"Its speed is quite good, and it possesses considerable spirituality. A pity it's still lacking a bit."
Almost at the same moment, Ye Chen had already descended.
The vast distance posed no problem beneath his feet. He was fast to the extreme, surpassing the ordinary and reason, catching up in an instant. He struck out a divine seal, immediately sealing heaven and earth, involving Time and space. No matter how powerful the Soul-splitting Pill was, it could not escape.
Simultaneously, Ye Chen reached out and grabbed. So fast it was to the extreme, he snatched the Soul-splitting Pill into his palm in one motion.
Boom—
The Soul-splitting Pill erupted with fearsome power, comparable to a strike from a Fivefold Heaven Great Power, trying to blast open Ye Chen's hand. However, Ye Chen's palm was far more solid than an ancient weapon. No matter how the Soul-splitting Pill struggled, it was useless, utterly unable to move.
Finally, Ye Chen struck out one divine seal after another, performing seals upon it.
Looking at the Soul-splitting Pill swirling with black and white colors in his hand, Ye Chen also let out a slight sigh of relief.
He hadn't expected the Soul-splitting Pill, an Eighth-Rank High-Grade Pill, to be so formidable. It actually possessed power not inferior to a Great Power, and its speed was extremely fast. If he hadn't mastered extreme speed, even a Fivefold Heaven Great Power would have found it hard to catch up. The likely result would have been watching helplessly as this Soul-splitting Pill fled.
After successfully refining the Soul-splitting Pill, he did not immediately swallow it, but instead began to recover.
Because the process of tearing the divine soul and entering the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body was likely filled with life-threatening dangers. He dared not be negligent and needed to conserve his strength and build up energy.
During this period, he refined several auxiliary recovery pills and operated the Saint Body Regeneration Technique. After a day and a night, he adjusted his own condition to its peak, his essence, energy, and spirit all full. Then he activated all the grand formations he had prepared earlier, spreading them around.
Finally, he even entered the Chaos Great Cauldron, with Abenude providing a full three layers of protection. Only then did he feel at ease to proceed with the final step.
Gulp—
Ye Chen swallowed the Soul-splitting Pill in one go. This Eighth-Rank High-Grade Pill immediately transformed into a stream of pure medicinal power. It did not rush toward his limbs and bones; instead, it went directly toward the Mud Pill Palace between his brows, transforming into a dazzling mass of black and white light that submerged the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person within the Mud Pill Palace.
Visible to the naked eye, this light contained various mysterious Great Dao Runes. It completely enveloped the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person, then formed a black and white cocoon of light.
Crack—
After a while, one could hear eerie sounds coming from within the cocoon of light. There, blazing radiance leaped and flickered, clearly revealing a human figure flickering in and out of sight.
Ah—
From within the cocoon of light, a low, pained roar could distinctly be heard.
That was the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person. Even with the miraculous Soul-splitting Pill reducing the risk of tearing the divine soul, the pain of having one's soul torn apart was still irreplaceable, far exceeding the pain of having one's physical body torn apart by a thousand or ten thousand times, perhaps even more agonizing.
Within the cocoon of light, the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person glowed all over, wrapped in mysterious Great Dao Runes. Rune after rune continuously flowed, sinking into the Saint Soul Little Person's body, then slowly beginning to split the complete Saint Soul Little Person apart.
Ye Chen distinctly felt as if his entire being was being torn in two. The magnitude of that pain was such that even he could not ignore it.
However, Ye Chen's temperament was resilient enough. This level of pain was enough to drive an ordinary Great Power insane from torment, and even a super Great Power would face the risk of soul collapse. Yet his Chaos Saint Soul Little Person sat cross-legged within the Mud Pill Palace, motionless, allowing the divine soul to be torn apart while reciting the Chaos Scripture to maintain a clear mind.
Swoosh—
Visible to the naked eye, the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person was being torn apart, gradually splitting into two halves. That pain became even more profound.
Moreover, this was not a soul-tearing process that could be completed in an instant. It proceeded slowly to avoid excessive speed causing severe soul tearing that would be difficult to recover from.
Swoosh—
Almost every moment, intense pain continuously surged forth, causing the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person to convulse and tremble. Ye Chen felt a sensation worse than death.
His physical body also turned pale, chaos energy seeping out as cold sweat poured profusely, sharing the sensation.
"As I have heard, chaos is indestructible, the myriad Daos are as one..."
Yet Ye Chen's Chaos Saint Soul Little Person never stopped. Even as the little person's head began to split down to the abdomen into two halves, it continued reciting the Chaos chapters, maintaining a sliver of clarity in the mind.
An hour and a half later, the Chaos Saint Soul Little Person was completely torn apart, separated into two halves.
At this moment, Ye Chen felt as if it had been longer than thousands of years in the past. That pain was truly too memorable; no one would willingly endure a second tearing.
Simultaneously, one half of the torn Chaos Saint Soul Little Person was entwined with black energy, the other half wrapped in white light. Moreover, at the torn parts of the divine soul, under the heaven-defying medicinal efficacy of the Soul-splitting Pill, new growth appeared. However, the newly grown parts appeared translucent, far less solid than when there was a single Chaos Saint Soul Little Person.
Because the Soul-splitting Pill could not instantly restore both Chaos Saint Soul Little Persons to completeness. It only provided the most basic restoration. To recover the original strength would require a period of cultivation.
Nevertheless, this was not a bad method. Tearing the divine soul in two was equivalent to having two lives.
If one divine soul was destroyed, the second divine soul would still exist, meaning he would not die.
Furthermore, once the two divine souls merged, they would inevitably far surpass the original single divine soul, even leaping several levels at once.
However, achieving success was easier said than done.
Leaving aside the difficulty of refining the Soul-splitting Pill as an Eighth-Rank High-Grade Pill, simply gathering all the required ingredients was extremely challenging.
Many ingredients might not be found even after searching the entire ancient universe. Ye Chen was fortunate. Back when he swept through the Danxu Ancient Realm, all the ingredients happened to be there, and he obtained part of the Alchemy Emperor's pill-refining inheritance, which allowed him to successfully refine it.
Moreover, one had to endure such terrifying pain. Even a peak Great Power would be unwilling to bear it lightly.
Furthermore, every person, even every divine soul, had a certain suitability for pills. The first use of any pill had the best effect, but the second, third... each subsequent use would greatly diminish the effect.
In later stages, even countless pills might have no effect whatsoever.
Therefore, this method could not be feasible forever.
Simultaneously, Ye Chen opened the Samsara Sixfold Coffin.
Before his eyes lay the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body, resembling a three- or four-year-old boy. Ye Chen could approach so closely only because he wielded the Primordial Battle Body. This was due to the overwhelming pressure emanating from the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body, not inferior to that of an Ancient Monarch. One could imagine how terrifyingly boundless the power harbored within this small frame was.
Precisely because of this, no matter what, he had to refine the Great Emperor Reincarnation Body into his external incarnation!