thefictionvixens Chapter 67 Why do you, a member of the Soul Hall, need to cultivate your body?
Chapter 67 Why do you, a member of the Soul Hall, need to cultivate your body?
"It seems that a powerful figure captured them." Huo Yuhao's mental energy continued to spread outward.
"Who's got nothing better to do than arrest low-level cultivators and ordinary people?" Ling Ying crossed her arms. "I bet it's those lunatics from the Soul Clan who're behind this."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow: "Does the Soul Clan often do this kind of thing?"
"Of course!" Once the Soul Clan was mentioned, Ling Ying couldn't stop talking: "I've heard they like to capture alchemists everywhere, and they often start wars in various countries... In short, on this Dou Qi Continent, if anything bad happens and no one knows who did it, it's definitely the work of those crazy Soul Clan members!"
It sounds like an evil spirit master. Huo Yuhao nodded, not dwelling on the topic, but focusing on spreading his spiritual power outward, trying to find the whereabouts of the townspeople.
Ling Ying was still chattering in his ears when Huo Yuhao suddenly realized that his spiritual power, which was spreading westward, was being blocked.
Huo Yuhao's spirits lifted, and after a couple of light probes, he discovered a soul barrier. Instead of attempting to break through it directly, Huo Yuhao subtly altered his mental state after discerning the soul fluctuations emanating from the barrier, resonating with it.
With a whoosh, the gaze pierced through the soul barrier and revealed that on the once empty wilderness, a large number of cultivators and ordinary people were chained up. These people were all pale-faced, with lifeless eyes, and most of them were slumped on the ground.
On the outskirts of the crowd, a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe, surrounded by wisps of smoke, was sitting cross-legged on the ground, resting with his eyes closed.
Upon seeing this person, Huo Yuhao immediately shared the detection footage with Ling Ying: "Senior Ling Ying, is this the Soul Clan member you mentioned?"
"Hmm? They really are from the Soul Clan?" Ling Ying's eyes widened slightly. "To be precise, they are members of the Soul Palace."
The moment the image was shared, the Soul Palace expert who had been keeping his eyes closed suddenly opened them, his eyes flashing with a sharp light, and he abruptly stood up! His imposing aura erupted like a volcano, and his sharp gaze pierced towards the town.
"Who dares to spy on me?" A voice imbued with the power of the soul emanated from his mouth, causing the mental detection image to blur for a moment.
"We've been discovered!" Huo Yuhao's pupils suddenly contracted. Through the blurry image, he could already see the Soul Hall member spread his battle aura wings, his figure transforming into a black rainbow light, attacking towards them.
Huo Yuhao acted decisively, gathering his scattered spiritual energy and concentrating it to crash into his opponent.
[Soul Shock]!
In an instant, a distant yet familiar feeling washed over him, and Huo Yuhao felt a wave of dizziness. His soul-piercing attack had failed to harm his opponent!
What made Huo Yuhao's heart sink was that his mental power was completely able to break through the opponent's soul power defense, but the opponent's soul strength was far beyond his expectations, enough to withstand his mental attack without suffering much damage.
Almost simultaneously, the Soul Hall member also swayed slightly, letting out a low groan. He too felt a sudden wave of dizziness and a discomfort on the soul level, as if struck by an invisible hammer.
If he hadn't cultivated the Soul Palace's secret techniques for many years, and his soul strength alone was comparable to a high-level Dou Huang, he probably would have fainted right away!
"Damn it! It's a peak Dou Huang, we have to go!" After sensing the opponent's aura through mental detection, Ling Ying's dark face immediately turned pale. She grabbed Huo Yuhao and was about to run away with him.
"No, he'll run into the academy's team this way." Huo Yuhao broke free from Ling Ying's arm, took out his newly crafted fourth-grade flying artifact, and said, "Let's run in another direction, lure him away, shake him off, and then come back."
Before he finished speaking, Huo Yuhao used his mental detection to mark a direction far away from the convoy and flew away with Ling Ying.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao once again separated a wisp of his spiritual power to lock onto the Soul Palace Dou Huang, deliberately letting the other party discover his location.
The Soul Palace Battle Emperor paused above the town, sensing the mental fluctuations coming from his left, and pondered for a moment.
"This person might be deliberately leading me in this direction." The Soul Palace Douhuang looked in the direction of Huo Yuhao and the others, and then observed the direction of the Canaan Academy teachers and students directly in front of him, spreading his soul perception over there.
"It seems to have some human presence?" The Soul Palace Douhuang hesitated for a moment, then sensed the locations of Huo Yuhao and Ling Ying again.
"They're fast, they're hard to catch."
With a thought racing through his mind, he made a decision in an instant, and the Soul Palace Douhuang chased after the teachers and students of Canaan Academy.
"Not good!" Huo Yuhao's expression changed drastically. "Senior Ling Ying, I'll go hold him off. Please inform the academy to leave!"
Clearly sensing the determination in Huo Yuhao's voice, Ling Ying felt a surge of pride: "Don't look down on me. I promised to protect you. Besides, we're both Dou Huangs, so I might not be afraid of him."
……
The Soul Palace's Douhuang realm cultivator hadn't been at its peak for long and hadn't yet been able to clearly sense the exact locations of the Canaan Academy members. In that brief moment of relaxation, a condensed dark light appeared without warning in the void less than ten meters behind him!
Ten meters is a distance that a Dou Huang can cover in the blink of an eye. By the time the Soul Palace Dou Huang reacted, it was too late to dodge, and he could only hastily raise his Dou Qi to defend his back.
The dark light transformed into sharp spikes and stabbed fiercely towards his back.
Ding!
A crisp sound like metal clashing rang out as the Soul Palace Battle Emperor's body slammed heavily onto the ground, creating a crater hundreds of meters in diameter.
However, the moment the Soul Palace Douhuang flew out of the pit, both Huo Yuhao and Ling Ying's expressions changed for a split second.
"What a brilliant assassination attempt on a Dou Huang!" The Soul Palace Dou Huang stared intently at Ling Ying, then tossed aside his tattered black robe, revealing the iron-gray skin beneath.
"Unfortunately, I have cultivated body-refining combat techniques."
In Huo Yuhao's mental vision, he could clearly see that Ling Ying's sneak attack on his back had only broken the skin and had not penetrated the opponent's muscles.
"Damn it, this guy actually counters both of us at the same time. Aren't all members of the Soul Hall supposed to specialize in cultivating the soul?" Ling Ying smiled bitterly, took out two jet-black spikes, tensed up, and prepared for a fierce battle.
"Take this move, Soul Shattering Blood Slaughter!"
The Soul Palace Battle Emperor grinned maliciously, raised his palm like a blade, and slashed down fiercely! A scarlet blade light, tens of feet long, tore through the air, carrying a shrill whistling sound and dense killing intent, and slashed down towards Ling Ying!
The crimson light arrived in an instant. Ling Ying's pupils shrank slightly. He had no time to dodge and had to hastily make a move. Two jet-black spears shot out from the black spikes in his hands to block the oncoming crimson light.
However, the spear that Ling Ying had conjured was as fragile as paper in the face of the blood-red light! The moment it made contact, the pitch-black spear shattered into nothingness! The blood-red light continued its relentless advance, like a deathly judgment, instantly engulfing Ling Ying's figure completely.
The moment the crimson light struck Ling Ying, he didn't even have time to scream before his body was instantly turned into blood and dripped to the ground.
"Heh, a mere one-star Dou Huang dares to cause me trouble." The Soul Palace Dou Huang sneered, put on a new robe, and prepared to clean up his spoils of war.
Just as he relaxed, he caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of his eye—a figure standing in the void without spreading its battle wings.
"Who?"