27: Soul Silk Magic Artifact

"The Earth Vein grade has increased? How could this happen?"

"The Mysterious-grade Earth Vein illusion realm not only has a skyrocketing difficulty, but once failed, the damage to the Divine Soul is far more severe than the Yellow-grade.

If there are no Heaven And Earth Treasure for nourishing the soul to recover from the injuries, one's path of Dao might be severed right here."

"Damn it, an Earth Vein illusion realm of this level is simply not something a Martial Artist of the Xiantian Realm should be participating in."

The examinees in various places complained in unison.

"The Earth Vein grade has increased? This is bad, I need to rendezvous with Old Su as soon as possible."

Inside the Rogue Market, the monk White Gold did not change his love for eating meat; he was currently tearing at a fragrant roasted chicken, but now his expression was grave, and he hurriedly threw away the chicken leg in his hand.

Water Moon Sect.

Dressed in white, Chen Yanran's beautiful eyes revealed a hint of shock: "Mysterious-grade. Could it be that someone used methods to stimulate the Earth Vein here?"

She touched the scabbard at her waist, her heart settling slightly.

Outside.

Yue Tuyao's eyes widened, his face showing shock, as he watched the Earth Vein Qi continuously pour in, and the Earth Vein flower on the drill ground rapidly grew larger.

"The Earth Vein has mutated, this is bad!"

At this moment, outside the Sword Worshipping Manor, Guo Huai stood on an ancient tree, his expression crazed: "Mysterious-grade? Hahaha, heaven helps me.

Dying in the illusion realm and suffering heavy damage to the Divine Soul means this person will never be able to step into the God Observation Realm in their entire life."

Clang—

A crescent moon was slashed out, cutting an Iron Rhinoceros Demon into two halves, and the demon blood splattered onto Li Jiangchen's face, appearing eerie and demonic.

"Strange. The attack methods of this group of demons have suddenly become orderly and organized, unlike before, as if someone is directing them from behind..."

Li Jiangchen's expression was grave.

Casting a Peerless Grade Dao technique to maintain the Demon Kingdom consumed a massive amount of Innate True Qi, and at this moment, less than thirty percent of the True Qi remained in his body.

He hurriedly swallowed a Medicinal Pill for Qi recovery, quickly digesting the medicinal power; as the pill dissolved, the True Qi in his body rose to fifty percent.

"Taking too many Medicinal Pills will cause the True Qi in the body to become impure, and its quality will decline.

I must kill the demon herd as soon as possible."

At this moment, a sound like silver bells came to his ears.

"Master. This subordinate has discovered the source of this group of demons."

Inside the Demon Kingdom, Ancient Spirit slapped a Heart-Eating Wolf over, came before Li Jiangchen, and placed her fair palm on his shoulder.

Instantly, the scene before Li Jiangchen's eyes changed.

The originally fierce demon herd actually had tiny, imperceptible Soul Thread growing from the tops of their heads, stretching into the distance.

"What are these Soul Thread? They can actually control demons?" Li Jiangchen asked, puzzled.

"Reporting to Master, these are Soul Thread, the product of refining a large number of soul. Under the blessing of secret techniques, Soul Thread can control the minds of living beings.

This was originally a method used by the great demons of my Ancient Demon Clan to control demons," Ancient Spirit said, word by word.

"So that's how it is." Li Jiangchen looked toward the end of the Soul Thread, where a massive amount of Soul Thread converged into one; the mastermind was right there.

"Get on my back."

To share vision, physical contact was required.

"Yes."

Ancient Spirit leaped up and rode on Li Jiangchen's back.

In the next moment, Li Jiangchen's aura was restrained to the extreme, and he flashed through the air repeatedly, disappearing from where he stood.

"Strange, where did that person go?" Guo Huai's eyes were scarlet, and he suddenly clutched his head, a look of pain appearing on his face.

"Damn it, the number of demons being controlled this time is too high, it's reaching the limit."

Whoosh—

Beside an ancient tree, Li Jiangchen's figure appeared.

"Unexpectedly, it was this person controlling the demons from the shadows." Li Jiangchen's gaze was cold as he looked at Guo Huai in the distance.

In a Mysterious-grade Earth Vein illusion realm, once one dies, the Divine Soul suffers heavy damage, and the path of Dao might be severed.

"This person has brought death upon himself."

Life and death between his palms, the Demon Kingdom bloomed, instantly encompassing Guo Huai. Before he could react, a crescent moon Sword Qi swept past.

Pfft!

Guo Huai only felt the scene before his eyes rapidly changing, his body becoming light, his head thrown high, and Li Jiangchen's figure reflected in his pupils.

"It's... you."

The next moment, his body dissipated rapidly like shattered mirror shards.

"What is that?" Li Jiangchen noticed half of a cyan jade pendant remaining on the ground. With a suction from his palm, the jade pendant fell into his hand.

"As expected, it is a Magical Artifact condensed from Soul Thread." Ancient Spirit said pleasantly surprised: "The crafter's methods are not bad; with twelve Restriction, they were actually able to simulate the methods of my Ancient Demon Clan."

"This thing has a Divine Soul Restriction and cannot be used." Li Jiangchen tried to scour it with Sword Intent, only to feel that the Restriction within this half of the jade pendant was like a great mountain, difficult to shake.

"Do you have a way?"

Ancient Spirit reached out and took it, a mass of gray Death Qi appearing between her palms. The Death Qi seeped into the jade pendant, and the jade pendant burst with light, seemingly resisting the infiltration of the Death Qi.

After a few breaths, cold sweat seeped from Ancient Spirit's forehead, and her pretty face turned pale.

"This subordinate is incompetent; this Restriction is too powerful, and the amount of Death Qi in Ancient Spirit's hands is too little to break through it."

Hearing this, Li Jiangchen nodded and put away the jade pendant.

Fortunately, without Guo Huai's control, the demon herd fell into chaos; even though their strength had increased, the threat had decreased.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a field of demon corpses was left outside the Sword Worshipping Manor.

"Many thanks to the Personal Guard for saving us." The master of the Sword Worshipping Manor cupped his fists in thanks.

"It is nothing. I am merely following the orders of Lord Yue Lou to come and provide support." Li Jiangchen's gaze flickered, and he saw a familiar face.

At this moment, Su Jiansheng recognized Li Jiangchen.

"Let's step aside to talk."

The two tacitly came under a tree.

"The Earth Vein grade has increased; dying here once means being crippled in reality." Su Jiansheng smiled bitterly.

"This is the map of the Demon Lair detected by Cangyuan City." As he spoke, Li Jiangchen took out the copied sand table map, which marked the number of Demon Lair outside Cangyuan City.

"So many!" Su Jiansheng exclaimed.

"I once killed a Demon Lair and discovered that the Demon Lair leader was suspected to be controlled by a great demon's soul fragment. If we gather the strength of all the examinees to clear out these Demon Lair, the scale of the demon tide invasion on the tenth day will also be significantly smaller. The greater our chances of surviving."

"Good." Su Jiansheng nodded: "This identity is the Young Lord of the Sword Worshipping Manor, and I have wide connections. I have some relations with rogue cultivators and Sects. I imagine other examinees are among them. I will be the one to contact them."

"In that case, I leave it to you." Li Jiangchen cupped his fists.

At present, the Earth Vein has mutated, which is not something a single person can contend with; only by the concerted efforts of the examinees is there any hope.

Three days later.

Cangyuan City.

The demons retreated like a tide, leaving behind a ground full of corpses.

"This demon tide is appearing more and more frequently." Li Jiangchen sighed and swallowed a Medicinal Pill for Qi recovery.

At this moment, the True Qi in his body was no longer as pure as before; it had become impure, and the power of his sword techniques had also declined along with it.

However, the Demon Kingdom had absorbed a massive amount of demon soul, numbering over one hundred thousand, and its power was rising steadily.

At this moment, Yue Lou walked over. After many days of intense fighting, his face revealed the weariness of time: "Another Rogue Market has been overrun by demons. Li Yuan, go. See how many more people you can save."

Within three days, more than half of the Personal Guard around Yue Lou had been lost, and the only one who remained uninjured was Li Jiangchen.

"Understood."

A moment later, Li Jiangchen arrived at the Rogue Market. The smell of blood permeated the air, and flesh and blood were piled up as if laying a carpet on the ground; there was not a single sign of a living person left.

Suddenly, Ancient Spirit's voice came to his ears.

"Master, beneath that pile of corpses, there is Death Qi that can be refined."

Hearing this, Li Jiangchen raised an eyebrow.

If he could obtain more Death Qi and break through the Divine Soul Restriction of the jade pendant, he would have an additional trump card in his hand.