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Chapter 119 Soul Absorption
Chapter 119 Soul Absorption
"Splash—"
Suddenly, pebbles rolled down at the cave entrance.
Luo Qingchen was startled!
He immediately gripped his knife, stood up, and hid at the corner of the passage, ready for battle.
Suddenly, a strong, fishy stench wafted through the passage.
Then, something scraped against the ground and slowly crawled into the passage, beginning to move into the cave.
Soon, the rock blocking the passage began to shake.
not human?
Luo Qingchen held her breath, peeked out from around the corner, and looked outside through the cracks in the rocks.
A two-headed python, completely black, is crawling into the cave!
Its python head was ferocious, its four eyes were scarlet, and its body was covered with thick black scales. Its massive body almost occupied the entire passage.
"boom!"
It seemed very dissatisfied with the rocks blocking the passage ahead, and with a sudden burst of strength from its two heads, the rocks flew away immediately.
A fierce and violent demonic aura instantly filled the entire cave.
It twisted its massive body and continued crawling into the cave.
But soon, its abdomen was pierced by an iron nail on the ground, and it began to bleed red and green blood.
The sudden pain caused it to pause in its movements.
It seemed somewhat confused, unaware of what had happened.
"Snapped!"
Just then, a trap on the ground jumped up, but before it could catch it, it was knocked away by the animal's head.
It suddenly flew into a rage, its scarlet forked tongue flicking out as it hissed and crawled into the cave.
It seems to have sensed the living creature hiding inside the cave!
"Blood sucker!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Qingchen immediately stretched out her palm at the corner and activated her life-stealing skill!
"Whoosh!"
The wounds on the python's abdomen were immediately ruptured into larger wounds by the blood flowing from its body.
Several streams of blood instantly coalesced into a thick column of blood, which flew toward Luo Qingchen's palm, quickly disappearing into his hand and entering his body.
The giant python was clearly stunned for a moment, then opened its blood-red maw and began to twist its body wildly as it continued to crawl inside, seemingly wanting to swallow his hand whole.
Luo Qingchen immediately withdrew her hand from around the corner.
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Even so, because the distance was not far, the blood inside the giant python still turned into a thick column of blood, continuously flowing into his palm.
"hiss--
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As he continued to suck blood from the corner, two enormous, pitch-black, and incredibly ferocious-looking python heads suddenly emerged from the corner, their two scarlet, bloodthirsty pupils fixing on him.
Luo Qingchen was well prepared!
"Whoosh!"
A flash of cold light!
With his other hand, he wielded a sword already brimming with power, and slashed fiercely down at the giant python's head.
The sharp blade struck one of the giant python's heads, sparks flying as it collided with the scales! After cutting through the thick scales, the blade "whooshed" and severed the head off.
The grotesque python head rolled to the ground, spurting out red and green blood.
But before the blood could hit the ground, it transformed into a pillar of blood, rising strangely upwards and flying into Luo Qingchen's palm.
Not a drop fell on the ground.
The python was in pain and furious. It opened its other head and lunged at him with its gaping maw.
Luo Qingchen immediately retreated.
At the same time, the palm continued to rapidly absorb the blood from its body.
The giant python twisted its body wildly, trying to pounce on him, but suddenly found that the power within its body had disappeared, and its entire body began to shrink.
In the blink of an eye, its thick, dark body collapsed.
Soon, it opened its mouth wide and turned into a thin, slender, dried-up corpse.
After Luo Qingchen finished sucking the last drop of blood from its body, she immediately went over and dragged its now elongated corpse inside, placing it into her storage bag.
The snakeskin scales on this python should fetch a good price, so they shouldn't be wasted.
At this moment, he looked inside his body.
Inside his body, the amount of gilded blood in the second health bar has increased from 105/1000 to 130/1000!
This python was a truly unexpected delight.
So naturally he wouldn't mind.
Looking at the wide-eyed python's head on the ground, he thought for a moment, picked it up, and then walked through the passage to place it near the cave entrance.
Even at night, the menacing python head still possesses a certain intimidating presence.
If it could attract other magical beasts, that would be ideal.
After doing all this, he resealed the passage leading to the innermost part of the cave with rocks.
Then, the nails and animal traps were rearranged.
It was already evening outside.
At this moment, he dared not go out.
After setting up the hidden weapons, he returned to the cave, took out the Ten Soul Banner from his pocket again, and looked at the somewhat blurry blood-red skull on it.
What happened to the Ten Soul Banner?
Was it repaired, or did it mutate?
Only inner disciples have the power to use this kind of magical artifact and are familiar with it.
He is completely ignorant now, so naturally he has no way of knowing its true situation.
I can only wait until I get back and ask that Senior Sister Xiong for help.
For now, he dares not continue dripping gilded blood; he can only drip ordinary fresh blood for the time being.
He feared that the energy of the gilded blood was too powerful, and the Ten Soul Banner would not be able to withstand it.
After all, the Ten Soul Banner is said to be the lowest-grade magical artifact.
Nothing much to do in the evening, and I'm not sleepy at the moment.
After thinking for a moment, he took out the manual "Living Corpse Slave Technique" and continued reading.
He felt that this technique was simpler to learn than the previous "Ghost Shadow Technique," and it seemed to be very useful.
If you have your own living corpse slaves, you won't be fighting alone when facing enemies.
After carefully flipping through a few more pages, he discovered that this cultivation method was like a blood pact or soul pact. Once signed, the other party would be unable to resist, even if they wanted to. Over time, even their soul and spirit would be completely tamed.
The more I look at it, the more it itches.
After reading the last page, he decided to try cultivating it.
Anyway, I'm just idling around.
He sat cross-legged in meditation, concentrated his mind, took a deep breath, and began to cultivate according to the instructions in the book.
Half an hour later.
He bit his fingertip, squeezed out a few drops of blood, smeared it on his forehead, and continued his cultivation.
After daybreak.
He went out to observe carefully, and seeing that there was nothing unusual outside, he immediately returned to start brewing the medicine, preparing for the second medicinal bath.
This time, he added 20 drops of gilded blood to the medicinal bath.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
He began practicing his swordsmanship in the cave, refining the medicinal energy within his body.
In the blink of an eye, another seven days have passed.
By this time, he had already refined all the medicinal energy stored in his body.
The cultivation progress within the body has also increased from 1200/3000 to 1450/3000!
I slept for three hours.
When I woke up, it was still dark outside the cave.
He bit his fingertip again, smeared blood on his forehead, and continued practicing the "Living Corpse Slave Technique".
And so, a month passed quickly.
At this moment, the cultivation progress within his body had increased to 1850/3000!
And he still has 70/1000 of the gilded blood in his body.
At the same time, his swordsmanship seemed to be nearing mastery.
The "Living Corpse Slave Technique" has been almost fully mastered; all that's left is to find a living person to test it out.
For the course of the month, he would drip two drops of blood onto the Ten Soul Banner every few days.
Since the drop of gilded blood was added, the banner of the Ten Souls Banner looks very shiny and doesn't seem like it could be damaged at any time.
However, he still dared not be careless and observed carefully almost every day.
Five months have passed since the Ten Soul Banner was repaired.
According to Senior Sister Xiong, the Ten Soul Banner could be damaged at any time, and the array space inside could collapse at any time.
He must break through to the Qi Realm as soon as possible, and then go back quickly so that the other party can check him out before he can be completely at ease.
It's been quite quiet outside for the past month.
There were occasional noises outside the cave, but they quickly disappeared.
After a night's rest.
He went out and fetched enough water again, then returned to the cave to continue brewing the medicinal bath.
On this day, while he was stirring the medicine in the pot, he suddenly heard the sound of weapons clashing outside.
The sounds of fighting initially seemed to be coming from above the waterfall, but soon they moved down below.
The sound grew closer and clearer.
Luo Qingchen immediately covered the pot with the lid, extinguished the fire, and used more rocks and soil to block the passage to prevent the smell of medicine from spreading out.
After a long wait, the sounds outside gradually faded away.
He dared not be careless and waited for another half hour before moving the rocks and soil aside. He carefully climbed out of the passage and peered out of the cave to check the situation outside.
The only sound outside was the roar of the waterfall.
There was no one around.
Just as he was about to return to the cave, he suddenly discovered a woman lying on the hillside near the pool.
The woman was covered in blood, and one of her arms had been severed; she appeared to be dead.
He hesitated for a moment, then patiently observed his surroundings for a while before quietly leaving the cave. Holding his knife, he cautiously walked towards the woman.
Hopefully, the two sides who were fighting just now left in a hurry and did not take the storage bag from the woman.
Those who dare to venture deep into the Demon Beast Forest are likely cultivators at the Strength Realm or above, and are probably inner disciples.
If that's the case, the other party must have a lot of good stuff.
Since he is currently unable to leave this place, he naturally won't complain about anything.
As he approached the woman, he slowed his pace, gripped the knife with both hands, and became increasingly cautious, fearing that she might still be alive.
A single, fatal blow from anyone is dangerous.
He came up to the top of the woman's head, stared at her face for a moment, and then looked at her chest.
There was a bloody hole there, and the heart appeared to have been shattered by a sword.
It looks like he's really dead.
However, he still dared not be careless.
Instead of searching the body, he reached out with his knife and carefully poked at the corpse, only to find with disappointment that the person's storage bag was gone.
Clearly, it was taken by the person who killed her.
He raised his head, glanced around, and, not daring to linger any longer, sheathed his knife and prepared to leave.
Just then, he suddenly felt the Ten Soul Banner on his body vibrate strangely!
He paused for a moment, then immediately took out the Ten Soul Banner.
"Whoosh!"
As soon as the Ten Soul Banner was taken out, a blinding light suddenly shone from its surface.
The wisp of black mist, which seemed to be alive, reappeared, like a slender snake, and flew towards the woman's corpse on the ground, burrowing into her brow!
Then, it quickly twisted its body and emerged from between the woman's eyebrows, its lower body intertwined with something in the middle.
It quickly flew back to the Ten Soul Banner and disappeared.
The blinding light on the Ten Soul Banner quickly disappeared.
At this moment, Luo Qingchen was surprised to find that the blood-red skull on the flag, which had been very blurry, seemed to have become clearer all of a sudden!
"Soul?"
He suddenly realized something.
Was the woman's soul absorbed by the Ten Soul Banner?
"Rustling!"
Suddenly, a sound seemed to come from the woods above the waterfall.
Startled, he didn't dare linger any longer. He immediately put away the Ten Soul Banner and rushed towards the cave, disappearing inside as quickly as possible.
After a long while, he poked his head out of the hole and looked down.
The woman's body had disappeared from the pool.
It's unclear whether she was eaten by a monster or taken away by her companions.
"That must have been her spirit, right?"
Luo Qingchen looked at the Ten Soul Banner in her hand, her expression changing.
If that woman's soul was also collected into the Ten Soul Banner, then the younger sister inside would have someone to keep her company.
I just don't know if the two of them can speak.
Or, will they do something else?
Thinking of all this, he couldn't wait to break through to the Tongqiao Realm, cultivate soul techniques, and then see his sister's soul with his own eyes.
Then, he smelled a medicinal scent wafting from the cave.
Then I remembered that medicine was still being simmered inside.
He quickly entered the cave, blocked all the passages again, and set up hidden weapons.
Then, they relit the fire and continued simmering the medicine.
He cultivated himself in the cave, day after day.
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.
At this moment, the cultivation progress within his body had increased to 2350/3000!
However, only 20% of the gilded blood in his body remained!
On the next two occasions, he added 25 drops of gilded blood each time, which led to his current progress.
The further you progress in your cultivation, the slower the process becomes.
Only by increasing the amount of gilded blood can the speed be prevented from stopping.
The remaining 20 drops of gilded blood were barely enough for one last medicinal bath.
However, he would never use up all the gilded blood under any circumstances; he would always leave at least two drops for use in times of crisis.
In two months, his cultivation progress has reached 2350, which is considered to be in the late stage of the Spirit Nourishing Realm.
He's just 650 points away from breaking through to the Strength Realm.
This cultivation speed is absolutely terrifying, but for him, it still feels a bit slow.
For the past two months, he has been worried almost every day that the Ten Soul Banner will suddenly give way.
Almost every two days, he would shed a few drops of blood.
He dared not slack off every single day.
After taking a medicinal bath, cultivating, and refining all the medicinal energy, one only needs to rest for one night before continuing the medicinal bath and cultivation.
These days keep repeating themselves.
Occasionally, when I can't sleep, I'll continue practicing the "Living Corpse Slave Technique".
But now, he should go out hunting.
The amount of gilded blood in the body is no longer sufficient.
His cultivation process has now progressed to the later stages, and the speed has begun to slow down. He needs more and more gilded blood to have the confidence to break through in one go.
So he decided to go out and hunt monsters tonight.
This place must be deep within the Monster Forest, where monsters are generally very powerful.
With his cultivation level at the Nourishing Spirit Realm, he probably wouldn't be able to defeat him.
Therefore, he could only find some injured magical beasts and use them to steal blood and win by surprise.
The light outside the cave quickly dimmed.
As night fell, he gripped his knife, carefully left the cave, climbed the hillside, and entered the dark woods.
at the same time.
Over the past two months, many hunting teams have come to the outskirts of the Warcraft Forest.
Besides hunting monsters, they are also searching for him.
The reason why most disciples of the Demon Extermination Sect dare not break their brotherhood pact is not only because they are hunted by the entire sect and have nowhere to hide, but also because they are located by the sect's Blood Jade Compass.
The sect's administrative office bears the bloodstains of each disciple.
Once a disciple becomes a traitor and turns red, the Blood Jade Compass will immediately locate their approximate position based on the blood imprint they left behind.
After a month of positioning, the sect pointed out his approximate location, which was the Monster Forest.
So during this period, there were suddenly many more people in the Warcraft Forest.
Of course, most of them were searching on the periphery.
As everyone knows, it is impossible for a disciple at the Nourishing Spirit Realm, especially alone, to enter the depths of the Demon Beast Forest.
Unless he wants to be torn to pieces by those horrible monsters.
However, some teams, relying on their superior numbers and strength, ventured deeper into the search area.
"Perhaps that kid has already been eaten by a monster."
On the outskirts of the Monster Forest, a seven-member monster-hunting team is searching for monsters and traitors under the cover of night.
"If he dies, the sect will issue a notice."
"That's not necessarily true; perhaps even the sect doesn't know."
"I heard that the Blood Jade Compass sometimes malfunctions and can't detect many places. Could that kid have already left the Monster Forest?"
"After all, he's all alone, and he's only at the Spirit Nourishing Realm. How could he possibly stay here for two months?"
"I have the same suspicion. Many disciples have already left to search elsewhere."
The group walked and chatted.
Suddenly, the leader stopped and raised his hand, indicating that there was something going on ahead.
"Whoosh-"
Suddenly, a dark figure leaped from the bushes in front and sprinted toward the woods on the right.
"It's a demonic deer!"
"Chase!"
The seven men immediately gave chase.
The demonic deer was enormous, yet extremely agile, constantly turning and darting about.
The group followed behind, always keeping a certain distance.
"what!"
As the group continued their pursuit, one of the disciples at the very back suddenly cried out and jumped up from the ground.
The person in front was startled and quickly turned around to ask, "Junior Brother Qian, what's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing. I just stepped on something. You guys hurry and chase after it, I'm coming right away!"
The disciple named Qian Yang stopped in place, stood on one leg, lifted one leg, and then reached down and pulled something out from under his foot.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an iron nail!
"Damn it! That bastard littered and threw nails here!"
He cursed, threw away the nail, and, ignoring the pain, prepared to continue his pursuit.
Just as he was about to start running, he jumped up again with a shout of "Ah!"
"Holy crap! There's more?"
He stopped in his tracks, lifted his other foot, and pulled out another nail from the sole of his foot, both shocked and furious.
Just as he was cursing loudly, he suddenly felt a chilling sensation coming from behind him!
"Whoosh!"
A bat suddenly flew up from the big tree behind him.
As he hurriedly jumped up from his spot and turned around to look behind him, his pupils suddenly dilated!
"Junior Brother Qian!"
"Junior Brother Qian!"
A moment later, the six people who had been chasing the demonic deer returned disappointed.
The demonic deer was too fast and extremely clever and agile; it had already vanished without a trace.
The six men, panting heavily, had no choice but to return.
"Hey, why hasn't Junior Brother Qian arrived yet? He just stepped on something and said he'd catch up right away."
The six had no choice but to continue their search along the same route.
When they found the grove of trees where Qian Yang had stepped on the nail, the team leader's expression suddenly changed, and he said, "Everyone be careful! There's a smell of blood!"
At that moment, almost everyone smelled a strong stench of blood.
As they walked cautiously forward for several dozen meters, weapons in hand and their bodies tense, they suddenly saw two people hanging from a large tree ahead.
Upon closer inspection, it wasn't two people at all; it was clearly one person, just a skin!
The person was a bloody mess, turned into a grotesque corpse with wide-open eyes.
The skin was bloody, and fresh blood was still dripping down.
"It's—it's Junior Brother Qian!"
Upon seeing this, the six men turned deathly pale.
On their way here, they had already seen three such corpses and three such human skins in the woods ahead.
Who did it?
A disciple of the Blood Eagle Sect?
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In the forest, the night was as black as ink.
Luo Qingchen dared not go too far, and kept searching in the forest near the waterfall.
He could hear the distant roars of monstrous beasts.
But just by listening to those terrifying roars, you know they are some monsters that are not to be trifled with.
Moreover, if he could hear it, the other cultivators could naturally hear it too.
Given his current cultivation level and his status as a red-named individual, he naturally wouldn't dare to go and die.
Encountering a monster is one thing, but perhaps there's still a chance to escape.
However, if he were to encounter a disciple at the Strength Realm or an inner disciple, he might not even have a chance to escape.
So he could only continue searching patiently in the surrounding woods.
It was around midnight.
As he was following the footprints on the ground toward the woods ahead, he suddenly heard a rapid rushing sound coming from the darkness ahead.
Then, a loud "boom" rang out!
A blinding blue sword light, like a dazzling firework, suddenly shone in the darkness ahead.
It instantly illuminated half the forest!
Then, many towering ancient trees were cut in half.
"Click click click—"
The sound of trees falling to the ground was incessant.
By the light, Luo Qingchen could vaguely see a graceful figure dressed in a black dress, holding a sword, leaping into the air with an imposing aura, like a god descending to earth.
Behind her, three figures hurriedly tried to dodge.
But just as the sword light was about to disappear, the graceful figure landed on the ground, staggered a few times, and then immediately fled with her sword.
Three figures followed closely behind.
Upon seeing this, Luo Qingchen dared not move forward and hurriedly turned to flee towards the waterfall.
The power of that sword strike was terrifying; even the inner disciples of the sect might not possess such strength.
Clearly, these are several incredibly powerful experts!
Fortunately, he hadn't strayed too far from the waterfall, and as he sped along, he soon heard its roar.
However, at that moment, an extremely piercing whistling sound of strong wind suddenly came from behind.
Those people actually ran towards this place too!
And it's extremely fast!
Luo Qingchen's expression changed, and she hurriedly ran with all her might to the waterfall. Without caring about the danger below, she jumped off the hillside.
But as soon as he landed by the pool below the waterfall, he heard a sinister laugh from above and the hum of clashing swords.
Seeing that there was no way to escape into the cave, Luo Qingchen made a decisive move, immediately jumping into the pool next to her, holding her breath, and quickly sinking to the bottom.
Just as he sank to the bottom of the water, several flashes of light suddenly appeared above the waterfall.
The cascading waterfall was almost abruptly cut off by a flash of blood-red light!
With a "crack," the terrifying blade light cleaved a deep gash into the stone wall beside them!
"Whoosh!"
The graceful figure, holding a sword, floated down from mid-air and landed beside the pool.
The sleeve of his right arm was stained red with blood.
Upon landing, she seemed somewhat unsteady on her feet, her body swaying slightly.
Her beautiful face was pale and bloodless, she was breathing heavily, her high chest was heaving violently, and blood was flowing rapidly from her fair fingers that were gripping the sword.
The other three figures also landed and surrounded her by the pool.
One of the tall, thin old men stared at her extremely beautiful face with lustful eyes and said, "Peak Master Shangguan, why struggle so hard? You are already at your limit, poisoned and with broken bones. If we continue to fight, what a pity it would be if the three of us accidentally killed you. We don't want your life. We just need you to hand over that treasure to us, and we will leave immediately."
Three elderly men.
A young woman with extremely beautiful appearance.
Each of the four had a lifelike double-headed blood eagle embroidered on the right side of their clothes.
The blood eagle had a snow-white skull in each of its two beaks, which looked quite eerie.
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