Chapter Twenty-Four: The Soul of the Thousand Souls
"Huh!" Suddenly, the middle-aged man let out a loud shout, opened his mouth and spit out a black air flow towards the disc composed of runes, which turned out to be the spiritual power in his body.
Then, with a nervous face, he stared at the mask above.
After the rune disc absorbed the spiritual power, its luster suddenly lost completely, and it turned ink. The mask that clings to it seems to melt, allowing the disc to sink into it.
The middle-aged man's expression was solemn, and he spit out a ray of spiritual power again. The disc seems to be injected with power and begins to spin rapidly, with which it gradually lightens in color.
After about a pillar of incense, the disc has become looming.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's expression eased slightly, and then his hands folded in front of his chest, his five fingers twisted and merged, and after putting on a strange posture, his hands were violently pushed forward, and a dark blue pillar of fire with thick water burst out in an instant, penetrating the sealing light shield above the pool, forming a channel that shimmered with phosphorescence.
The middle-aged man was overjoyed, and without stopping, he flashed out of the passage and appeared above the light mask. Almost as soon as it was one after the other, the light mask returned to its original appearance, and there was no trace of any damage to be seen, leaving only scattered yin qi masses.
"All these years of hard work have not been in vain, but if you want to escape from the soul flag, there is still no clue, the seal of this soul flag is too powerful, if it is forcibly destroyed, I will immediately have my soul scattered, forget it, there will be time in the future, or go around the neighborhood first, there has been no activity for decades. ”
Looking at the light mask under him, the middle-aged man muttered to himself. There were only two passages around the pool, and he thought about it for a moment and stepped into the smaller ones.
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Deng An was bored, and suddenly saw a "person" walking out of another passage, to be exact, a cultivator with unfathomable cultivation. The conjugation of the meditation was the appearance of a middle-aged man, and the condensation of his body was much higher than that of the main soul of Wu Zhi's soul flag.
The middle-aged man obviously came out when he saw Deng An. He looked at Deng An with a strange expression, like picking up an unknown treasure, both envious and puzzled.
"Strange, this ecstasy pool doesn't seem to work for you. When I was captured by the people of the Demon Suppression Gate, there were also two meditation periods in the condensation period, and none of them escaped the fate of being wiped out of their sanity, and I made a compromise and agreed to be the main soul, so I retained my sanity. The middle-aged man sighed as he spoke, not hiding his identity at all.
Before he could figure out the other party's intentions, Deng An had to be vigilant, he hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Is the senior the main soul of the Hundred Soul Banner, why did you come here, and was it also brought by the monks of the Ghost Suppression Sect?"
"Little brother, you really have a lot of problems! Don't worry, I won't be unfavorable to you, on the contrary, if you cooperate well, I can also help you escape from the ecstasy pool, and by the way, you can point your cultivation. The middle-aged man smiled slightly, and his words broke Deng An's mind.
"What is the benefit of doing this for the seniors. ”
Deng An's face transformed into a human form, with a look of obvious disbelief, he didn't think that there would be a free lunch in the world, and the middle-aged man must have a plan to do this.
Seeing that Deng An didn't believe it, the middle-aged man said again: "I? First, I can know what I want to know, and second, I can get out of the control of the soul banner and leave a way back." ”
Deng An was silent and said for a long time: "What do seniors want to know?"
The middle-aged man laughed, as if he had expected Deng An to ask such a question: "You didn't disappoint me, I would like to know why the Ecstasy Pool doesn't work for you." ”
"Senior, you are embarrassing me, can you change the question, this matter is not only you want to know, I also want to find out what the reason is. ”
Although Deng An speculated that it might be related to the ball, it was only speculation, and there was no definite evidence. His answer to the middle-aged man was not a deception.
"Is there such a strange thing?" The middle-aged man heard that Deng An didn't seem to be lying, and he carefully observed Deng An's soul body, and didn't say anything special, so he had to sigh: "Forget it, this matter is not the point, let's talk about the next thing." The old man can help you escape from the ecstasy pool without much effort, but you have to make a promise to the old man!"
When Deng An heard this, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "Senior, please speak." ”
"The old man has been trapped in a Thousand Soul Banner for more than a hundred years, and has been trying to get rid of the control of the Ghost Suppression Gate, but only now has he cracked the protective formation outside the Soul Transformation Pool, and the Thousand Soul Banner has a soul covenant connection with me, and the possibility of cracking it from the inside is extremely low. So, before letting you go, I want you to make a promise to take the Thousand Soul Banners and return my freedom in the future. ”
The middle-aged man stared into the eyes of the entity, with a faint smile. For Deng An, he has nothing to hide, and he doesn't have to deliberately hide it.
Deng An couldn't hide the shock in his heart, and muttered, "Thousand Soul Banner!"
In the past, Meng Ping had guessed that the Ghost Suppression Gate should have a more powerful soul flag, so it seemed that it did exist. As the main soul in the Thousand Soul Banners, isn't the strength of the middle-aged man already on top of the condensation stage meditation and has reached another level, which is equivalent to the strength of the Dan period, and the Great Elder Yu of the Ghost Suppression Sect is only the peak of the late stage of foundation building.
Deng An's excitement couldn't be calmed down for a long time, his current cultivation was two levels behind the other party, and the other party only needed to blow a breath to scrape him to death. Moreover, if he can get some guidance from the other party, it will also be of great benefit to the path of meditation in the future.
"What's the matter? Some surprises? If the Town Ghost Gate didn't have the old man and the Thousand Soul Flag, it would have been destroyed by the cultivators in the east a long time ago, you must know that what we hate the most in meditation cultivation is this kind of ghost cultivation sect that is not human or ghost, and specializes in the art of exorcism. ”
Deng An stabilized his mind and said hesitantly: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint my seniors." ”
Hearing this, the middle-aged man's head was tumbling, and his voice became cold: "This transaction is only good for you, there is no harm, do you think my conditions are not enough?"
"No, senior, you misunderstood. It's not that I don't want to agree to the requests of my seniors, and I simply can't finish it. With your strength, there is still no way to escape from the soul flag, how can I help, besides, I am only a meditation cultivator in the early stage of Nayin, and I don't have much to do to deal with the disciples of the ordinary Ghost Suppression Sect, and how to challenge the foundation building monks of the Suppression Ghost Sect to rob them of the treasure of the Suppression Sect. Even if Deng An was trapped in the formation above the Ecstasy Pool, he was still pierced by the chill, shivering from the cold, the high-level meditation cultivation was really terrifying, and just leaking a trace of residual power made it difficult for him to deal with it, so he hurriedly explained the reason.
"Little brother is too worried!" The yin qi dissipated, revealing the gentle face of the middle-aged man again: "This promise is not for you to fulfill it immediately, but to wait until you have enough ability." In other words, if you still don't have this strength before your soul disappears, you don't have to force it, I want a glimmer of hope, even if this hope is very slim. ”
"Why did the seniors choose me?"
"Hehe, the reason is simple. I just broke the magic circle outside the soul pool, and I was in a good mood, and because of the soul flag, I couldn't have left too far, and when I saw that there was a passage here, I came over to relax, and I happened to bump into you, a little ghost. I can't guarantee that I will be able to break away from the soul banner on my own, so I want to make a good connection. After all, it is not very common to meet a sane meditator here. ”
"It's the younger generation who is too careful, so it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate!"
Deng An saw that the middle-aged man said this, if he didn't agree again, he would be embarrassed, in the realm of cultivating immortals that respected strength, even if he was a high-level cultivator who was trapped, it was extremely rare to be able to explain the reason so politely, in case he really annoyed the other party, he didn't have to wait for the ecstasy pool to wipe out his sanity, he would be killed by the other party.
"In that case, I'll get you out first, this is not the place for long talks. ”
Seeing that Deng An had agreed, the middle-aged man stopped talking nonsense, quickly pinched a few tricks, and successively shot black lights into the light mask above the ecstasy pool. After dozens of black lights hit the mask, they all turned into dots of jet-black light particles, which were evenly distributed throughout the mask. Just as the entire light mask flickered, the middle-aged man's palm suddenly stretched forward, turning into a big hand, and easily stretched into the light mask above the ecstasy pool, and brought out Deng An, who couldn't move. The protective power of the light shield above the Ecstasy Pool is far less than that of the Soul Transformation Pool, not to mention that it is still cracked from the outside, which is just a raise of hand for a middle-aged man.
"Thank you, senior!"
"You're welcome, come with me!"
Deng An knew that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, so he immediately followed the middle-aged man into the slightly smaller passage, and they walked about two hundred meters, and a stone gate appeared in front of them. Judging from the spiritual pressure emitted from time to time on the stone gate, it should be sealed by some kind of formation. Sure enough, when he came to the front and back of the door, he immediately felt an invisible force blocking him.
Deng An distanced himself from the other party at the signal of the middle-aged man.
At this time, the yin qi around the middle-aged man's soul body squirmed strangely, and the yin qi in the passage seemed to be guided, accumulating towards him, and after a while, those yin qi began to contract, gradually condensing into a black pill the size of an egg.
Looking at this scene, Deng An couldn't help but think of the Yin Spirit Bead, but although their formation process was somewhat similar, they were definitely not the same kind of items, and the Yin Spirit Bead could not exude this terrifying and destructive aura, which should be a means of attack for meditation.
"Go!" The middle-aged man snorted softly, his black hands pushed forward, and the black pill spun around quickly and ran in the direction of the stone gate. At the same time, he continued to play spells, causing a black light curtain to appear in the passage, which happened to envelop the stone gate and the pill in it.
Deng Anxin was surprised, but then he realized that this should be a kind of soundproof barrier, so as to avoid the sound being too loud and perceived by the monks of the Demon Suppression Gate.
As he expected, when the Black Pill approached the stone gate, it was blocked by an invisible force and stagnated in mid-air. Almost at the same time, it began to expand violently, bursting open, turning into a dazzling ball of black light.
As you can imagine, the sound of the explosion must have been quite large.