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The ancient shadow murmured to himself, but the look he gave Ye Chen was filled more and more with expectation.
The Divine Sword lay hidden within the prohibition "Ancient Path Green Lamp".
When the Divine Soul Innate Potential surged within Ye Chen, reaching four thousand strands, he felt as though the majority of his Divine Soul had been illuminated.
It was an indescribably strange sensation.
Ye Chen could feel that his ability to arrive at this point and continuously stimulate his Divine Soul Innate Potential must be related to the fusion with his previous Divine Soul, and must have something to do with the Stars Tower and the Primordial Star Scripture that had brought him to the Barbaric Wilderness Continent.
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Ye Chen wanted to see what level his final Divine Soul Innate Potential could reach.
Once his whole Divine Soul was completely illuminated and he had a clear understanding of all his innate potentials, what would it look like?
With these thoughts, Ye Chen stepped deeper into the heart of the Ancient Path Green Lamp with great strides.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At first, the beams shot into Ye Chen's body, stimulating the number of his Divine Soul Innate Potentials, were only a pale aqua color.
When Ye Chen crossed into four thousand strands of Divine Soul Innate Potential, the hue of the green lamp's beams turned directly from pale aqua to deep aqua.
Bathed in the glow of these deep aqua beams, Ye Chen's whole Divine Soul radiated an incredibly odd green light!
Four thousand three hundred!
Four thousand six hundred!
Four thousand nine hundred!
The ancient shadow's wait was not in vain, as under his exceedingly hopeful gaze, Ye Chen ultimately stepped into the threshold of five thousand strands of Divine Soul Innate Potential!
When Ye Chen's Divine Soul emitted the light of the five thousandth strand, the ancient shadow atop the Divine Sword, his face forged from endless sword patterns, was filled with surprise and joy.
Divine Soul Innate Potential number, five thousand strands!
This was someone he had waited thousands of years for, the first to reach such a level of Divine Soul Innate Potential!
Reaching this level of Divine Soul Innate Potential met the basic requirement for practicing the Beiming Secret Tome of the ancient shadow's "Beiming Clan".
And by cultivating the Beiming Secret Tome, reaching only the fourth layer, even without attaining the Void Sky True God Realm, one could readily lift the ten-thousand-meter Divine Sword, wield it, and even use it to return directly to the Minor Spirit Realm, back to the Beiming Clan.
How could this not cause the eagerly waiting ancient shadow to be overwhelmed with ecstatic joy?!
After his Mind and Spirit were agitated for several ten breaths, the ancient shadow gradually calmed his euphoric emotions, and when he looked at Ye Chen again, his eyes no longer held expectation but true recognition!
This youth was now someone who could bring great help to him, and he would undoubtedly fully recognize him!
"Five thousand strands of Divine Soul Innate Potential!"
"Such a number is easily reached by offspring of the God Clan."
Seeing Ye Chen's astonished expression, the ancient phantom smiled faintly at Ye Chen and softly said, "Ye Chen, hello, you may call me the Spirit of the Divine Sword."
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Boom! Boom! Boom!
As if piercing through time and space, and after a wave of Divine Soul fluctuations, Ye Chen's Divine Soul returned to the bottom of the Divine Sword, atop his physical body encompassed by the Eighteen Wind Beads Formation.
At this moment, within the Eighteen Wind Beads Formation, the strange beam of light covering Ye Chen's body had not yet dissipated. Typically, for others who entered the Trail of the Ancient Lantern, it would take a full day for the strange light on their bodies to spread entirely.
This strange light, with its tremendous might, was untouchable by anyone and prevented contact with the person inside; according to the "Divine Sword Record" of the Tai'a Sword Sect, it was probably meant to protect those who entered the hidden prohibition.
Ye Chen, sitting cross-legged within the strange light, noticed that many Tai'a Sword Sect disciples who had been surrounding him were shocked by the number of his Divine Soul Innate Potential and had left after seeing him complete the test.
Only a few people were still cultivating within the Eighteen Wind Beads Formation, seemingly waiting to talk to Ye Chen after he emerged from the strange light.
The moment Ye Chen's Divine Soul returned to his body, before opening his eyes, his Divine Soul surveyed the surrounding area.
At the same time, Ye Chen's mind heard a voice from Feng Ling, "Ye Chen, where did you go just now? You attracted quite a crowd!"
Feng Ling was immensely shocked because Ye Chen's Divine Soul had been gone for a whole three hours, and during this period she could not contact him at all, which had worried her greatly.
Later, she heard from the astonished and admiring Tai'a Sword Sect disciples that Ye Chen's Divine Soul had departed connected to a hidden prohibition of the Divine Sword, which eased her concerns slightly.
However, the power that even she could not detect and that had taken away Ye Chen's Divine Soul was also profoundly unsettling for Feng Ling.
Listening to Feng Ling's confusion, Ye Chen's Divine Soul moved and he entered the Azure Blue Mansion. He smiled gently at Feng Ling, "Elder Feng Ling, I just went to a strange prohibition and met a predecessor from the Minor Spirit Realm, just like you."
"Ah!" Feng Ling gasped at Ye Chen's words.
A predecessor from the Minor Spirit Realm like her? Was there such an existence within this Divine Sword?
Feng Ling was incredibly surprised, and Ye Chen also recalled the ancient phantom that had appeared before him in the Trail of the Ancient Lantern, along with the words the phantom had spoken to him.
Ye Chen looked again at the hidden chart within his Divine Soul, emitting endless divine light, which even Feng Ling hadn't sensed; it was the very chart given to him by the ancient phantom when he left the Trail of the Ancient Lantern.
Beiming Secret Tome!
The Spirit of the Divine Sword, the Sword Spirit Elder!
Entrustment, the fourth layer of the Beiming Secret Tome, and to return to the Divine Sword Place to take the Divine Sword...
Thinking about these matters, Ye Chen was just as shocked as Feng Ling and had not fully recovered from the surprise that they entailed.
"Elder Feng Ling, I have just braved an unknown prohibition within the Divine Sword and met the Artifact Spirit of this sword, the Spirit of the Divine Sword!"
Ye Chen spoke slowly, telling Feng Ling about what had transpired within the Trail of the Ancient Lantern.
When Feng Ling heard that there was a Sword Spirit in the Divine Sword that had not met anyone for over three thousand years, even she was utterly astonished!
When she learned that the Sword Spirit truly hailed from the "Beiming Clan" among the six Ancient Clans of the Minor Spirit Realm, as she had initially speculated, and that the demise of the sword's master in battle against an adversary from the Blood God Clan had caused the sword to fall here, with both the Spiritual Deity and the sword gravely damaged, preventing any return to the Minor Spirit Realm, Feng Ling sighed in deep empathy.
Finally, hearing that the Spirit of the Divine Sword personally met with Ye Chen to ask him to take it back to the Minor Spirit Realm in the future, and that he provided Ye Chen with a set of immensely powerful Cultivation Secret Skills, Feng Ling was overwhelmed with emotion.
She hadn't misjudged; Ye Chen was indeed a man of great destiny!
Heading to the Heavenly Sacred Palace, and just visiting the Tai'a Sword Sect, he had stumbled upon such an opportunity!
Although she didn't know what the "Beiming Secret Tome" was, it was an item personally given to Ye Chen by the Divine Sword Spirit, and the Spirit of the Divine Sword was a complete Artifact Spirit, unlike Feng Ling, who was but one feather from among the tens of thousands in the Divine Artifact "Ice Snow Divine Fan". The Divine Sword Spirit was even more powerful than Feng Ling!
Of course, Feng Ling understood how precious this chance that Ye Chen had received was!