Zhou Yi grasped the ball of gray light in his hand.
The information about this technique surfaced in his mind.
"Medium-type technique, Soul Summoning."
[Medium-type technique, Soul Summoning, Description: This technique requires no spiritual energy. Instead, it requires only a portion of one's lifespan to summon the remaining undead nearby for three quarters of an hour. The strength of the summoned undead is determined by the intensity of one's will. The stronger the undead, the more lifespan is sacrificed...]
[Note: When one's lifespan is exhausted, the soul decays and is consumed by the gray mist.]
The Chen family's collection of numerous techniques, most of them traditional techniques of the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as some natural elements, all require spiritual energy for practice.
This technique, however, does not.
Rather than a technique, it's more like a spell.
While other spells require the spiritual energy cultivated through the technique to function, this one relies on one's lifespan.
Zhou Yi discovered the origins of this technique in the lingering memories of the previous sacrificial spirit.
Soul Summoning was discovered by a cultivator from the Chen family during their exploration of the gray fog, early in their arrival on Sanyin Island.
However, due to its eerie and mysterious nature, and the fact that the soul would be devoured by the gray fog after death, the Chen family considered it ominous.
At the time, the Chen family was no shortage of cultivators, so it was sealed away by the
Chen family. Later, after the sacrificial spirit's sudden death, the technique was gradually forgotten by the Chen family.
Zhou Yi murmured,
"This technique, born from the gray fog, is truly different from the others. Even the former Chen family considered it ominous."
"Every use consumes lifespan, no wonder it's been kept in a corner."
Zhou Yi reviewed all the thousands of techniques within the stone sphere. This was the only one that required neither spiritual aptitude nor spiritual energy to use.
At present, it seems that this skill is indeed the most suitable for the current Chen family.
What Zhou Yi is worried about now is that if this skill is given to Chen Xuanlin, he is afraid that Chen Xuanlin, like his ancestors, will regard this skill as ominous and will not be willing to practice
it. In addition, even if Chen Xuanlin is willing to practice this skill and succeeds in practicing it,
Sanyin Island will be upgraded to an island
with practitioners. Due to the rule that mortal islands match mortal islands and practitioner islands
match practitioner islands. At that time, the island that Sanyin Island matches after the fog clears will also be an island with practitioners
. Whether Chen Xuanlin, who is practicing "Soul Summoning" alone, can resist another island with practitioners is still unknown.
Zhou Yi sighed, "Forget it! The first wish I heard when I woke up was that there would be practitioners on Sanyin Island."
"Now his wish has been fulfilled. As for how to decide, just leave it to him."
"The Chen family, only the Chen family can save themselves."
...
Chen Xuanlin left the hall and went straight back to his simple stone home.
A woman was already waiting at the door.
The woman had a pretty face, and her clothes were full of patches, but now her lips were slightly pale and her face was a little sallow.
Seeing Chen Xuanlin coming home, tenderness emerged in the woman's gentle eyes.
This person was Chen Xuanlin's first wife, Wu He.
Wu He took a bowl of fish soup without any fish meat from the pot, brought it to Chen Xuanlin, and said softly:
"I boiled some fish soup with the leftover fish bones from yesterday, drink it quickly."
Chen Xuanlin took the fish soup, but did not drink it, instead putting the bowl aside.
Chen Xuanlin reached out and gently grasped his wife's slightly rough but still delicate little hand.
He wrapped his wife's hands with his big hands and whispered:
"My wife, when the fog clears in three days, I will personally lead people to Jie'an Island to look for food."
Wu He was stunned. She naturally knew what this meant.
This also foreshadowed that Chen Xuanlin would face unknown dangers.
She pulled out her hand that was held by Chen Xuanlin, and held Chen Xuanlin's hand tightly with her backhand, her eyes flashing and said:
"Do we have to go? Xingye is still so young..."
Chen Xuanlin said calmly:
"We have to go. The current situation of the Chen family is no different from a dead family. Even if it continues like this, it is hard to say how many months it can last."
"The Chen family must change and can no longer stick to the old ways."
"If successful, it will give Sanyin Island another breath."
Wu He pursed her lips and said in a hoarse voice:
"I know, and I won't stop you. I also know that you, more than anyone else on the island, want to revive the Chen family and bring everyone a life of ease and comfort."
"Not all islands near the shore are evil. Just like you and I, didn't we meet and connect because of the shore? What if we end up on a commercial island?"
Chen Xuanlin knew his wife was trying to comfort him. Half the islands in this sea of death are evil. Those that don't fight for them will simply be drowned in the sea of death.
Chen Xuanlin opened his mouth, noticing many white hairs in his wife's hair. Finally, he said,
"No matter what island it is, we must seize its resources."
"If I die, Gan Er and the others will help take care of Xing Ye."
...
The next day, Zhou Yi was awakened again by voices.
It wasn't so much an awakening as it was Chen Xuanlin's offerings, which had restored a trace of his mental strength, allowing his consciousness to once again leave the stone ball space.
Seeing Chen Xuanlin kneeling before the altar, Zhou Yi made a decision. If he didn't do something, he, the Chen clan's sacrificial spirit, would be forgotten by the Chen family.
Zhou Yi still believed that the fate of the Chen clan rested with the Chen clan members themselves.
Zhou Yi's mind moved, and a gray light flew out of the stone ball and landed in front of Chen Xuanlin.
Chen Xuanlin, rising from his knees, suddenly saw the floating ball of light before him.
His heart skipped a beat, and then a look of surprise and excitement crossed his face.
"Is this... the sacrificial spirit granting a technique?"
The sacrificial spirit had appeared! The sacrificial spirit had come back to life!
This scene
was exactly the same as the scenes passed down by the clan elders, when the sacrificial spirit bestowed a technique.
Chen Xuanlin, known for his resolute and calm character, could not hide his excitement.
He had waited for this moment for years, ever since his father had taken him to worship the sacrificial spirit as a teenager. He had hoped for the sacrificial spirit to manifest itself one day. Now, with gray hair and middle age, he had finally waited for the sacrificial spirit to resurrect.
At that moment, Chen Xuanlin's mind raced with thoughts.
For example, if Master Ji Ling had awakened, could the Chen family of Sanyin Island be saved?
But he also had concerns. He wondered if he had the aptitude to cultivate the technique, or if he lacked the spiritual energy to cultivate it, and wondered if he would disappoint Master Ji Ling.
Ultimately, the fact that Master Ji Ling had awakened was the greatest good news.
Finally, Chen Xuanlin suppressed his thoughts, reached out with a slightly trembling hand, and grasped the gray ball of light.
The description and method of "Soul Summoning" instantly flashed through Chen Xuanlin's mind.
His expression of surprise faltered, a strange color crossing his face.
After Zhou Yi had bestowed the Soul Summoning technique, sleepiness returned, and the slight amount of mental energy he had just regained through Chen Xuanlin's worship was completely depleted.
Zhou Yi silently grumbled, "Doing anything requires the power of faith?" before returning to consciousness within the stone sphere.
Granting the technique consumed a significant amount of mental energy, and Zhou Yi didn't even have time to see Chen Xuanlin's expression.
He could only pray that when he woke up next time, he wouldn't be thrown to the ground or cast aside as an evil spirit and sunk to the bottom of the sea.
The moment Chen Xuanlin grasped the ball of light,
Zhou Yi, inside the stone ball, suddenly felt a golden page open in his mind, and a passage of words appeared on it.
[You have activated the island spirit worship system]
[Spirit worship range: Sanyin Island] [
Spirit worship family: Chen clan]
[Practitioners in the worship family: 0]
[Affiliated islands of the worship family: 0]
[Island strength index ranking: No practitioners, no ranking yet]