Battle Through the Heavens: Soul Palace, Gu Yan!

Gu Yan became curious again about what level of power that predecessor was.

Gu Yan shifted his gaze from the small print and carefully reached out his palm to gently touch the slightly purplish, jet-black eagle wings.

"There really is a soul."

Gu Yan's soul perception was also extremely excellent, so the moment he touched the eagle wing, he discovered that it indeed contained a violent and tyrannical soul.

"But it's a soul devoid of consciousness." Gu Yan shook his head gently.

"The intelligence of a fifth-tier magical beast is no less than that of a human. It's just a pity that after so many years of tempering, the intelligence of this Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle has almost completely turned into the instinct of a wild beast. With my current strength, as long as I am careful when using it, nothing should happen." Gu Yan was confident in his soul power.

Although it is a fifth-order being, it is now nothing more than a remnant soul and cannot amount to anything.

So Gu Yan slowly stretched out his palm and gently pressed it onto the soft wings.

The next instant, the tyrannical eagle spirit let out a sharp cry and then, following Gu Yan's arm, fiercely attacked Gu Yan's head.

This was the first time Gu Yan had been attacked from the soul.

He shuddered violently, and his face turned pale in an instant.

"Hmph!" Gu Yan snorted coldly, gritting his teeth as he mobilized his own soul power to form several protective rings, thus repelling the soul attack.

As if seeing that the soul's screams had no effect, a violent emotion suddenly emanated from the scroll and slammed into Gu Yan's mind.

Gu Yan smiled dismissively, maintaining his composure.

He knew that if he allowed the Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle's soul to control his emotions, he would become a beast that only knew how to kill!

Therefore, he would never allow that violent emotion to invade his mind.

This battle of wits lasted for more than ten minutes.

In the end, Gu Yan naturally emerged victorious.

He slowly opened his eyes.

At this moment, his face was pale and he looked extremely tired.

"Finally, we succeeded." Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Gu Yan said softly.

With a satisfied smile, Gu Yan wasted no more time. He touched the eagle's wings with both hands again, and the battle qi in his body slowly began to circulate within him, following the battle qi circulation path recorded on the scroll.

A moment later, the fighting spirit flowed to his arm, and his palm glowed.

At that moment, the eagle wings on the black scroll suddenly shone brightly.

The purple and black colors grew increasingly intense, eventually transforming into two thin beams of purple-black light that shot into Gu Yan's palm like lightning. They flowed rapidly along his meridians, finally settling at a certain point on Gu Yan's back.

Next, it actually managed to pull out two extremely thin branches from this meridian.

These two branches extend from the main trunk and only stop slowly when they reach the spine.

"ah!!!"

Gu Yan suddenly let out a piercing, painful roar.

Sweat streamed down his forehead, and his fists were clenched tightly together.

The excruciating pain of having one's meridians torn apart is so agonizing that it is unbearable.

"I never expected it to hurt this much!"

Gu Yan collapsed to the ground in pain, breathing heavily.

His eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were bulging; he felt like every minute and every second was torture.

I don't know how much time passed before the excruciating pain gradually subsided.

However, Gu Yan still felt a dull, stabbing pain all over his body, and his whole body was sore and numb, making him unable to muster any strength.

It wasn't until I rested for a while that the stinging pain all over my body subsided considerably.

Gu Yan got up and picked up the black scroll.

Sure enough, all the text and the eagle wing drawing above had disappeared.

After staring at the empty scroll for a few moments, Gu Yan casually put it aside.

He ripped off his clothes and took out a crystal mirror from his storage ring to examine his back.

A pair of palm-sized black eagle wing tattoos had mysteriously appeared on it.

"Hehe, no pain, no gain." With a grin, Gu Yan's thoughts stirred, and his fighting spirit flowed through the two small branching meridians into the tattoos on his back.

Upon receiving the transmission of battle qi, the jet-black tattoo immediately released a faint purple glow, eventually transforming into a pair of solid wings over ten feet long.

The feathers are clearly defined, as if they were alive, and also have a metallic texture.

Gu Yan closed his eyes and carefully sensed it.

It's a very strange feeling.

It felt as if I had actually grown a pair of wings, and I could control them as easily as if they were my own arms.

Gu Yan tried to control the Purple Cloud Wings to flap slightly, and a buoyancy appeared.

He slowly floated up, his feet leaving the ground.

However, since it was his first time trying it, Gu Yan was not very skilled, and his whole body flew up crookedly, making his movements look a bit comical.

Gu Yan kept trying with great enthusiasm and soon mastered the balance.

"I can fly now!"

Gu Yan flew back and forth three times in mid-air in the stone chamber before landing steadily.

Having stopped channeling battle qi, the Purple Cloud Wings retracted once more, transforming back into black tattoos.

After stretching, Gu Yan put on his clothes.

"With the Purple Cloud Wings, we can fly away if we can't win a fight, which adds another layer of security."

"As for Battle Kings and above? Why would I want to provoke them?"

Gu Yan couldn't help but burst into laughter again.

With a heavy heart, he took one last deep look at the skeleton.

For him, this place was a great opportunity to change his own destiny, and also a great opportunity to change the destiny of the Gu family.

After composing himself, Gu Yan picked up the blank black scroll from the ground, then walked to the bluestone table and looked up at it.

Hmm, there probably won't be any treasures placed on top.

He came before the skeleton.

"Senior, I'm sorry." Gu Yan bowed apologetically to the skeleton.

After straightening up, he released his soul power to carefully sense whether there were any other treasures on the skeleton.

Unfortunately, no.

However, at that moment, Gu Yan suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a small crack in the ground under the seat.

"Um?"

Gu Yan did not overlook this detail.

The floor inside the stone room was intact, except for a small gap under the chair.

This seems a bit unusual.

Gu Yan quickly and carefully moved the chair away.

Reaching out to touch the crack, Gu Yan felt more and more that it was left by someone.

"Could there be something buried down there?"

Gu Yan couldn't help but secretly speculate, a surge of excitement rising in his heart.

So he immediately clenched his fist and slammed it down, and the cracks spread like a spider web.

Immediately afterwards, he took out tools from his storage ring and began digging a hole.

Not long after, Gu Yan dug a pit three feet deep.

Suddenly, Gu Yan stopped moving.

"What is this?"

A pitch-black box appeared in the pit.

It's about the size of an adult's palm.

Strangely, Gu Yan's soul power could not sense its existence at all.

But the eyes can see it.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Yan still reached out and took out the box.

"what?"

After taking the box in his hand, Gu Yan discovered a black key in the pit, which had been pressed under the box earlier.

Gu Yan's eyes lit up immediately.

I picked up the key, examined it carefully, and compared it with the keyhole on the box.

Perfect match!

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Yan immediately opened the box.

When Gu Yan saw what was inside the box, he was immediately stunned.

It was an ancient black storage ring with some mysterious patterns engraved on its surface.

"It's a storage ring!"

"This senior actually hid his storage ring here and locked it in a box made of special materials?"

Why is that?

Gu Yan was puzzled.

With a light breath, Gu Yan directly channeled his soul power into his storage ring.

The ring's owner passed away countless years ago, and it is currently unclaimed.

Gu Yan's soul power entered a strange space without any hindrance.

There weren't many miscellaneous items inside, only some jade boxes and bottles, and two blue scrolls.

Gu Yan immediately took out the two blue scrolls.

When he saw the contents of the scroll, his heart suddenly started racing.

Because one scroll contains the "Gathering Spirit and Forging Soul Technique", while the other scroll contains the "Nourishing Soul and Calming Mind Technique".

Those are... two cultivation techniques for cultivating the soul!