Chapter 614: A Deception (Please vote for monthly tickets)
Chapter 614: A Deception (Please vote for monthly tickets)
A dark green demonic cloud enveloped an area spanning dozens of miles, and from time to time, sounds of thunder and explosions rang out.
Suddenly!
A patch of demonic cloud was blasted open, and a Nascent Soul fled out in disarray.
Looking at its face, it was strikingly similar to Wang Family Ancestor!
To be fair, this Soul Transformation Venerable had suffered bad luck in recent years. First, he battled Fang Xi's External Avatar and was ambushed by a sword strike, already bearing injuries.
After being afflicted by the 'Thousand Ultimate Poison', his strength was greatly diminished, and then being pursued by Fang Xi's true body, he had long since fallen into an absolute disadvantage.
In less than a few moves, Wang Family Ancestor nearly perished.
He was also an extremely decisive individual; his Nascent Soul immediately left his body, abandoning the poisoned physical form. He then used a secret technique to blast open a section of the demonic cloud, and employed a teleportation technique to escape!
The void of the Earthly Immortal World is far more stable than that of the Human World; even a Soul Transformation cultivator's strike struggles to open a void crack, and void divine abilities can only displace one a certain distance.
For a Nascent Soul to leave the body and flee using teleportation was still the best means of preserving one's life!
Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul glanced back, secretly noting the aura and methods of this Soul Transformation demon venerable, and was about to teleport again.
Humph!
Amidst a cold snort, a crystalline, seven-colored thread abruptly appeared from the void, plunging into the tiny Nascent Soul's body.
Fang Xi's Heavenly Demon Chant fully activated, and a grayish-white small pagoda appeared floating above the Nascent Soul's head, as layers of grayish-white light descended.
Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul's eyes blurred for just an instant before quickly regaining consciousness. Seeing the small pagoda above its head, a resolute expression appeared on its face.
Bang!
He threw out the incomplete jade seal he was clutching. The bright yellow seal instantly transformed into a hazy yellow glow, smashing into the grayish-white small pagoda mid-air.
The Soul Suppressing Pagoda let out a mournful cry; its grayish-white light was instantly shattered!
After all, it was merely a spirit treasure, utterly no match for a damaged Numinous Treasure!
Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul escaped to freedom. A hint of joy had just appeared on its small face when suddenly it saw that Soul Transformation demon venerable shake the 'Netherworld Banner' in his hand.
Whoosh!
A vast black river stretching for a thousand li appeared, with countless black sand and stones mixed within the Profound Nether Heavy Water, surrounding the Nascent Soul!
Nine Serenities Netherworld River of Ten Thousand Li Sand!
Rolling rivers, mud and sand flowing together!
Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul didn't even have time to resist before it was swept into the Netherworld River formed by the Profound Nether Heavy Water, penetrated by countless Profound Nether Crystal Sands and Profound Nether Divine Sands, its magic power continuously dissipating. . .
"You. . . you are. . ."
He stared at the Soul Transformation demon venerable, an expression of extreme horror suddenly appearing on his face.
This layer of formation, he seemed to have seen it on Sangqing Peak!
"Silence!"
Fang Xi flickered, already above the Nine Serenities Netherworld River. Strands of divine consciousness transformed into seven-colored fine needles, continuously piercing into this Nascent Soul's body.
Wang Family Ancestor's small face immediately showed an expression of pain; his eyes rolled back, and he directly fainted.
Fang Xi dared not delay, casting one spell after another. The Nine Serenities Netherworld River continuously soaked and dissolved this Soul Transformation Nascent Soul's magic power.
The Soul Suppressing Pagoda reappeared. This time, the grayish-white light met no resistance, sweeping Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul inside.
As for that bright yellow seal, because it had lost its master's magic power, it had turned into a small, fist-sized seal, hovering in mid-air.
Fang Xi raised his hand and sent out a stream of magic power, drawing the seal towards him, and examined it carefully.
This seal was square, of bright yellow texture. Its handle was somewhat blurred and damaged, but vaguely, the appearance of a mountain lord could be seen. At the bottom of the great seal, there were also two ancient seal characters.
"Nine Ye. . . So this treasure was originally called the 'Nine Ye Seal'."
Fang Xi sensed it slightly; within this Nine Ye Seal, there seemed to be no artifact spirit.
"Indeed, it's a damaged Numinous Treasure, and it doesn't even have an artifact spirit. . . However, this also makes it easier for me to refine."
He played with the bright yellow jade seal in his hand with fondness, only then did he clean up the battlefield, transformed into a demonic cloud, and vanished into the horizon. . .
...
Inside the Mountain Sea Pearl's cave abode.
Fang Xi formed hand seals with both hands, and released the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
A layer of grayish-white light descended, revealing Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul within.
"A Soul Transformation-level Nascent Soul, if used to feed the Divine Infant Sword, perhaps it could allow the Divine Infant Sword to break through to the fifth stage as well. . . After all, this sword was originally just a hair's breadth away from the fifth stage."
Fang Xi murmured.
Gazing at Wang Family Ancestor's unconscious Nascent Soul, a ripple of demonic qi suddenly spread across his body, and black glints emerged from his pupils, piercing into the Nascent Soul's body.
He was attempting to perform soul-searching on Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul!
Although the opponent was a Soul Transformation cultivator, even before breaking through to Soul Transformation, Fang Xi had cultivated divine consciousness techniques, and his divine sense was extremely powerful, not inferior even when compared to early-stage Soul Transformation.
After breaking through to Soul Transformation, his divine sense power had grown even further.
Thus, he could indeed attempt to soul-search Wang Family Ancestor.
As Fang Xi cast his spell, strands of Heavenly Demon Secret Sense continuously burrowed into Wang Family Ancestor's Nascent Soul, searching for all relevant memories, causing an expression of extreme agony to appear on this person's Nascent Soul's small face. . .
A moment later, Fang Xi opened his eyes, and pressed his brows, appearing somewhat tired: "Soul-searching a Soul Transformation cultivator is indeed incomparable to soul-searching an ordinary cultivator. . ."
That single soul-search just now almost exhausted more than half of his divine consciousness power, but what he gained was not much, only memories from the past few decades.
Several decades of memories from a Soul Transformation cultivator was also a decent fortune.
Even if somewhat fragmented and mixed. . .
Fang Xi massaged his temples, and couldn't help but murmur to himself:
"It seems I'll have to do this a few more times. . ."
Soul-searching a Soul Transformation cultivator requires sufficient patience.
And at this moment, some of the intelligence he had sorted out made Fang Xi's eyes gradually light up.
He thought for a moment, took a wisp of Wang Family Ancestor's essence blood and magic power, and activated the disguise secret art within the 'Myriad Manifestations True Demon Arts'.
In an instant, his aura changed; surprisingly, it was almost identical to Wang Family Ancestor.
Even his face transformed into a middle-aged appearance, with slightly frosted temples.
"With my current strength, to impersonate Wang Family Ancestor, at least the Wang Family's Nascent Souls would absolutely not see through it, and even ordinary Soul Transformation cultivators might not be able to discern it. . ."
"As long as I don't truly make a move, it shouldn't be a big problem. . . I can conveniently use the excuse of severe injuries to enter secluded cultivation."
The more Fang Xi thought, the brighter his eyes became.
He did not like to operate openly; therefore, the identity of 'Qing Hezi', he would let his External Avatar continue to manage!
He himself could hide in the shadows under the identity of 'Wang Family Ancestor', even actively creating the illusion that the two sides were at loggerheads!
At that time, if someone wanted to deal with 'Qing Hezi' and came to collude with Wang Family Ancestor. . . that scene would certainly be quite wonderful.
"It's quite feasible, worth a try."
...
The location of the Wang Family's ancestral land was a mountain valley.
Within the valley was a fifth-stage spirit vein; dense spiritual energy gathered into mist and clouds, constantly shrouding the valley entrance.
This day.
Fang Xi, in the guise of 'Wang Family Ancestor', flew discreetly into the valley entrance.
A layer of formation appeared, but he took out a token and shook it; the feeling of obstruction immediately vanished.
'The Wang Family indeed lacked deep foundations; even their family-protecting formation was only barely fifth-stage. . . '
He breathed a sigh of relief.
Passing the check by the formation spirit of a fifth-stage grand array, even for him, a fifth-stage formation master, he felt it was the easiest point of exposure.
Now that it was over, everything could proceed smoothly.
Fang Xi transformed into a streak of light and landed deep within the valley, inside a cave abode with beautiful surroundings.
Not long after, a streak of light hurried over, landing before the cave abode, revealing a figure.
His appearance was vaguely similar to Wang Family Ancestor, but his cultivation had reached the late Nascent Soul stage; surprisingly, another Nascent Soul Grand Cultivator!
"Lingying greets Old Ancestor. Uncle Three, who guards the ancestral hall, reported earlier that Old Ancestor's soul tablet has dimmed. . ."
Wang Lingying bowed as he spoke, even secretly scrutinizing Fang Xi. Seeing his Old Ancestor's face like golden paper, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
"Old Ancestor is fine, just severely injured, which is why the soul tablet dimmed. . ."
Fang Xi coughed twice, and said calmly.
"Does Old Ancestor wish for a spirit doctor to come and examine you? " Wang Lingying immediately turned pale with shock.
"No need. The matter of my injury must be kept absolutely secret. Our family has been struggling recently. . . " Fang Xi sighed: "I went with Qin Longzi to see Qing Hezi, but that fellow was greedy, actually demanding the entire Kungsang Market. I was indignant and fought him, suffering a minor loss. . . On the way back, I was ambushed by the Soul Transformation demon venerable who took Qiao'er all those years ago. . ."
Fang Xi recounted the whole story, and then sighed: "In any case. . . my Wang Family must accept defeat if we lose. Send someone to deliver the message, and tell Lingdao to return!"
"Kungsang Market, it no longer belongs to our Wang Family? " A wave of sorrow swept through Wang Lingying's heart; he clenched his fist: "Qing Hezi is too bullying! Our Wang Family will remember this for generations, and one day, we will surely avenge this!"
His eyes were slightly red, as he looked at the Old Ancestor: "Old Ancestor. . . your body. . . and that Soul Transformation demon venerable. . ."
Fang Xi's expression darkened: "Although the injuries are severe, they won't hinder important matters; I just can't make a move recently. . . As for that Soul Transformation demon venerable, I'm afraid it's as we discussed last time, a person from outside this region, hired by the Black Water Sect to cause trouble. Otherwise, how could there have been no hint of it at all?"
He let out a cold laugh, and continued: "Fortunately, this Old Ancestor also left something for it this time. Next time we meet, it will surely be recognized!"
"Since Old Ancestor says so, I am at ease. There is still a 'Nine-Nine Rejuvenation Pill' stored in the treasury, should I fetch it to heal Old Ancestor's injuries?"
Wang Lingying sought instructions.
"How can a fifth-stage pill be used lightly? " Fang Xi perfectly mimicked Wang Family Ancestor's calculating and frugal nature: "My injuries will recover with some recuperation. This spirit pill will be of great use in the future. . . You may go now."
"This junior bids farewell!"
Wang Lingying walked out of the cave abode, but still felt something was amiss. He suddenly gritted his teeth, and took out a compass.
This compass was entirely blood-red, with a single needle in the center, spinning continuously.
A drop of fresh blood rolled from Wang Lingying's finger, causing the compass to be covered in a layer of blood-red light.
The needle spun rapidly, then pointed towards the Old Ancestor's cave abode.
"It seems I was indeed overthinking."
Wang Lingying let out a long breath, preparing to deal with the series of troublesome matters concerning the market.
...
Inside the cave abode.
Fang Xi, on the other hand, entered the Mountain Sea Pearl, and went to check on Wang Family Ancestor again.
To prevent the 'soul tablet' from shattering, he naturally spared the life of this little old man, and did not directly use him to feed the Divine Infant Sword.
At this moment, the Ancestral Demonic Tree, which had been moved into the Mountain Sea Pearl, was lowering branches one by one, tying up that Nascent Soul, binding it tightly, and seizing the opportunity to hang it up. . .
'The demonic tree isn't learning well; hanging people isn't something it learned from me, anyway. . . This time, intentionally revealing it before others, there were no flaws. It seems that in the eyes of Earthly Immortal World cultivators, it's just a strange spiritual root. '
When he had previously intercepted and killed Wang Family Ancestor, he had brought the demonic tree along, and the External Avatar had already gone to the Xuanming Abyss to battle with two Soul Transformation cultivators, making it impossible for him to discover that a tree was missing from inside, through the Sangqing Peak formation. As for the formation core and such, that was naturally a lie.
Fang Xi glanced at the corpse of the Valley God demon venerable, which was continuously shriveling and shrinking at the base of the tree, and couldn't help but sigh again: "What a pity, even a fifth-stage demonic tree cannot create a Soul Transformation puppet capable of drawing upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. . . My plan for a Soul Transformation army, I'm afraid it's going to be bankrupt. . ."
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