parentshiftbook Chapter 1518 - 1365: The Younger Brother Is the Villain 62
Chapter 1518 - 1365: The Younger Brother Is the Villain 62
Su Hua was captured by the Blood Demon Venerable Master for the longest time. Being an Out-of-Body Stage Cultivator, Su Hua possessed immense combat strength; the Blood Demon Venerable Master had to put in a lot of effort initially.In the end, the Blood Demon Venerable Master relied on his own Transcendence Tribulation Stage spiritual power, wearing Su Hua down until her spiritual energy was exhausted to finally capture her.
Such a powerful Out-of-Body Stage Cultivator, the Blood Demon Venerable Master naturally couldn’t bear to let Su Hua die so easily; he had to utilize her fully.
The Blood Demon Venerable Master has always wanted to refine Su Hua into a yin soul under his control, but unfortunately, Su Hua’s willpower is strong; no matter how much the Blood Demon Venerable Master tortured her, she did not collapse.
That’s why it’s rare to find yin souls of Out-of-Body Stage Cultivators. As long as their will doesn’t collapse, their souls can’t be killed or collected, thus, the Blood Demon Venerable Master never struck a fatal blow on Su Hua.
After Nie Shuangshuang rescued everyone, she told them to stay put while she searched the place, planning to take them back to the Heavenly Mechanism Sect and arrange for someone to send them back to their own sects.
Earlier, when Nie Shuangshuang confronted the Blood Demon Venerable Master, those evil cultivators who had been capturing people under the Master’s orders had already realized something was wrong and fled.
Nie Shuangshuang was concerned that if there were any bold ones waiting on the road to ambush, it would be troublesome since these cultivators had been tormented for so long, their combat abilities greatly diminished. It was safer for her to personally escort them to ensure their safety.
Su Hua, who had been there for a long time and suffered numerous relocations by the Blood Demon Venerable Master, knew a lot about the layout. Seeing Nie Shuangshuang wanted to inspect the surroundings, she volunteered to lead the way for her.
On the way, Su Hua shared some information she knew with Nie Shuangshuang: "Immortal Master Nie, the Blood Demon Venerable Master has been capturing people and constantly torturing them while collecting their blood.
After a tortured cultivator dies, their soul is placed into a Spirit-locking Ball to continue the torment.
Only when the soul is tormented to the point of being filled with resentful energy and aggression, does the Blood Demon Venerable Master collect these resentful yin soul wraiths into his ocean of blood to use as weapons."
As Su Hua spoke, she led Nie Shuangshuang into a huge stone cave, larger than the blood pool cave Su Hua was previously in.
In this massive stone cave, an estimated several thousand black, fist-sized spheres floated in mid-air.
These were the Spirit-locking Balls Su Hua had mentioned, used to trap and torture souls, a necessary handheld magic treasure for evil cultivators.
Nie Shuangshuang hadn’t entered yet but already heard the incessant, shrill screams emitting from these Spirit-locking Balls, the sound was piercing and made one feel irritable from deep within.
Nie Shuangshuang took a deep breath, Thousand Silk Entanglement quickly emerged. At the fastest speed, she shattered and opened all the Spirit-locking Balls. As the balls broke, countless cultivators’ souls appeared in the stone cave.
Some souls were clear-headed, some confused, and some almost entirely lost consciousness, filled with resentful energy, and upon appearance began to stir aggressively towards Nie Shuangshuang and Su Hua, the living.
Su Hua looked at these yin souls, her face showed distress. She couldn’t help but summon a Seven-stringed Zither, seating herself cross-legged, with the instrument on her lap as her fingers strummed the strings, a Soul Soothing melody began to resonate.
Soul Soothing is a melody most often used by Buddhist Sect cultivators to peacefully guide souls, requiring extremely high yet also very low practice standards.
Low because, as long as the performer sincerely and wholeheartedly empathizes with the other, at that moment devoid of any distractions, forgets worldly things, it can be achieved.
High because of this requirement, where so-called absence of distractions demands the performer leaves no personal emotions intact, entirely dedicating their mind to enlightening the souls opposite, thus achieving Soul Soothing.
And meanwhile, the performer of Soul Soothing is actually completely undefended, entirely engrossed in playing the Soul Soothing melody, unaware even if an enemy approaches, making it prone to incidents.
That Su Hua could play Soul Soothing so swiftly after enduring long torture speaks undoubtedly to her unusual resilience and fortitude.
Once Su Hua played Soul Soothing several times, calming these yin souls, Nie Shuangshuang waved her hand, directly storing all these yin souls into Sleeve Universe.
Besides these yin souls, there wasn’t much left in this Illusion Realm; all of the Blood Demon Venerable Master’s scheming was actually directed at accumulating resentful energy and storing it in the Illusion Realm on the ground.
Determining that there were no errors, everything thoroughly checked, Nie Shuangshuang escorted the group out of the underground Illusion Realm, onto the Flying Magical Treasure, and returned with the cultivators to the Heavenly Mechanism Sect.
Simultaneously, Nie Shuangshuang had completely reported back everything that happened at Luofeng Mountain to the Four Great Immortal Sects; the matter of the Blood Demon Venerable Master was no trivial thing.
Such an evil cultivator, with Transcendence Tribulation Stage cultivation, wreaking havoc outside like a time bomb, could explode at any moment, turning the Cultivation World upside down, needing to be swiftly captured and ideally killed.
Additionally, the resentful energy stirred at Luofeng Mountain needs urgent resolution; this isn’t something the Heavenly Mechanism Sect can handle alone, prompting Nie Shuangshuang to relay the news to Feihua Valley, the Hundred Ghosts Alliance, and the Beast Taming Sect.
Thanks to Nie Shuangshuang’s message, before she arrived at the Heavenly Mechanism Sect, the sect, along with Feihua Valley, the Hundred Ghosts Alliance, and the Beast Taming Sect, had already dispatched cultivators to investigate Luofeng Mountain.
When Nie Shuangshuang reached the Heavenly Mechanism Sect, her father Nie Jinglin happened to be back, Nie Shuangshuang brought Feng Feiyu to meet Nie Jinglin, even if they couldn’t be acknowledged as father and son, they could be seen as a disciple grandson visiting the master.
Nie Jinglin was an elegant and handsome man, cultivation keeps one from aging, thus Nie Jinglin appeared as youthful as a teenager.
Especially when standing next to his perpetually cold and serious-faced daughter Nie Shuangshuang, he seemed younger than Nie Shuangshuang.
However, due to separation from a beloved wife and a son wandered and untraceable over time, Nie Jinglin’s face bore many melancholic traces, adding to his charm.
Seeing his daughter Nie Shuangshuang, Nie Jinglin was very pleased: "Shuangshuang is back, I’ve heard about this matter, our Shuangshuang is really formidable.
This time, not only did you accomplish another great achievement, you also broke through to the Transcendence Tribulation Stage. As your father, I’ll have a banquet prepared, celebrating my child becoming a Great Cultivator of the Transcendence Tribulation Stage."
Nie Shuangshuang was also very happy to see Nie Jinglin, but she was extremely busy nowadays, with no time for celebrations: "Father, please don’t trouble yourself, I’m just here to see you, I’ll be leaving soon.
When I left Luofeng Mountain, I brought many cultivators’ souls; after enduring long-term torture, they’ve been tainted with a lot of resentful energy at that place.
Though they haven’t had the chance to do misdeeds, the heavy resentful energy on them might prevent reincarnation.
I’m planning to take them on a visit to Wuwang Temple, asking Abbot Master Fakong to perform rituals to dispel the resentful energy from these souls before sending them to reincarnation."
Nie Jinglin nodded, indeed this was a priority, so he no longer mentioned hosting a banquet for Nie Shuangshuang to celebrate her breakthrough to the Transcendence Tribulation Stage, instead, he turned his gaze to Feng Feiyu.