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Chapter 62 Soul Devouring
Su Daoshan looked at the other person.

The figure in front of him was shrouded in a constantly distorting mist. Apart from being able to barely see that he was tall, nothing else could be seen. It was impossible to tell from his body shape whether he was a man or a woman, nor could it be known whether he was old or young.

As for appearance and any details that could confirm the other person's identity, there was no way to talk about it.

"Sure enough, with the Spirit Realm Mist as skin, even the voice can be changed. Unless the other party reveals himself, it is impossible to be recognized."

By observing the person in front of him, Su Daoshan confirmed this important rule in the spiritual realm. However, he knew that although it looked like just a human figure, each human figure could be distinguished. The method was very simple, that was spiritual perception.

Su Daoshan mobilized his spiritual sense, extended it towards the other party, and soon sensed the other party's Tao seed.

It was a wonderful experience to perceive with spiritual sense. Su Daoshan had no way to describe this way of cognition in words, and he couldn't even describe what the other party's Tao Seed looked like under spiritual perception.

After all, human language vocabulary is born for the five senses that everyone has: color, shape, taste, light, etc. Spiritual perception is an extension of consciousness and is the sixth sense. There is no sound, no shape, no light or darkness, no taste...

But the cognitive information in my mind is extremely clear and solid.

Tao Seed is everyone's face and label in this world. After sensing the Tao Seed of another person, Su Daoshan will be able to recognize the other person with just a quick glance of his spiritual sense the next time they meet.

However, although the spiritual sense cannot perceive the Dao Seed's combat power, rank and other information, and other information is difficult to describe, there is one piece of information that is very clear.

Su Daoshan suddenly realized: "From the perspective of Dao Seed, this guy has reached the second level of Tiandao Mountain. If it is converted into a professional realm, he is at least in the upper human realm. No wonder he is so fierce and overbearing. He told me to get out as soon as he saw me!"

The path of Taoism is the path of mountaineering. When you reach a certain height on Tiandao Mountain, your realm will be displayed on the Tao Seed. With a glance of the spiritual sense, you can clearly see the realm of the other party, just like looking at a person's height and body shape.

This is also the reason why the other party knew that Su Daoshan was a newcomer as soon as he saw him just now.

But...Su Daoshan laughed.

Others' spiritual senses swept over him, and he was obviously just a novice who hadn't even entered the first level of the Tiandao Mountain. However, the other party bullied him for being a newcomer, but he didn't expect that this newcomer was a 12th-grade Dao seed, and his combat power reached 12 meters!

On the other hand, most of the extraordinary warriors on the second level of Tiandao Mountain would not exceed a combat power of ten meters under normal circumstances.

So, Su Daoshan held his head high and said, "I won't!"

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When Ao Jiu heard the word "no", his head was buzzing.

Ao Jiu was in a bad mood today. The kite doll was out of control, the sect urged him to go back, and this time he entered the spiritual realm and everything went wrong.

Searching for spiritual essence in the spiritual realm is an extremely torturous thing.

Sometimes you may not be able to find it even after spending several hours. And sometimes you finally find it, but just as you rush over, someone else has already picked it. It's ok that Lingyun Fruit is rare and the competition is fierce, but the most hateful thing is that many Lingyun Fruits are located in the chaotic space as soon as they appear.

The confusing space is the characteristic of the spiritual realm. If other places in the spiritual realm are just directionless, then the confusing space is completely contrary to people's common sense and cognition, and is extremely chaotic.

Just like the grass in front of you, it is a chaotic space.

If you don't know the correct route, you will never step into the edge of the grass even if you walk here for your whole life.

However, this is also a good thing for those who have cracked the chaotic space.

Unlike other Lingyun fruits that grow randomly, Lingyun fruits in the chaotic space will grow repeatedly. This means that once you master this place, you will become the master here.

Because of this, true veterans need to spend several years or even decades to build their own "secret garden".

A cracked chaotic space is a fruit tree that belongs to them exclusively.

Of course, this is a long and difficult task that requires patience and meticulousness, a lot of time and energy, and a little bit of good luck.

Ao Jiu has been a super warrior for twenty years. But until now, there are only five "fruit trees" in his "secret garden". The others were either abandoned because they were too difficult to crack or were taken away by other crackers.

However, what Ao Jiu did not expect was that even these five fruit trees had problems.

The Lingyun fruit matures once a month, and each time the ripening period is only two days. If it is not picked within two days, it will automatically disappear. And today is the ripening period for the two fruit trees.

Who would have thought that when Ao Jiu came in and saw that the Lingyun Fruit tree in front of him had disappeared.

Time will never be remembered incorrectly. The growth pattern of Lingyun Fruit is also fixed. This means that either a spirit beast accidentally harmed the Lingyun Fruit, or someone cracked the chaotic space and picked the Lingyun Fruit before him.

The latter is the most likely possibility.

As bad as it gets, Ao Jiu felt so heartbroken that he almost bled.

Ao Jiu was always uneasy when he ran all the way to find his second exclusive fruit tree. He repeatedly reviewed and recalled whether he was not careful when he passed the maze last month, and someone hid aside and spied on him and wrote down his route.

Compared to the location of the first fruit tree, the second fruit tree is much more hidden. This confusing space is in a deep valley and is located on a stepped platform. Even if ordinary people walk into the valley, they cannot see it from below.

The only thing that can lure people here is the scent of Ling Yun. But firstly, Ling Yun Fruit only takes two days to mature. There is no scent outside of that. Secondly, the spiritual sense needs to be very close to perceive the Ling Yun scent.

Ao Jiu had tried it before, and it was difficult to sense it no matter how sensitive his spiritual sense was as long as he was not in this valley.

Even the fact that he was able to find this place before was purely by chance.

But what Ao Jiu never expected was that he had just lost a Lingyun Fruit and hadn't figured out how it was lost, but when he arrived here, he saw a newcomer squatting next to him, eyeing his exclusive fruit tree.

What Ao Jiu didn't expect was that this newcomer actually dared to reject him.

Ao Jiu was so angry that he felt like doing evil. With a thought, the Tao Seed turned into a giant python and shot towards Su Daoshan like lightning.

"If you don't want to leave, then don't leave!"

This time, not only would he send this kid out of the spiritual realm, he would also make him pay a painful price that would make him feel unbearable pain whenever he recalled it in his next life!

"Soul Eater!"

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"boom!"

It was like a thunder explosion out of nowhere, with sand and rocks flying and dust rising.

A bright red giant python suddenly appeared from the void, and shot in front of Su Daoshan like a cannonball, opening its bloody mouth full of sharp fangs and covering his head. The pungent fishy smell made people want to vomit.

Blood snake fighting spirit!
This is a second-level spirit beast with a huge body, amazing strength and strong scales. Both its attack and defense are extremely strong. Coupled with its venom and decent speed, it has become one of the most favorite war spirit beasts of extraordinary warriors.

Not only that, the blood snake also has a good supernatural power.

That is wind binding!
Just like at this moment, almost at the moment when the blood snake broke out of the void, Su Daoshan found that a series of whirlwinds that appeared out of thin air were tightly wrapped around him, just like a snake's body, getting tighter and tighter, binding him firmly in place.

Su Daoshan had no doubt that once he was bitten by the blood snake, he would be sent out of the spiritual realm in an instant.

"Attach armor!"

boom!
In a flash, Su Daoshan collided with the flying blood snake.

However, just as Su Daoshan had stabilized his lower body, crossed his arms, and prepared to face the blood snake's attack, he suddenly felt a palpitation. This was a warning from the depths of his soul. An extremely dangerous signal!

The next second, the blood snake had already hit Su Daoshan. However, it did not bite him directly on the head, but a spiritual talisman flew out of its mouth and hit Su Daoshan. Immediately, a hidden cold divine thought pierced directly into the depths of his soul like a steel needle. "Soul Devourer!" Su Daoshan pressed his feet against the giant snake, and the huge impact force almost completely sank his calves into the mud. At the same time, he finally understood where the danger of the soul warning came from.

Speaking of Soul Eater, it’s a long story.

This is an extremely sinister secret method in the spiritual realm.

Previously, when Xie Xunbai was telling Su Daoshan about the dangers of the spiritual realm, he had specifically mentioned this secret method and repeatedly warned him about it.

You have to know that the extraordinary warriors enter the spiritual realm with their own souls. The body that carries the soul is the embodiment of the will of the spiritual realm. The two are not truly a union of soul and flesh. It is just a temporary combination that follows the rules of the spiritual realm.

Normally, once a transcendent warrior's body suffers fatal damage, his soul will leave the spiritual realm and wake up in the real world.

This means that for extraordinary warriors in the spiritual realm, whether their necks are bitten off by spiritual beasts or their heads are chopped off by humans, it is just like a dream, and neither their souls nor their real bodies will be harmed in any way.

However, encountering the Soul Eater is different.

There is a demon called the Soul-Eating Bird in the spirit realm. This demon was originally a plant called the Bell Tree. When it grows up, it will bloom flowers that look like bells. Whenever the wind blows, these flowers will make a crisp sound.

The ringing sound is so soul-stirring, as if summoning souls.

However, although the sound of the bells is special, people only feel mentally uncomfortable. Ordinary bell trees are not dangerous.

But if this plant grows in an extremely yin place, and when it blooms, a large number of spiritual beasts happen to die, and the plant absorbs their essence and blood and captures the souls of the beasts, these bellflowers will mutate and eventually transform into soul-eating birds and fly into the sky.

This kind of demon spirit, whose body is half flesh and half plant, is not very powerful in its own right. However, its strangeness lies in that it can directly attack the soul of its prey.

It flies in the air, as fast as lightning. Once it finds its prey, its spirit will manifest as a black shadow, separate from its body, swoop down, and grab the prey's spirit from its body like a hawk catching a fish.

Once the prey's soul is gone, the prey will naturally die. The Soul-Eating Bird can leisurely eat the most delicious and tender parts of the prey.

Because of this characteristic of the Soul Devouring Bird, an earthquake occurred in the spiritual world. More than fifty years ago, a demon cultivator got a secret method from some unknown source. He ground the claws of the Soul Devouring Bird into powder, made it into ink, and drew a spiritual talisman called the Soul Devouring Talisman.

This kind of talisman can directly break through the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness in battle, exposing the soul, and then forcibly pull the opponent into a situation of soul-soul confrontation.

This is equivalent to avoiding battle and directly taking over the body!
Once the opponent's soul suffers a fatal blow, the attacker can establish an irresistible will to rule in the opponent's soul, turning the opponent into a complete slave.

In the real world, the slave's soul is not affected, but once it enters the spiritual world, it will be controlled by the master. Facing the master who has left a mark on his soul, the slave will have no will or ability to resist.

Relying on this talisman, this demon cultivator once controlled three extraordinary warriors. It was not until he was killed by an opponent with a stronger soul in a battle of souls that this sinister method was exposed.

At that time, the entire foreign martial arts world was in an uproar.

The extraordinary warriors all regarded this method as a taboo. They all agreed that whoever used this method would become the public enemy of everyone.

But once Pandora's box is opened, it cannot be closed. There are always people who take risks.

Su Daoshan never dreamed that the first time he entered the spiritual realm and met other extraordinary warriors, he would encounter the Soul Eater.

It happened so quickly that almost at the same time when Su Daoshan's thought flashed through his mind, the souls of the two people collided with each other.

As the steel needle-like divine power contained in the Soul-Devouring Talisman broke through Su Daoshan's sea of ​​consciousness and penetrated deep into it, an illusory black shadow that looked exactly like Ao Jiu suddenly appeared through the Blood Snake and Spirit Peng land and forcefully crashed into Su Daoshan's body.

Suddenly, Su Daoshan's body was twisted and flickering like a TV screen affected by electromagnetic interference. There was even a shadow on the back of his head, as if it was squeezed out bit by bit by some force.

A cold and complacent smile appeared at the corner of Ao Jiu's mouth.

He only had one Soul Devouring Talisman. It had been three years since he got it, and he had never used it.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare. You know, in addition to being considered a taboo, the Soul Devouring Talisman also has a huge drawback, which is that the Soul Devouring Talisman is only the first step to break the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness and force a soul-to-soul confrontation.

In order to launch an attack, one must use the war spirit as a carrier and use the power of the war spirit to drive the soul.

If the spirit is likened to a knight, then the war spirit is the warhorse. Only when the combined power of the two overwhelms the opponent can one win in the battle of spirits and souls.

But in the spiritual realm, victory or defeat is determined by the strength of the Dao Seed. To put it bluntly, whether it is a battle between spirits or a normal duel, the strong are still strong, and the weak are still weak. Although the Soul Devourer has the advantage of being able to control the opponent, it also requires winning.

Because of this, no one dared to use Soul Eater lightly. If they wanted to find a target, they would have to find one that was weaker than themselves. Otherwise, if they failed, it would backfire.

This is how the first evil cultivator was defeated.

The opponents that Ao Jiu had met before, even if they were weaker than himself, were only slightly weaker. Therefore, he had been patiently waiting for an opportunity, and he would not play this card without absolute certainty.

Today, this opportunity comes!
Ao Jiu calculated very clearly that although he was only at the third level in terms of talent, over the years, with the accumulation of spiritual essence, his current Dao Seed combat power had reached nine meters. This value was exactly the limit for a newcomer.

Because they have not yet accumulated spiritual essence, their combat power can only be determined by the Dao essence they obtain from the spiritual realm will when their Dao seeds are determined.

Every time the Dao Bell rings, the Dao Seed grows one meter taller. But even the person with the highest Dao Seed rank in the past hundred years is only at the eighth level. This means that even if they are geniuses, their Dao Seed combat power will not exceed eight meters. It is just below nine meters.

This is like playing Pai Gow. You have the Supreme card in your hand from the beginning, so how can you lose?
Besides, Ao Jiu didn't believe that any novice he met could reach such a high level. The probability of that happening was so small that it could be ignored!
His mind raced as Ao Jiu suddenly urged his soul to launch an even more violent attack.

The collision of souls is silent, invisible and deadly.

The blood snake war spirit tightly entangled Su Daoshan. The shadows of the two sides' spirits fought back and forth, constantly fighting for control of the body.

Under the impact of Ao Jiu's soul, Su Daoshan's head felt like it was hit by a sledgehammer. His mind became dazed in the intense pain, his thoughts became scattered, and even his consciousness began to feel floating, as if it would leave his body at any time.

This feeling is even more uncomfortable than a fever of 40 degrees.

After several attempts, Su Daoshan's spirit was almost driven out of his body. At this moment, he unconsciously clenched his fists and struggled with his arms!
Bang!
This struggle was like thunder striking out of nowhere. The Dao Seed Armor attached to his body suddenly burst out with an extremely huge force, and actually broke free from the blood snake war spirit that was entangled on his body.

The blood snake's body was stretched almost visibly, and its skin scales instantly broke open under the huge force of the armor. It hissed in pain, and its body kept twisting, as if it was not entangled with a person, but a ball of fire burning it.

As the Blood Snake War Spirit's attack was interrupted, Ao Jiu's soul shadow suddenly became much fainter, and the impact force dropped sharply.

Ao Jiu's face changed drastically.

Before he could come to his senses, something even more shocking happened.

Su Daoshan had just broken free from the restraints of the blood snake war spirit, and then, his phantom manifested by his soul suddenly appeared without anyone knowing!
Two phantoms of spirits!

"This is impossible!"

At this moment, Ao Jiuru was struck by lightning.

Of course a person only has one soul, how could there be two?

boom!
Before Ao Jiu could react, he felt an irresistible force coming at him. Then, he watched helplessly as the other party's soul returned to his body, while his own soul was pushed out without any resistance by the other party.

Backlash!

The next second, Ao Jiu was engulfed in endless darkness.

(End of this chapter)