Immortal Supreme: Sovereign of the Grand Dao-Chapter 318: Using the Nine Heavens Universal Book Martial Spirit to Create a New Soul Technique

Chapter 318: Using the Nine Heavens Universal Book Martial Spirit to Create a New Soul Technique

Arthur opened his eyes in the time chamber. His foundation was complete. Perfectly consolidated. Every one of the 81 stars shone with flawless brilliance.

He stood and stretched. His body felt light. Powerful. Ready.

"Two years of subjective time remaining," Arthur said. He checked his internal sense of the time dilation. "That’s more than enough for the next step."

His expression grew serious.

The foundation was done. His martial spirits were upgraded. Now came the most important task, one he’d been putting off because his memories had been incomplete.

Mastering the 999,999 Dao Paths.

That was his original goal. The reason he’d created all those soul clones in his past life. Each clone had been tasked with mastering a different path of the Dao. Fire, water, sword, spear, formation, alchemy, space, time. Every conceivable path that existed in the multiverse.

When he’d absorbed all 999,999 clones, their comprehension should have been his. But the memories had been sealed. Locked away by the backlash of his near-death and subsequent reincarnation.

Now, with his memories restored, Arthur finally understood the full scope of what he possessed.

"I have the comprehension of 999,999 complete Dao Paths locked in my soul," Arthur whispered. "Each one mastered to a profound level. All I need to do is unlock them."

But there was a problem.

Simply opening all those memories at once would be catastrophic. His sense of self would be overwhelmed. He’d lose his identity, drowned in a sea of 999,999 different personalities and experiences.

"I need a method. A technique that lets me access the comprehension without losing myself."

Arthur sat back down on the platform. His mind turned to the technique he’d been using. The Nine Heavens Soul Technique.

It was a powerful soul cultivation method. It had already helped him awaken his original memories as Arthur Nightingale, the Immortal Supreme. It had also helped him access some memories from his life as the Mortal Emperor.

But the Mortal Emperor wasn’t one of the 999,999 clones.

That realization had come with his restored memories. The Mortal Emperor had been a separate clone, created before the 999,999, specifically to master something different.

The Sovereign Dao. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"The Sovereign Dao isn’t part of the 999,999 paths," Arthur said quietly. "It’s the core. The foundation that allows one to rule over all paths. To be sovereign is to stand above all things."

That was why he’d created the Mortal Emperor clone separately. To lay the groundwork for practicing the Sovereign Dao before attempting to master all other paths.

The plan had been brilliant. Master the Sovereign Dao first, then absorb the comprehension of 999,999 paths while maintaining absolute control over them all through sovereign authority.

But things hadn’t gone as planned. He’d been attacked before the plan could complete. Forced into reincarnation. Scattered and sealed.

"Now I’m picking up where I left off," Arthur said. Determination filled his voice. "But I need to upgrade the Nine Heavens Soul Technique first. Make it capable of handling this task."

He summoned his Nine Heavens Universal Scripture Book Spirit.

The golden book materialized before him. It opened, pages flipping slowly, revealing cosmic mysteries written in ancient script.

Arthur had discovered the book’s true nature earlier. It was a growth-type spirit with infinite potential. It could absorb techniques, enhance them, and even create entirely new methods by fusing different comprehensions.

"This is your moment to shine," Arthur told the book. "I’m going to upgrade the Nine Heavens Soul Technique into something greater. Something that can handle unlocking 999,999 sets of memories without destroying my sense of self."

The book seemed to pulse with excitement. Pages flipped faster.

Martial Spirits don’t have a consciousness of their own, but rather are extensions of the souls of cultivators.

Due to that nature, they have the ability to flow with the cultivators as it just like a body part.

Arthur closed his eyes and dove deep into his soul space.

There, he examined the Nine Heavens Soul Technique in its entirety. He understood its mechanisms now. How it worked. Where its limits were.

"The technique has nine levels," Arthur reviewed. "Each level increases soul power mastery and allows access to deeper memories. I’ve already mastered the first three levels, which gave me back my main memories."

"But to safely access 999,999 separate comprehensions, I need something more. Something that doesn’t just unlock memories, but organizes them. Categorizes them. Keeps them separate from my core self while still allowing me to draw on their knowledge."

Arthur’s mind worked rapidly. His restored memories provided insights from countless cultivation methods he’d studied in his past life. He began pulling fragments from different techniques.

A memory organization method from an ancient soul sect.

A compartmentalization technique used by immortals who possessed multiple personalities.

A Dao comprehension indexing system developed by a legendary scholar.

A filtration method that separated pure comprehension from personal memories and experiences.

He examined each fragment carefully, understanding their principles, their strengths, their weaknesses. Then he began the process of integration.

Arthur extended his consciousness toward the Nine Heavens Soul Technique’s core structure. It appeared in his mind as a complex web of glowing lines and nodes, each representing a different aspect of the technique.

He began with the foundation. The original technique used soul power to dive into memory fragments and extract them forcibly. Arthur modified this approach. Instead of extraction, he created a connection system.

Threads of soul power that could link to memories without disrupting them.

The first modification took hours to complete. Arthur wove new pathways into the technique’s structure, careful not to damage the existing framework.

Each thread had to be perfectly balanced, strong enough to access deep memories but gentle enough not to cause spiritual backlash.

Next, he worked on the organization mechanism. The original technique simply unlocked memories in chronological order. Arthur needed something far more sophisticated.

He created a mental construct within his soul space. A vast library with infinite shelves, each shelf capable of holding countless memory fragments. But this wasn’t just storage. It was an active cataloging system.

Arthur programmed the system to automatically sort memories based on multiple criteria. Type of Dao. Level of comprehension. Practical applications. Related techniques. Cross-references between different paths.

This process took even longer. Days passed in the time chamber as Arthur meticulously crafted each aspect of the system. He tested different arrangements, refined the indexing algorithms, created fail-safes to prevent information overflow.

Then came the most critical part. The filtration mechanism.

Each of the 999,999 soul clones had lived complete lives. They had personalities, emotions, experiences, relationships. If Arthur accessed those memories directly, he would be bombarded with millions of lifetimes worth of personal history. That would destroy his sense of self.

Arthur needed to filter out everything except pure Dao comprehension.