Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World Chapter 1575 - 810: Beyond Psychological Endurance (Part 2)

The broken walls and ruins are everywhere, the ground stained red with blood and scorched by flames, forming patches of dark brown filth.

Severed limbs are scattered everywhere, some corpses charred and curled up, while others remain in their final terrified pose, eyes wide open, hollow and soulless, evidently devoured of their Divine Soul.

But what is most spine-chilling are the residual souls wandering among the ruins!

They pounce on corpses still warm or already cold, greedily gnawing and sucking on the remnants of Divine Soul fragments!

Some residual souls even fight among themselves to seize a "fresh" corpse, emitting a silent yet fiercely spiteful shriek.

The entire camp has turned into a living hell!

The cries have long since vanished, leaving only the crackling of flames, the boom of collapsing structures, and... the chilling, spine-tingling whispering sound of countless residual souls devouring Divine Souls!

"Ugh..."

Gu Yuan took only one glance, and her stomach churned violently, a strong feeling of nausea rising to her throat. She hastily covered her mouth, barely holding back from vomiting on the spot.

This scene was too brutal and terrifying, far beyond her psychological capacity.

Gu Sheng’s expression, however, remained calm, as if below was just a common ruin.

His gaze quickly swept across the entire battlefield, searching for those residual soul targets whose aura were relatively strong enough to be worth engaging.

"Go down."

Gu Sheng, with Gu Yuan, descended onto a relatively open area on the edge of the small town, unaffected by the blaze.

As soon as they landed, it was like throwing a stone into the tranquil (but chaotic) surface of a lake!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

From the shadows of the ruins around, from the street corners, from behind burning houses...

Distorted, semi-transparent figures instantaneously converged from all directions!

The hollow eye sockets locked tightly on Gu Sheng and Gu Yuan, especially on Gu Sheng, with his vigorous Qi-Blood and powerful Divine Soul aura, a fatal attraction to them!

In just the blink of an eye, the dense swarm of residual souls had completely surrounded the two on the open ground!

There were thousands of them!

Their rich, chilling, deathly aura gathered, forming a suffocating, icy storm, trapping the two firmly at the center!

Most of these residual souls were at the Earth Martial Realm level, among them dozens whose aura was significantly stronger, Sect Realm residual souls!

They gradually approached, the invisible killing intent and greed almost becoming tangible!

Gu Yuan’s face turned ashen, her body involuntarily tense, subconsciously stepping closer to Gu Sheng.

Being locked by thousands of malicious gazes, the pressure would be enough to make an ordinary Martial Artist’s spirit collapse.

Gu Sheng, however, seemed unaware of the terrifying array, his gaze sweeping over the approaching residual souls, and instead, a slight curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

"Perfect timing."

He murmured softly to himself.

Thousands of distorted, semi-transparent residual soul figures surged from the shadows of the ruins from all directions, encircling Gu Sheng and Gu Yuan tightly at the center!

The rich, chilling deathly aura gathered into a gray storm, cold as ice, almost freezing one’s soul.

Countless hollow eye sockets locked onto them, especially Gu Sheng, his abundant Qi-Blood and Power of Divine Soul an irresistible extreme temptation to these residual souls!

Gu Yuan felt a chill shoot from her soles to her Heavenly Spirit, her hairs standing on end, her heart nearly stopping!

She subconsciously clenched her fists, her nails deeply embedded into her palms, barely suppressing the fear from deep within her soul.

Never had she faced so many residual souls up close before, the gathered malice and deathly aura almost consuming her!

Right in that critical moment, Gu Sheng moved.

He did not draw his sword, nor did he perform any earth-shattering Martial Technique, merely calmly raising his right hand.

A low, grand hum, as if traversing ancient space-time, suddenly erupted!

An ancient, weighty, and endlessly profound aura-emitting Bronzed Cauldron’s shadow gradually emerged above his palm, transforming from illusion to reality!

Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron!

On the body of the cauldron, nine dragon-shaped reliefs appeared to come alive, their mouths slightly opened, exhaling chaotic aura.

The cauldron’s wall shimmered with enigmatic runes, each seemingly containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth.

An indescribable oppressive aura, as if capable of subduing the heavens and all realms, melting the cosmos’s origins, descended with a thunderous presence!

Golden light! The dazzling golden light burst forth from the cauldron’s body, instantly illuminating the ruin shrouded in deathly chill!

Where the golden light reached, the dense cold deathly aura emitted a "sizzling" sound, rapidly dissolving and dissipating!

Even more astonishing was when the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron appeared, the thousands of residual souls that had been crazily charging forward without fear of death suddenly froze!

In their hollow eye sockets, an instinctive, marrow-deep fear was clearly revealed! As if encountering a natural enemy!

The next moment, without waiting for Gu Sheng to activate it, the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron trembled suddenly!

An unimaginably enormous suction force exploded from the center of the cauldron’s mouth!

This suction, intangible and formless, seemed capable of consuming everything! It instantly encompassed a range of several thousand feet!

Countless residual souls emitted silent, extremely fearful screams!

They could no longer control their forms, frantically struggling to escape the range of the golden light!

Some residual souls near the outskirts were fleeing desperately towards the direction away from the cauldron’s mouth!

All efforts were in vain!

The domineering suction disregarded distance and space! No matter how the residual souls struggled or fled, they could not escape the pull of this force!

Their twisted figures involuntarily flew back, transforming into streams of gray-black light, forcibly pulled into the cauldron’s golden glowing mouth!

The instant they entered the cauldron’s mouth, the residual souls vanished without a trace, leaving only a slight tremor of the cauldron’s body and faint refining ripples emanating from within the cauldron, sending a chill to the heart.

In just a few breaths, the thousands of residual souls that had densely surrounded the area were completely swept away!

The whole area instantly became desolate, leaving only the lingering cold aura and the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron floating in mid-air, exuding an aura that suppressed everything!

Gu Yuan stared in awe at this scene, her mind blank.

The thousands of residual souls that had terrified her to suffocation were... just gone? Completely absorbed into the mysterious cauldron by her master?

What... exactly what level of treasure is this?

Gu Sheng’s expression remained calm, as if he had done something trivial.

With a slight thought, the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron trembled again, and at the cauldron’s mouth, the golden light swirling around revealed soul pearls, each the size of dragon eyes, entirely pure white, emitting gentle and pure halos!

One, two, three... a total of sixteen soul pearls floated above the cauldron’s mouth!

Although the soul power contained in each individual soul pearl was far less powerful than that refined from the Heavenly Martial realm’s residual soul before, the advantage was in their numbers!

Sixteen soul pearls gathered together, emanating pure soul fluctuations that were still delightful.

Gu Sheng did not hesitate to absorb all sixteen soul pearls into the Sea of Consciousness space.

In the Sea of Consciousness, the Chaos Spirit Embryo sitting cross-legged suddenly exploded with unprecedented dazzling light!

Sixteen strands of exceedingly pure soul power surged into the Spirit Embryo’s body!

The chaotic light on the Spirit Embryo’s surface fluctuated intensely, its form becoming more solid and distinct at a speed visible to the naked eye!

An enigmatic aura, as if containing the power to open the heavens and the earth, spread from the depths of the Spirit Embryo!

Gu Sheng clearly felt an unprecedented closeness between himself and the Spirit Embryo!

The last barrier to fusion was rapidly becoming thin and fragile under this magnificent soul power’s impact!

Just one last step to perfect fusion!

"Soon..."

Gu Sheng’s eyes gleamed with anticipation.

Once the Spirit Embryo fully integrates, his strength will undergo a qualitative leap!

Just then, three formidable presences broke through the distant dust and the yet-to-dissipate deathly aura, arriving in an instant!

Three figures formed a triangle pattern, landing several dozen feet in front of Gu Sheng.