264: Harvest another wave of items

Xiao Shi was slightly surprised by this.

He hadn't expected this black furnace to be so fragile... He had thought that with the extraordinary nature of this black furnace, it would surely be very sturdy, so he directly unleashed the strongest killing move this Clone currently possessed!

A powerful killing move formed by combining Entering Martial Realm stick techniques, Qi Martial Realm axe techniques, and Blood Martial Realm sword techniques!

Besides its astonishing power,

the greatest advantage of this killing move was that it could be cast from a long distance.

Now, with the black furnace shattered,

the contents within the furnace also appeared in Xiao Shi's sight.

He clearly saw that

what was inside the furnace was a piece of black flesh.

The entire piece of black flesh was about forearm-length, with skin as black as ink, and dark green blood vessels protruding in lumps.

Black Qi, like black smoke, lingered above the flesh.

Although it was just a piece of flesh, it made Xiao Shi feel as if he was being targeted by a powerful, ferocious creature.

The surrounding air became viscous at this moment, and Xiao Shi felt like an old ox fallen into a mud pit, possessing a strong physique but unable to move a single step.

Cold sweat trickled down his cheeks.

This piece of black flesh brought him an extremely strong sense of oppressive danger.

"The black furnace was merely an ordinary container; what's truly terrifying is this piece of flesh within the furnace!"

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

He felt an incredibly evil and bloody aura emanating from this black flesh.

It was like the source of all evil.

Moreover, the rank of this flesh was very high.

This was still when he was at a certain distance from the black flesh.

Even so,

he was unable to move under the aura lock of the black flesh.

If he were too close... his situation would definitely be worse!

The aura lingering around the black flesh contracted and expanded, as if breathing.

And gradually began to emit a suction force.

Drawing Xiao Shi closer step by step.

"It wants to devour me!"

Xiao Shi's pupils constricted slightly.

He couldn't move now, only allowing himself to be slowly pulled in by the suction force emanating from the black flesh.

Just as Xiao Shi felt the danger,

suddenly, a fluctuation came from his Soul.

It was a craving for the black flesh.

At the same time the black flesh wanted to devour him, his Soul also sent out a craving to eat the black flesh.

This craving... didn't just appear in his Clone.

His main body had an even stronger craving.

So much so that he couldn't continue to Cultivate and comprehend the Formation.

And this craving mainly originated from the Crimson Tiger Lineage within his Soul!

Xiao Shi frowned at this.

"If it were my main body, I might have a chance to devour this black flesh using the Crimson Tiger power..."

"But with the Clone's situation, it might not be possible."

Xiao Shi knew deeply.

His Clone was not a complete Soul after all.

The power of the Crimson Tiger Lineage it possessed might not be enough to support him in devouring it.

But at this point,

he could only take a gamble.

As the distance between them continuously closed,

Xiao Shi could more clearly feel the evil and terror of the black flesh ahead.

At the same time, his entire Soul also boiled, spontaneously erupting in a low tiger roar.

Just as Xiao Shi was about to enter the black flesh's devouring range.

Buzz!

An indescribably terrifying power suddenly descended from above.

Xiao Shi's pulled body paused, and his restrained body instantly regained its freedom.

He instinctively looked up.

And saw... a figure suspended above his head.

It was Xiang Zizhen!

Xiang Zizhen looked down at the black flesh below.

Slowly descending from the air.

His appearance directly caused the black flesh to be powerfully suppressed, and the black aura lingering around the black flesh was all suppressed and retracted into the flesh, allowing Xiao Shi to regain his movement.

Xiang Zizhen carefully scrutinized Xiao Shi, and only relaxed after seeing that he was unharmed.

At the same time, he noticed the corpses of those killed by Xiao Shi nearby.

He was slightly surprised.

Xiao Shi's strength... was even greater than he had previously estimated.

Most importantly,

even after killing these people, there were still no signs of him falling into the Demonic Path!

"Well done."

He praised.

"Thank you, Warden, for your rescue."

Xiao Shi said gratefully.

Although he felt that he might not necessarily be devoured by the black flesh, and it was possible that he would devour the black flesh instead.

But no matter what,

the other party's appearance at this time had ostensibly saved his life.

At the same time, he was very curious about the origin of this black flesh, and took this opportunity to ask, puzzled.

"What is this black flesh?"

Xiang Zizhen looked at the black flesh.

And said in a deep voice.

"A piece of 'Demon' flesh!"

"Demon?"

Xiao Shi was startled.

"You can understand 'Demon' as a powerful and special Realm, similar to a Saint in the Martial Dao system."

"For the Demonic Cultivators within the various Demonic Path forces, what they pursue is to become a Demon!"

Xiang Zizhen said.

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

Although he had known all along that

the Demonic Cultivators of the Demonic Path forces had a different system from the Orthodox Faction.

However, there was no difference in terms of Realms between the two.

At least in the lower three Realms, the names of the Realms were exactly the same for both.

But as the Realms advanced, it seemed that there would be significant differences in the later Realms.

Now, Xiao Shi learned from Xiang Zizhen that the Demonic Path forces did not have the Saint Realm.

Their Saint Realm was called 'Demon'!

"Are there any Demons in our Star Luo Territory?"

Xiao Shi then asked.

Since a Demon was comparable to a Saint,

then in terms of combat power, it certainly wouldn't be inferior to a Saint.

Considering that the Demonic Path forces occupied nearly half of Star Luo Province, Xiao Shi felt that there might very well be Demons in Star Luo Province.

However, Xiang Zizhen shook his head.

"No."

"If there were Demons in Star Luo Territory, then the current Star Luo Territory would be dominated by Demonic Path forces."

"However..."

"A Demon once appeared in Star Luo Territory back then! This piece of flesh... is very likely one of the pieces of flesh from that Demon."

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

Just a piece of flesh.

It gave him a feeling as if there was life within this piece of flesh.

Just this alone allowed him to initially grasp the terror of a Demon!

But what he wanted to know now was... what was the relationship between the Crimson Tiger Lineage, or rather, the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect, and Demons?

This was a doubt that had existed since he first realized that the Cultivation method of the Crimson Tiger Lineage was not a pure Righteous Path Cultivation method, but one that was between the Righteous Path and the Demonic Path.

This time... his Soul even experienced a craving to devour this piece of Demon flesh.

There must be some connection between the two.

It was just that with his current identity, he definitely couldn't ask Xiang Zizhen this question.

"Xiang Zizhen and I are both from the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect. Does he also have this craving to devour this piece of flesh?"

Xiao Shi subtly glanced at Xiang Zizhen.

A thought suddenly rose in his mind.

He pondered that if he were to condense a Soul Seal on Xiang Zizhen... then through this Soul Seal, he could sense Xiang Zizhen's Soul fluctuations, thereby obtaining the answer.

At the same time, with the Soul Seal observing Xiang Zizhen,

it would also be more conducive to his investigation of him.

There were actually two types of Soul Seal condensation.

One was for observation.

The other was for inflicting damage.

If it was a Soul Seal used for observation, it would actually be very difficult to detect.

Xiao Shi didn't need to worry about being discovered by the other party.

As a Heaven Rank Secret Skill, if a Soul Seal didn't have enough concealment, it certainly wouldn't live up to its Heaven Rank title.

Thinking of this,

Xiao Shi didn't hesitate, and subtly condensed a Soul Seal in Xiang Zizhen's mind without a trace.

To ensure foolproofness,

he condensed this Soul Consciousness extremely covertly.

And from Xiang Zizhen's expression,

he didn't detect any abnormality either.

Whoosh!

The moment the Soul Seal condensed and formed,

Xiao Shi immediately genuinely felt Xiang Zizhen's Soul fluctuations.

Through the other party's Soul fluctuations, he could accurately grasp their most true emotions, reactions, etc.

Even if the surface disguise was perfect, the Soul fluctuations could not be faked.

At this moment, Xiao Shi discovered... Xiang Zizhen's Soul fluctuations were far from as calm as he appeared on the surface.

His Soul fluctuations were extremely intense.

But he was forcefully suppressing them.

"Indeed!"

"He, like me, also wants to devour this piece of Demon flesh!"

Xiao Shi confirmed this in his heart.

At this time, Xiang Zizhen had completely suppressed this piece of Demon flesh.

He reached out and grabbed it.

And directly took away this piece of flesh.

However, the Soul fluctuations in his mind were still strong.

Immediately after,

with Xiang Zizhen's intervention, the other three Prison Guards also successively defeated and captured the Martial Soul Realm Demonic Cultivators they were fighting.

This operation was quite thrilling but ultimately safe for them.

No one had expected... these Demonic Cultivators to actually possess a piece of Demon flesh!

After they completed the arrests and returned to their stronghold within the Demonic Path forces' territory.

Xiang Zizhen began to arrange for some Prison Guards to be responsible for escorting these captured prisoners back to the prison.

Xiao Shi was among them.

Although he only captured two Martial Soul Realm Demonic Cultivators this time,

others had captured many.

Now, they would collectively escort all these prisoners back to the prison, and Xiao Shi planned to use the merits he earned this time to exchange for a few more prisoners from the prison.

The escort journey was calm and uneventful.

After successfully returning to the prison,

Xiao Shi immediately used his merits to successfully exchange for four Soul Awakening Stage prisoners.

He didn't hesitate at all.

He decisively killed all four of these Soul Awakening Stage prisoners.

Adding the eight Soul Awakening Stage Demonic Cultivators and one Soul Consciousness Stage Demonic Cultivator he had killed previously,

the items dropped this time amounted to thirteen!

"Nice haul!"

At Wangchen Inn.

Xiao Shi's main body licked his lips excitedly.

He began to examine the gains from this trip.

The first thing he checked

was the item dropped after killing that Soul Consciousness Stage Demonic Cultivator.

[Name: Soul Evasion Pearl]

[Type: Pearl]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: This is a pearl that, once activated, can prevent Soul Consciousness detection.]

[Remark: When activated, it will last for three minutes. It can be activated a total of three times.]

...It must be said.

Avoiding Soul Consciousness detection was undoubtedly an extremely powerful ability.

But being usable only three times

somewhat lowered the grade of this item.

However, the good thing was... this item didn't require one to reach the Soul Consciousness Stage to use; Xiao Shi could use it now.

It was still pretty good.

"Next are the Soul Awakening Stage items."

Xiao Shi took out the remaining items.

[Name: Ferocious Soul Ancient Sword]

[Type: Weapon]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: An ancient sword containing a ferocious Soul, which can unleash more powerful strength through the internal ferocious Soul.]

[Remark: In desperate situations, the ferocious Soul can also be detonated to form a powerful strike.]

...Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

This was clearly a Martial Soul Realm weapon.

The biggest characteristic of Martial Soul Realm weapons was that they often contained a weapon spirit within them!

It was just that these weapon spirits generally had no sentience.

weapon spirits that developed sentience were no longer called weapon spirits, but Weapon Spirits.

Like Xiao Shi's Evil Blade.

The reason it could release Evil Qi shockwaves was because there was an Evil Soul within the Evil Blade.

"With this Martial Soul Realm sword, I believe that when I use sword techniques and the combined killing move of the three weapon techniques, the power will be further enhanced to a greater extent."

"If I could get another Martial Soul Realm long staff and a Martial Soul Realm axe..."

"Then my combat power could be further improved!"

Xiao Shi continued to look at the subsequent items.

[Name: Soul Healing Pill (Rare)]

[Type: Medicinal Pill]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: A Medicinal Pill that can heal the Soul.]

[Remark: If used too much, the healing effect will decrease.]

...[Name: Soul Incitement Talisman]

[Type: Talisman]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: After use, it can stimulate more Soul Power in a short period.]

[Remark: However, in the subsequent period, one will fall into exhaustion.]

...[Name: Soul Stabilization Talisman]

[Type: Talisman]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: After use, it can stabilize one's Soul to the greatest extent.]

[Remark: However, if encountering excessively strong power or powerful individuals, it may become ineffective.]

...[Name: Soul Measurement Talisman]

[Type: Talisman]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: Through one's own Soul Power, one can perform a recent Soul measurement.]

[Remark: It can measure whether the Soul will be damaged recently, thereby understanding recent fortune and misfortune.]

...Xiao Shi looked at these four items.

He felt that the quality of the items dropped this time was far inferior to the previous time.

Fortunately, the quantity was quite large.

At the same time, he could choose to put these relatively ordinary items into the purple treasure plate, convert them into corresponding value points, and then exchange them for other better items from the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

He was just thinking that now that he had achieved a Breakthrough to the Martial Soul Realm,

it was time to exchange for a batch of items at the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

But before that,

he should first check what items were dropped afterwards.

He looked at the seventh item.

[Name: Three Soul Control Methods (Heaven Rank)]

[Type: Secret Skill]

[Grade: Martial Soul Grade]

[Description: A powerful Secret Skill of unknown origin, corresponding to three Secret Methods, each allowing one to Cultivate a Secret Method in the Soul Awakening Stage, Soul Consciousness Stage, and Life Soul Stage, respectively.]

[Remark: Requires a sufficiently powerful Soul to Cultivate; if one's own Soul is not strong enough, there will be a risk of Soul annihilation.]

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