Chapter 342: Soul Refinement
The Sea Dragon Prince was shocked, not because he was afraid, but because he looked at the strange man's face...... There is such an ugly monster in this world!
Clara was surprised and delighted, the strange man who came in was the fourth-ranked weird-faced Jason among the top ten pirate groups in the Abyss Sea, and his killing here meant that his disfigured pirate group had also arrived, but Clara was not sure if Jason had also come to rob her fleet......
"You come first!
The strange man seemed to sense the prince's unfriendly gaze, and slashed at the sea dragon prince.
This knife, when the knife came out, was simple and unpretentious, as if it was a reckless slash of an angry man, but more than half of the knife was out, the blade of the entire knife was trembling, and every tremor drove the knife momentum to change.
"Drink!" the prince's guard snapped and thrust into it, forcing him to block the knife for Prince Ulix, but with a thud, the guard's face was covered with knife marks, and blood continued to drip down.
"Your Royal Highness, retreat...... He wasn't the only one who came. β
"Hahaha, blocking the knife for someone is to be disfigured, just like me, like me, to die!"
Jason smiled strangely and slashed out again, this time, the changes in the blade were even more drastic, faintly visible knives, you can ignore the generals of any country, but definitely don't ignore a pirate group leader, each of them is a strong man killed in the bloody rain.
Outside the cabin, the Demon Wind Pirate Regiment, which was originally cleaning the battlefield, fell into a group fight at this time, and the nine Great Pirate Regiments jointly dispatched, hundreds of pirate warships were frantically attacking the Demon Wind Pirate Regiment, and even Carlos the Red Beard of the First Pirate Regiment sent ten warships and his lieutenant to come forward.
On the surface of the sea, the half palm that wanted to escape had been blocked by six ghost peak powerhouses.
The half-orc Saisis smiled brightly, "Half palm, half palm, I didn't expect that the person who was an undercover agent for the sea dragon clan would be you, wasn't your palm cut in half by the sea dragon?
"Phew!"
Half a palm spat out a mouthful of blood, "Phew, if you want to annex Lao Tzu, just say it, what excuse are you looking for, which of you doesn't have any background behind you?"
"The background can be there, the exchange of interests, everyone wants to live better, but you betrayed the information and sold the Iron Skull Island that everyone shipped to the Sea Dragon Clan, you are unforgivable. β
"Hahaha, Kira, don't say pretty things when you're a pirate, your sins are unforgivable?
Kira's face changed, "Nonsense, since that's the case, I don't need to give you a chance to defend myself, kill." β
Half a palm wants to blow itself up, and he has to pull a cushion back when he dies, but ...... The alliance of the six ghost peaks didn't give him a chance at all, Kira was the fastest, and at the moment when the half-palm was restrained by Sisis, one finger was inserted into the forehead of the half-palm, and the cold soul power instantly exploded his brain into pieces of broken ice.
Rumble......
In the distance, two figures burst out of the half-palmed warship, and the big madman Jason chased out with a shout, but the two people jumped into the sea in an instant, disappeared, and swung the strange face angrily, and the huge knife flashed, splitting a pirate ship that had surrendered next to it into two halves and sinking quickly.
"Damn, weird face, you've eaten too much chili pepper and spicy ass? This is all trophie! If you slash again, Lao Tzu will let you fish it all up!"
The half-orc Sisis was so angry that his beard was crooked, and he shouted loudly.
The strange face glared at Sisis angrily, and then laughed strangely: "You stinky orc, threaten Lao Tzu again! Lao Tzu must chop you with a hundred knives!"
Clara, who was tied up with a lot of flowers, turned her hand and was captured again.
For catching a mermaid, the pirate kings are a little unsure, and they can't sit still when they look at the harvest of robbing the mermaid fleet with half a palm.
"Half a palm, this miscellaneous news is really well-informed, I know that this batch of mermaids is flowing oil. β
The Nine Great Pirate Kings got together, and they didn't bother to avoid it, so they actually talked about it in front of Clara.
"There's also a whale girl who is locked in the bilge, and can't move after being hit with a potion, so she has a verbal deal with our Mayfair. β
"Chiefs, I am Princess Clara of the Sea of Heaven, thank you for your help......" Clara tried to struggle, but the pirates didn't care about her at all, Clara was also a little desperate, she really thought that she was going to do something with great fanfare, but it was not good to go out.
has done this, they don't care whether it is a mermaid princess or not, but a matter of benefit distribution.
"Baby, stop dreaming. The pirates laughed wildly, not only the pirate leader, but also the pirates on the side, all of whom were looking at Clara alive.
A woman who falls into the hands of pirates is more often worse than dead.
These gazes made Clara a little suffocated, she was not a banshee, once something happened, even if she went back alive, I am afraid that she would have no way to live, and a mermaid princess who had no reputation would have no value.
Clara's heart began to sink, a little desperate, here is really called the heaven should not be called the earth is not spiritual, and I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out.
Sisis was stunned, ignoring the excitement of the other pirates, "What did you say your name was?"
"Clara. Clara replied lightly, she had already made up her mind to bite her tongue and kill herself for a while.
"Do you know Wang Feng?" asked Sisis with a bluffed face.
"Wang Feng of roses, hum, what about knowing. Clara subconsciously replied.
"Yes, your mermaid contract is for him. "Sisis didn't expect such a coincidence.
Clara nodded, and suddenly the extinguished hope was ignited a little, but she didn't dare to confirm it, after all, Wang Feng ...... A little ruffian of the Aurora, and a pirate leader who crisscrosses the abyssal sea, can't be beaten with eight poles.
"Little girl, don't show your charm, it's useless to us, Lao Tzu really hasn't enjoyed the mermaid princess. Mata, the ninth-ranked pirate king, sneered.
Clara took a deep breath and stopped talking, the malice around her growing stronger.
Secis smiled, "Everyone, I will protect this mermaid, she is my brother's woman, who wants to be unconvinced, draw the next line, I Sisis took it." β
Sisis is not the strongest, but he is the craziest, and he is extremely righteous, otherwise it would be impossible for an orc to gain a foothold on the sea, and this is the first time this has happened.
A few unfriendly glances looked at Sisis, who had already destroyed a half-palm today anyway...... Sisis's half-orc pirate group ranked seventh, if he weren't there......
"What about Sisis lying to the child, this mermaid princess is so rare, the brothers must taste it. β
Several other pirate kings nodded their heads, and the fat in their mouths didn't make sense.
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, but Siscis did not back down, apparently preparing to fight to the end, and Clara felt the killing intention.
But at this moment, Jason, who had quarreled with Sisis before, suddenly stood on the side of Sisis, "Hey, hey, what are you doing, Sisis is his brother, just a woman, this guy is also the first time to make a request, so as not to be open-minded, but, my brother will settle the account, and people can give it to you, but the goods will not be your share." β
Kira's eyes changed again, it was obvious that Jason was going to stand on the stage of Sisis, and the pirate kings who were about to move had also died down, and it was not very cost-effective to exchange lives with two madmen.
Kira quickly had an idea, "Haha, since Jason has said so, you have to give face, Brother Sisis, people give it to you, we will divide the things, and in the future, if you cause trouble because you let go of this little girl, you will be responsible." β
Sisis smiled and waved his big hand: "When did I Sisis speak, I don't count." β
A few bigwigs across the sea of the abyss decided Clara's fate in the blink of an eye, you must know that falling into the hands of pirates is definitely 10,000 times worse than the sea dragon prince.
At this moment, Clara was soaking wet, and her life seemed to be saved, and it turned out to be because of Wang Feng, who was still far away in Dragon City, and her life and death were uncertain......
.........
In the hall of the Sharp Fortress, Yakre and the Grand Correctors stood in front of the sand table.
At this time, the sand table had been reset and leveled, and the dozens of soul power crystals around it were dimmed, and the exorcists in charge of controlling it were continuously infusing soul power into the soul power crystals.
Suddenly, a few grains of sand in the center of the sand table moved slightly.
"My lord, there's movement!"
Everyone's faces were slightly happy, the speed at which the exorcists infused soul power suddenly accelerated, and several soul power crystals shone slightly, and in the middle of the sand table, small streams of sand began to jump up from the plane, forming several spikes, constantly undulating, as if they wanted to express and combine a certain shape.
This is the monitoring means of the edge fortress, under normal circumstances, these sands will form complex terrain and more clear information, if the signal is strong enough, it can even form a human form that moves in a timely manner, but at this time, those undulating sand seem to be difficult to stabilize, not to mention the human type, even a landform can not be seen, this is obviously caused by the weak connection signal, after all, it is already the third layer of illusion, and in the entire illusion space, there are only two soul cards left Wang Feng and Hei Wukai can barely be connected, and the signal that can be fed back is too littleγ
The exorcist in charge of those soul crystals had already seen sweat on his forehead, and Gu Jilian tore away the most difficult exorcist, she was also an exorcist! At this time, she pressed her own hand to the soul crystal, and the strong soul power of the ghost early suddenly poured in, and the originally shining soul crystal suddenly emitted a dazzling white light that lasted constantly, and the undulating sand also seemed to have strong support, forcibly condensing a scene in the sand table.
I saw that the sand was quickly raised and stacked, and then formed a quicksand ladder that descended one step at a time, and on the plane directly in front of the ladder, there were human figures on the ladder who were trying to condense, but it was just a condensation of footprints and it had already ended in failure, the signal was too weak, and the moving living creatures were the most difficult to map, even if there was a strong soul power support of Gu Jilian, it was useless, and everyone did not force it, at this time Gu Jilian's soul power was fully opened, and the sand condensed at an alarming speed, and on the flat ground in front of the lower step of the staircase, there was a large circular sand bead that began to gather steadily, suspended in the air.
"Is that some kind of monster's egg? or is it a seal?"
"A secret treasure in the form of beads?"
"There is a high probability that this mapping is a secret treasure, I heard those disciples who came out before and the Fazang on the other side said that the dryad and the second-layer Nagaro both burst out with something like a soul bead when they were dying. β
"If it's a secret treasure, then this volume ratio is too large......"
The exorcists were chattering and analyzing, but Yaklei had a slight smile on his face: "It's the origin, the soul origin." β
When the Sword Demon Lord was young, he was a combat school that had fought the Soul Illusory Realm several times on behalf of the Blade, and analyzing various detailed data may require the professional skills of an exorcist, but when it comes to understanding the Soul Illusory Realm, no one present dares to say that he is stronger than the Sword Demon.
"Soul Origin, boss, what is that?" Ta Mu Cha asked in surprise, in the Soul Illusory Realm, aren't there only monsters and secret treasures?
"This is the origin layer of the Soul Illusory Realm, and it can only appear in the large Soul Illusory Realm. Yaklei smiled and said, "I have seen it once, the pure soul refining test, different from the uniqueness of the ultimate secret treasure, that is, everyone who enters has a share, and the rain and dew are evenly wet, so it is also regarded as the most generous gift of the soul illusory realm to adventurers!"
Tamu Tea was stunned, but still didn't understand: "What is the gift?"
"There is a high probability that it is an opportunity for soul refining, and how much can be tempered depends on personal talent and chance...... Do you know where I completely broke through the ghost barrier?" Accre smiled and pointed to the ball in the sandbox, "That's right there!"
.........
It was a strange passage, long, long, and Mapel felt like she had been walking here for a long time, but she still couldn't see the end of it.
If it's just long, then Mapel doesn't care, but what makes her unacceptable is that the senior brother is lost!
Just now, Wang Feng, who was walking in front of her, suddenly sped up his pace, and Marpel naturally accelerated to keep up, but found that Wang Feng's speed was surprisingly fast, and it was getting faster and faster, and soon it reached the point where she couldn't catch up with her best efforts, Marpel wanted to stop her senior brother, but she felt like her throat was choked, and she couldn't shout at all, Wang Feng didn't look back, and disappeared under this dark and endless staircase in just a few seconds.
"Senior brother!" It wasn't until Wang Feng had disappeared that the feeling of binding her throat suddenly disappeared, and she shouted.
There was a reverberation in the empty staircase passage, and Marpel was about to shout again, but suddenly, a voice in her ears made her vigilant.
Marpel suddenly stopped and looked at the sides vigilantly, but at this moment, the narrow passage changed, and the distance between the walls on both sides was rapidly widened, and in a trance, Marpel felt that the scenery around him changed slightly.
The surroundings were very bright, with the sun shining brightly overhead, even if she didn't look up, the light reflected in the yellow sand alone was dazzling enough, so that Marpel could barely open her eyes, she squinted slightly, only to see that the surroundings were barren, the yellow sand was all over the sky, the feet were hot quicksand, and there were a long series of footprints behind her that were stepped out of her.
Marpel had a feeling of dry mouth and dizziness, and her consciousness was a little dizzy, and she vaguely remembered that she seemed to have something very important to do, but she couldn't remember what it was.
This feeling of confusion is terrible, like depression, not being interested in anything else, not even knowing what it is for...... No, I must have something important!
Marpel shook her head vigorously, she tried to remember, and continued to move forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot, but coldly, there was a burst of excited and lewd voices behind her.
"There are women!"
Calling for Rhythm and Discipline......
Several sand camels ran towards her quickly, and on the hunchback sat ugly-looking sand people, all tall and strong, wielding blades in their hands, rushing up and surrounding her.
This scene seemed to be somewhat familiar, as if she had experienced it before, and Marpel felt that she should be afraid, but her real reaction was a little confused, and she looked at those people blankly.
"That's too young!"
"No matter how small you are, you're a woman!" a bearded sand grinned, revealing his scorched teeth: "Lao Tzu likes to play small, hahaha!"
"The lord from the town who came from the Nine Gods is collecting young virgins, and they can be sold for a good price, so don't mess around! Huh...... Ghost girl, what are you staring at!" A hot leather whip came over and hit Marpel in the face, and it hurt so badly that she didn't even blink an eye.
"I seem to have forgotten something very important. Mapel was so calm that she didn't look like a ten-year-old girl, and she looked at the sand man in confusion: "Can you tell me what that is?"
"What's that?" the Sand man was stunned.
The bearded man next to him smiled and said, "I'm afraid I'm not stupid! That adult doesn't need to be stupid, I think I still let me have fun on the spot." β
The Sand man frowned and whipped Mapel in the face, "Hey, what's your name?"
Syllable!
It was another whip, and Mapel didn't seem to know how to hide, and she was still struggling with the question that was bothering her: "I forgot something very important, what is it?"
Seeing her like this, there is a high probability that she is really stupid, the Sand man shook his head.
"Ouch, don't fight, don't fight, if you hit it again, it's broken, what a beautiful little silly girl, it's a pity that it's not, give it to me!" said the bearded man as he jumped off the sand camel, he excitedly reached out and grabbed Mapel's arm, laughed and said, "Little baby, I know you forgot something important!"
"What's the matter?" asked Marpel.
"Find a man!" the bearded man laughed, and reached out to pick up Mapel's torn clothes, but he saw a strange glint suddenly flash in the little girl's eyes.
Looking for a man, looking for someone, right......
Marpel remembered that she was looking for Senior Brother Wang Feng!
The confusion in his eyes dissipated in an instant, and he regained his consciousness.
Smack! Marpel grabbed the bearded's fat, ugly hand.
The bearded man was stunned for a moment, and before he could speak, he saw that the corners of the little girl's mouth were slightly covered with a cold arc: "Thank you." β
Whew!
A few blood-stained spider silks, the fat man and the bodies of the people surrounding her were directly bloody and dislocated, and there was a bang...... The blood of the minced flesh collapsed, and it seemed that even the surrounding desert had collapsed with it, and the scenery changed again.
It was a dark night, and there was pouring rain in the air, and two powerful men in black were stopping in front of her.
"Either go back!" said one of the tall men in black coldly, "or die." β
This voice seemed to come from the demon cave in the depths of the Nine Shadows, eerie and terrifying, it was the voice that Mapel, no, everyone in the entire training camp feared the most.
At the same time, the voice of the other man in black was very gentle, it was a woman, she smiled and said: "Seven, don't give up on yourself, let alone the glory of the empire, you are the best student we have here, your talent is incomparable, the empire needs you, and it can achieve you!"
Big stick and sweet dates, the usual method used in the training camp, she used to be very chi, not because of the threat of life and death and difficult training, but because of this woman's rhetoric.
Empire, glory, these were the goals she had been pursuing, and they were the foundation that supported her to keep going, but to be honest, this thing was too illusory and ethereal, and it often made her feel lost, how could a person who had never been glorified feel the shock of glory?
Listen to that ridiculous title, No. 7? I don't even have a name, what glory can I talk about! And compared to these, the real senior brother seems more real and warmer, so that she can see and touch.
"Get out of the way. β
The two men in black both changed color slightly, and the woman said: "Seven, have you forgotten your mission? It was the empire that cultivated you, it was the empire that saved you from those demons in the desert, and it was the empire that gave you a new life! You should be loyal to the empire, the empire is your glory!"
"Seven, you have one last chance. The man in black said coldly, "I'll give you three more seconds to think about it." β
Marpel smiled.
She has never been afraid, what can really make her afraid is the loss of her goal, the loss of the person she wants to protect.
As long as that goal is still there, as long as the person she wants to protect is still there, no matter how difficult it is, no matter what stands in the way, she will definitely be able to move through!
The senior brother is in front, and he will go to him no matter what.
"Punishment!" In the darkness, only the cold and chilling instruments of torture remained.
The heat was unusually high all around, and below was the rolling magma, and the large magma bubbles were tumbling in the magma flow, rising and shattering, splashing out patches of fire.
Cangjue didn't dare to move, she suddenly fell in just now.
Overhead was a circular cavern, but it looked far away, like a volcanic crater, and the wand was half a foot into the rock wall next to it, the only thing that held her up and kept her from falling into the lava.
The scorching heat was constantly scorching her, and the sweat on her pale face was about to drip.
Cangjue has tried all kinds of ways to get out of trouble, but it has almost no effect, the ice magic can't be used here at all, even if it's just just the simplest ice pick, in a special high-temperature environment, the power exerted is less than one, not to mention inserting it into the rock wall as a support for climbing up, the only little finger-thick ice pick that is left is also immediately melted by the surrounding high temperature environment, and it doesn't have any effect at all.
This kind of environment is really a bit too difficult for an ice witch, and Cangjue can only hang his hands on the witch staff with difficulty.
The high temperature continued to consume her physical strength, and Cangjue felt that the sweat on her hands was slippery, and she was about to lose her grip on the witch staff, and it seemed that she could fall into the terrifying magma flow and turn into ashes at any time.
Fortunately, Cangjue's consciousness remained awake, and she could even clearly remember the previous battle with Nagalo, how everyone walked into the quiet lower staircase, and how she suddenly fell into the crater.
It is impossible for the ladder to suddenly disappear for no reason, and the same is true for Wang Feng, Hei Wukai, Long Feixue and others before and after her, there is no doubt that this should be an unreal illusion, all of this is fake!
But so what? The illusion can also kill, even if the magma below is fake, but Cangjue knows that once he lets go and falls, then I'm afraid the soul will die immediately.
She tugged the wand again, rubbing her palm against the wand slightly, trying to get rid of some of the sweat from her palm, but to no avail, and she also tried to condense her soul power to impact her spirit, her eyes, and try to see through the obstacles of the environment, but it was all in vain.
The skin that was originally as cold as condensation had become pink and transparent at this time, and beads of sweat began to slide down her forehead.
There was no way, Cangjue couldn't help but feel a sense of despair......
To tell the truth, she feels that she is a very conflicted person in her heart, and the cold and arrogant in the eyes of outsiders is just a disguise she gives herself, in fact, her heart is far from being as strong as others think, and she is not so firm.
Born in the Heavenly Master Sect, but in the system of the Nine Gods, on the one hand, he received the indoctrination of faith from his family and the Heavenly Master Sect to serve the Holy Lord since childhood, and on the other hand, he received the ideological input of the Nine Gods' allegiance to the empire in the War College.
As the saintess of the Heavenly Master Sect and the leader of the younger generation of the War Academy, she is valued by all parties of the Nine Gods, which may not be a thing that can make them contradictory and chaotic for the people of her grandfather's generation, but when Cangjue comes into contact with all this, after all, she is still just a child......
Many times she doesn't know which side is really right, putting aside all rational analysis, emotionally speaking, she is more inclined to the Heavenly Master's teaching, after all, they are all her relatives, but the problem is that the teachings of the Heavenly Master's Sect and the responsibility of the saint are to serve a man she has never met at all......
Women are sensual, they always have fantasies about beautiful love, they can give up everything else, but it is really too difficult to get them to give up this.
What's more, she has seen Emperor Longkang, the prince Longzhen, and many peerless powerhouses, none of whom are as virtuous as Wang Feng.
To tell the truth, she sometimes wonders whether the teachings of the Heavenly Master Sect are correct, and wonders if there is something wrong with her test, the so-called faith and inheritance, she really doesn't know how to believe it.
The test of the soul, the most taboo is the lack of will, perhaps it is precisely because of such contradictions, it is precisely because of the unfirm belief that will force oneself into this insoluble illusion.
Cangjue thought of this, and tried to convince his way of thinking in a short period of time, either to believe or deny it completely, but this kind of answer hidden in the depths of his heart, if he could change it by just shouting two slogans in his mouth, it would not have bothered Cangjue for so long.
The white shadow still hangs on the volcanic rock wall, alone interpreting the opposition and contradiction between ice and fire, life and death are only in a moment.
No solution!
.........
Surrounded by an empty altar clearing, Lao Wang raised his head and yawned a little helplessly.
There is also a statue of Nagaro in the center of this place, surrounded by a mountain wall, and behind the old king, a short staircase extends from the inside of the mountain wall, which is the passage they walked through when they just came down.
At this time, Black Wukai, Mapel, Long Feixue and Cangjue were standing motionless under the statue, in fact, they had already lost their minds when they were still walking down the staircase passage, and the second half of the journey was almost passively guided by the soul to get here, there was no doubt that they had entered this third level of unique, soul-like illusory world.
This is a test, but also a tempering of the soul, to tell the truth, most of them are benefits, is an opportunity to surpass oneself, but there will definitely be dangers, it depends on how strong willpower you have, it depends on whether you can hold on, if you fail to pass the demons in your heart, fail to defeat yourself, then it is not uncommon to die in the soul illusion.
And my own BUG is still good here, and the insect god species is detached,...... Because its essence is that it doesn't need any tempering, this is a test soul seed, and it shouldn't exist at all.