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Chapter 85 His Heart Is Despicable

The art of soul searching destroys true spirits and ruins human souls; it is extremely vicious.

As soon as Chen Jue activated the Soul Searching Spirit Pattern in his mind, the black shadow aura pierced straight into Tu Li's brow like a pitch-black awl.

"The Great Zodiac Sacrifice — My sister-in-law is so beautiful — Two hundred thousand live sacrifices — The Fire Pig Woman —"

"My sister-in-law is so beautiful—[Imbushing her with the blood of a boar]—"

"My brother is a complete waste of space—"

Chen Jue's soul-searching technique was nothing short of a disaster.

Even though the search terms were already defined, during the actual operation, my attention would still unconsciously wander to Tu Li's darkest secrets.

And this guy named "Tu Li" is also incredibly gloomy inside.

His mind was filled with thoughts of his sister-in-law, so much so that he couldn't help but glance at her a couple of times, wanting to see what kind of angelic beauty this guy's sister-in-law looked that made her so important to him.

However, after peeking through the window from Tu Li's perspective, Chen Jue was greatly disappointed.

Aside from his large size, his sister-in-law was otherwise quite ordinary, and it was unclear why Tu Li was so attached to her.

If it were any other soul searcher, glancing away like that would mean losing at least 30% of the useful information.

However, Chen Jue's soul contained three "Shadow Divine Powers" that continuously strengthened his soul, providing enough redundancy to support his thorough search.

Just as Chen Jue had thought, it was still too difficult to truly understand the specific plans and information of the Shi Huo Sect by interrogating its lower-level members and relying on snippets of information from others.

It's far less informative than directly searching the soul of a member of a powerful clan involved in the affair.

Indeed, a grand ceremony will be recorded 100 days after the start of the Fire Cult.

But the number of believers who made the sacrifice was not 100,000, but 200,000!

The reason is that the various social classes involved in the sacrifice each had their own needs.

Some wanted the "King Transformation Pill," some wanted the Star Origin Stone that could expand their blessed lands, and others wanted the Star Elixir that could prolong life.

They felt that sacrificing only 100,000 believers was not safe, so they expanded the number to 200,000 to ensure the sacrifice was safe.

Secondly, the Fire Sect has already captured ninety-nine women whose zodiac sign is pig and whose innate constitution is fire.

But as mentioned before, to ensure absolute safety, they are still constantly searching for "Zhihu women" in the outer city.

In Tu Li's memory, there were three individuals who met the criteria and were associated with Kaiyang Community.

He Tangtang from their family is one of them.

However, since the He family suddenly moved into the inner city, no one dared to cause trouble there.

Therefore, they devised a wicked plan.

They surrounded and killed Chen Jue and He Yuanshan, forcing He Tangtang to leave the outer city to collect the bodies of her loved ones.

The idea was good, but unfortunately Chen Jue was a pay thief and a master of taking sick leave.

These beasts from the Shihuo Cult have been in charge of Kaiyang Street for nearly a month, yet they haven't found a suitable opportunity to capture Chen Jue and He Yuanshan in one fell swoop.

In order not to alert the enemy, the matter was delayed.

In addition, there were some trivial pieces of information that also shocked Chen Jue.

For example, those soldiers of the Chamber Fire Sect who offered red prayer money to the Star Demons to extract their true energy.

On the day of the sacrifice, they will be thrown into a huge blood cauldron.

Their flesh and blood will be boiled together to become the body of the true demon.

For example, the Northern Ghost Gold Cult and the Southern Zhen Water Cult have been trying to contact the chief priest of the Shi Huo Cult.

It seems they want to get in touch with this chief priest and also hold a demon-slaying ceremony with 100,000 people in the outer city of Linjiang.

However, the high priest of the Fire Church has not replied to the message, and the leaders of both churches are in tears.

If it weren't for the fact that this grand ceremony was backed by the "Four Families and One Prefecture," these two Star Demon Sects might have already started causing widespread destruction.

This truly proves the saying: it's more painful to see your peers get rich than to go bankrupt yourself.

Especially now that the Zhenshui Sect is in dire straits and is about to lose even its last stronghold, it is so envious that it is still sending people to infiltrate Linjiang even though it is in dire straits itself.

"Good riddance!"

Chen Jue finished off the drooling Tu Li with a single strike. After some thought, he left the emblem of the Zhenshui Sect on the table, took Tu Li's storage ring, and jumped out of the window, leaving the blood-soaked building.

Downstairs, a number of Fire Cult instructors had gradually gathered.

Because they were of low status and timid, these instructors, though sensing something was wrong, did not dare to break down the door immediately when they saw the building was locked.

Just then, a leader of the Fire Cult happened to come over and report to the higher-ups on the collection of protection fees that day.

That's when some people took the lead in breaking down the door and rushing into the building.

However, as soon as they reached the corner of the first-floor corridor, their hearts sank.

The reason was that the two instructors who were supposed to be guarding the gate were lying stiffly on the ground.

Someone reached out to check the tip of the nose and found that although the person was no longer breathing, the body was still warm.

"not good!"

The leader who had returned to report on his work was startled and quickly led his men to the corridor on the first floor.

However, the more he walked, the more horrified he became. The offices on both sides of the corridor were filled with corpses, their eyes wide open in death. He roughly estimated that there were no fewer than twenty people.

When he reached the top of the stairs to the second floor, his legs felt weak and he had to stop and hold onto the railing.

"Quickly! Call headquarters! Tell headquarters something terrible has happened on Cuihu Street!"

The leader gave an order to his men, then glanced at the second-floor railing with a mixture of fear and apprehension. In the end, he could only grit his teeth, muster his courage, and continue to look up to check the situation.

Chen Jue left the Cuihu neighborhood and met up with Wu Nanyuan.

The latter was still thinking about what Chen Jue had said before he left, and silently glanced at the time.

"We just patrolled the outer perimeter of Green Lake for an hour —"

Chen Jue turned around and glanced at Wu Nanyuan, then laughed out loud.

"Yes, you've already made progress."

He strode ahead, leaving words of praise scattered among the falling autumn leaves.

"Chen Jue!" Wu Nanyuan caught up and stood beside Chen Jue.

"Hmm? What's wrong? Is there anything else you want to add?" Chen Jue asked, turning his head to the side.

Wu Nanyuan looked around nervously and leaned close to Chen Jue's ear like a thief caught doing something wrong.

"Do you need Spirit Sprout Pills? Not the ordinary kind, but the top-grade kind."

"Three Spirit Sprout Pills a day can greatly increase your true energy —"

Wu Nanyuan tried to sell to Chen Jue: "If you buy from me, I can give you a 1% discount, so it'll only cost you 9,500—no, 9,400 each."

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Chen Jue was shocked and utterly speechless.

"You're stealing my son?!" He raised his voice.

He had just felt that the two of them were working together more and more smoothly, but he never expected that their friendship would capsize so easily.

The other party intended to simply resell the pills he refined to him.

Surprisingly, the discounted price offered was even less than what a poor student from Wuhan University could get.

"Nine—nine thousand three, that's the lowest I can go!" Seeing Chen Jue's strong reaction, Wu Nanyuan meekly lowered the price.

"What the hell?!" Chen Jue angrily grabbed Wu Nanyuan's collar.

But Wu Nanyuan's body was too light; with a simple lift, she flew diagonally backward.

If Chen Jue hadn't reacted quickly enough and grabbed the girl's collar in time, she would have been sent flying three meters into the air.

"No?! Are all of you Wu family members a bunch of beasts?"

"They only care about giving birth, but not about raising the children?"

Seeing Wu Nanyuan's pitiful and thin appearance, Chen Jue was filled with anger and immediately shifted his target to angrily denouncing the Wu family for being inhuman.

Wu Nanyuan pried open Chen Jue's hand, bent her legs slightly, and landed lightly.

"Chen Jue, what are we having for lunch today? Are we going to have that braised pork knuckle from that restaurant again?"

Chen Jue gritted his teeth.

"Eat, eat the big pieces!"