“Your words do make sense. Since the Yin Luo Sect is a major demonic faction, there must be countless people who envy them and hold grudges against them. Otherwise, the sect leader of the Yin Luo Sect wouldn’t have appeared here,” the child agreed with a smile.
Han Li gave a faint smile, flipped his hand, and a black orb appeared in his palm. Staring at it, he fell into silent contemplation.
After a short while, he suddenly patted his storage pouch, retrieving a box made of neither metal nor wood. With a light blow, the lid opened on its own, revealing another similar fiery-red orb inside, sealed with several restriction talismans. This was the treasure Han Li had seized from the gray-robed monk named Moju in the Profound Jade Cave of the Small Extreme Palace.
Han Li placed the black orb beside the red one in the box and examined them carefully. At first glance, the black orb seemed dull and unremarkable, but upon closer inspection, faint gray-white mystical runes could be seen flickering on its surface. When probed with spiritual sense, one could detect swirling black mist inside, containing an extremely pure and terrifying demonic energy.
After studying it for a while, Han Li shifted his gaze to the fiery-red orb, which similarly contained astonishing fire-attribute spiritual power. Stroking his chin, he wore a thoughtful expression.
“Who would have thought that someone in this human realm could refine Thunder Bombs as early as ancient times? I wonder if the method was developed independently by ancient cultivators or secretly passed down by someone from the Spirit Realm. If it’s the former, fine. If it’s the latter, that person must have had ulterior motives,” the child sighed deeply in Han Li’s ear.
“Thunder Bombs? This is a Spirit Realm artifact? But according to the soul search earlier, the person called it the ‘Immortal-Slaying Pearl,’ claiming it could severely injure even a Deity Transformation cultivator,” Han Li said, surprised.
“The shape is slightly different, but it’s undoubtedly a Thunder Bomb. However, the two you have are crude and likely defective even among Thunder Bombs. The name ‘Immortal-Slaying Pearl’ is fitting for this human realm, though,” the child affirmed without hesitation.
“Is this a Spirit Realm cultivator’s artifact?” Han Li frowned.
“Cultivators can use it, but it was originally refined for mortals. Later, it spread to cultivators. It’s one of the few powerful artifacts in the Spirit Realm that mortals can wield without any spiritual power. However, due to its difficulty in refinement and excessive power, few cultivators bother making it, and the method is rarely known. At least, I don’t know it,” the child explained.
“Mortals can wield it? Why would Spirit Realm cultivators refine such a thing?” Han Li immediately sensed something odd and couldn’t help but ask.
“The reasons are complicated. You’ll understand when you ascend to the Spirit Realm,” the child replied vaguely.
Though puzzled, Han Li decided not to press further since this matter was unrelated to his current situation. He closed the box and stored the two orbs away. Having these two powerful artifacts was undoubtedly a boon, and they might prove useful in the future.
Meanwhile, the five demonic heads transformed from the Five Devils had already pinned down the three corpses. Even the mid-Nascent Soul corpse, slowed to an extreme degree, was powerless to resist as the five devils bit into its body, voraciously devouring its pure corpse energy.
Seeing this, Han Li knew the three corpses were doomed. He quickly turned his thoughts to how to infiltrate the Yin Luo Sect. With his current abilities, as long as he knew the locations of the sect’s restrictions, sneaking in would be effortless.
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Half a year later, the entire Great Jin was in an uproar!
Within just six months, seven or eight Nascent Soul cultivators from the Yin Luo Sect, including its sect leader, had mysteriously disappeared one after another. Their life soul lamps, stored in the sect’s secret chamber, had all extinguished, indicating their deaths.
Even more bizarrely, while some of these cultivators had vanished outside the sect, most had disappeared without a trace within the sect itself, as if an invisible enemy had infiltrated and systematically targeted the elders. Despite the sect’s efforts to search and activate all restrictions, the disappearances continued unabated, plunging the remaining elders into panic. Eventually, they resorted to staying together in groups to prevent further losses. However, elders outside the sect then began to meet the same fate, leaving the survivors terrified and helpless.
In just half a year, nearly half of the Yin Luo Sect’s Nascent Soul elders had perished, with one dying almost every month. Combined with the disappearance of the sect leader, the sect’s strength was halved. Only when all remaining elders were recalled and confined together did the disappearances stop, allowing the terrified leadership to breathe a sigh of relief.
The incident was too significant to conceal, and news eventually leaked. Other major sects, no longer restrained, began encroaching on the Yin Luo Sect’s territories. The remaining elders fought back desperately, but it was clear the sect couldn’t hold out for long. As one of the Ten Great Demonic Sects, the Yin Luo Sect had many enemies, and now that it showed weakness, opportunists were quick to strike.
Both righteous and demonic sects bordering the Yin Luo Sect’s territory began mobilizing aggressively…
Over a desolate area, a group of over a dozen young cultivators stood divided on a slope, watching two youths command a green flying sword and a red flying dagger in a fierce clash. The spectators whispered excitedly as the weapons collided with flashes of light and thunderous booms.
These were all teenagers, none above the Qi Condensation stage, dressed in matching attire, likely from a minor clan or small sect. For some reason, they had gathered here for a duel.
After a prolonged battle, the green sword began overpowering the red dagger.
“The Green Spirit Sword is quite powerful. It seems Senior Brother Lin will win this match,” a pretty girl remarked with a smile to a boy beside her.
“Hmph, it’s only because he’s from the Lin family. Who else would have a mid-grade artifact at the Qi Condensation stage? If I had one, I wouldn’t have lost to him in the last trial,” the boy grumbled quietly, careful not to be overheard.
The girl giggled, her youthful charm already evident. Before she could respond, the boy suddenly gasped, looking skyward.
“What’s wrong?” the girl asked, following his gaze. Her pretty face paled in shock.
High above, a bizarre figure had appeared—a man with giant wings crackling with blue-white lightning, yet utterly silent. None of the low-level cultivators below had noticed him until now.
The man stood with his hands behind his back, ignoring the group below as he gazed into the distance, though nothing was visible but a few clouds.
“What is that? A high-level demon beast?” the girl stammered, recalling tales of shape-shifting demons.
“Impossible! Huo Province may be remote, but no high-level demon would appear in broad daylight. It must be a senior cultivator!” the boy said, surprisingly composed.
Strangely, the winged man seemed to hear them. He turned abruptly, locking eyes with the pair.
The moment they saw his face, their hearts raced in terror. It wasn’t that he looked monstrous—he was an ordinary young man with unusually clear eyes. But between his brows was a third eye, pitch-black and emotionless, sending chills down their spines.
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