial artist's cultivation considered complete.

External Techniques cultivate Vitality Energy, up to the Ninth Stage of Body Refining.

Internal Techniques cultivate Spiritual Energy, up to the twelfth layer of Spirit Gathering.

Heart Arts cultivate Essence Energy, up to the Ten Temperings of Soul Tempering.

The Three Energies are not completely independent.

The improvent of Spiritual Energy cannot be separated from the increase in Vitality Energy;

only a more robust physical body can support more Essence of Heaven and Earth entering the body.

The improvent of Essence Energy similarly cannot be separated from the tempering of the three hun and seven po souls by Vitality Energy and Spiritual Energy.

The Three Energies complent each other, together forming the foundation of a martial artist's power!

A martial artist might not know any martial arts, but if they don't master and utilize the Three Energies, they cannot be considered a formal martial artist.

"Entering the Soul Tempering realm, among loose cultivator martial artists, I'm already in the first tier. Non-formally-trained martial artists pose much less of a threat to now!"

[After so adjustnts, you took the now empty Ten Thousand Souls Banner and set out again on your cultivation path.]

[Stepping into the Soul Tempering realm is certainly a joy, but this is rely one checkpoint on the long road of martial arts.]

[Ahead of you, there are still many mountains to climb.]

[For soone with diocre aptitude like you, climbing these mountains is even harder than it is for others.]

["Feels like I've got a bit of that 'A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality' vibe going on..."]

[Year Twenty-Nine, age forty-six.]

[Drawing a trait...]

[Draw successful!]

[「Mortal Bones」(Gold):

If you only have Low-Grade Bone Structure, no special physique, and have not undergone bodily reconstruction with heavenly treasures, etc.

After reaching the Core Formation realm, your comprehension of divine abilities will not be restricted by the rules of heaven and earth, and your divine ability comprehension will be enhanced tenfold!

Cultivating in the mortal world~ all worldly ties and grudges are empty~ all are seen off~ ultimately ordinary yet not diocre~~~]

[Adjust traits?]

[Yes/No]

Seeing the gold trait, Chen Yi got excited for a mont, but then imdiately beca confused.

"Core Formation realm? Comprehending divine abilities? What does that an?"

Chen Yi discovered that the effect description of the trait contained a blind spot in his knowledge;

he hadn't even heard of the "Core Formation realm" before.

"This is probably a trait that can only be used in the very late stages..."

[You equipped 「Sudden Inspiration」!]

[You equipped 「Dragon Plays with Phoenix」!]

[You continued wandering around the Central Plains, slaying demons and monsters everywhere.]

[With the Ten Thousand Souls Banner empty, the feedback to your cultivation naturally ceased.]

[You now urgently need a large number of demonic souls.]

["There are too few demonic tribes in the Central Plains. To avoid the Demon Slaying Division, they are scattered extrely sparsely and hidden. Searching for them one by one like this is too inefficient."]

[Among the five regions, the one with the most demonic tribes is the Eastern Wastes, because the human population there is small, so small that no country has ford.]

[Additionally, the Eastern Wastes borders the Great Wastes. The Great Wastes is the territory of the demonic tribes, where powerful demonic beings operate.]

[You plan to take a trip to the Eastern Wastes.]

[You didn't go before because the Spirit Gathering realm was truly not worth ntioning, but now with the Soul Tempering realm, you have a bit more confidence.]

[Year Thirty, age forty-seven.]

[You replaced 「Dragon Plays with Phoenix」 with 「The Only True Prophet in the Whole Ga」.]

[On the way to the Eastern Wastes, you dealt with so demonic troubles along the way.]

[Now that your combat power has increased, you can handle more powerful demonic tribes.]

[Your hair also beca increasingly red.]

[The reputation of the Red-Haired Demon Slayer grew louder and louder among the loose cultivator martial artists in the southern regions of the Central Plains.]

[This year, you realized you had unknowingly passed by Baiyun County in Qingzhou, so you decided to visit Third Sister's ho, and also see how Da Chun was doing now.]