The technique sounds incredibly powerful and attractive, but for Ling Zhenfei, it's difficult to achieve as mentioned; it requires very strong power of the soul.
However, Ling Zhenfei wants to try it out now.
He first performs Soul Out of Body, letting his soul exit to the outside of the tree hole.
Then he starts activating his power of the soul according to the instructions in the cultivation technique.
After preparing everything, Ling Zhenfei performs the technique, but finds he only moved about half a meter and then collided with the tree trunk.
It's known that shape-shifting shadows don't fear any obstacles, meaning that as long as his power of the soul is strong enough, he can first let his soul reach the other side of the mountain and then shape-shift to reach the other side directly.
But now Ling Zhenfei merely moved half a meter. After trying it out, he understood the principle behind it.
Actually, it's similar to a master of the Pursue Heart State using their Heart-pursuing Item.
No matter how far the Heart-pursuing Item flies, your Divine Sense and Northern Spiritual Energy must maintain contact with the Heart-pursuing Item, then smoothly control what technique the Heart-pursuing Item uses, and even supply Northern Spiritual Energy from afar.
The concept behind shape-shifting shadows is similar; first perform Soul Out of Body, continuously maintaining the connection of your power of the soul with your body.
Then use powerful soul energy to move your physical body over.
It seems that shape-shifting shadows can only be used when reaching the Pursue Heart State.
The reason Ling Zhenfei only moved his body about half a meter just now is mainly that he's unique due to cultivating dual techniques, hence he can understand the principle.
Since he now understands the principle, and confident in his power of the soul, Ling Zhenfei begins to experiment again.
Although he only moved half a meter the first time, after trying it a few times, Ling Zhenfei successfully moved outside the tree trunk once more.
If not for Ling Zhenfei's good cultivation technique, he might have fallen off the tree.
Ling Zhenfei was very pleased in his heart, demonstrating that shape-shifting shadows are indeed powerful and achievable.
He stood on the tree trunk outside the hole, looking into the distance, and saw a light shining from afar.
It turns out there was a towering tree in the distance, and atop the tree, there was actually a lamp.
Its position was very high, and it emitted light in all directions; Zhenfei seemed to realize it was a directional guide or a beacon.
It was somewhat like a lighthouse on the sea, guiding the direction.
Seeing this lamp indicates at least there is a very powerful human cultivator force assembling there, and many people will converge towards the direction of the lamp.
Even if people don't converge there, they still know there's a powerful group of human cultivators existing.
In a place filled with Demon Hunters and beasts, daring to openly hang a lamp underscored these people's confidence.
Ling Zhenfei was curious, who exactly was so capable.
Thinking back and forth, Ling Zhenfei could only think of two groups: the Cultivators Alliance and Tianling Spirit Palace.
One is the strongest among the Three Great Immortal Palaces, the other is the largest cultivator organization; their alliance is a strong union indeed.
But there's another group that has this capability, which is the people from Wuliang Mountain and Shu Mountain.
The alliance between Shu Mountain and Wuliang Palace might not match Tianling Spirit Palace and the Cultivators Alliance, but the Wuliang Mountain people arrived late, avoiding previous battle losses.
Moreover, they saved humanity from collapse on arrival, boosting morale tremendously.
So both groups have strength; which other sect has this power, Ling Zhenfei does not know.
Now, human cultivators have over half casualties, the situation might even be worse.
Ling Zhenfei wasn't aware of the specifics.
He noticed the lamp's position was still a distance from him.
Because Ling Zhenfei had been chasing the reason for Blood Son, he had strayed very far, but despite the distance, Ling Zhenfei could still see the lamp, showing its brightness.
Ling Zhenfei returned to his cave to continue cultivating his techniques, and he had become somewhat proficient, knowing now his soul's power could at most move a few meters.
But as Ling Zhenfei's soul was out, continuing his cultivation, suddenly, he sensed a group arriving around him.
Startled, Ling Zhenfei stopped his cultivation, using Soul Out of Body to observe the group.
This seemed to be a scout squad, dressed in black robes.
Initially, Ling Zhenfei thought it was a foreign race group coming from behind to assassinate humans.
But after watching for a while, he realized these people were human.
They were evidently very cautious, scouting around before identifying Ah Quan; half stayed, half went back further.
Ling Zhenfei was curious about what they were doing, appearing unusual and unique.
Ling Zhenfei's interest grew, watching these people to see what they were planning.
After a while, faint footsteps could be heard from afar.
These people walked lightly with Northern Spiritual Energy; because of the energy, the footsteps weren't loud.
But this startled Ling Zhenfei, realizing there were so many of them, numbering over a hundred.
Among them, many were cultivators of the Pursue Heart State.
Ling Zhenfei was shocked, amazed that these people were human cultivators.
Every one of them wore black robes, blending with the darkness of the night.
Ling Zhenfei couldn't imagine who among humans had such strong abilities.
Judging from their uniform attire, this was indeed a different group.
During previous battles, either in combat or within the canyon, Ling Zhenfei hadn't seen this group, and he was shocked, unsure of their identity.
Given their distinct, sizeable group, Ling Zhenfei should have seen them before.
Suddenly, a thought flashed in Ling Zhenfei's mind.
People from Wuliang Immortal Palace could suddenly appear after the war begins; no one knew beforehand, there might be other sects making similar moves.
Except these people held out longer than those from Wuliang Immortal Palace, enduring until now, still enduring.
Just as the mantis catches the cicada, with the oriole behind; this group seems to follow the oriole's plan.
Wait until humans and foreign races are both exhausted, then strike; with their strength, no one would be their opponent.
Ling Zhenfei couldn't help but feel dismayed, wondering about their patience; they truly weren't ordinary people.
But who exactly were they?