But Zhang Ling's hands didn't stop. While retreating, he waved his hand, and a yellow spiritual light illuminated an area of more than ten zhang in front of him.
The little turtle phantom formed by the Second Primordial Spirit was immediately trapped upon emerging from the black vial. Its form paused slightly, but then the Second Primordial Spirit seemed to recognize the weakness of the yellow light, emitting a cloud of black gas that transformed into several afterimages, breaking free from the yellow light's restraints.
This wasn't surprising, as the Heavy Yuan Profound Light that Zhang Ling released was most effective against physical entities. Moreover, the Second Primordial Spirit shared his memories, so it naturally knew some of the weaknesses of the Heavy Yuan Profound Light.
This gave him a strange feeling of betrayal. Zhang Ling coldly snorted, and a bloody light flickered in his hand, revealing a blood-red jade cauldron. A drop of essence blood fell into it, and a large amount of blood-colored mist emerged from the Blood Soul Cauldron.
Seal!
The blood-colored mist flowed rapidly, transforming into a blood-colored Flood Dragon that instantly slammed into the little turtle formed by the Second Primordial Spirit. A miserable scream was heard, and it was instantly trapped within the blood-colored mist.
At first, the Second Primordial Spirit could resist slightly, charging back and forth. But gradually, as the blood-colored mist expanded and contracted, it gradually solidified, transforming into a blood crystal block about ten feet in size, directly sealing it inside.
The blood-colored crystal block flashed and was taken into the Blood Soul Cauldron.
This Blood Cauldron was a top-tier treasure. The released blood-colored mist could crystallize anything, like ice crystals formed from extreme cold. Whether it was magical treasures, magical instruments, or even soul bodies, once trapped, it was difficult to escape.
Looking at the Second Primordial Spirit within the blood crystal block, Zhang Ling stood back on the stone pillar.
Now it seems that trying to control the Xuan Turtle's physical body with this clever method is likely to end in failure.
Zhang Ling smiled self-deprecatingly, sighed a few times, and left the underground space, carrying the Blood Soul Cauldron.
After returning to his cave, he went directly into the cultivation chamber, took out the Spiritual Eye Stone from the Two Extremes Gourd, and placed them together inside the Blood Soul Cauldron to use the pure spiritual power it emitted to cleanse the turbid Qi from the Second Primordial Spirit.
The Second Primordial Spirit, condensed over nearly ten years, was now being eroded by turbid Qi.
In Zhang Ling's perception, the extent of the erosion wasn't actually deep, only about one or two tenths of the entire soul body, but it still drove it mad, causing its consciousness to become chaotic.
Even if he could use a large amount of spiritual energy to cleanse the soul body, it would still take a long time to recover.
Of course, once the Second Primordial Spirit recovered, he could also let it seize the body of another cultivator or a demon beast.
But ordinary cultivators or demon beasts, even if the possession was successful, would at most only add a Golden Core-level puppet.
He was now at the late stage of the Golden Core realm. After cultivating diligently for a period of time, he would reach the peak of the Golden Core realm. An ordinary Golden Core puppet wouldn't be of much help to him.
And finding a suitable body wasn't easy either.
So, in the following time, Zhang Ling no longer considered this matter and focused on his own cultivation.
……
However, things are impermanent, and plans can't keep up with changes.
One month later, he came to the underground space again with a look of ecstasy.
The Xuan Turtle in the pool still had a wooden expression. If it were an ordinary demon beast, it might have died long ago after its demon soul had been separated from its body for so long.
But the Xuan Turtle's own strength was comparable to a Transformation Stage demon beast. Although its entire divine soul was sealed in the Soul Restricting Plate, its massive physical body remained full of life, only falling into a state of suspended animation.
It was said that some powerful demons and devils were difficult for even Transformation Stage cultivators to kill, and they could only be sealed.
The sealed powerful demons and devils were often sealed separately after their primordial spirit and physical body were extracted. Even the physical body and primordial spirit would be forcibly divided into several parts and sealed in different places.
Even so, these powerful demons and devils wouldn't die for a long time. Their physical bodies and primordial spirits would maintain a certain spirituality. If they were given a chance to reunite, their physical body and remnant soul could be resurrected, wreaking havoc on the entire cultivation world.
The cultivation world always respected strength. As long as one was strong, even if only a remnant soul remained, it was possible to be resurrected.
The Xuan Turtle in front of him naturally hadn't reached that level, but it wasn't comparable to ordinary demon beasts either.
Looking at the Xuan Turtle, Zhang Ling's lips curled up in a smile.
Originally, he had been in secluded cultivation in his cave for the past month. As for why he suddenly came here, it was because in just one month, the turbid Qi in the Second Primordial Spirit's soul body had been completely expelled.
According to his original estimate, it was impossible to expel the turbid Qi in a short period of time. The ability to expel the turbid Qi in a short period of time wasn't due to the Spiritual Eye Stone, but to the Blood Soul Cauldron in his hand.
With a wave of his hand, the Blood Soul Cauldron floated into his hand, transforming into a blood cauldron about ten feet in size.
Inside, a blood-colored crystal block cracked and shattered, and the Second Primordial Spirit, sealed inside, broke free and transformed back into a small turtle phantom, floating in front of him, without a trace of turbid Qi.
The entire little turtle was still emerald green, with a layer of dark blue light floating on its surface. However, it was much weaker than before.
And this was just the superficial change. Under Zhang Ling's divine sense perception, there was an even deeper discovery: after this demon soul was refined into the Second Primordial Spirit, it shared the same memories and thoughts as the main primordial spirit.
Now, although the turbid Qi in the entire soul body had been expelled, which was naturally a good thing, its consciousness had also disappeared, turning into a clean and pure ordinary demon soul.
It was as if it had never been assimilated at all. This strange change was also caused by the Blood Soul Cauldron.
Zhang Ling felt that he seemed to have discovered the true purpose of the Blood Soul Cauldron.
This treasure was obtained from Madam Cao, but it was valued by the Snow Moon Tower's Master. He had previously guessed that it was definitely not an ordinary treasure.
Now, the Blood Soul Cauldron could actually expel the turbid Qi from the desolate beast's demon soul, which seemed to be the true purpose of this treasure.
If that was the case, it was no wonder the Snow Moon Tower valued it so much.
One must know that the Fluctuating Cloud Sea cultivation world had been formed for tens of thousands of years, and turbid Qi had been constantly disturbing the human and demon races, without effective control.
The desolate beasts in the desolate region were even more rampant. The Blood Soul Cauldron could expel the turbid Qi from the desolate beast's demon soul, which meant that it could turn the desolate beasts back into demon beasts, and even those eroded humans could regain their sanity.
However, on second thought, Zhang Ling chuckled. Naturally, his thoughts seemed a bit simple. Although his Second Primordial Spirit had returned to normal, it had no consciousness.
This situation was very similar to forcibly erasing the primordial spirit's consciousness, which might cause a lot of damage to the primordial spirit. After all, in his perception, the Second Primordial Spirit was indeed weaker than before.
Even if it could be assimilated again to restore consciousness, he didn't know if there would be any other defects.
For a time, Zhang Ling's mind was filled with wild thoughts, but at this moment, the Second Primordial Spirit was still under his control. After all, it had been assimilated before, and this Azure Water Turtle's demon soul was also stained with a lot of his aura.
Now that it had lost consciousness, the black light emitted from its soul body also carried a part of the Xuan Turtle's aura. This was a bit of pure soul power left over from the previous devouring of the Xuan Turtle's remnant soul.
This meant that now using this Second Primordial Spirit, which had lost its consciousness, to seize the Xuan Turtle again, the success rate might be greatly increased.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling immediately planned to try it.
With a flash, he came to the Xuan Turtle's head, closed his eyes, mobilized a part of his divine sense, and directly controlled the Second Primordial Spirit, transforming it into a gray light that flashed and disappeared into the Xuan Turtle's body.
After a moment, the Xuan Turtle's originally wooden head shook, and the two huge eyes on it blinked a few times, regaining a trace of spirituality.
Awooo…
A howl came from its mouth, and the Xuan Turtle's aura also mobilized, a thick cold air, covering most of its body.
The icy cold air swept through the entire space, and the pool of water under its feet was instantly frozen into an ice lake.
Zhang Ling also felt that the behemoth in front of him was like it had been resurrected, standing next to him as if facing a terrifying beast.
But this powerful aura only erupted for two or three breaths before it calmed down. The Second Primordial Spirit transformed back into a green light again, emerged from the Xuan Turtle's head, and flashed into his body.
Zhang Ling chuckled and walked out of the underground space.
Just now, in his perception, the Second Primordial Spirit was stained with the Xuan Turtle's demon soul aura, and it was no longer rejected by the Xuan Turtle. It could indeed seize it successfully.
However, he took the initiative to give up because he suddenly thought of a better way to utilize this Xuan Turtle's physical body.
After returning to his cave, Zhang Ling went into secluded cultivation again.
