Snap!

There was another faint snap, so soft it was almost inaudible. Spirit matter dispersed once more, flowing into Ji Jue’s hands. His palms had already begun trembling from overexertion and from trying too hard to maintain stability. He breathed heavily, his lungs burning from holding his breath too long earlier.

This attempt had gone slightly better than the last, but only slightly. He had managed to touch the spirit consciousness, then crush it after creating it.

After six attempts, the best result Ji Jue managed was barely getting a grip on that fragile little spark of spirit. That dying candle flame flickering in the wind[1] was extinguished completely by his movements.

Dizzy and lightheaded, Ji Jue couldn’t help sighing. “Ms. Ye, can this really be done?” 

According to the foundational theories of modern alchemy, the world was composed of physical matter and spirit. Ascension intertwined with Ruins, and soul fused with physical matter, and from that union the first Holy Spirit was born. This was the oldest form of the Supreme Benevolence, with neither side preceding the other. To endow physical matter with spirit, that was the true essence of alchemy.

But what Ji Jue was attempting now was to grant physical matter a spirit and then completely extract that spirit from the material.

Leaving aside the intimate fusion and connection between physical matter and spirit, not to mention whether Ji Jue could even approach such a feat with his skill level, wasn’t this basically the same as completely pulling someone’s soul...