Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 20 The Flame of Divine Sense, Yan Ruyan

Soul Essence Liquid is a precious liquid that can strengthen a cultivator's soul or heal soul injuries. Its creation originated from the Soul Gathering Bowl artifact that Chen Liang obtained.

When Chen Liang first obtained the Soul Gathering Bowl artifact, he discovered that it contained many confused souls.

Because the Soul Gathering Bowl is filled with dense death energy, the true spirits of these souls have long since dissipated. Even if they were released, they would only vanish into nothingness, unable even to become ghosts.

So Chen Liang began to think about how to make use of these confused souls.

These chaotic souls contain the remnants of a cultivator's soul essence and vital energy. The vital energy within is a great tonic for a cultivator's soul, but how to effectively extract the vital energy from the soul has always been a difficult problem in the cultivation world.

Chen Liang's idea was to separate the residual soul thoughts and soul essence in the chaotic soul body, just like refining medicinal herbs.

But souls are different from medicinal herbs; they are too fragile, and earth fire and true fire will burn them directly.

Therefore, tempering the soul body requires a new flame. Following this line of thought, Chen Liang turned his attention to his mutated divine consciousness.

Unlike the divine sense of ordinary cultivators, Chen Liang's mutated divine sense could be controlled freely even without specialized divine sense techniques. Therefore, Chen Liang imitated the way flames are born and used his mutated divine sense to create a kind of divine sense fire.

Chen Liang used this divine fire to temper those chaotic souls, and sure enough, he refined the soul essence within them.

By refining and compressing the Soul Essence Qi, Chen Liang obtained Soul Essence Liquid, a precious liquid that could drive all cultivators mad.

Moreover, the residual soul essence tempered by the fire of divine consciousness was not wasted; it spontaneously gathered together to form a red-black flame.

Chen Liang had a premonition that this flame would become an extremely terrifying divine power in the future. But for now, it still needed more soul essence to nourish it, which was why Chen Liang was so obsessed with collecting the remnant souls of cultivators after killing enemies.

The remnant soul of a cultivator can provide him with soul essence liquid and nurture his supernatural powers.

Furthermore, Chen Liang deliberately kept his blue-white divine flame at his brow acupoint, Shentang, to slowly temper his divine consciousness and nourish the red-black flame with his own distracting thoughts.

The above is the origin of the Soul Essence Liquid. Now, Chen Liang, dressed in a black robe with a hood covering his body, quietly appeared in front of the defensive array of Yan Family Fortress and loudly proclaimed using amplification.

"He Shenliang, a rogue cultivator, has come to pay his respects, bringing with him a precious medicine for nourishing the soul."

The guards of Yanjiabao, who had been shocked and angry at the sudden appearance of Chen Liang, froze upon hearing this.

Before long, Chen Liang was respectfully invited into Yan Family Fort by a steward.

In the reception hall of Yan Family Fortress, Chen Liang met Yan Lei, the current lord of Yan Family Fortress, for the first time. Yan Lei was a middle-aged man who looked very calm and composed, and also had a kind of imposing presence.

Beside Yan Lei was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. Although he had suppressed his cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage, Chen Liang could sense that he was also a Core Formation cultivator.

Chen Liang and Yan Lei's conversation was simple and direct, consisting of nothing more than sitting down to drink tea and exchanging a few polite words. Chen Liang then took out a jade bottle containing a drop of Soul Essence Liquid and asked Yan Lei to taste it for himself.

After Yan Lei carefully examined the Soul Essence Liquid with his divine sense and confirmed that it was safe and beneficial to his divine sense, he personally delivered it to Yan Ruyan.

Over the next few days, Chen Liang settled down in Yan Family Fort. He only needed to wait for Yan Ruyan to recover so that he could claim the high reward that Yan Family Fort had kept for seven years.

As for whether one drop of Soul Essence Liquid would be enough, Chen Liang was not worried about that.

Since a single drop of Soul Essence Liquid from a Foundation Establishment cultivator could enhance the soul and consciousness of Xin Xuji, a late-stage Foundation Establishment array master, by 10%, how could it possibly fail to heal the soul of an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator?

A few days later, Yan Ruyan recovered smoothly. As soon as the news spread, a festive atmosphere filled the entire Yan Family Fortress, and Chen Liang quickly received the reward he wanted—the Qiankun Tower Talisman Treasure.

The Qiankun Pagoda is the treasure of the Yan family. After years of nurturing by the Yan family ancestors, its quality has reached the Pseudo-Infant Realm.

This level of magic treasure is only below Nascent Soul magic treasures and high-grade ancient treasures. The talisman treasures extracted from them and refined are treasures that even Core Formation cultivators covet. That's why Chen Liang took the risk to help.

You know, women are not to be trifled with, especially women like Jin Yu who are obviously unreasonable.

On the other hand, Chen Liang also met Yan Ruyan, the rumored female cultivator with a heavenly spiritual root.

She was only about three years younger than Chen Liang, and she was indeed a stunning beauty.

While Chen Liang was sizing up Yan Ruyan, Yan Ruyan was also sizing up Chen Liang, whose face was mostly covered by a hood.

Yan Ruyan was almost certain that Chen Liang was her peer. However, Yan Lei and her uncle Yan Ping told her that the person in front of her possessed Core Formation level divine sense, and his aura was so strong that even they couldn't see through him, so he was most likely a Core Formation cultivator.

So, Yan Ruyan, who was a little unsure, said, "I, Yan Ruyan, thank you for saving my life, Master. I wonder if you could leave a token? The Yan family wishes to be on good terms with you for generations, and seeing your token in the future will be as if you were here in person."

Upon hearing this, Chen Liang felt a sudden urge to tease him and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't need to leave my token behind. After all, I'll need to find a quiet place to go into seclusion for ten or eight years to avoid the limelight."

"But young friend Yan, now that you've successfully recovered, how do you plan to face your teachers and elders?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Ruyan was immediately speechless, and Yan Lei and Yan Ping's originally cheerful expressions also froze.

Yan Ruyan's expression was conflicted, and she hesitated before saying, "This... I wonder how the Master will teach me?"

Yan Lei and Yan Ping, who were standing to the side, also looked distressed. Upon hearing this, they couldn't help but look at Chen Liang.

Chen Liang didn't keep them in suspense and went straight to the point: "The reason why the Jin Yu lineage was so arrogant before was simply because Jin Yu was the law enforcement elder of the Yan Yue Sect, and because the Yan Yue Sect's Grand Elder had been in seclusion for many years and did not care about the sect's affairs."

But now, the Grand Elder of the Hidden Moon Sect has emerged from seclusion, and the Yue Kingdom is about to face a major battle.

"The Hidden Moon Sect, or rather the entire Yue Kingdom, will need your Yan family in the upcoming great war. Therefore, you don't need to do anything; your current predicament will naturally dissipate. Do you believe this?"

Yan Ruyan, Yan Lei, and Yan Ping all looked at Chen Liang, who was shrouded in black robes, with surprise and suspicion. At this moment, they were even more curious about Chen Liang's true identity.

After all, the name He Shenliang sounds like a pseudonym.

Afterwards, Yan Ruyan and the others tried to test Chen Liang again, but naturally they found out nothing.

As they were about to part, Yan Ruyan, her face flushed with anxiety, spoke directly: "Does the Master truly refuse to reveal our true identities? The Yan family is willing to treat us as guest elders; we humbly request the Master's presence."

Chen Liang chuckled and secretly transmitted his thoughts using his Core Formation level divine sense: "That depends on whether you want me to appear before the world as a rogue cultivator named He Shenliang, or as a Foundation Establishment cultivator from Huangfeng Valley named Chen Liang."

After saying that, Chen Liang's figure disappeared in front of Yan Ruyan and the other two who were looking on in astonishment.