The Supreme One

Chapter 131 What is soul and spiritual power?

The power of soul!

It is not spiritual consciousness, and does not involve spiritual power. It is the simplest and most essential soul power!

In Xia Xian's knowledge base, he already has a certain understanding of it.

Soul and consciousness are actually two different things.

The soul is something that all living things are born with, or it is conceived and born after reaching a certain stage.

Just like humans, before the soul strength reaches the dividing line of 1 point, although there is a soul, it has not undergone a qualitative change to gather into a core, but is released in the body.

When the soul strength exceeds this limit, a core point of qualitative change will be formed, which is the soul body stored in the brain, which is the soul in the conventional sense in the eyes of monks.

Other races are actually similar, and all have such souls.

Spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, is a kind of spiritual power that comes after the soul reaches a certain level of strength after the out-of-body stage, and is able to directly control and use spiritual power.

In fact, they are essentially similar to the spiritual power refined in the body, but one is a comprehensive refinement of the body and soul, while the other is refined entirely by the soul, and the degree of refining is higher, and it is more controllable and stable.

Therefore, spiritual consciousness is actually the spiritual power controlled by the soul, and can be regarded as an extension of the soul's perspective.

The power of the soul itself has actually begun to manifest itself when it reaches the divine state.

To reach the Divine Manifestation Realm, one has to allow the soul to be branded with the spiritual patterns maintained in the body when in the Spiritual Pattern Realm, thereby allowing the soul to possess some of the characteristics of these spiritual patterns. To a certain extent, it can absorb spiritual energy and strengthen the soul to a certain extent.

When the soul is strengthened, it becomes more stable and gains a certain power to influence the outside world.

Just like the pressure that Principal Lin Feiyang brought to him, it was actually the soul trying to put pressure on him, and his soul power was suppressing him invisibly.

Afterwards, he thought about it carefully and was sure that the various pressures he felt coming from his body were probably transmitted unintentionally by other monks who were watching the show outside.

Because of the differences in the spiritual patterns or rules they perceive, there are certain differences in the power of their souls.

Some pressures gave him a dull tingling sensation, some gave him a gentle tearing sensation, and some gave him a burning yet faintly comfortable feeling.

Xia Xian slightly suspected that the pressure feeling here should be the gaze of the Feng family, that is, Feng Li's parents. After all, such a feeling is very consistent with the power characteristics of the Phoenix Fire.

These are the powers of the soul.

Although Xia Xian didn't actually have a clear understanding of the power of the soul and only had some superficial knowledge and experience, he also knew that the power of the soul was invisible and intangible, but it really existed.

Moreover, the power of the soul is also extremely strange. It can cross endless distances. Sometimes, just thinking in the mind can directly affect others without relying on spiritual power or other power.

Just like the gazes of those people, although they did not carry the slightest spiritual power, just by looking at him from a very far distance, he could feel this invisible pressure.

Like the cultivators who entered the out-of-body state or even the enlightenment state later, their souls were even more powerful. After two qualitative changes, they could even kill an ordinary person easily from a very long distance with just a murderous look!

Even some monks at a low level, who have spiritual power protecting their bodies, would suffer damage to their souls if they encounter such invisible soul attacks.

Xia Xian had seen some related ancient records in the notes of a monk who liked to explore ancient stories.

In very ancient times, when a powerful monk got angry, large numbers of mortals around him would be killed on the spot by the angry soul power of his soul.

Of course, in such a situation, if the power of a cultivator accidentally causes the death and injury of a large number of mortals, it is actually nothing.

However, there are some monks who use this invisible and intangible soul power to carry out assassinations.

It might be impossible to deal with an enemy who is almost as powerful as you, but it is not a problem at all to kill a mortal child from your opponent's family with a glare at a great distance.

Once such a thing happens and is discovered, it is completely out of control.

Except for places like Heliu City where there are stronger people suppressing it and turning this area into their domain to suppress this kind of soul power from harming mortals, other places are in chaos.

Even if you send people to guard against your children, how can you completely defend against them?

Later, some geniuses could no longer sit idly by and watch this kind of bullying, so they put a lot of effort into finding spiritual objects with the power to defend souls, and only then were they able to quell this shameless and unscrupulous behavior.

After all, this is not just a matter for humans. Except for those races that are born with powerful souls, which other race is not afraid of such means?

Among some other races, almost everyone wears such a spiritual object to prevent themselves from being affected by the power of a strong person even if they are not assassinated.

Although Xia Xian had never seen this kind of spiritual object, after all, living in Heliu City, or even in the territories and forests of all the Sen tribes, there was almost no need to use these things.

Under the powerful strength of the Sen people and their strong control over the forest, the attack power of soul force on mortals is greatly suppressed, and this kind of spiritual object is of no use.

However, Xia Xian had also seen it in the notes of other monks through the scenes recorded when they traveled.

In fact, it feels very similar to jade, and its name is actually Lingyu.

However, this world is full of complex forces and numerous things. Although the magic of jade in protecting the soul is a relatively common characteristic among spiritual objects of this large category, there are also some jades with other functions.

For example, the blood spirit jade can nourish the body, purify the blood, and even has a certain effect on improving the degree of blood fusion. Xia Xian has seen its name in many books about the Sen tribe.

But in the same way, Xia Xian still only knew that they had various effects on the soul on the surface, but he was not clear about the essence of these effects.

The mystery of the soul is so profound that even Xia Xian, who had read a lot of books on cultivators in the middle three realms, could not find the door to enter it.

From ancient times to the present, the observation of soul power seems to remain at the most superficial level, namely, what it is used for and how to use it, without clearly knowing why it has these uses.

Even if there are some speculative theories, they are basically untenable and have little substantive significance.

And today, Xia Xian personally experienced the power of this soul.

Thanks to a powerful figure like Principal Lin Feiyang, he was able to use his soul power to almost suppress him to the point of losing his mind under the rules of the Sen tribe's territory.

But why?

What exactly is the soul? Why can the soul power of others have such a direct effect on one's own soul? And what role does spiritual power play in this?

Xia Xian was thinking and researching, and repeatedly recalling relevant knowledge books to ponder.

Soul, soul.

Spiritual power, spiritual power.

Soul power, spiritual power?

Spiritual power is the abbreviation of soul power. The reason why the soul is strengthened by absorbing spiritual power is because they are essentially the same thing?

No, no, no, it’s not that simple!

There should be certain commonalities between the soul and spiritual power, but it is absolutely impossible to equate them directly, and we shouldn't even equate them!

Xia Xian couldn't help but gather together all his knowledge about soul and spiritual power.

I first knew about the soul a long time ago, but I actually observed the existence of soul power when I was conducting a spiritual power rejection experiment.

Although the soul is invisible and intangible, it does have certain similarities with spiritual power in essence.

Only when there are certain similarities and certain contactable parts can a certain force be exerted on each other, right?

Even though these two aspects are invisible and intangible in the eyes of ordinary people, this most basic principle is constant.

So, what exactly is the power of the soul, and why can it have an effect on spiritual power?

And why can these powerful souls emit invisible forces to suppress and affect the soul power of others?

Two illusory figures quietly emerged in Xia Xian's mind.

One figure was incredibly tall and strong, while the other figure seemed tiny.

When the tall figure roared to the sky and burst out to show his strength, an invisible wave was transmitted to the little man, pressing him to the ground and making him unable to move.

And around the two figures, a small ball was floating. The small ball bumped around the two figures, as if it was trying to crash into their bodies, but it was always bounced off.

There was even a figure who seemed to be annoyed by the collision and directly slapped the small ball away.

The small ball was suddenly flattened by the force of the impact, but faintly, there was a layer of structure at a deeper level that still maintained its round spherical shape.

The two figures became interested and started hitting the ball back and forth, or rather, the tall figure kept hitting the ball at various parts of the little man's body but it bounced back.

Every time this small ball was hit, it was flattened by the force, but there was still a deeper layer that maintained its round shape.

Looking at the scene simulated in his mind, Xia Xian vaguely grasped some of the mysteries.

This tall figure was bullying the little guy, and although it seemed like there was no contact, his strength was actually transmitted to the little guy.

However, this does not seem to be similar to the physical impact or collision, but rather seems to be a transmission of thought information.

Yes, yes, it’s just like two computers. They seem to have no contact or collision with each other, but through invisible signals, they directly invade each other’s bodies and remotely control the other’s computer to explode!

The force between souls should be transmitted and communicated through this invisible signal, and the stronger party can use this signal to powerfully distort and crush the other party!