Li Mingyue swung his sword, his aura surged, and the entire stone building exploded.
The villagers who were originally kneeling in front of the stone building suddenly froze in place, and then their breath quickly became weak and they fell to the ground one after another and fainted.
"What's wrong with these people?"
Li Changan took a quick look and said, "With the three souls missing and the source of life damaged, these people won't live long."
It is said that ordinary people have three souls: heaven, earth and man. The heavenly soul is also called the life soul, which is imprinted in the fate and is the number determined by heaven. The earthly soul is also called the yang soul and the awakening soul. Only practitioners can awaken it. It is hidden in the soul pool of the spiritual sea before entering the spirit world, and it is also the basis for condensing the yang spirit.
As for the human soul, also known as the life soul, it is the foundation of human beings. Because ordinary people have not been involved in spiritual practice, the heavenly soul is weak and the earthly soul has not awakened. Only the human soul supports the foundation of life.
Only Li Changan, who had practiced the Tianyin* Daoist Scripture, could see that the souls of the people in this town were incomplete, probably because they were swallowed by the stone building. Now that the stone building was broken, these people were shocked and fainted.
"Is there any way to save them?" Li Mingyue felt a little reluctant.
Li Changan shook his head. "There's no way. Even if I retrieve those devoured souls, I can't get them back into everyone's bodies. Besides..."
The ground began to shake, as if there was something underground. The citizens who had fainted on the ground suddenly exploded one after another, and scarlet blood spilled on the ground, quickly seeping into the ground and disappearing.
"What is this?" Qiyue and Li Mingyue screamed and flew up on their swords.
The huge town suddenly looked like the end of the world. The citizens who were once zombies exploded one after another, and the bright red flesh and white bones were shattered everywhere. The blood seemed to be attracted by something and quickly seeped into the ground.
In just a few breaths, there was not a single survivor within the range of vision.
Li Changan stood among the corpses all over the city, stunned for a long time, his face gradually turning pale, and his eyes gradually becoming angry.
Li Mingyue and Qiyue circled around on their flying swords, and after flying back, they shook their heads with pale faces.
"They're all dead. In just a few moments, everyone in the city was dead. There wasn't even enough time to rescue them."
The two were still in shock. Watching people explode into flesh and blood one after another was too horrifying. Even though they had cultivated to their current level, they had never seen such a method.
"This small town has been set up with a magic circle!"
Li Changan's face turned ashen.
Although his attainments in formations were not as good as Chang'e of Jiufeng, he had studied it a lot over the years, so after his initial shock and astonishment, he finally confirmed it.
"There must be a magic array here, and the base of the array is this stone building. No, that's not right..." Li Changan said with a gloomy face, "Mingyue, use the earth escape technique to check down there. There should be something down there."
Li Mingyue nodded, and the whole person turned into a beam of light and instantly disappeared into the ground. Soon, when he appeared again, his face looked extremely ugly.
"Sir, I'd better take you down to have a look."
As he spoke, he grabbed Li Changan's shoulders and used the earth escape technique to drill into the underground of the town. He stopped nearly a hundred feet underground.
The soil here was no longer gray-black, but blood-red. Strands of blood were still seeping into the blood-red soil, converging in one direction. Li Changan drilled along the place where the blood gathered, and finally saw a blood-red dagger deep in the soil.
Inside the dagger, one can clearly see a blood pill condensed from blood. It is crystal clear and scarlet in color. As the blood gathers, it becomes more and more bizarre.
"Sure enough, there are people here who don't know about the blood-sucking magic circle and use the entire city's population to refine blood pills. Damn it!"
Li Changan gritted his teeth, his face ashen. He had seen a lot of cruelty in the cultivation world, but he still couldn't tolerate such means that were beyond the bottom line of human beings.
"In the territory of the Northern Continent, at the foot of Qingyun Mountain in the Taixuan Holy Land, someone actually used this method to cultivate. We, the righteous people who claim to be from the Holy Land, had never known about it. Damn it, an entire city of people."
“Who on earth is it!”
Li Changan knew without hesitation that once this formation was activated, no one in the entire city would be spared. Tens of millions of people in this remote town had died silently at the hands of a cultivator.
Li Changan's face turned pale. He reached out and pulled out the blood-red dagger. His five fingers were tightly clasped on the dagger, and his knuckles turned white.
The established understanding in the cultivation world is that cultivators are not allowed to affect the existence of ordinary people without reason. Although ordinary people do not have cultivation, their base is huge and they support the basic operation of this world. If ordinary people are affected, it will inevitably affect the cultivation world.
Moreover, this practice will cause the fire of karma from heaven and retribution.
After coming out from underground, Li Changan's face turned slightly pale. The flesh and blood on the ground quickly dried up after losing blood, and finally turned into a handful of yellow soil.
The entire small town turned into a dead city in an instant.
"How could this happen? He was fine just now..." July grabbed Li Changan's sleeve like a frightened little girl.
If everyone hadn't stumbled upon it by accident, no one would have known that such a tragic thing was happening in a remote mountain town.
"Underneath this small town, someone has set up a magic array. It has two layers: one for souls, and one for blood. The soul-devouring array slowly drains the life force from the souls, maintaining the town's apparent tranquility. Once the life force is completely drained, the blood-devouring array will activate, stripping the city dwellers of their vital energy..."
"Mingyue destroyed the stone building, indirectly triggering the blood-sucking magic circle. Speaking of which, it was our arrival that led to the current situation..."
A trace of self-blame flashed in Li Changan's eyes, and Li Mingyue and Qiyue fell into silence.
"No, according to my guess, there should be two overlapping magic arrays here, one to extract the soul, and the other to devour the blood. Since a blood pill was found here, there must be a soul pill as well."
Li Changan's eyes lit up. Since this evil cultivator had set up two magic arrays and transformed the essence and blood of the people in the city into blood pills, then the stripped souls must be condensed into soul pills.
"Look for it, there should be another soul pill here."
Li Mingyue and Qiyue spread out on their flying swords and searched most of the city with the stone building as the center, but they didn't see anything.
Li Changan frowned deeply.
"The Soul Pill is missing?"
Was a teleportation array set up to transport the soul pill away from this place, or was someone taking away the soul pill that was supposed to be left here right under their noses?
No, since the blood pill is still there, there is no need to set up a teleportation array for the soul pill alone. So, it should be the second possibility.
Someone took the soul pill away without him noticing.
Was that person the mastermind behind setting up the magic circle here? Since he took the Soul Pill, why didn't he take the Blood Pill as well?
Li Changan looked at the blood-red dagger in his hand and fell into deep thought.
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