Ning Cheng’s divine sense was much stronger than both Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie’s, and he saw more Yin souls rapidly coming this way because of this mournful cry.
“Don’t fret, you guys follow behind me, I’ll lead the way first. When the Spirit Seeking Fox discovers the Earth Heart Nine Spectral Pith, then Xu Yingdie will lead the way.” After Ning Cheng finished speaking he was already heading first in a direction with fewer Yin souls and quickly rushed over.
Seeing this, Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan hurriedly followed behind Ning Cheng and quickly went away from here.
An hour later, Ning Cheng had found an experience. That was that as long as they kept walking, even if they were discovered by some Yin souls, those Yin souls would only chase a little way before returning again. Once they stopped, there were immediately Yin Souls that came forward.
In case they were entangled by the Yin souls, when they were killing them, they had to use the true essence wall to block the spreading of the Yin souls’ sound, otherwise they would attract more Yin souls.
Ning Cheng had been walking with the two of them for half a day and had not encountered any major problems. Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie knew clearly in their hearts that even if Ning Cheng had not taken the initiative to say so, Ning Cheng must have some solution.
“You seem to be able to spot the Yin Soul in advance.” After the three of them searched for another hour or so, Yin Kongchan finally could not help but speak out.
Ning Cheng said in reply, “I’ve been walking here for most of the day and found that although this place is a bit weird, it is only a powerful barrier poison, it’s not so bad that you can’t get out if you come in, right?”
“That’s because it’s only our first day in, and we haven’t met the Soul Chute and Corpse Barrier Valley yet. That said, even if you never encountered these two places, once we don’t have the barrier-removing pills, we will still be dead.” Yin Kongchan replied casually, as if she had truly forgotten the question she had asked Ning Cheng just now.
Just as Yin Kongchan finished speaking, the space around the three of them suddenly became gloomy and cold. A whimpering sound interspersed with countless banging and muffled explosions rang out around the three of them.
“Not good, we’ve come to an insidious soul trough, hurry up and escape ……” Before the word Yin Kongchan could even drop, countless dense insidious souls appeared in Ning Cheng’s divine sense. What shocked Ning Cheng was that his divine sense had been paying attention to the surroundings and he had not noticed that there were so many Yin Souls here.
Some of the Yin souls here had auras that were even stronger than Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie.
At this moment, Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie also saw so many Yin souls swarming over, and their faces instantly became stuck white, as they both knew that these Yin souls were not something they could deal with.
While offering up a round shield, Yin Kongchan threw out two talismans to Xu Yingdie and Ning Cheng and said, “Let’s crush the talismans first and get out, then prepare to re-enter here.”
As she threw out her small teleportation talisman, she had already crushed the talisman in her own hand.
But the next moment, she was dumbfounded, after she had crushed the talisman, it was still in place and had not moved, which meant that her talisman was not of any use at all.
It took only a moment for Yin Kongchan to throw the talisman and crush it, and in that moment Xu Yingdi’s talisman was also crushed. When she saw that Yin Kongchan had not been transported away, she knew that there was something wrong with this little transport talisman, or at least something wrong here.
Ning Cheng dryly and incomparably put away the talisman, and the Tai Void True Devil Axe had already been sacrificed.
Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan reacted quickly and both sacrificed their own magic treasures as well and began to attack the Yin souls that swarmed up.
The bodies of these spirits were almost impossible to detect without divine sense, and as they were afraid of being caught by the spirits, they frantically activated the magic treasures in their hands. Soon a wall of magic treasures was formed around the three of them, and countless spirits were killed, and all sorts of sharp, harsh cries were heard. Because of these harsh cries, more and more evil spirits came here.
Some powerful Yin souls could not only send out Yin claws, but could even blast out Yin blades. There were also some Yin souls that were actually performing sound field attacks.
Ning Cheng possessed the Tai Void True Devil Axe and had a swarm killing axe intent, and as he blasted out with a single axe pattern, those Yin Souls would die if they were knocked or touched. Plus, he had the Heavenly Cloud Wings, so he wasn’t very afraid of being trapped. It was just that there were too many Yin souls around, too dense, and Ning Cheng did not dare to take Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan with him to vanish. If he could not break out with the two of them, it was a small matter that Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan would be finished and he himself would be trapped.
If he had to waste thousands of talismans to blast away these spirits, he would not be able to do so. The talismans were obviously important in this place, and a large number of them blasting out together was an even more powerful means. If he had known he would come to this place, he would not have wasted so many talismans in the ring.
If Ning Cheng had a wide range of attacking means, it was still considered good. However, Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie were quite miserable, their cultivation levels were far stronger than Ning Cheng’s. However, their divine sense could not break through the ghostly fog for a hundred metres like Ning Cheng. As a result, the two of them had to spend even more than ten times the amount of Qi than Ning Cheng in order to avoid being suddenly attacked by the ghosts.
Around Yin Kongchan was a round shield with white gloves, and the magic treasure was a jade ruler. Xu Yingdie had a defensive bell on top of her head and her attack magic treasure was a green coloured sword.
Because the two did not know which Yin spirit would attack them next, they ceased to defend with all their might at all times. Coupled with the fact that the two of them also did not have the same group attacking means as Ning Cheng’s great axe pattern killing move that they had comprehended from the Angry Axe Valley, they ended up consuming far more than Ning Cheng and were in a worse position than Ning Cheng instead.
By this time, both of them were already cloaked and even woefully out of shape.
Those Yin souls seemed to know that Ning Cheng was harder to deal with than Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie, so they bullied Ning Cheng, making it even easier for Ning Cheng.
Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan were in no mood to care whether Ning Cheng was good or bad as they fought off the attacks of the senior Yin souls with all their might.
Ning Cheng had originally wanted to blast these Yin Souls back with the Axe Pattern and the three of them joining forces. But now he saw that with this harrowing scream going out, the Yin souls were gathering more and more. If he didn’t risk leaving, it would be too late even to risk it when more advanced Yin Souls came.
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng directly took out hundreds of talismans and threw them out. All of these talismans were blasted out, and countless terrifying explosions instantly swept the area completely. All of a sudden, fire and lightning roared in the sky.
With so many exploding talismans coming out, some of the low level Yin souls around were directly burned away by Ning Cheng’s talismans. Some high level Yin souls also retreated in fear, Ning Cheng took advantage of this gap to grab Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie and directly performed an instantaneous shift with his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings.
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This time Ning Cheng did not casually throw Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie down, he just placed the two on the ground and then asked, “What do you mean by Yin Soul Slot?”
Yin Kongchan casually tidied up her clothes and hair, panted and said, “Thank you for saving me once again. A Yin Soul Chute is a place where Yin Qi gathers, somewhat like the spiritual veins in our cultivator’s eyes. It is also a place where many Yin souls lurk. Such lurking Yin souls are difficult to detect even with divine sense. But once these lurking Yin souls are alerted, they will swarm out in the shortest possible time.”
Xu Yingdie did not speak, but only silently straightened her clothes, then put the long sword that she had been carrying behind her back into her ring, and once again held that spirit-seeking fox in her hands. It was probably because she found that she was the least useful among the three.
“Little Kaoru has found something.” Xu Yingdie suddenly spoke in surprise. After saying that, she turned her gaze towards Ning Cheng again, “Just go forward from here.”
It was estimated that she understood that leading the way herself was far inferior to Ning Cheng leading the way, so she simply told Ning Cheng how to go.
With Xu Yingdie’s guidance, Ning Cheng led the two of them, and after walking for just an incense stick, he arrived at the outskirts of an incomparably grey black lake. When they said it was a black lake, they might as well have said it was an underground ditch.
The water inside this lake was incomparably black, and some white bones were floating on the black water, making people feel uncomfortable at heart when they looked at it.
Around this black lake there were also some ghastly white bones, only that these white bones quickly turned into flying ashes under the trio’s feet.
In the middle of this black lake was a small raised hill with a flower as white as snow at the very top of it. It was simply too bizarre that a flower as white as snow was growing in the middle of a black lake with pitch-black water.
“This is the Underworld Soul Flower ……” Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie were both knowledgeable people, and when they saw this flower, they could not help but exclaim in awe.
The value of this flower would definitely not be below, or even above, the Nine Yin Marrow of the Earth’s Heart.
Ning Cheng certainly knew the Underworld Soul Flower, he had seen the introduction of the Underworld Soul Flower and had always thought that the conditions for this flower to grow were too harsh. Yet, he had not expected that today he would really see a Hades Soul Flower.
It was rumoured that the purest thing in the world was the soul, and the dirtiest thing in the world was also the soul.
The Underworld Soul Flower needed the purest soul breath to be watered, and to get the purest soul breath, the filth in the soul breath needed to be washed away. The reason why the water of this black lake is so dark should be the result of washing away the dirty soul breath over a long period of time.
The Underworld Soul Flower is a top quality spiritual herb, made from earthly spiritual energy and pure ethereal soul energy. After a cultivator dies, as long as there is a trace of the original soul left, it can be protected by the Underworld Soul Flower and even nourished to grow the original soul. Compared to the Soul Nurturing Wood, the Underworld Soul Flower is many times higher in grade.
“You two step back for a moment ……” The first time Ning Cheng saw the Underworld Soul Flower, he decided that he would take the flower away.
“You’re going to collect the Underworld Soul Flower?” Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan both looked at Ning Cheng in surprise, they were not qualified to collect the Underworld Soul Flower, but knew that if the Underworld Soul Flower was so easy to collect, then there wouldn’t be so many gnarled white bones in this black lake.
“Ning Cheng, this is the Black Lake of the Soul Abyss of the Spectral Mist Graveyard, there are countless sunken Yin souls in here. Once you have to cross this black lake to collect the Underworld Soul Flower. Then these Yin Souls will be awakened at the first opportunity, and even all of them will rush towards you. This is more than several times more terrifying than the Yin Soul Chute. There are ghost cultivators present in the Ghost Mist Graveyard, just look at this flower that is still there even today, and you will know how terrifying it is.” Fearing that Ning Cheng would not be clear, Yin Kongchan explained once again.