163: Like strangers

After thinking it over carefully, Shen Guyan decided to stay for the time being and informed Leng Yaozhu of his thoughts through the azure dragon imprint.

"What about Yu Lai? What does your survival have to do with me? I only want my younger sister to break free from this organization," Leng Yaozhu said, gritting her teeth.

"Do you really think the Holy Spirit Cult is a place you can just come and go as you please?" Shen Guyan said, somewhat speechless. "In your sister's memories, she has long since handed over her essence blood to the Holy Spirit Cult. Even if she could rely on her Super Douluo cultivation to withstand the Blood Demon Curse Kill, she is very likely to be harmed by other means used by the Holy Spirit Cult."

"W-what, did, you, say?" Leng Yaozhu's voice rose by several decibels instantly. In the Spirit Pagoda, there were relevant records regarding the Dark Blood Demon.

"Why didn't you say so sooner!"

Forty years ago, the Dark Blood Demon was already a rank 97 Super Douluo, a particularly wicked existence among the Evil Soul Masters. Back then, after his Spirit Awakening, he was even once considered someone without a Spirit.

The Blood Demon lost both parents when he was young and was raised by his grandfather. By the time he was eight, his grandfather also passed away due to illness. It was precisely when his grandfather passed away that his life's journey began to change.

On the very day his grandfather died, the Blood Demon's Spirit, which had long since awakened but whose nature was completely unknown to him, suddenly manifested on its own. Then, the Blood Demon saw his Spirit, which looked like a puff of air, suddenly make a sucking motion toward his grandfather's corpse and actually pull out his Soul after death!

The six-year-old Blood Demon even seemed to hear his grandfather's scream, yet he understood nothing himself. This was also the first time his Spirit appeared: it was a hideous existence, like a vengeful Spirit, looking like a puff of air, but after devouring his grandfather's Soul, it manifested a faint layer of red, finally making its main body vaguely visible.

The young Blood Demon was stunned on the spot. Later, after many twists and turns, he realized that this energy was Soul Power. And devouring his grandfather's Soul had granted him rank 1 Soul Power.

As a result, with his already flawed personality, his first reaction was actually that this was a gift left to him by his grandfather. Having Soul Power made him ecstatic.

After that, he went to find an Elementary Spirit Master Academy and was allowed to join because he possessed Soul Power. However, he soon discovered that all the cultivation methods of Spirit Masters, including meditation and the like, were not suitable for him at all. His pitiful rank 1 Soul Power showed no improvement even after half a year of cultivation.

Later, he was ruthlessly expelled by the school because he truly could not increase his Soul Power by even a bit.

As a result, he eventually recalled the situation when he first acquired Soul Power. He went to find a funeral home, lingered there for a period of time, and finally had a Breakthrough.

Whenever someone died, he would take the initiative to get close and sense them. Through experimentation, he discovered that he had no reaction to those who had been dead for a long time before being sent to the funeral home, but if it was someone who had just died and was sent there, he could sense the difference immediately and would absorb power from them.

What was terrifying was that in less than a month, his Soul Power increased to the level of rank 10, as if he were riding a rocket.

This speed was truly terrifying!

He had no money to buy a spirit soul, so he could only continue to go to the funeral home to devour Souls every day. After about another month, his body actually condensed a spirit ring on its own, which also gave him his first Spirit Ability—Soul Devouring.

He used others' essence blood to Cultivate his Demonic Technique. Each time he cultivated, it required hundreds of human lives, and his cultivation was extremely strange. Back then, Yun Ming and Yali had encountered him. The Sky Pillar Douluo had originally killed him, but for some reason, he did not actually die.

The Blood Demon Curse Kill was his specialty, and it was specifically used to control Blood Servants. Every person he wanted to control would have a drop of essence blood extracted, thereby leaving a mark. Even if they were a thousand or ten thousand miles away, as long as he wanted to, he could control their life and death instantly. It was strange and evil...

Now that Leng Yulai had only just broken through to Super Douluo not long ago, she was far inferior to the Dark Blood Demon. After all, the difficulty of increasing each rank of Soul Power after becoming a Super Douluo was as hard as ascending to the heavens!

This also meant that if Leng Yulai insisted on breaking free from the Holy Spirit Cult, she would likely be in mortal danger when facing the Dark Blood Demon's Spirit Ability!

"I'm going down to chop up the Dark Blood Demon!" Upon thinking of her sister's situation, Leng Yaozhu immediately wanted to go down, regardless of the consequences.

"Hey, hey, hey—" Shen Guyan had no choice but to activate the azure dragon mask's ability remotely again to immobilize Leng Yaozhu. "Don't be impulsive. If you go down there so recklessly all by yourself, there is a high probability you will be killed in seconds. I will find a way to deal with Leng Yulai's essence blood."

"You?" Leng Yaozhu's tone turned cold. "Even if you are highly valued by the Holy Spirit Cult, the Dark Blood Demon wouldn't hand over Yu Lai's essence blood to you, right? At worst, I'll go find Shrek and the War God Hall and wipe out this Holy Spirit Cult headquarters in one go!"

"Big sister, is your brain really not working, or are you pretending it's not? The Holy Spirit Cult has been able to remain active in the shadows; heaven knows how many secret lines they have laid out within the Federation? The mere cooperation between Qiangu Dongfeng and them is enough to prove the extent to which they have developed today."

"The cooperation between Qiangu Dongfeng and them?" When Leng Yaozhu heard this, her whole body couldn't help but tremble. Qiangu Dongfeng had been pursuing her for so many years, and everyone knew it, implicitly or explicitly. Qiangu Dongfeng naturally also knew the status Leng Yulai held in her heart. With the clear possibility of helping her find her sister, Qiangu Dongfeng had actually chosen to hide it from her...

For a moment, Leng Yaozhu felt completely disheartened. Her beautiful body swayed in the wind and snow. She suddenly felt that the once bright and glorious Spirit Pagoda was so strange and filthy...

"Don't go back to the Spirit Pagoda." Seeing her in this state, Shen Guyan suddenly spoke.

"Heh, you want me to do things for you? Little ambitious schemer." Leng Yaozhu sneered. Even this young man who had taken her body felt incomparably strange to her.

"I promise you, I will help you get Leng Yulai back." Shen Guyan could hear the detachment in Leng Yaozhu's tone, so he had to take a deep breath and say solemnly.

Leng Yaozhu smiled miserably: "And the conditions? What do you want me to do for you?"

"You need to rush back now, return to my Separate Courtyard in Hailu City, and tell Shen Guhong to inform and report that I am also here. Next, those Vicious Beasts led by Di Tian are very likely to launch another attack on the Shen Family. Just in case, at the critical moment, hand over the Qiong..."