Chapter 298: Killing
"It turns out that this Soul-Destroying Sword was made by the Third Cave Master, but it was made by the same person as my Cold Star Sword." Yuan Ming muttered to himself as he looked at the strange black sword in his hand.
He sensed the four runes on the sword, and only knew that one of them was "Soul-Solidifying". He didn't recognize the other three, but he thought they must be related to the soul.
Yuan Ming then looked at Sha Hao lying on the ground, his eyes turned cold.
In total, Sha Hao had killed no less than 300 cultivators from Southern Xinjiang to Dajin, most of whom were in the Qi Refining Stage. With the current situation of the Soul-Destroying Sword, as long as there are a few more souls of Foundation Establishment cultivators, the power of this sword will usher in a transformation. If it is a soul cultivator, because of the powerful soul, one may be enough. When Yuan Ming was protecting the disciples of the Weiye Sect before, the soul cultivator identity he showed made Sha Hao very jealous.
"Since you want to refine this Soul-Destroying Sword so much, then use your own soul to complete this sword." Yuan Ming melted the ice on the Soul-Destroying Sword and stabbed it into Sha Hao's brow.
Sha Hao's body trembled, and a black air surged on his face. After a while, it quickly faded away, and the aura on his body completely dissipated.
Yuan Ming activated the Soul-Destroying Sword Rune, and four black lights sank into Sha Hao's head, pulling out a group of illusory blood clouds, emitting powerful soul power fluctuations.
Sha Hao's somewhat blurred face emerged in the blood cloud, full of fear, struggling hard, not to mention that he was already a remnant soul, even if he was in a complete state, he could not resist the power of the Soul-Destroying Sword at all, and was quickly swallowed up.
The Soul-Destroying Sword made an excited tremor, and four runes appeared, emitting a trace of blood-colored spiritual light.
Yuan Ming pinched his hands and cast a spell according to the secret technique obtained from the soul search, trying to stabilize the four runes.
After all, he had a lot of experience in refining equipment and had some experience in runes, otherwise he would not be able to master this secret technique so quickly.
After the four runes flickered, the Soul-Destroying Sword suddenly trembled, emitting sharp screams that made people's teeth ache. The black air on the surface rolled, and a nameless and terrifying ghost face was vaguely transformed, but in just a flash, it twisted and changed into another ugly and abnormal male face.
The male face only lasted for a moment, and then it changed again, becoming the image of a haggard old woman.
As the face in the black air on the surface of the Soul-Destroying Sword continued to change, Yuan Ming's expression became more and more solemn, with veins bulging on his forehead, beads of sweat kept falling, and his ten fingers on both hands quickly pinched the magic formula.
Suddenly, when the face in the black air turned into a beautiful girl, it suddenly laughed strangely, opened its mouth, and a black light rolled out and attacked Yuan Ming's face.
Yuan Ming was shocked. It was impossible to avoid it at such a close distance. In a hurry, he urged his mind, and the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron flashed out and blocked in front of him.
The black light that could penetrate objects touched the Heaven Stealing Cauldron, but was blocked.
Yuan Ming took the opportunity to change his ten fingers like wheels, and then formed a strange hand seal, and uttered a light voice:
"Fast!"
The four runes finally disappeared after a burst of flashing, and the black air on the surface of the Soul-Destroying Sword rolled back and sank into the sword body, calming down.
A layer of black spiritual light still appeared on the sword body, but it had completely returned to calmness and no longer flickered like before.
Yuan Ming breathed a sigh of relief. He was lucky to have escaped danger. Fortunately, his soul was still strong, and he was protected by the Heaven Stealing Cauldron. Otherwise, he would most likely be backfired by the sword and directly devour his soul.
After calming down, he used his magic power and soul power and injected them into the Soul-Destroying Sword.
The Soul-Destroying Sword made a dragon-like sword sound and shot out a dark sword energy. The power did not become much stronger, but it was much purer than before.
Yuan Ming waved his arm, and a crescent-shaped sword energy shot out and sank into the ground.
Tens of feet underground, the Qiong snake had woken up at some point and wanted to rush out of the ground, but was trapped by the vines released by the flower branch. The two fought each other and were injured.
The Qiong snake's teeth seemed to have the ability to petrify. When the vines of the flower branch were bitten by it, they would quickly petrify and shatter, which greatly restrained the flower branch's regeneration ability.
At this moment, the black sword energy easily penetrated the soil layer, flashed and chopped the Qiong snake's head, penetrated the scales, and sank into the head.
The huge body of the Qiong snake trembled violently, and then stopped moving, and all the breath quickly dissipated.
A trace of soul power overflowed from the Qiong snake's head, but it did not dissipate. After floating out of the ground, it gathered in the direction of the Soul-Destroying Sword and slowly merged into it.
Yuan Ming was slightly surprised when he saw this.
He didn't expect that the Soul-Destroying Sword would be so effective in absorbing souls, and it could still play such an effect across the ground and a distance of more than ten feet.
Seeing this, Huazhi took the opportunity to use vines to pierce the body of the Qiong snake, devouring its blood and magic power.
A moment later, Huazhi came out of the ground with the shriveled body of the Qiong snake.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming opened the mouth of the Qiong snake and pulled out two earth-yellow snake teeth.
These two snake teeth contain rich earth-attributed spiritual power. Holding them in his hands, his palms felt stiff and numb. It seems that these snake teeth are the source of the Qiong snake's ability to petrify the flower branches and vines.
This is a rare good thing. If you can find a skilled weapon refiner, you may be able to refine one or two rare magic tools related to petrification.
Yuan Ming put away the two snake teeth, flicked his fingers and ejected several fireballs, turning the Qiong snake's body into ashes.
Although the battle with Sha Hao was carried out in the white fog sea, and this place was remote and deserted, it should not be discovered. However, nothing is absolute. After Yuan Ming dispersed the fog sea, he put away the Vajra Flower Branch Thunderstorm and did not stay long. He immediately took Sha Hao's body and rushed to his previous cave.
After a while, Yuan Ming stopped in front of a stone wall deep in a mine.
He took out a yellow flag from Sha Hao's storage ring and injected his magic power into it.
The flag emitted a yellow light and sank into the stone wall.
The stone wall was filled with yellow light, which slowly dissipated, revealing two stone doors that opened automatically.
Yuan Ming released three spirit beasts and ordered them to guard outside, while he walked in, and the stone wall outside immediately returned to its original state.
After he passed through a passage, he saw a large stone hall in front of him.
Before Yuan Ming could take a closer look at the stone hall, two tall black shadows rushed from the front at a very fast speed.
Yuan Ming was not in a hurry, and took out a small black bell and raised it.
Ding...
The two black shadows stopped immediately, but they were two human goblins covered with black hair.
When Yuan Ming searched Sha Hao's soul, he knew the origin of these two human goblins. They were brought by Sha Hao when he escaped from Biluo Cave. Each of them had the combat power of peak Qi Refining and was used to guard the cave.
He waved the small bell again, and the two human goblins retreated obediently.
Yuan Ming looked at the stone hall in front of him. There were some stone benches and stone chairs placed in it. There were four secret rooms around the hall, one for cultivation, and one for the formation of warming the Soul-Destroying Sword.
The Soul-Destroying Sword has been sacrificed and stabilized now, so this formation is naturally no longer needed.
The remaining two secret rooms, one of which was piled with half a room of miscellaneous items, but they were all kinds of spiritual materials, with a large number of them and relatively low grades, as well as some low-level magic tools, storage bags, etc.
Yuan Ming knew that these were captured by Sha Hao during his hunting of monks during this period, and he had not had time to deal with them.
The last secret room was unusually wide, not inferior to the hall outside. It was opened up by Sha Hao as a medicine garden, and many spiritual herbs and medicines were planted in it.
"Star-watching grass, condensing spirit flower, cold moon vine..."
Yuan Ming scanned these spiritual herbs, all of which were precious spiritual herbs, and some of them could be used to make spiritual incense.
"Hey, this is Feng Xuan flower!"
He looked at the corner of the medicine garden, where four or five silver spiritual flowers were planted. They were the Feng Xuan flowers that he had encountered in the Yunluo Mountains, the main material for the foundation-building pill.
No wonder Sha Hao could transform this flower so vividly that day. It turned out that he really found this precious spiritual flower in the Yunluo Mountains.
Yuan Ming's eyes swept to other parts of the medicine garden again, and suddenly fell on a corner, where a water tank was placed, with a black branch inserted diagonally in it. It was about three feet long, with an uneven surface, and nothing strange could be seen.
The water in the water tank was light black, emitting some yin fluctuations.
A small magic circle was arranged around the water tank to isolate this thing from other spiritual herbs. It was obvious that Sha Hao attached great importance to this black branch.
Yuan Ming came to the front of the magic circle and used his spiritual sense to carefully explore, but unfortunately he did not find anything special. The black branch seemed to be some kind of Yin attribute spiritual material, with a heavy Yin aura, and there was nothing else.
However, if this black branch was just a Yin attribute spiritual material, Sha Hao would not have placed it here, right?
The soul-searching magical power can explore a person's memory, but the memory of a cultivator's life is extremely huge. If you want to read it all, it will take a long time. He just explored what he wanted to know and did not see any information about the black branch.
Yuan Ming turned around and left the medicine garden and came to the secret room where Sha Hao practiced.
The furnishings in the secret room were very simple. There was a green cushion in the center of the secret room, and a bronze incense burner was placed in the corner. A spiritual incense was burning inside, and the spiritual smoke was rising. It turned out to be the purple Xuanxiang he refined.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming felt an inexplicable pride in his heart. He didn't expect that Sha Hao actually bought the purple Xuanxiang. It seems that this person has visited the Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop at some point.
Yuan Ming collected his thoughts, sat down on the mat, and began to count the seized items.
He first took out the silver ball, which had only a slight scratch on the surface, which had little impact.
He used his magic power to inject it into it, and the silver ball soon lit up with brilliant silver light, and the four runes also shone brightly.
Yuan Ming was secretly happy. He had seen the attacks released by this silver ball many times, which were very amazing, not inferior to his black needle.
"You can shoot such powerful silver light, so I'll just call you Silver Light Bead in the future, and as for the black needle, I'll call it Absolute Shadow Needle." He said secretly.
With the Silver Light Bead and Absolute Shadow Needle, his attack methods have reached a higher level.
Yuan Ming put it away, and then picked up the golden inner armor and used his spiritual sense to explore it.
The golden inner armor contained four runes, which was surprisingly also a top-grade magic weapon.
It was unknown what material this armor was made of, but its own defense was amazing, far above the dragon scale shield, and it could also activate the golden light curtain.
In the previous battle, Sha Hao activated the golden inner armor too much, and was hit by thunder and rain, and the combined attack of King Kong caused the runes to be somewhat unstable.
But this is not a big problem. As long as it is nurtured with mana for a period of time, it will probably recover.
Yuan Ming has also seen with his own eyes the strong defense of the golden inner armor. With this treasure protecting the body, there is basically no need to worry about the attacks of the foundation-building period.
He did not put away the inner armor, but put it on directly. After putting away all the treasures in different categories, he sat cross-legged on the futon, used his mana, and began to nurture the inner armor.