Soul Refining Pearl

The Soul Refining Pearl could be considered an illustrious treasure of the cultivation world.

It originated from High Antiquity, and was said to have been developed by a cultivation sect known as the **Soul Sect**. The Five Gods Faith of latter days was said to have sprung from the Soul Sect.

**The Soul Sect specialized in raising souls, refining souls, seizing souls**, **and transplanting souls**, and their spell arts were strange and bizarre. But this sect was not in itself an evil sect.

They researched souls primarily in search of eternal life.

While cultivators could achieve long lives, it was difficult for them to achieve eternal lives. Even those Titans who cultivated to the Immortal Platform Realm would at most be able to live for several thousand years, far from true immortality.

Although there were arts for reincarnation and possession, they all had limitations, and one had to at least be at the Violet Palace Realm to use them.

But whether it was reincarnation or possession, the physical body was destroyed while the soul remained.

Without a physical body, a soul found it very difficult to exist for long in the world. It would either dissipate or become a ghost, and thus, at the death of the physical body, the soul had to find something to attach itself to as quickly as possible.

But such vessels were hard to find. Not only did it require a suitable body, the soul of the body would also resist. Without its original strength, even if the possessor had been a peerless Titan, they were not guaranteed victory against the original owner. As for reincarnation, there was the risk of not getting back one's memories.

Thus, no one was willing to use these secret arts unless they absolutely needed to.

In search of eternal life, the Soul Sect had researched soul transplantation to reduce the dangers and requirements for reincarnation and possession. The Soul Hell had been created for this purpose.

Initially, its purpose had been to store souls, so it had been called the Soulstore Pearl.

The Soulstore Pearl allowed the Soul Sect to temporarily store the souls of the dying so that they could slowly search for a suitable vessel, thus resolving the problem of the waiting period. Besides that, the Soulstore Pearl could nourish and strengthen the soul, providing better conditions for possession.

But in the end, the Soulstore Pearl was a failure. While the Soul Sect had succeeded in creating the Soulstore Pearl, they found it to be an extremely wicked item. The soul within would go through excruciating pain, and extended torment would have the soul turn into an existence akin to a ghost, devoid of rationality and utterly insane. This was precisely why people later on called it the Soul Refining Hell.

Not long after that, the Soul Sect sealed the pearl and forbade anyone from using it.

The matter should have ended there, and since it was a failed product, no one paid this object any mind.

But surprisingly, a traitorous disciple appeared among the Soul Sect. This man was none other than the infamous **Soultaker True Lord.**

Of course, the Soultaker True Lord was truly nothing more than a minor disciple of the Soul Sect at the time, only at the Mortal Shedding Realm. But this Mortal Shedding Realm disciple managed to sneak into the Pavilion of Heavenly Foresight and steal many of the Soul Sect's treasures, including the Soulstore Pearl.

The Soul Sect sent large numbers of experts in pursuit, but the traitor managed to escape them, even killing a few of them, one of them being a Celestial Heart elder. The Soulstore Pearl put on a glorious show in all this, becoming the Soultaker True Lord's ultimate weapon. **It was from this pearl that the Soultaker True Lord received his name.**

And no one had expected the Soultaker True Lord to improve the Soulstore Pearl and make the Mindseizers.

**Mindseizers were the extremely vicious creatures born from the souls** that had completely lost their rationality in the long torment of the pearl. Once released, the Mindseizers would instinctively attack any life nearby and attempt to possess them.

Through the improvements of the Soultaker True Lord, the Soul Refining Pearl possessed the two abilities of soul refining and soul congealing.

Soul refining was to refine souls, to temper the souls captured within the pearl through demonic fire.

As the Soul Refining Pearl had been modified by the Soultaker True Lord, the Soul Hell was much more terrifying. So long as sufficient spiritual energy was provided, an endless sea of demonic fire could be produced to melt down and refine the soul.

After forty-nine days of refining, a soul would either break and be melted into Soul Dew or would hold out and become a fiend.

The former was a valuable material while the latter were none other than the infamous Mindseizers!

Soul congealing was the exact opposite. Materials were absorbed and inserted into the soul, creating some strange object. The exact effects would depend on the material absorbed and the soul being refined.

The Soul Refining Pearl had previously absorbed an entire block of Softscent Jade, which was exactly what was needed for soul congealing. The warm current Tang Jie had felt was none other than the absorbed essence of the Softscent Jade, and so Tang Jie had only needed to apply a little effort to congeal the lynx soul.

But the pearl had no record for how to use the congealed fiend soul, and Tang Jie didn't know either. No matter how he messed around with it, the congealed soul did nothing. He ended up spending quite some time, ultimately to no avail.