Chapter 0402: Joining Hands to Refine the Soul

Chapter 0402: Joining Hands to Refine the Soul

Xiao Yuemei held Feng Honglan's hand with great concern, clearly showing her deep concern for her.

"Yuemei, when did you and Hong Lan meet?" Qin Yun asked curiously.

"Back when I was in the mountains outside the Xianyin Mystic Mountain, I was ambushed by a group of old bandits at the Martial Dao realm. It was Sister Hong Lan who came to my rescue!" Xiao Yuemei bit her lip in distress and said, "I never imagined that after all this time, Sister Hong Lan would lose her cultivation!"

Feng Honglan gently touched Xiao Yuemei's lovely face and smiled softly, "Yuemei, I'm fine! Your concern means the world to me."

Xiao Yuemei took out her mirror spirit, closed her eyes, and a stunning red orchid materialized in the mirror.

"Sister Hong Lan, this is what I imprinted from your spirit essence back then, but I can't manifest it for you now."

Qin Yun looked at the beautiful red orchid on the mirror and was struck by an idea—to extract the spirit essence from Xiao Yuemei's mirror.

Feng Honglan's eyes lit up with emotion as she gazed at the red orchid spirit essence, sensing the familiar energy, and was overcome with emotion.

"Just seeing her again fills me with joy," she said softly, gently stroking the red orchid on the mirror, her heart heavy with sadness.

"Yuemei, I've mastered the soul refinement technique. Let’s join forces and see if we can extract the spirit essence from the mirror," Qin Yun's eyes were filled with excitement. "Perhaps we can help Hong Lan restore her spirit essence!"

Xiao Yuemei was a bit skeptical and quickly asked, "Brother, how can I help?"

"Let me think for a moment!"

Qin Yun stroked his chin thoughtfully as he paced.

After a while, he said, "First, I’ll attempt to sense Hong Lan’s spirit essence through your mirror."

Xiao Yuemei nodded and handed the mirror over.

This mirror was Xiao Yuemei's spirit essence, a mystical entity similar to Xie Wufeng's life-bound sword.

After taking it, Qin Yun channeled a unique mental energy to sense the mirror spirit.

This unique mental energy was a skill he had honed through the soul refinement technique. As long as he could sense the spirit essence, he could extract it.

Before long, Qin Yun sensed the aura of the red orchid spirit essence, but he didn't extract it immediately.

This was because the red orchid spirit essence was connected to the mirror spirit and couldn't be separated.

The reality was that Xiao Yuemei's mystical mirror spirit could generate the power of the red orchid spirit essence, but it wasn't the true red orchid spirit essence—it was merely a temporary manifestation of it!

Feng Honglan sat to the side, watching with wide eyes, hoping that Qin Yun would succeed.

Qin Yun returned the mirror spirit to Xiao Yuemei and said, "Yuemei, release the energy of the red orchid spirit essence with all your might. It would be best if you could release a large amount of soul power!"

"I'll try!" Xiao Yuemei tightly gripped the mirror's handle, her brows furrowed.

Suddenly, wisps of red mist began to seep out from the mirror's surface!

Seeing this, Qin Yun was overjoyed and quickly took out a soul-sealing pearl, guiding the red orchid spirit essence's power from the mirror into the pearl.

"Yuemei, if this continues, will it have any effect on you?" Qin Yun asked.

"Of course not. It will only consume some energy, and I can recover after resting for a while!" Xiao Yuemei smiled lightly. "As long as I can help Sister Hong Lan, I'm willing to do anything!"

"Yuemei, thank you!" Feng Honglan said with deep emotion.

"Sister Hong Lan, I still haven’t thanked you for saving me last time! If it weren’t for you, I might’ve been killed by those bandits!" Xiao Yuemei smiled sweetly at Feng Honglan: "Don’t worry, my brother’s really skilled—he’ll figure out how to help you recover!"

Qin Yun held the Soul Sealing Pearl, releasing his mental energy to channel the soul energy into it. After all, it’s just soul energy, not yet a true soul.

Feng Honglan asked softly, "Yuemei, have you known Qin Yun for a long time?"

"He’s actually my brother-in-law!" Xiao Yuemei giggled.

"Ah! I didn’t expect he had a wife!" Feng Honglan said with some surprise.

"Yes, my sister is also very nice. I’ll introduce you to her sometime!" Xiao Yuemei said sweetly: "By the way, Xiao Xuanqin in the Immortal Sound Profound Mountain is my aunt! You know her, don’t you?"

Feng Honglan nodded. She suddenly felt that both Xiao Yuemei and Qin Yun were quite mysterious, not only exceptionally talented but also very close.

At this moment, she also wanted to meet Qin Yun’s wife, feeling that the woman who could become Qin Yun’s wife must be extraordinary.

Thus, Xiao Yuemei continued to release her soul energy for two days.

But it only made the Soul Sealing Pearl emit a faint red light.

"The color’s still too faint—we’ve got to keep going!" Xiao Yuemei looked at the Soul Sealing Pearl in Qin Yun’s hand, waving her mirror as she spoke.

"Go get some rest first!" Qin Yun smiled: "We’ll pick it up after you’ve rested."

Xiao Yuemei yawned, looking very tired. She just flopped onto the chair, closed her eyes, and dozed off, not returning to her room.

"Hong Lan, I’ll try to guide this thread of soul energy into your Dao Core now, and then we’ll see how it goes!" Qin Yun said.

Feng Honglan nodded, lifting her clothes to expose her slim, delicate waist.

Qin Yun rubbed it gently, infusing it with his unique mental energy to open a soul path, then guided the soul energy from the Soul Sealing Pearl into Feng Honglan’s Dao Core.

The strands of soul energy formed from Hong Lan’s soul power also had the essence of a soul, and once inside the Dao Core, they drifted naturally within.

"Great, the next step is to let this soul grow quickly!" Qin Yun smiled: "It should work out—I’ll take a break for now!"

"Alright! I’ll carry Yuemei in first so she can rest properly!" Feng Honglan, seeing hope, felt much better, and she gently carried Xiao Yuemei into the room.

Qin Yun took a deep breath and pulled out an empty Soul Sealing Pearl, forcing out his Purple Gold Thunder Soul power, trying to see if he could form soul threads on the Soul Sealing Pearl.

However, he did not succeed!

"It seems only Yuemei’s mirror soul can strip out strands of soul energy! This girl’s mirror soul is seriously impressive!" Qin Yun suddenly thought of many things.

He realized that teaming up with Xiao Yuemei in the future could be game-changing. They might be able to forge many powerful souls.

As long as Xiao Yuemei knew someone and had a good relationship, she would use her mirror to reflect their soul, recording it in the mirror.

Thus, she’d gathered a whole bunch of random souls.

She’d captured the Golden Sun Soul of the Golden Fire Lion and had also recorded Yang Shiyue’s Purple Moon Soul.

"With her help and my art of soul refinement, I could get my hands on tons of rare souls!" Qin Yun thought of this and became very excited.

After resting for half a day, he was back to normal.

Although Xiao Yuemei had consumed a lot, after resting, she was already bouncing out of the room.

"Let’s head into the secret chamber this time!" Qin Yun said.

"I’m coming too! I’ll just watch quietly from the side," Xiao Yuemei said.

Feng Honglan noticed Qin Yun was a bit nervous and said, "Qin Yun, don’t stress yourself out! No matter what happens, you’re still the best Soul Refinement Master!"

Feng Honglan had also heard of the mysterious Soul Refinement Master.

After Qin Yun and the two women entered the secret chamber, he produced three platinum-grade and two purple-gold-grade Soul Sealing Pearls.

"Now, I’ll refine the martial souls within these, purify them, and then introduce them into your dantian so the strand of Hong Lan’s martial soul can absorb them!"

Qin Yun took a deep breath and summoned the Heavenly Lion Subduing Dragon Cauldron.

He reduced the Heavenly Lion Subduing Dragon Cauldron to the size of an incense burner and placed those martial souls inside.

Those martial souls were fairly common elemental types, and Qin Yun didn’t feel too attached to them, as there would be plenty of opportunities to obtain more in the future.

After refining them using the art of soul refinement, a white mist formed, which was a pure martial soul, containing extremely strong martial soul energy.

"Hong Lan, let’s begin!" Qin Yun said with a serious expression.

Feng Honglan loosened her clothes, slightly closed her eyes, and relaxed her whole body.

Qin Yun channeled the pure martial soul energy into Feng Honglan’s dantian and then used the techniques of the art of soul refinement to refine the martial soul energy within her dantian.

At this moment, he also had to guide the strand of Hong Lan’s martial soul to absorb that large amount of pure martial soul energy.

After half a day of guidance, the strand of Hong Lan’s martial soul became much stronger.

With Qin Yun’s guidance, Feng Honglan established a connection with Hong Lan’s martial soul, and she could now control it to circulate and absorb that martial soul energy.

"Hong Lan, now it’s all on you!" Qin Yun said.

"Thank you both! I’ll do my best to recover!" Feng Honglan was very happy to feel the familiar Hong Lan’s martial soul again.

Qin Yun took Xiao Yuemei’s hand and walked out of the secret chamber.

"I’m going to the Qiwén Hall to ask about the whereabouts of the Linglong Mystic Fruit. Will you come with me?" Qin Yun looked at Xiao Yuemei.

"No, I’ll stay here and keep watch!" Xiao Yuemei really wanted to go, but she thought that if she left, there would be no one to protect Feng Honglan, so she didn’t go.

Qin Yun smiled and said, "Good girl, I’ll be back soon!"

...

On the first floor of the Qiwén Hall, there were many young nobles betting on stones, so it was very lively. This was the Qiwén Hall’s way of raking in profits by bringing in many stones.

The last time Qin Yun was here, he ran into Xiao Yuemei betting on stones, but there weren’t as many people then.

Today, the place was packed. There were several thousand people here!

Qin Yun went to the counter and found the middle-aged woman to inquire about the Linglong Mystic Fruit.

"I’m sorry, but there’s no news yet. I will convey the message to multiple Qiwén Halls and continue to investigate. Check back in five days," the middle-aged woman apologized.

"It’s fine. The Linglong Mystic Fruit is a rare treasure, after all!" Qin Yun sighed with a bit of disappointment.

Then he mingled with the crowd, hoping to spot a familiar face.

He wasn’t expecting much, but he actually saw a familiar figure!

"Murong, are you sure about this? If you’re wrong, I’m screwed!" The speaker was Hong Yan, who was walking with Murong Daren.

The two were hauling a large blue stone, likely a raw stone they’d just purchased.

Hong Yan and Murong Daren were both wearing the same gray-blue clothes. Their clothes were adorned with fierce beast embroidery, the signature attire of the Fierce Beast Profound Sect!

Qin Yun already knew that Murong Daren and Huo Zhong had joined the Fierce Beast Profound Sect. But now, even Hong Yan had joined the Fierce Beast Profound Sect!