Chapter 998: Shadow Soul Tribulation
"You, you're an immortal!" Catcher's face changed drastically, and his face was instantly covered with cold sweat.
He didn't know how much Nie Chen's cultivation was, but as long as the immortals existed, it wasn't something they could touch.
The most important thing is that in their hearts, the immortals are moody and regard human life as a mustard. Offending them is equivalent to stepping into the underworld with half a foot, and your life will be in danger at any time.
"Don't be afraid, I have no intention of harming you. Nie Chen chuckled, comforted a few people, and asked again, "During this time, you have also done a lot of investigations, you should have gained something, right?"
"Back to the immortals, we don't have any clues. It is because of this that we are anxious and come to the immortals to investigate. ”
"Isn't there something out of the ordinary?"
"Anomalous ......" Catcher thought for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "When we were searching outside the city, we found some gray powder in a deep ditch.
After the powder was identified, it was guessed that it was the ashes of an animal that had been incinerated by an animal. If anything is out of the ordinary, these should be the only discoveries.
However, he once said that those ashes have been around for a long time, and it was decades ago to make less of them. We ignored the matter and did not pursue it further. ”
"Give me the specific location. Nie Chen commanded.
"100 miles south of the city, under Bailian Mountain. ”
"Okay, I got it. You go back first, this is a strange matter, and you can't handle it. Go back and tell you the county order, and don't send anyone to track it down. Nie Chen commanded.
That existence, which could take people away without Nie Chen noticing, was at least an existence of a heavenly immortal or even a god realm. With such an existence, where can these catchers be touched, they can only be sent to death if they are tracked down.
"We see, thanks to the immortals. The catcher thanked him, regained his freedom, and hurried away with his men.
Nie Chen got up and rushed out of the city. The divine envoy then followed, leaving Gu Feng alone. Nie Chen's cultivation is far superior to Gu Feng, there is no need for him to follow and protect. On the contrary, here, Gu Feng was worried that there would be any further changes, so he stayed for a little monitoring.
Nie Chen was not familiar with this place, but Bai Lianshan had been there once. It was a year ago, during the local Duanyang Festival, I went to play with my parents and others.
Revisiting the old place, it was easy for Nie Chen to find that deep ditch. In one of the corners, a large amount of gray powder was found. This is a lot of people, and Nie Chen guessed that it would take a thousand people to be able to reach such a scale.
Spreading out his spiritual sense, Nie Chen searched around and soon made a discovery. In the depths of these ashes, there is a black bead, which is emitting this faint fluctuation of breath.
This breath, Nie Chen is quite familiar, it is black magic.
"This place, how can there be black magic!" Nie Chen wondered in his heart, and with a casual move, he took the bead in his hand.
Of course, before touching it, Nie Chen used the power of magic to transform the mist and cleanse the master. After all, it was something buried in the ashes, and Nie Chen didn't want to touch it easily.
With the bead in his hand, Nie Chen probed into his spiritual sense to search for a little and found that this was an ordinary spiritual bead. The black magic contained in it is not too strong. Even if it is absorbed by ordinary Jindan monks, it is difficult to have much effect.
"This bead should not be the key to the death of these people. Then how did these ashes appear?" Nie Chen wondered in his heart.
After a little silence, Nie Chen pushed forward with one hand and directly cast the art of time. With a radius of ten zhang, time quickly rewinded, and everything that happened before turned into pictures and appeared in front of Nie Chen.
Nie Chen checked them one by one, and soon found what he was looking for in these pictures. It was a black phantom, bringing a large number of people here, sucking their Shouyuan soul power and even flesh and blood.
After being devoured by him, the bodies of those innocent people withered, and finally only white bones remained. The white bones fell to the ground, and the moment they touched the ground, they directly turned into ashes and piled up under this deep ditch.
The most recent time this phantom has appeared has been no more than ten days, and the longest is only a few months. The previous judgment of time was obviously a mistake.
There's no way around it, that's just a mortal after all. It's too difficult for him to judge this kind of weird thing by experience.
The murderer was found, but Nie Chen still didn't have many clues. The phantom seemed to emerge from nothingness, unable to find out where he came from or where he was going.
"I know this thing. Just as Nie Chen was thinking, the divine envoy suddenly spoke.
Nie Chen was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at the divine envoy: "Do you know what this thing is?"
"It's a strange beast called Shadow Soul. It is a strange beast born out of nothingness, devouring flesh and blood to grow and reproduce. Its appearance represents destruction, and this realm may not be able to be saved. The oracle explained.
"What does it mean to not be able to keep it?" Nie Chen was puzzled.
"This thing appears, and after devouring living beings, it will multiply quickly. It has special abilities that make it difficult for even monks to kill them. The end result will only make them more and more until they swallow the whole world. ”
"This thing has been around before?"
The oracle nodded: "A thousand years ago, it appeared once. That realm lasted for a hundred years, and finally became dead. ”
"You didn't make a move?" Nie Chen said curiously.
"I did, but there were too many of them. I tried my best, but I couldn't stop them for ten years. Ten years later, their numbers have skyrocketed, and they are beyond my capabilities. All I can do is take away some of the creatures within it and give them a chance to survive. ”
"So powerful!" Nie Chen was a little surprised, "What about your master, if he makes a move, won't he be able to stop it?"
"Master......" the oracle sighed, "if the master had intervened, he would have been able to stop the catastrophe." It's just that a small world, which is not worth the master's hand at all. ”
"So, your master directly abandoned the creatures of that realm!Okay, ruthless enough!" Nie Chen shook his head, a little incomprehensible.
Even if there are thousands of worlds, Burning Sky doesn't care about just one boundary. But this is his own territory after all, and he is so indifferent and abandoned, Nie Chen still feels a chill in his heart. Such a person is too indifferent.
Regarding Nie Chen's evaluation, the divine envoy remained silent. Although in his heart, he agreed with Nie Chen's evaluation very much. But after all, it was his master, and he didn't dare to be disrespectful in the slightest.
"And then, where did those shadow spirits go, didn't they spread to other worlds?"
The divine envoy shook his head: "The characteristics of the shadow soul, after devouring a realm, will lurk into nothingness. I don't know exactly where it went. ”
"Then when they appear in this realm, does your master still don't care?" Nie Chen asked.