Black Soul Sect.
Lei Kuangfeng ran all the way with his disciple's body and returned to the sect, still somewhat frightened. As the deputy head of the Soul Sect, he was also a well-known figure in the Black Ya Realm, but he had never experienced such a strange and terrifying thing.
Just as he was about to head straight for the main hall, he saw a person walking towards him, and he immediately quickened his pace.
This man was short and fat, but his eyes were as fierce as an eagle. His face was expressionless, but he released a terrifying pressure that made people's heart palpitate. As he walked, a terrifying sense of oppression followed him like a shadow. It was a terrifying aura belonging to the realm of gods. Wherever he went, the guards in the sect all knelt on one knee and bowed.
Lei Tiangang, the chief hall master of the sixty-fourth hall of the Black Soul Sect, the cousin of the sect master Lei Qianfeng, has the same status as the elders in the Soul Sect, and his profound strength is as high as the middle stage of the divine realm. He is a top figure that everyone in the Black Ya world shudders at the mention of, and no one dares to mess with him, inside or outside the sect.
"Grand Master!" Lei Kuangfeng rushed to Lei Tiangang.
Seeing the corpse in Lei Kuangfeng's hand, Lei Tiangang frowned: "What happened?"
“Grand Master, I was on behalf of the Master in Black Soul Mountain today to oversee the selection of disciples, but… a hundred disciples were all buried in Black Soul Mountain.” Lei Kuangfeng said as he kept wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
"What!?" Lei Tiangang was furious: "How dare someone plot against my Soul Sect disciples? Who did it?"
"I don't know." Lei Kuangfeng said, "When I found them, they were all dead. It was only an hour later. I was not far away, but I didn't notice anything."
"What did you say?" Lei Tiangang frowned, but obviously did not believe what Lei Kuangfeng said.
Lei Kuangfeng put down the corpse in his hand and said, "Not only that, the deaths of these disciples are extremely strange. Some of them have their heads and bodies separated, with no signs of struggle. And many more disciples have... become living dead like this."
Lei Tiangang squatted down and put his hand on the chest of the "corpse". Then his brows tightened and he reached out to grab his forehead. After a long time, he slowly stood up with a gloomy face.
"Master, why did he die?" Lei Kuangfeng asked.
Lei Tiangang's eyes were gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "How far are the bodies of these disciples from you?"
"The farthest is less than fifty miles away." Lei Kuangfeng said. The fact that those disciples had only left so far meant that they were all dead within a quarter of an hour of the start of the test.
"Humph, if what you said is true, such a short distance, yet a hundred disciples were killed without making any noise, without you even noticing... I'm afraid even I can't do it!"
Lei Kuangfeng was shocked: "I would never dare to deceive the chief hall master!"
“I don’t think you would dare!” Lei Tiangang’s face was still gloomy. “This death is even more strange. He didn’t have any internal or external injuries. He was even still alive. It seemed like he died from a soul search… and this disciple was already in the Spiritual Realm. His soul source is as solid as a rock. Unless he doesn’t resist, it would be impossible for the Sect Master to search his soul!”
Lei Kuangfeng's scalp tingled: "Could it be that it is really a ghost?"
"What ghosts and gods!" Lei Tiangang shouted angrily, and suddenly asked: "Is it true that the other party did not leave any traces?"
Lei Kuangfeng quickly took out the Xuanying Tongue and released the image that he had previously imprinted: "This sentence should be left by him."
One hundred thousand black soul lives, a blood sacrifice for the wood soul.
“Ling Yun!?” Lei Tiangang’s face suddenly changed, and he suddenly raised his head and shouted: “Notify all halls immediately, and each hall must bring at least 5,000 disciples to search the mountain immediately! If you see anyone alive, capture them immediately! It’s okay to seriously injure or maim them, but they must be alive!!”
Lei Kuangfeng was shocked. Although he had assassinated so many disciples of the Soul Sect, the scale of the mountain search was too exaggerated. "Headmaster, who exactly is this Ling Yun..."
“No need to ask!” Lei Tiangang said in a deep voice: “Do you know why the Sect Master suddenly set out overnight to go to Hei Ya City in person? I didn’t expect that he would actually come to our door… One hundred thousand black soul lives? Oh, what a terrifying tone—what are you still standing there for? Go quickly! Remember, you must survive!”
"Yes!" Lei Kuangfeng took the order and left.
Lei Tiangang picked up the sound transmission jade and said, "Master, there is no need to go to Heiya City. Lingyun has come to our door on his own!"
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The Black Soul Sect was immediately filled with noise, and hundreds of thousands of disciples filed out and headed straight for the Black Soul Mountains. It was absolutely the first time in history that nearly 10% of the disciples of the main sect were dispatched to search the mountain at once, and there was no sign of this.
The Black Soul Mountains were already home to many dangerous mystical beasts, so very few mystics even entered, let alone went deep. The eastern region of the mountains belonged to the Soul Sect, so unless they were tired of living, even if ten more mystics from the Black Ya Realm had the guts, they would never dare to approach.
Therefore, this large-scale search of the mountain continued until dark, and apart from disturbing countless mysterious beasts, not a single human figure was found.
As night fell, a thick layer of gray fog gradually enveloped the entire Dark Soul Mountains.
The search team, which found nothing, returned to the sect one after another and reported the results to Lei Tiangang.
"Master, we have been searching for a whole day, but we haven't found any traces of outsiders, let alone human figures." The person who spoke glanced at Lei Kuangfeng: "Lei Kuangfeng, is everything you said true?"
"How dare I joke about this!" Lei Kuangfeng said angrily, "Headmaster, he must have escaped immediately after the plot. However, as long as he doesn't leave the Black Ya Realm, he will definitely not be able to escape from our grasp."
"It seems that he has escaped without a doubt. I thought he really wanted to kill 100,000 people from my Soul Sect. The Sect Master should be back soon. Let's discuss this matter after he comes back." Lei Tiangang glanced at the hall masters and suddenly asked, "Why is there one person missing? Where is the Eleventh Hall?"
"Grand Hall Master!" Just as Lei Tiangang finished his words, an urgent voice came from outside, followed by a middle-aged man rushing in quickly. It was Lei Chui, one of the deputy hall masters of the 11th hall.
His appearance made everyone frown. Lei Tiangang asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"
"Master, I led the disciples back to the sect. When I counted the number of people, I found that one hundred and sixty people were missing. I immediately ordered people to return to Black Soul Mountain... I just received news that more than seventy bodies have been found, and their deaths are exactly the same as what Lei Kuangfeng said before! The other disciples who were not found should have also been killed."
"W...what!?" The atmosphere in the hall suddenly changed, and all the hall masters looked shocked... and a little terrified.
There were hundreds of thousands of disciples, and nearly two hundred vice-chair masters and even hall masters leading them, but no traces were found... but more than a hundred disciples died quietly. And judging from Lei Chu's reaction, he clearly hadn't noticed anything before.
A chilling feeling ran through everyone's body.
“What happened!”
Before anyone arrived, the majestic voice with thunder-like pressure had already weighed on everyone's hearts and souls.
At the entrance of the hall, a middle-aged man in black was walking slowly. On his chest was a black snake with lightning wrapped around it and its mouth wide open. Behind him were four other people in black.
His arrival caused the air in the entire hall to suddenly condense, and it became as gloomy as a dark cloud covering the sky.
The chief leader of the Black Soul Divine Sect, the Great Realm King of the Black Ya Realm, is also the only terrifying figure in the Divine King realm who stands at the top of the Black Ya Realm's mysterious way.
Lei Qianfeng!
"Master!" His arrival made everyone bow down in a hurry, with their heads lowered deeply. No one dared to raise their heads without permission.
"Get up...Tiangang, what exactly happened?" Lei Qianfeng glanced at everyone and asked lightly.
Lei Tiangang stood up and quickly recounted what had happened today.
“Ling… Yun.” Lei Qianfeng narrowed his eyes and raised his head slightly: “This is really strange. My Soul Sect hasn’t even come to settle accounts with him yet, but he actually took the initiative to come to us and even claimed that he wanted to take 100,000 lives from my Soul Sect… The reason is because of the wood spirit? Haha, it seems that this kid is probably a lunatic.”
"Master, it seems that Ling Yun is far from being as simple as we thought. The deaths of these disciples remind me of the 'demons' in the records of [Northern Divine Region]. It is rumored that those demons would hide in the dark and steal people's souls silently. Of course, the people there would never leave the Northern Divine Region, and Ling Yun would definitely not be there, but... they are quite similar." Lei Tiangang said.
"Once we catch him, we will naturally know what methods he used." Lei Qianfeng said sternly: "Ling Yun is obviously hiding in Black Soul Mountain. Tomorrow, all sixty-four halls will be mobilized to search Black Soul Mountain. Even if we dig deep into the ground, we must find him for me!"
"Master, who is this Ling Yun...?" a hall master finally couldn't help asking.
"You don't need to know too much about this matter. You just need to know that he has something that the Shenwu Realm wants!" Lei Qianfeng said in a sinister voice.
The three words "Shenwu Realm" made all the hall masters' faces change in shock.
"And he snatched this thing from us." Lei Qianfeng took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming with anger: "The Divine Martial Realm only gave us one month! If we can't get 'that thing' back within one month, I'm afraid we'll all be in trouble!"
"Remember... catch them alive!"
Overnight, the name Ling Yun became known to everyone in the sect.
After the first large-scale search of the mountain, the next day, there was a search on a much larger scale than the first day. All those dispatched were from the Sixty-Fourth Hall... In the Black Soul Sect, the Sixty-Fourth Hall was the top class.
Such a large mobilization was made just to find one person. Everyone thought this would just be an exaggerated game of cat and mouse, but they never expected that this would be the beginning of a terrible nightmare.
Just like the first day, they searched all day but didn't find a single person. But, gradually, as they searched deeper, they found bodies one after another... All of them were the bodies of Soul Sect disciples. No one saw or knew how they died. Before they were found, there was no abnormal breath or sound... It was as if their souls had suddenly dispersed.
At the end of the day, they gained nothing and only brought back two hundred soulless living dead.
The same thing happened on the third day.
On the fourth day, Lei Tiangang led the various hall masters to the Black Soul Mountain. They were high in the sky, and their spiritual senses were released to the extreme under the impetus of profound power. After several hours, they received a message that almost made him vomit blood:
“Head Master! All the disciples who stayed behind in the secret realm of the back mountain are dead. The cause of death is exactly the same as the disciples who died in Black Soul Mountain... It is very likely Ling Yun!”
"What? The secret realm in the back mountain!" Lei Tiangang roared, "Let's go! Lingyun is not here!"
After searching Black Soul Mountain in vain and searching the back mountain area thoroughly, they still found nothing, but terrifying news kept coming in.
"Master, the two hundred disciples who returned from the Zizhu Territory on their mission were intercepted and killed on the way. No one survived!"
"Master! The group of people who followed your secret order to go to Hei Ya City half an hour ago are already... already dead. Their bodies are less than 300 miles away from the sect."
"The head hall master, the second and seventh sons of the Seventeenth Hall Master, and their guard disciples died in the Black Soul River... probably half an hour ago."
"The disciple who was sent to fetch the Purple Thunder Stone three hours ago has not returned yet, and there is no news from him. I'm afraid he has already..."
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Chilling news came one after another. Every day, there would be news of Soul Sect disciples dying or even disappearing. It happened at different times and in different areas, but they were all near the Soul Sect. The dead and disappeared were all Soul Sect disciples.
From a few people to hundreds of people!
In just half a month, thousands of Soul Sect disciples had died.
If it was just a simple loss of life, the Soul Sect would never panic. However, in the past half month, while the death toll increased day by day, the Soul Sect had been searching frantically for Ling Yun at all costs, wishing that all eight million disciples of the main sect would come out in full force.
The news of the death of Soul Sect disciples never stops for a single day, which means that "Ling Yun" has never left the vicinity of Soul Sect. However, Soul Sect, which is all-powerful and extremely powerful in the Hei Ya Realm, has never found the shadow of "Ling Yun" in its own territory despite its crazy search.
Even from the sect leader and the chief hall master to the lowest-level disciples, no one knew what he looked like.
The only name I know is "Lingyun".
This invisible fear was more terrifying than any daunting demon. As the days passed, this fear accumulated day by day, until almost no disciples dared to step out of the sect casually, and those who were ordered to leave the sect were trembling with fear at every step... His entire back was cold, as if a pair of eyes of death were silently staring at him.
Half a month later, the Soul Sect finally issued the most humiliating ban in history: all Soul Sect members whose cultivation level was below the Divine Tribulation Realm were not allowed to leave the sect without permission!
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