Douluo: The Holy Radiance of the Dragon King

Chapter 326 Cao Dezhi: You finally got into the net of heaven and earth, do you think I'll let you leave alive?

"Actually, I really want to ask you if your Holy Spirit Cult has any methods to probe memories, such as soul searching. However, this kind of mind-controlling technique is enough. Take me to the place where you imprison the Spirit Pagoda branch."

Using an evil aura far surpassing Leng Yulai's, Feng Zaixing suppressed the opponent's mental will and coldly gave the order.

Leng Yulai's usually cold eyes quickly lost focus, and she lowered her proud head. She then regained her composure, put on her hood, and silently pointed out the direction of the Spirit Tower's imprisonment to Feng Zaixing before walking ahead.

Feng Zaixing, using his Holy Evil Formless Body, manipulated the light element to become invisible, silently following behind Leng Yulai.

As he walked, he secretly shook his head, thinking to himself that these evil spirit masters were indeed unreasonable and ordinary methods were useless; to deal with them, one had to be three times more wicked than them.

However, even in evil, there must be righteousness. Killing is a means to quell chaos, but it should not shake one's conscience.

"Fortunately, the aura left on Lan Fuzi could roughly indicate its location. I arrived at Xingluo a step ahead of those two guys, so I made it in time."

Following Leng Yulai into the underground space dug by the Tang Sect, Sheng Xie Wuxiang couldn't help but feel fortunate for his rapid advance.

He was exhausted from traveling across the vast ocean, and his soul power was less than 70% remaining. He was physically and mentally fatigued.

But it doesn't matter, that's enough to deal with these people.

"The sect leader has decreed that any disciple of the Tang Sect entering this place must have his personal written authorization."

When they reached an underground stone gate, a dozen or so Tang Sect Soul Masters with considerable strength surrounded Leng Yulai, and the captain leading them demanded a warrant from her.

"If you have it, take it out; if you don't, just show up and act tough," Feng Zaixing transmitted to Leng Yulai.

Upon hearing this, Leng Yulai stomped her jade foot, and a ring of deep purple, shimmering soul light swept outwards, directly knocking a group of soul masters to the ground.

"Why would I need Cao Dezhi's warrant to enter this place?"

Leng Yulai slapped open the stone door and strode inside, while Feng Zaixing quietly drifted in.

"Captain, this woman is so unreasonable."

A Soul Saint expert wiped his mouth and complained to the captain, who was a Title Douluo.

The person who could overturn so many of them at once must be at least a master among the Super Douluo, but their attitude still displeased them.

The Tang Clan captain shook his head and said, "You're ignorant. That woman is a distinguished guest marked by the sect leader. It was just routine for me to ask her for the token. I didn't expect her to give it to me anyway."

The vice-captain said, "Yes, I heard that last time that woman came, she killed two people with a snap of her fingers; if it weren't for my loyalty to the Tang Clan, I wouldn't dare to breathe loudly in front of her."

The Tang Clan guards all gasped in shock, secretly marveling at Leng Yulai's ferocity.

Behind the stone gate were rows of dry and wet rooms of varying sizes, where the experts of the Spirit Transmission Tower were imprisoned in order of their cultivation level and status, from lowest to highest.

"Immediately lift the death seal you placed on them, pretend you're looking for trouble with Han Tianyi, and go now."

Feng Zaixing was secretly alarmed to find that all around him were top-notch soul tools that suppressed mental and soul power. This place was like a cage for a quasi-god, and even he would be affected to some extent.

But it's alright, these soul tools can't suppress his strength too much, and he didn't intend to come here to fight anyway.

On his first visit, he wasn't greedy; he considered it a success if he could rescue Han Tianyi.

Leng Yulai silently followed Feng Zaixing's orders. During this time, Feng Zaixing used his considerable spiritual power, which was considered quite good even among those at the Divine Origin Realm, to manipulate the light elements to help her fake the scene, while secretly sweating profusely.

"The Tang Sect's environment design probably took into account Huo Yuhao's simulation soul skills back then. Various soul tools are specifically designed to counter the disguised environment. Fortunately, my mental strength is much stronger than his."

At the same time, he released his mental power to suppress the effects of dozens of automatic soul tools. Even with Feng Zaixing's abilities, he couldn't help but break out in a sweat. Before he broke through to the Limit Douluo level, it would have been much easier for him to do so.

Clearly, the Tang Sect relied on Huo Yuhao's skill to rise again back then, and now they want to cut off the opportunity for others to follow this path, thoroughly analyzing the founder's soul skills to counter all illusions.

What's more troublesome is that Feng Zaixing discovered no fewer than fifteen top-tier self-destructing soul tools here. Once they explode, the underground will completely collapse, and even a soul master with strong vitality would find it difficult to survive.

Cao Dezhi truly used every possible means to the fullest extent, making him far more reliable than that fool Qian Gu Dong Feng.

"Leng Yulai, can you hurry up? Why is it taking so long to undo these people's restraints?"

Seeing that Leng Yulai took several minutes to remove the death restriction of a Spirit Pagoda expert, Feng Zaixing frowned.

Leng Yulai replied respectfully, "These restrictions were not intended to be untied when they were set up. They are like a knot that cannot be untied. It will naturally take some effort to untie them. If you make a mistake, you may trigger the restrictions and blow yourself up."

Feng Zaixing remained silent. So, under your Holy Spirit Church, the restrictions don't even leave you any way out?

Those damn bastards are a real menace.

"Alright, we can slowly undo these restrictions. At worst, you can teach me how to do it. Now, let's go see Grandmaster Uncle."

Feng Zaixing turned his gaze to the deepest room, where the gray-robed old man Han Tianyi was meditating, his mind at ease.

"This old man has a kind heart," Feng Zaixing thought to himself.

"Dark Phoenix, I once guided you in the cultivation of spiritual power. I never imagined you would turn out like this. I truly regret it."

Han Tianyi possessed exceptional mental strength and sensed Leng Yulai's arrival from afar. He opened his weathered eyes, filled with deep regret.

"Back then, you and your sister were both considered the most outstanding beauties of the Leng family. In some aspects, you even surpassed your sister, Leng Yaozhu. However, your family head and I felt that your temperament was too extreme and that you were not suitable to be the family head. We never expected you to turn out like this. Alas!"

"If possible, I'd love to clean house myself! Wait, why aren't you saying a word?"

Han Tianyi called for a respectable elder to speak for a long time but received no response. He immediately realized something was wrong. This was not Leng Yulai's style. Why didn't he hear a single cold laugh?

Looking again, the space behind Leng Yulai slightly distorted, and a young figure that was all too familiar to her walked out. Han Tianyi's eyes instantly changed from regret to surprise, doubt and joy.

"Grandmaster Uncle, I've come to save you. I've temporarily taken control of this woman's mind," Feng Zaixing whispered to Han Tianyi.

"Zai Xing? That's great! I knew you wouldn't abandon us, I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly!"

Upon seeing another junior who had followed him in cultivation since childhood, Han Tianyi was in high spirits, but quickly realized something and shook his head, saying, "This place is extremely dangerous, you must not act recklessly; the soul tools that Cao Dezhi buried here are enough to kill two or three quasi-gods! My soul tool shackles and leg irons are specially made, and once I activate my soul power and mental power, they will trigger an external alarm, so I cannot move at all."

Feng Zaixing took out the top-of-the-line dismantling soul tool he had obtained from Mingde Hall and said, "It's alright, I know what I'm doing. Tell me how many of you are being held here, and we'll fight our way out together."

Han Tianyi sighed deeply and said, "In the Spirit Pagoda branch, all the Soul Masters above the Soul Saint level have been forced out by Cao Dezhi and his group. Only the Soul Masters below the Soul Saint level remain in the Spirit Pagoda to carry out their daily work. Cao Dezhi is not leaving us any way out."

"Seventy percent of the Title Douluos and Soul Douluos of my Spirit Pagoda branch are imprisoned here. I don't know exactly where the others are imprisoned."

"The worst fear is that Cao Dezhi has set up a series of explosives. If something goes wrong in one place, he will use the fastest means to kill the others."

"I understand. Do you know of any other places?" Feng Zaixing's second question was directed at Leng Yulai.

Leng Yulai replied mechanically, "I know, it's in another underground base five kilometers away from here."

"The imprisonment of the Spirit Pagoda expert was a joint effort between his Tang Clan and our Holy Spirit Cult. The other base was guarded by members of our Holy Spirit Cult."

"What? Guarded by evil spirit masters?"

Han Tianyi looked extremely anxious and asked, "What did you do there?"

"The research on tranquilizers for the Demon Emperor occasionally involves killing for training or to relieve boredom," Leng Yulai said.

"Good, good for Cao Dezhi! That beast, that beast!" Han Tianyi felt a pang of heartache, and a surge of hatred and anger spread from her chest.

A flash of murderous intent crossed Feng Zaixing's eyes, but he did not lose his mind. He quickly used the Soul Guidance Device to remove the restriction on Han Tianyi, and at the same time ordered Leng Yulai to remove the restrictions on the other Soul Masters in the Spirit Pagoda.

At the same time, he released his mental energy to explore every corner of the underground space and sent action signals to the experts he left on the surface to go and rescue people.

Judging from his staged scene, "Leng Yulai" was constantly arguing with "Han Tianyi" and they disliked each other.

Time passed slowly, and just when the Spirit Pagoda's expert restrictions were down to the last three, the outer stone door suddenly opened wide, and Cao Dezhi's mocking laughter rang out.

"I wonder which powerful figure from the Sun Moon Federation has arrived, that even a ruthless character like the Dark Phoenix has been forcibly trapped and forced to work for you?"

"They've come after all." Feng Zaixing sighed inwardly, concealing his face with his spiritual power, and asked calmly, "Before answering that question, Sect Leader Cao, why don't you tell us how you discovered us? Was it because we took too long?"

"That's one of the reasons."

Cao Dezhi's voice echoed softly: "The first reason is that Leng Yulai didn't kill anyone before she came in today. I angered her quite a bit today. Given her personality, and the fact that she was offended by my Tang Clan disciples, she will definitely kill all those Tang Clan disciples."

"But she didn't kill anyone, which seems very abnormal. In addition, she spent so long arguing with Han Tianyi inside, which means there must be something wrong."

"Don't you know that evil spirit masters are a bunch of madmen who kill without saying a word? Even if the person she was arguing with was her former elder, you are too soft-hearted and too greedy. You actually wanted to rescue all the people from the Spirit Pagoda right under my nose."

"I must say, your methods of creating illusions are quite clever. If you had only rescued Han Tianyi, you probably would have truly succeeded."

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"Heh~"

Upon hearing these two absurd yet plausible reasons, Saint Evil Formless couldn't help but chuckle and say, "Sect Leader Cao is truly observant and ruthless as steel. I admire him."

"Everyone says that I, Feng Zaixing, have killed countless people, but now it seems that you are much more ruthless than me. No wonder there isn't a single Super Douluo among the Soul Masters guarding the outside. I was wondering why such an important place was so poorly guarded. It turns out that those people were tools you left for the people outside to kill to vent their anger."

"I wonder how those loyal Tang Clan disciples would feel if they knew that in the eyes of their most revered sect leader, they were nothing more than pawns that could be discarded at any time?"

On the ground, Cao Dezhi's face darkened completely. He said, "No need for the War God Hall Master to worry. My Tang Clan disciples are prepared to sacrifice for the Tang Clan. However, I am quite surprised by your appearance, Hall Master Feng. You actually dared to risk your life to come here."

"What a pleasant surprise! Do you think I would let you leave alive after you've finally gotten yourself into this trap?"

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