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

While there were some risks involved in going on a solo Soul Hunt for Qi Li, these risks were negligible.

With the assistance of two evil soul masters, Soul Saints, and the ability to perform a soul fusion technique with a powerful evil soul master, Soul Emperor, as well as a series of powerful dragon souls and beast souls such as the Devouring Dragon Soul, the Earth Fire Crimson Dragon Soul, and the Earth Fire Dragon Soul as support, he is truly a formidable force.

If he doesn't have the confidence to complete the Soul Hunt, then he's somewhat letting down his strength.

Now, even if he encounters a soul beast that is over 50,000 years old, he is qualified to fight it head-on. If he can no longer defeat the opponent, he also has the ability to escape directly.

Unless he encounters an extremely troublesome and powerful soul beast, such as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Titan Giant Ape, Azure Bull Python, Soul Devouring Spider King, Death Spider King, or Heavenly Dragon Horse, he should have no problem escaping.

As for how to persuade the other members of the Holy Spirit Cult to let him complete the soul-hunting operation alone, thereby ensuring that he could complete the soul-hunting normally without any restrictions.

Qi Li had naturally made arrangements long ago.

He privately sponsored his soul tool mentor, Xuan Ziwen, with a sum of gold soul coins to advance the latter's research project, namely the research on sealed milk bottles.

After the sponsorship was completed, the other party handed him a form for an outdoor training activity without hesitation. It stated that Xuan Ziwen had arranged for him to go to the Jingyang Mountains, a gathering place for soul beasts in the Sun Moon Empire, for this holiday.

In theory, he didn't go alone, but with two other students of Xuan Ziwen.

Under such circumstances, he was able to leave Mingdu without any hindrance or being considered missing by the Holy Spirit Cult.

What he didn't know was that right after he left Mingdu, an unimaginable tragedy occurred within the mercenary guild of the Mingdu Chamber of Commerce.

A tall and handsome young man with a gloomy yet eerie expression stormed into the mercenary guild and carried out a brutal massacre.

Whether they were mercenaries from the Mercenary Guild, or the managers and receptionists here, they were all lying in pools of blood.

However, this was far from the end. From the young man's body, magic arrays made of solid bones that shimmered with blue light flew out and imprisoned their corpses one by one.

Soon, these corpses turned into puddles of blood, flesh, skin, and hair.

From the surfaces of these grotesquely shaped corpses, souls flew out, but these souls, illuminated by the blue light, gradually changed from their original light orange color to a blood red radiating resentment.

The expressions on these souls' faces changed from surprise, astonishment, and anger to annoyance and resentment.

The young man paid no attention to the vengeful spirits. His body was blood red, and he casually grabbed a blood-red vengeful spirit, kneaded it into a ball, and put it into his mouth.

Two crisp chewing sounds immediately echoed throughout the Mercenary Guild.

"Looks like you've taken the bait. Blame it on your bad luck. You could have lived a normal life in your hometown, leading an ordinary and uneventful life. But you joined the Holy Spirit Cult and became a stumbling block on my path. Since that's the case, I have no choice but to send you to your death."

But don't be discouraged. Everything about you will become part of my strength, forever a part of me.

This handsome young man with a gloomy expression was none other than Yan Feng, Qi Li's senior brother whom he had never met before.

As a disciple of the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, the other party has been living under immense pressure in recent years.

There was no other reason than the existence of Qi Li, this genius Soul Master.

The mere presence of emotion instantly reduced his already meager margin for error to its lowest point. If it weren't for the fourth stage—the Burial Ground—which allowed him to turn the tide and gain a favorable position, they could already imagine that their junior brother, after simply enhancing himself through the Evil Soul Master talent, would have surpassed them, easily killed them, and devoured their source power to strengthen himself.

He knew very well that their common teacher would not provide any instruction on the teaching materials, and the secret technique of devouring the original soul that he knew would naturally not be a secret in Qi Li's eyes.

It has now turned into an extremely brutal duel. Either he will devour this junior brother, or that junior brother will devour him.

He had only sent some of his weaker evil spirit masters to guard the outer perimeter of the Demon Forest headquarters where the other party was participating in the trial, hoping that his own people would kill him directly and that he could easily silence him as well.

However, he did not consider that his plan had failed, even though he had sent out quite a few low-level association masters.

So he became even more patient, until now, when he used the Ten Thousand Year Cave Demon Spider as bait to lure Qi Li into a trap.

He knew just how amazing his improvement had been over the past year, but it was precisely because he knew this so clearly that he was certain his junior brother would take the bait.

From Gu Yu at the beginning to the mercenary guild here, everything was part of his plan.

He had already arranged a final resting place for his junior brother.

They had even come over and arranged the murder to silence the witnesses.

He will devour the souls of everyone here, burning their flesh and fur to ashes, erasing all traces of their existence in this world.

After he returns, he will try to kill Gu Yu, the disciple of the evil soul master titled Douluo, to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

As for whether his junior brother will actually escape the trap he set and come back alive.

He had never thought that way.

Because although he had no way to directly mobilize powerful Soul Douluos from within the Holy Spirit Cult for his own use, he was still able to kill his fellow disciple, who was also a disciple of the Holy Spirit Cult leader, without batting an eye.

However, he hasn't wasted these years. Relying on his talent and the sharing of resources, he has managed to win over several evil soul masters and soul saints.

This time, he sent out three evil soul masters, Soul Saints.

In such a situation, what problems could possibly arise when dealing with just one evil soul master or soul sect?

He knew that his junior brother had the means to command beast souls in battle, but at most, beast souls at the ten-thousand-year level were far too weak in front of evil soul masters and soul saints.

It should be noted that even some 50,000-year-old soul beasts are not as difficult to kill as one might imagine in the face of some Soul Masters and Soul Saints.