Xue Kong's injuries from the battle with Qiu Huan had not yet healed. As soon as he sat on the stone platform, he immediately felt the effect of the formation. Strands of spiritual energy emerged from the ground.
It was absorbed by his cultivation and integrated into his body.
He suddenly felt a tingling sensation in his right arm, and the slow recovery of his spiritual power caused the injuries on his body to begin to heal.
"It's indeed several times better than that stone pillar. The power of this formation..." Xue Kong wanted to study the composition of this formation, but his attainments in formation were not as high as Du Gong thought.
It is really powerless.
Sit cross-legged, close your eyes and breathe.
It took more than three hours to use the formation here to restore the spiritual power in the body.
After more than three hours, Xue Kong opened and closed his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed across his eyes.
He raised his right arm and smiled slightly. "That blow only injured my tendons and bones. Now it's almost healed and I can use it again. I just need to continue recuperating for a day or two and I'll be back to normal."
At this moment, if he fights with Qiu Huan again, he may not be without the ability to fight without using [New Sprouts from Wasteland]. Even if he still loses, he will not be defeated miserably.
But thinking about it, Qiu Huan would not dare to attack himself as an inner disciple again.
Xue Kong stopped thinking about it. He stretched out his hand and slapped the storage bag. A jade tablet turned into a flash of light and flew in front of him.
Xue Kong's spiritual sense penetrated into the jade slip.
After a long while, he murmured, "Nine Ghosts Soul Moving Technique... an evil technique."
This is the martial arts technique that Xue Kong selected from the Treasure Pavilion. It has a certain offensive ability, but it is more of an auxiliary role.
However, after thoroughly understanding the Nine Ghosts Soul Moving Technique, Xue Kong showed a calm expression: "Being in the Demon Sect, it doesn't matter if I act like a demon."
"Good and evil are impermanent. Any means are only a way to achieve success. If it can achieve the goal more easily, then I will become a demon..."
He put away the jade slips of martial arts techniques, stood up from the stone gate formation, opened the heavy stone door, and walked out of the cave.
Outside the cave, the moon was bright in the sky, and the bright moonlight was like silver silk threads, hanging down in the night sky, illuminating the Tiandu Sect.
Xue Kong, dressed in a loose black robe, walked forward and disappeared into the darkness where the moonlight could not reach.
The first level of the Tiandu Sect’s mountain gate.
In a remote corner, a demon cultivator who was only at the third level of Qi Condensation sat cross-legged on the ground. The moonlight fell on his body and also in his frustrated eyes.
"I really envy Ling Yunzhi for having the chance to become an inner sect senior brother..."
"Unfortunately, my cultivation is low and my talent is insufficient. I can neither compete with other brothers for the stone pillar nor be smart enough to get close to the inner sect brothers and sisters. If this continues, when will it end?"
"They all hope to find fortune in the Demon Valley, but I only think about how to survive."
"Alas." He sighed softly, feeling somewhat confused, not knowing whether his decision to betray the righteous path and join the Demon Sect was right or wrong.
Suddenly, his expression changed drastically. Like a frightened rabbit, he jumped up from the ground, turned around and looked behind him, and shouted in surprise: "Who!"
"It's me." A dark shadow came with a steady and calm voice.
Upon seeing the newcomer's face, the demon cultivator's eyes widened in surprise, "Xue...Senior Brother Xue!"
How could he not recognize who was in front of him.
During the day, he was seen shining brilliantly, not only attracting the Poison Lord to come out in person, but also being promoted to an inner disciple ahead of schedule, becoming the object of jealousy of all the outer disciples.
"I didn't know why Senior Brother Xue came here suddenly. I don't want to disturb you. I'll leave now!" The demon cultivator was quite sensible. He bowed respectfully and prepared to leave.
"It's okay." Xue Kong said lightly and walked towards him slowly, "Come here, I need your help with something."
"Senior brother is looking for me..."
Before the demon cultivator could finish his words, Xue Kong on the opposite side suddenly attacked with his right hand as fast as lightning. In addition, the two were very close to each other, and this man was not on guard. He was not careful and was strangled by Xue Kong.
"Why..." He finally uttered two words with difficulty.
With a snap, Xue Kong broke his neck directly, and he couldn't even utter a sound for mercy or help.
Xue Kong immediately made a hand seal with one hand, and a seal was released, pressing it against the man's brow, sealing his entire body and even shocking his soul.
Immediately afterwards, Xue Kong waved his sleeves and took the corpse away.
He stepped back and disappeared into the darkness again.
Xue Kong acted decisively and quickly. Everything happened so quickly that no one noticed that a disciple was missing from the outer sect.
After returning to his cave, Xue Kong took out the corpse.
The corpse still retained its appearance before death, except that the head was hanging on the neck, swaying back and forth. There was a seal between the eyebrows of the head, which sealed all the three souls and seven spirits of this person within the body.
"The Nine Ghosts Soul Removal Technique is to refine the complete three souls and seven spirits of the cultivator, and eventually refine them into an evil ghost. With this ghost, one can exert his might."
The practice method of the Nine Ghosts Soul Moving Technique emerged in Xue Kong’s mind.
He looked normal.
The Five Elements Gourd flew out of the storage bag. He pointed with one hand and chanted, "Fire of the Five Elements, burn!"
Suddenly, a raging fire burst out from the mouth of the Five-Pole Gourd. The red flames burned the body of the demon cultivator and reduced it to ashes in a moment.
Ashes fell to the ground.
There was a human-shaped shadow floating in the air, with its eyebrows nailed down and its entire soul unable to leave.
The soul showed a strong look of resentment on its face. It stared at Xue Kong and scratched at him with its limbs, wishing to tear him to pieces. It opened its mouth to roar, but no sound came out.
This is exactly the soul of the demon cultivator.
Xue Kong had a blank expression on his face. He followed the method of refining the three souls and seven spirits in the Nine Ghosts Soul Moving Technique, pinched his fingers again, continuously releasing his spiritual power, and used the raging fire of the Five Pole Gourd to sacrifice and refine the soul alive.
The soul suddenly twisted miserably. It suffered great pain. The severe pain made it lose its mind. It kept tearing its own soul apart and wailing.
Until the soul body became torn into pieces, the entire soul began to burn, and the red flame gradually turned into dark green, devouring the soul bit by bit.
Xue Kong formed the last seal with his hands and shouted, "Concentrate!"
puff!
The dark green flame suddenly exploded, completely devouring and refining the soul.
After the flames gradually dissipated, the demon cultivator's soul completely disappeared, replaced by a fist-sized, baby-like soul, floating quietly in the air.
Looking at this soul, Xue Kong showed suspicion: "Is this the so-called evil ghost?"
I saw that the soul was the size of a fist, its lower body was like clouds, its upper body was naked, it had normal arms, and its head was bloated.
Its eyes were blank, as if it had no self-awareness and was just an empty shell.
There is a pair of fangs in the upper and lower mouths.
It does have some of the image of an evil ghost, but looking at its overall appearance, it only makes people feel cute, not vicious.
Xue Kong even began to doubt whether he had done the refining wrong.
It was not until he penetrated his spiritual consciousness into the body of the evil ghost and established a close connection with it that he finally determined the identity of the evil ghost.
"A godless evil ghost that needs to devour souls to grow."
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