Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 111 Soul Devouring Cult

Chen Xuan stood up and looked at Ma Yi with a gloomy expression:

"how do you know……"

"How do I know you are Chen Xuan, right?"

Ma Yi's smile remained on his face. He waved his sleeves, and the fat on his body gradually shrank. Soon he turned into a tall and thin young man of about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with a strange blood red in his pupils.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, why don't you show us your true appearance?"

Hearing this, Chen Xuan reached out and slowly peeled off the thin skin covering his face, revealing his originally stern expression.

At the same time, his jet-black hair gradually turned gray.

"Fellow Daoist Chen is truly exceptionally handsome, and as imposing as the rumors say."

Chen Xuan ignored the compliment in his words, and continued to look at Ma Yi in front of him with an indifferent expression, and said:

"If you just want to talk nonsense with me, then you can go and keep the three of them company."

As he spoke, Chen Xuan pointed at the three heads on the ground.

Ma Yi's expression changed slightly, but soon returned to normal. He looked at Chen Xuan calmly, without a trace of fear on his face, and said lightly:
"Friend Chen, please be patient. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ma Yi. I am an envoy sent here by the Soul Devouring Sect. My purpose is to search for powerful independent cultivators of the demonic path from the three great dynasties and recruit them into the Soul Devouring Sect."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Chen Xuan sneered:

"So you're planning to get me to join your so-called Soul Devouring Cult?"

Ma Yi nodded and said:
"That's right. To be honest, my Soul Devouring Sect has been observing you for some time. You're now surrounded by enemies all over the world in the Xuanwu Dynasty. Why don't you join my Soul Devouring Sect? We can provide you with protection!"

"Then why don't you tell me what the Soul Devouring Cult you mentioned is really like? Could it possibly be able to stand up to the entire Xuanwu Dynasty?"

After hearing what Ma Yi said, Chen Xuan did not express his opinion immediately, but asked calmly.

It was impossible for him to join any sect or religion. The reason he asked this question was just that he wanted to know more about this so-called Soul-Devouring Sect.

Ma Yi saw Chen Xuan's behavior, but he was not annoyed. Instead, he patiently explained to Chen Xuan:

"Fellow Daoist, you may not know that my Soul Devouring Sect is located in the Changyu Region. We have over ten thousand disciples and several Supreme Elders at the Spiritualization Stage. With such a strong foundation, we are able to compete with any top sect."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan was secretly shocked, but then he reacted.

The Soul-Devouring Cult was able to set up a blood sacrifice formation under a city right under the noses of all the major forces of the Xuanwu Dynasty, which must have been because they were fearless, otherwise they would have been destroyed long ago.

At this time, Ma Yi spoke again:

"This blood sacrifice formation is merely a tiny stronghold of our Soul Devouring Sect in the Xuanwu Dynasty. If Fellow Daoist Chen agrees to join the Soul Devouring Sect, then this blood sacrifice formation will be a welcome gift from the Soul Devouring Sect to Fellow Daoist Chen."

"Are you saying that the Soul Devouring Cult's purpose in setting up the blood sacrifice formation is just to give it to demonic cultivators who want to join the Soul Devouring Cult?"

Chen Xuan asked with a look of disbelief.

At the same time, he was extremely shocked. If this was true, the strength of the Soul-Devouring Cult would be far beyond his expectations.

Such a move is simply against the will of heaven. It is hard to imagine that any demon cultivator can resist such temptation.

Ma Yi smiled and waved his hand:
"Fellow Daoist Chen, you're worrying too much. Although our Soul Devouring Sect has a deep foundation, we don't have such a grand plan. The blood sacrifice formation has other uses.
However, I know that Daoist Fellow Chen only needs these souls. What our sect needs is the flesh and blood after the blood sacrifice. Souls are of no great use to our sect. I can take the initiative to give them to Daoist Fellow."

After hearing this, Chen Xuan finally believed what Ma Yi said. If Ma Yi said that this blood sacrifice formation was specially set up to absorb the wandering cultivators of the demonic sect, he would definitely scoff at it. After all, this was a bit too far-fetched.

But even so, Chen Xuan was still extremely shocked by his strength.

According to Ma Yi, the blood sacrifice formation in Qianzhou City is not an isolated case. The Soul-Devouring Cult also has blood sacrifice formations in other places, and there are quite a few of them.

Thinking of this, he slowly said:

"I'd like to ask, what's the purpose of the Soul Devouring Cult setting up so many blood sacrifice formations?"

Hearing this, Ma Yi did not answer immediately, but looked at Chen Xuan with a smile and said:

"If Fellow Daoist Chen joins my Soul Devouring Sect, he will naturally know what its purpose is. However, right now... Fellow Daoist Chen has no right to inquire."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan was stunned and looked a little embarrassed.

Before he could express his opinion, Ma Yi had already revealed a lot about the Soul Devouring Cult to him, and his repeated questioning seemed a bit excessive.

But who is Chen Xuan now? He has become a cultivator of the magic path.

Therefore, the embarrassment only lasted for a moment, and his expression returned to normal, without blushing or beating fast.

"What do you think, Fellow Daoist Chen?"

Seeing that Chen Xuan stopped talking, Ma Yi asked tentatively.

Chen Xuan slowly stood up, looked thoughtful, and paced back and forth in the room.

After a moment, he stopped and stood less than two feet in front of Ma Yi, almost face to face with him.

Then he spoke calmly:
"If I refuse to join today, will Fellow Daoist Ma be ready to kill me to silence me?" Upon hearing this, Ma Yi was startled at first, then his expression remained normal and he smiled:
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I still hope you will reconsider this carefully. If you don't join the Soul Devouring Cult now, you will have no chance of survival."

Chen Xuan ignored it and shook his head slightly.

"I think you still don't know me well enough."

Upon hearing this, Ma Yi's expression changed, and murderous intent flashed in his eyes:
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice today!"

Chen Xuan ignored the murderous intent in his eyes, his expression calm, and said:
"If the price of joining the Soul Devouring Cult is to become a puppet controlled by others like you, then what's the point of me joining the Soul Devouring Cult?"

After saying that, Chen Xuan took a few steps back and walked to an incense burner on the table.

Seeing this scene, Ma Yi's expression changed completely. He looked at Chen Xuan with an extremely ugly expression.

"How did you find out!"

Chen Xuan did not answer, but reached out and opened the lid. Suddenly, a dark and cold aura emerged from the incense burner.

Chen Xuan stretched out his hand and took it into his palm, then turned and looked at Ma Yi with a smile and said:
"I heard that you would poison the city lord from time to time, so this must be it!
Ever since I entered the house, you've been stalling for time in the name of trying to get me to join the Soul Devouring Cult, just to allow me to absorb more of this aura."

Seeing this scene, Ma Yi suddenly laughed:

"Hahaha, Chen Xuan, you are indeed very smart, but even if you discovered it, what can you do? The air in the house is full of this thing. Ever since you stepped into the City Lord's Mansion, it has begun to continuously penetrate into your body. So, do you feel severe pain in your meridians and disordered spiritual energy now?"

"Ugh!"

Chen Xuan sighed again, shook his head and said:

"To be honest, I was really surprised the moment you recognized me. Later, you said that the Soul Devouring Cult had been observing me for some time, which made me mistakenly believe that you knew me very well. So I didn't expect that this thing would be the means you wanted to use to deal with me."

The smile on Ma Yi's face suddenly stopped, and he said with a gloomy expression:

"So, what do you mean? Even Gu Jinxue, who is at the late Jindan stage, can't resist this thing. Do you, a mid-foundation stage cultivator, have the means to ignore its erosion?"

Chen Xuan smiled and looked at Ma Yi with pity.

Then, in Ma Yi's shocked eyes, Chen Xuan slowly raised his other hand, and a black aura exactly the same as the one before emerged from his palm, jumping like a ball of ghost fire.

Then, Chen Xuan's aura changed completely, and endless dark and cold underworld energy surged out of his body, causing the temperature of the entire City Lord's Mansion to drop a few degrees, making it look gloomy and terrifying.

"No, that's impossible!"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Ma Yi immediately exclaimed.

"This item is the most precious treasure of our Soul Devouring Sect. It is rarely found in the outside world, and even fewer people can use it for cultivation. What you used at the city gate was clearly spiritual energy, how could it be used for spiritual cultivation!"

"Are you saying there are dark cultivators within the Soul Devouring Cult?"

After hearing Ma Yi's words, Chen Xuan's eyes lit up and a gleam of light burst out of his eyes.

What he lacks most at the moment is the Nether Qi. The reason why he is interested in the souls in the blood sacrifice formation is to obtain a large amount of Nether Qi after refining them.

Upon hearing that there were dark cultivators in the Soul-Devouring Sect, Chen Xuan suddenly became excited.

Since the Soul-Devouring Cult cultivates dark cultivation, it naturally means that there is a large amount of dark energy.

Moreover, when Chen Xuan had previously investigated, he discovered that although these Soul-Devouring Sect disciples had the same orthodox demonic aura as Zi Chen, they seemed a bit cold and gloomy.

It was not until he met Ma Yi that he discovered that the reason these people's auras were more sinister than those of normal demon cultivators was because there were wisps of dark energy constantly wandering in their dantian.

The Soul-Devouring Sect is a demonic sect, and its disciples naturally practice with demonic energy. Demonic energy is similar to the aura of the underworld, which is why Chen Xuan did not notice it at first.

After hearing Chen Xuan's words, Ma Yi was about to say something, but his expression suddenly changed.

In Chen Xuan's field of vision, he saw that the wisps of dark energy in Ma Yi's dantian seemed to have triggered some kind of restriction. A weak energy barrier was broken, and the dark energy was immediately and completely exposed in his dantian, colliding with the demonic energy in his dantian.

In an instant, blood mist exploded from Ma Yi's body, and then his dantian was instantly shattered by the energy impact generated by the collision of the dark energy and the demonic energy.

It was not until Ma Yi's body slowly fell limply in front of him, completely lifeless, that Chen Xuan reacted.

He immediately stretched out his hand, took the dark energy into his palm, and then absorbed it into his body.

“It seems that there is a layer of restriction on the dark energy in the bodies of these Soul Devouring Sect disciples. Under the protection of the restriction, the dark energy will not come into direct contact with the demonic energy, so they will be fine on weekdays.

Until they say something or have some thought in their mind that breaks the restriction, the collision of the two auras will cause them to die like Ma Yi, with their Dantian shattered."

Seeing Ma Yi's death, Chen Xuan immediately analyzed the cause of his death thoroughly.

But then he looked at the ball of dark energy taken out of the incense burner, and there was no restriction on it.

He immediately thought of Gu Jinxue, the Lord of Qianzhou City, and murmured:

"Ma Yi used this unrestrained dark energy on Gu Jinxue, but she was able to suppress it and survived...

This woman is definitely not simple!"

(End of this chapter)