Douluo: Subversion Begins with the Arrival of the Traveler

Chapter 124 Purgatory
"Who are you exactly?"

Xu Lai activated his martial spirit, held the long sword in his hand, and looked at Kong and the other two warily.

"We have no ill intentions."

Seeing that the other party was holding a weapon, Paimon hid behind Kong in fear and waved his hand.

"We have a friend who is studying at Tianshui College. You know Tianshui College, right?"

Xu Lai nodded, still not letting down his guard.

"We came to visit her, and then we found you. Cross it out, and realized that this bounty seemed a little unusual, so we came to investigate. Yeah, that's it."

Paimon said seriously.

"You guys should leave quickly. That black-robed man is a fallen soul master. They kidnapped my sister. I must find her and rescue her."

Xu Lai didn't care whether what the two said was true or false, but directly told them the black-robed man's strength and his purpose of this trip.

At this point in time, there is no such thing as an evil soul master in this world. People uniformly call those soul masters who possess evil martial souls or are inherently evil in their hearts as fallen soul masters.

After saying that, he carefully explored the back of the cave, where there was another entrance that seemed to lead deeper into the cave.

"Fallen Soul Master? Traveler, what is that?"

Paimon was confused and turned to look at Sora.

"A bad guy with evil powers."

Kong thought about it and gave Paimon a rough introduction.

As far as I can remember, evil soul masters are a group of cancer on the Douluo Continent.

After Tang San became a god and defeated the Spirit Hall, the evil spirit masters were no longer suppressed and acted recklessly on the continent, causing many innocent civilians to suffer persecution.

It is no exaggeration to call the continent during that period a hell on earth.

What's funny is that after becoming a god, Tang San possessed unrivaled power, but he did not take action to suppress this group of evil soul masters, allowing them to kill at will.

Kong shook his head and put these memories aside. He had never expected to encounter the legendary evil soul master...

However, from Xu Lai's mouth, he already knew his commission. Help her find her sister and then eliminate this evil soul master, then he can call it a day and go home.
"Paimon, let's go and follow him in to take a look."

Thinking of this, Kong led Paimon into the cave where Xu Lai was heading.

"Xu Lai, how did you know your sister would be here? Was she also tricked here by those people?"

The road inside the cave was narrow and damp. Paimon Cat, in Kong's arms, asked Xu Lai in front of him.

"Well, some time ago I came back from the academy to visit my sister. I heard from the old village chief that my sister had awakened her soul power and left the village with the masters from the Spirit Hall. So I asked as I walked, and finally arrived here.

When I went to the Spirit Hall to look for my sister, I discovered that the person who took her away was not from the Spirit Hall at all!"

"Who is he then?"

"It's the butler..."

"Huh? How do you know it's his?"

"My sister had a jade pendant passed down from my family. She disappeared, but the jade pendant appeared on the butler..."

Xu Lai said angrily.

When he saw the familiar jade pendant, he knew that his sister's disappearance was definitely related to them.

He did not act impulsively at the time, but carefully inquired about the house, and later found that his sister was not there.
It seems that they have transferred it somewhere.

Just when he was thinking about whether to go back to the academy to ask the teacher for help, the housekeeper posted a bounty notice.

He missed the last bounty mission because the bounty hunter team monopolized the mission. He never thought that they were still looking for someone this time.

He had also heard about the disappearance of the bounty hunting team, which further confirmed his belief that the team must have been lured away somewhere like his sister. Fortunately, he had caught up with the bounty hunting mission this time, so under the guise of completing the mission, he tried to follow them and find clues about his sister.

Now it seems that he has made the right choice. This cave in the Soul Beast Forest is obviously hiding some unspeakable secrets.

As expected, when the black-robed man showed the evil soul power, he knew that the owner of this place was a fallen soul master who was hated by everyone on the continent!
"Then your sister might really be here."

Upon hearing this, Paimon nodded in agreement.

The housekeeper and the woman tricked them here under the pretext of hunting spirit rings. I guess Xu Lai's sister was probably tricked here as well.

"Well, that fallen soul master is very strong. Can I ask you for a favor?"

Xu Lai was walking in front, but suddenly stopped, turned around, and spoke to Kong and the other two with a serious expression.

"Sure, we will help you!"

Paimon clenched his fist and nodded in agreement.

"If I find my sister later, can you help me take her away first?"

"Huh? Why don't we go together?"

Paimon said with some confusion.

"No, that fallen soul master is very strong. If anything unexpected happens, I have to step in to stop him. Then you can take my sister and run away first. Please!"

Xu finished speaking and bowed solemnly towards Sora and Paimon.

He knew that they were no match for the fallen soul master, but someone had to stay behind to hold him back.
Otherwise, no one will be able to escape once he finds them.

And it was obviously impossible to let this young man and his strange martial spirit take the risk to help him stop him while he ran away with his sister?

Moreover, this young man's soul power level is much higher than his own, so if he takes his sister to escape, the chances of survival will be greater.

Xu Lai knew that he was facing a fallen soul master, and he had already made plans for the worst in his mind.

"Okay, we promise you."

Paimon looked at Kong, and after receiving an affirmative look, he nodded and said.

This person seems to think that the Traveler can't defeat that Fallen Spirit Master~
But let’s not talk to him for now. Let’s rescue his sister later and then let the traveler teach that fallen soul master a lesson.

The three of them walked along the path in the cave towards the depths.

When they walked deep into the cave, in the dim light of the fire, Kong suddenly saw Xu Lai standing in front of him, motionless.

In front of him were dried corpses hanging on deliberately built beams.

The corpse had long been like a dead tree, with the wrinkles of skin tightly confining the entire body.

There are man-made drainage ditches under the feet of the mummy, but here, it seems to be to better drain the blood of the hanging corpse.

At the end of the ravine was a pool of blood.

However, the blood pool now seems to be drying up, with only about one-fifth of the blood left.

The air was filled with a thick, stench of decay. Kong turned his head to look at Paimon, and found that she was just wrinkling her nose, as if she had automatically blocked out the scene in front of her.

"Cai'er..."

Xu Lai seemed to have seen something, and his whole body seemed to have lost its soul. His legs fell weakly to his knees on the ground.

His eyes were fixed on a dried corpse hanging from the beam, his mouth slightly open, as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

"..."

Kong looked at the hanging corpse and frowned. This must be the sister he was looking for...

(End of this chapter)