Soul Path and Lifespan Steal

A path covered an entire human concept, harnessing the Fundamental Ethos behind it to create effects based on the idea or concept.

There are countless paths, similar to how there are countless concepts and ideas.

One of those numerous paths was a primordial path, a path that came into existence during the time of the human ancestor, soul path.

Cultivators cultivate their soul, but their soul itself does not hold any power, it is simply there to create the aperture. Fang Xian was an anomaly to this, after all, his soul was the unyielding demon immortal soul that came back with him through time. While everyone else's soul needed only a single soul to be satiated, his was an extremely rare ability soul and an immortal ability soul at that, it needed five souls every three weeks to survive.

Fang Xian had been feeding it constantly; with every kill he did, he stored the soul of the victim into the soul storage soul beast he refined a while ago.

Right now, he had an idea, that was to begin his affairs in soul path and cultivate his soul.

As a primordial path, soul path has its own cultivation altogether, not being separated into ranks, but being graded on how much stronger it was to the original soul.

Fang Xian's soul was the unyielding demon immortal soul but its power output was only that of a regular soul. If Fang Xian doubled its power, it would be at the level of two regular souls. If Fang Xian then multiplied its level by four, it would be at eight regular souls.

Once a soul reached the level of one million regular souls, it would condense and form one supreme soul.

Not many people ever achieved the level of two regular souls in their lifetime and only around seven have ever reached the level above supreme soul.

What was the point in growing the foundation of the soul? At this point, Fang Xian's soul worked fine, there was no need to fix what was broken.

It was useful for a few reasons.

One, the size and soul qi production rate of the soul land increases with the level of the soul.

Two, the soul is the only path to heaven, while heaven is a truly transcendent domain, deepening one's soul foundation was equivalent to getting a closer relation to heaven, it is said that the people with soul levels above one million supreme soul level could fully resist fate itself, and that their luck was astronomical.

Finally, as the soul's foundation increased, one could refine new souls into their soul, Fang Xian was the only one with an ability soul from the start, all others who possessed ability souls had deep soul foundation.

This meant that as Fang Xian increased his soul foundation, he could add different souls into his unyielding demon immortal soul.

He could add a time path soul to increase the amount of time traveled through every rebirth, a fate path soul to increase its resistance to fate, the possibilities were endless.

The soul qi concentration inside the inheritance was extremely suitable to soul path, so as soon as they entered the inheritance, Zhang Liuwei left Fang Xian in the mortal area and went to the immortal area and Fang Xian instantly began cultivating.

'Soul path really is the hardest path…' Fang Xian lamented in his mind.

He was sat down cross-legged, his complete focus in his soul.

To grow the soul, there was one popular method - to use some sort of soul storage technique and release souls into the main soul, it was simple, one regular soul and another regular soul created two regular souls.

However, it wasn't as easy as that. During this process, the soul land faces an intense wind that can destroy everything in the soul land, this is the feared soul wind.

To successfully advance the soul, one must face the soul wind without moving an inch, wavering causes the soul to stop merging and instead support the body, resulting in total failure.

Failure not only in the sense of growing the soul, but also failure in that the entire soul that one tried to merge with their soul would be destroyed.

Fang Xian had great confidence in facing the soul wind, he released the soul of one of the rank sixes he killed into his soul, beginning the process.

He entered his soul land and waited patiently, eventually the soul wind came.

It was a lighter shade of grey, making it look fierce and vicious.

Fang Xian chuckled and stood erect like a pillar, his eyes beckoning the wind.

It charged towards him at an incomprehensible speed, pushing against Fang Xian with barely enough force that he could bear it.

He rooted his feet deep into the ground and withstood it.

…

Seven hours later, the soul wind still pushed against Fang Xian, but he still stood there, unmoving.

Finally, the wind dispersed, revealing a substantially larger soul land and a stronger soul.

Fang Xian stood up and inspected the inheritance, eventually finding lifespan steal and refining it.

He was somewhat regretful as he left the inheritance, after all, it was the supreme inheritance of an overlord, and it was Eternal Demon Overlord at that, but Fang Xian knew he would return some day, to the cave that hid a demon deep inside of its infrastructure.