Douluo Continent: What do you mean this is the Holy Spirit Cult?

Looking at the now deserted bustling street, Qi Li felt no worry whatsoever; in fact, he even felt a little amused.

His Bone Dragon Martial Soul granted him a passive ability that allowed him to clearly sense the aura of the souls around him.

He knew that the figure he was seeing was just an illusion; the real person was hiding in a nearby alley.

The empty surroundings he saw and the phantom in front of him were merely illusions created by his soul skill.

Through the other party's methods and the Bone Dragon Martial Soul's ability to perceive the other party's physical condition, he had already determined who the other party was.

The other party was a member of the Chang family, a well-known Soul Master family in this medium-sized city called Starlight City.

The family the other party belongs to mainly inherits various snake-type martial souls.

The man who attacked him was the undisputed pillar of the Chang family in this city, named Chang Sifang. His martial soul was an extremely rare mutated martial soul, and also an extremely rare mental type, named Illusionary Viper.

A spirit-type soul master at the level of a six-ring Soul Emperor.

Such an opponent is incredibly difficult to deal with, not only because of their mental abilities but also because they possess extremely potent poison. If you are targeted by them and poisoned, it will be quite troublesome.

However, for Qi Li now, this kind of opponent is probably the easiest to deal with.

The reason the other party targeted him was because he deliberately set a trap.

His Dragon Transformation Pill is essentially a pill made by condensing the essence of a soul beast through the innate soul skill of devouring the soul of a dragon.

Unlike the Profound Water Pill and the Soul Ascension Pill, which require various medicinal herbs to be combined with materials from soul beasts to condense essence, its Dragon Transformation Pill is more effective than the Soul Ascension Pill and the Profound Water Pill.

The reason why the Starlight City noble's martial soul evolved was because he hadn't properly balanced the essence in the soul beast's body. This caused the essence of the fire hound in the Dragon Transformation Pill to increase to one-fifth, resulting in the martial soul evolving directly and the soul power increasing by two levels.

However, he has now learned from his mistakes and made sure that the Dragon Transformation Pill he created was only one-tenth the amount of essence from a hundred-year-old soul beast.

Although the effects of the medicine have indeed diminished considerably, it's not as potent as before, where a Soul Master who takes the Dragon Transformation Pill would undergo a direct Soul Evolution and a complete transformation.

Although this might still attract a lot of covetous eyes, it's negligible compared to the allure of a stable martial soul evolution.

As for the Transcendent Pill that Chang Sifang mentioned, it was completely fictitious.

He revealed to the outside world that this elixir could rapidly bring immense benefits to those with snake-type martial souls. Furthermore, even when severely injured, it could allow them to shed their wounds like a snake-type spirit beast shedding its skin, restoring them to an extremely powerful state.

The purpose was to target the Chang family, a family of Soul Masters.

Although this Soul Master family itself is rather ordinary in strength, with its strongest member being only a level 68 Power Attack-type Battle Soul Emperor, their existence is extremely beneficial to Ye Lie's recovery. If he uses them as materials to make up for Ye Lie's lack of strength, then Ye Lie may be able to recover his power in a very short time.

After all, although Ye Lie is technically dead, evil soul masters are still much more convenient than ordinary soul masters.

Death is not a problem, as long as the soul can survive and devour other souls, then the increase and recovery of strength is only a matter of time. In particular, the souls of soul masters who also have snake-type martial souls are of great nourishment to him.

The evil spirit masters are still too much.

The only problem with this plan is whether the Chang family will be interested.

If this Soul Master family is honest and law-abiding, and diligently trains its own Soul Master descendants behind closed doors, without getting too involved in power struggles and the competition for rare treasures, then Qi Li really has no way to deal with this family.

Unfortunately, this family's upbringing has always been extremely arrogant and insidious. Stealing treasures, and even harming those who possess them, is commonplace for this family.

It's perfectly normal for them to target his current disguise and try to forcibly seize the secret formulas for the Dragon Transformation Pill and the Mortal Transformation Pill.

Unfortunately, this self-proclaimed hunter has already fallen into the trap of an even stronger hunter.

Within the Soul Cage, Ye Lie's soul vanished silently.

"Master Xiao Yan, our Chang family has always been very disciplined. As long as you teach us the secret formulas for the Transformation Pill and the Dragon Transformation Pill, we will absolutely not lay a hand on you."

"As long as you live, you can develop new drugs, and it's not impossible that you'll surpass the Dragon Transformation Pill and the Mortal Transformation Pill. A wise person knows when to yield; you should really consider this, shouldn't you?"

The illusory figure in front of him continued chanting, and continued to spread the same voice as Chang Sifang.

If Qi Li's life sense hadn't clearly told him that what was in front of him was an illusion and not a real person, he probably would have felt confused as well.

Unfortunately, the other party no longer has the confidence or ability to continue entangled with him.

The alleyway not far away suddenly collapsed, and everything around returned to its previous noise. The ethereal figure in front of him vanished without a trace in an instant.

Soon, a dark red phantom attached itself to Qi Li from a hidden angle.

"Hehehe, although he is only a level 64 control-type Soul Emperor, his soul is very compatible with mine."

Your theory of complementary similarities makes a lot of sense.

It's a pity that it's probably impossible to find a living anaconda or a soul master with an anaconda spirit now, so we can only make do with the python spirit of the Chang family patriarch.

"Well, it'll have to do. If I devour all the souls of the Chang family's soul masters, then my strength will be even greater than when I was alive."

Hearing Ye Lie's joyful voice, Qi Li felt no joy at all.

"It's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature," as the saying goes. Perhaps Ye Lie was able to remain calm and composed before, but now, after absorbing souls again, his emotions have returned to the irritable and impatient state of mind he had in life.

But what does that have to do with him? Aren't they just in a relationship of mutual exploitation?