Zhongli Tingzhou put away his life-saving magic weapon, and his footsteps left footprints in the black and gray powder on the ground.
A sharp and wild scream sounded again, and appeared at the door in the blink of an eye.
Dozens of wandering souls swarmed in, waving their sharp claws and rushing over.
The aura emanating from these wandering souls is quite strong, and their scarlet pupils occasionally flash red light, which is a characteristic that only appears after they have devoured other wandering souls.
The wandering souls soon noticed the green beads on the ground, which exuded an alluring scent, and several of them pounced on them without hesitation.
"How dare you steal my things." Zhongli Tingzhou's figure instantly rushed into the group of wandering souls, and wherever he passed, the ground was scattered with black and gray powder.
A stream of sword energy rushed towards the wandering soul that had swallowed half of the green bead.
The wandering soul stretched out its hand to block it, and immediately a dinging sound was heard.
The sword energy was actually blocked.
"Hey, it's actually a hidden green wandering soul."
Green Wandering Soul is the name given to them by Zhongli Tingzhou himself, which means that the other party has green beads on his body, while red beads represent red wandering souls.
Zhongli Tingzhou immediately became interested and stopped attacking actively. He watched the other party absorb all the energy of the green bead.
The aura of the wandering soul's body suddenly became stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Is it higher than the level of the Blue Wandering Soul?" Zhongli Tingzhou walked over with a sword in hand.
The red light in the eyes of this green wandering soul became increasingly intense, which was a symbol of both killing and power.
The wandering soul that ate the green bead seemed to have been promoted to another level of strength that Zhongli Tingzhou did not know about. He could feel the powerful energy hidden in the other party.
I couldn't help but lick my lips. The beads on this wandering soul must be more delicious than the red beads and green beads.
The wandering soul that had become stronger slowly arched its limbs, its facial features grimacing, filled with a strong murderous aura, and it slowly walked around Zhongli Tingzhou.
"Both the power and wisdom have been enhanced. Does this mean that there are truly intelligent and powerful wandering souls in this fairy palace, standing on the top of the pyramid and looking down on everyone?"
Zhongli Tingzhou assumed an attacking posture, and the wandering soul behind him suddenly leaped up, and its sharp claws instantly grew nearly one meter long nails, which were purple in color, and scratched him from behind.
With this claw, not only flesh and blood will be torn out, but even bones will probably not be spared.
The claw light passed through Zhongli Tingzhou's body, but it didn't feel like it landed on a real object.
The wandering soul felt something was wrong and dodged to the left without thinking. A beam of white sword light struck its face, avoiding its vital parts at the cost of its arm.
Zhongli Tingzhou looked up and saw Youhun's body curled up with his back pressed against the corner of the wall, his red eyes staring at him angrily.
The arm that he cut off grew back the next second.
Half of the wandering soul's body should be a creature that gathers energy. As long as the beads in its head are not dug out, it can use the beads to grow a new body, but it will consume energy.
This is the conclusion Zhongli Tingzhou came to after dealing with wandering souls during this period of time.
"Fast, intelligent, and able to regenerate infinitely? Really suitable as a whetstone."
Zhongli Tingzhou walked towards it with a smile, and suddenly stopped.
He remembered one thing. These beads could quickly repair the Yin-Yang beads in his body. Could they repair Gao Han's life space?
What if it works? No matter what, it's always a good idea to collect more.
The wandering soul noticed that Zhongli Tingzhou's figure suddenly disappeared, and his face seemed to change. The next moment, he left the corner, and a sword energy brushed past his body again.
This time, it won't be fooled again.
With a puff.
The wandering soul's red pupils widened to the extreme, and it seemed that it saw with its peripheral vision that its arm was cut off again, even though it had clearly dodged it.
"Idiot, who said I can only strike once with my sword? After all, with this level of intelligence, isn't it still an intelligent creature?"
The illusory figure of Zhongli Tingzhou appeared beside it.
"Ten Thousand Swords Formation."
In an instant, countless white sword auras appeared around him, avoiding Zhongli Tingzhou and falling on the wandering souls one after another, like positive and negative poles attracting each other.
The wandering soul, filled with countless sword energy, expanded to the extreme and then exploded.
A purple bead, different from the green bead, flew out and was caught by Zhongli Tingzhou.
"Purple beads?"
The strength is equivalent to that of the human cultivators in the out-of-body stage. Above that, are there wandering souls in the spirit transformation stage and the fusion stage? Will there be wandering souls in the Mahayana stage?
"The wandering souls in the Mahayana stage cannot be provoked for the time being."
The self-aware Zhongli Tingzhou forgot that he could not afford to offend any wandering souls above the Spirit Transformation Stage.
After absorbing the purple bead, he saw that the second crack on the Yin-Yang Bead was finally repaired.
The energy of the beads of these wandering souls was more useful than he expected.
"If we kill a few more purple wandering souls, we might be able to repair the last crack. We have to leave some for Gao Han, but where can we find more wandering souls?"
Zhongli Tingzhou's eyes turned and instantly caught sight of a sneaky figure.
The dark wandering soul was holding a red bead that he had dropped in its arms. It was obviously terribly afraid of him and would tremble non-stop when he approached, yet it wanted to follow him all the time.
Perhaps it noticed his gaze, the wandering soul trembled for a moment, and the red beads in its arms fell to the ground. It quickly ran behind the wall, and the next second, it secretly stretched its head out to look at him.
The figure that was originally standing in the middle of the hall suddenly disappeared.
The wandering soul was suddenly panicked. Where is the person? Why did he disappear?
"Why are you following me all the time, you guy?" A sinister voice sounded from behind Youhun.
The wandering soul fell limply to the ground with a thud. It was so frightened that it couldn't get up.
Zhongli Tingzhou kicked it with his toes, "You are so weak. Killing you would be a waste of spiritual energy."
The wandering soul was kicked by him and rolled twice on the ground, and its body kept shaking like a sieve.
Zhongli Tingzhou squatted down and poked its body with the tip of his sword. "I'll give you a chance. Take me to find other wandering souls, and I won't kill you."
The wandering soul was poked by him and thought he was going to die, and his body continued to tremble.
"Stop shaking." Zhongli Tingzhou's murderous voice suddenly sounded.
The wandering soul immediately stopped shaking.
"If you understand what I say, lead the way. If you don't, get out." Zhongli Tingzhou stood up again.
He was too lazy to even muster the energy to kill it. Its eyes were nowhere to be found and there was no red light, indicating that it had not eaten other wandering souls. Its breath was so weak that it could almost be ignored, and it had no aggressiveness at all.
He ignored the wandering soul and walked away without picking up the red bead on the ground.
Having tasted the green and purple beads, he no longer looked down upon the tiny red beads.
The wandering soul picked up the red bead and chased after it while absorbing energy.
Zhongli Tingzhou knew that it was following him, but he didn't say anything. He killed any wandering soul he saw on the way. He occasionally encountered one or two green wandering souls, but he never saw any purple wandering souls.
"When you've had enough, come work for me."
Zhongli Tingzhou glanced fiercely at the wandering soul that took a quarter of an hour to absorb the energy of a red bead, and he became more and more disgusted.
Perhaps realizing that this human would not harm him, the wandering soul became a little bolder. It would still tremble when approaching him, but it would no longer be so weak.
It slowly floated in front of Zhongli Tingzhou and was about to lead the way, but was kicked away.
"If you're slow again, I'll kill you." A murderous voice sounded behind him.
The wandering soul jumped up nimbly and ran to the front to lead the way as fast as he thought possible.
However, its speed was still very slow in Zhongli Tingzhou's eyes. He thought, if it still couldn't lead him to find the purple wandering soul, there was no need to keep it.
A chill rose on the wandering soul's back. It did not dare to look back and just kept its head down to lead the way.
Before Zhongli Tingzhou's anger was about to erupt, this wandering soul finally played its role and found a purple wandering soul.
Sensing a powerful wandering spirit ahead, he rushed out without saying a word.
The little wandering soul leading the way was stunned for a moment. In addition to the purple wandering souls in front, there were also many green wandering souls. If they were all added together, they could kill a purple wandering soul.
The little wandering soul chased after it hurriedly, and after turning around the wall that blocked its view, it suddenly braked and shrank back behind the wall, leaving only a corner exposed to peek.
The powerful wandering soul felt the sword energy vibrating in the air and realized that someone had broken into its territory. It instantly ordered all its men to besiege the other party.
That human was swallowed up by all the green wandering souls, and only violent sword energy could be seen flashing in the air.
Every time the sword energy flew past, it would always harvest at least one wandering soul, and soon more and more green beads accumulated in the black ash on the ground.
The little wandering soul looked at the green beads on the ground with envy. The human race was so powerful. It also wanted to absorb these green beads, but it didn't dare.
These beads are very tempting to wandering souls, but from the time it was born until now, it was too weak and could not defeat other wandering souls. It was almost eaten by other wandering souls many times.
The first time it tasted the delicious beads, it was given to it by this human being.
After eating the beads, it missed them even more.
The number of blue wandering souls besieging the enemy was decreasing, and some of them realized that they were no match for the human race and began to retreat.
Zhongli Tingzhou ignored the beads on the ground and killed his way to the purple wandering soul.
The little wandering soul hesitated for a moment, then floated over and collected the beads.
It didn't dare to steal the food, but if it helped, what if the human was kind enough to give it one to try?
With this extremely naive idea in mind, the little wandering soul slowly collected the beads. All the wandering souls nearby had been killed by humans, so it didn't have to worry about any wandering souls coming to eat it.
There are a lot of beads, but the little wandering souls have a special way of storing them.
After doing all this, the little wandering soul rushed over to find the human. There were wandering souls everywhere outside, so it climbed to the top of the palace and looked down through a hole.
The human walked up to the purple wandering soul sitting on the throne, completely ignoring the green wandering soul behind him that was staring at him covetously but dared not move.
The purple ghost roared angrily.
Damn human race, breaking into its territory and killing so many of its men.
It is not easy to dominate the Fairy Palace. It is necessary to win over subordinates and seize favorable territories. These subordinates can not only become thugs and rush to the front, but also provide many energy beads it needs.
If it does not improve its strength, it will sooner or later be devoured and destroyed by other powerful wandering souls.
Zhongli Tingzhou didn’t know what the purple wandering soul was talking about, nor was he interested in knowing.
He only knew that the little wandering soul was quite useful and really led him to find the territory of a purple wandering soul.
Excited, he rushed towards the angry purple ghost without saying a word.
court death!
The purple wandering soul was furious, and a black mist lifted it up and released the black mist at the same time. The entire hall was instantly shrouded in black mist.
The little wandering soul on the dome could no longer see the situation of the battle.
"Black energy? I like it the most." Zhongli Tingzhou swung out sword energy, shooting in all directions, entering the black fog and rolling violently.
At the same time, the black gas that was originally lurking in the Yin-Yang Bead immediately rushed out impatiently, and disappeared into the black fog.
A moment later, a terrified roar of the purple wandering soul was heard from the black fog.
What is this thing? Why does it absorb its energy? Even if it tries to stop it, it's useless. The energy is still being lost in large quantities.
Feeling frightened, the purple wandering soul has begun to retreat.
The battle has begun, it can't escape just because it wants to.
The wisp of black energy agreed, but Zhongli Tingzhou refused.
At his signal, the black gas accelerated its swallowing speed, and the black fog in the hall quickly disappeared a lot and became bright again.
The little wandering soul widened its eyes. It sensed that the breath of the purple wandering soul had become much weaker. It looked at Zhongli Tingzhou again, with more fear in its eyes.
This human gave it a very terrifying feeling from the very beginning, because there was a special aura on him that was able to restrain them.
Come on, everyone. Kill him, kill him!
The purple wandering soul discovered this later than the small wandering soul. At this moment, it could no longer conceal the fear in its heart and began to order its nearby subordinates to attack the other side.
Except for some silly green wandering souls that obediently rushed forward to attack Zhongli Tingzhou, the other smart wandering souls had already escaped.
Even the boss has been beaten like this, if they rush forward they will be courting death.
You know, there are people who want to replace the boss.
Born as wandering souls, they naturally know that they can only become stronger by devouring their own kind and the flesh and blood of human cultivators. Therefore, it is normal for wandering souls to rebel against their superiors in the huge immortal palace.
These wandering souls soon became the dead souls under Zhongli Tingzhou's sword, and they were completely dead.
The purple ghost was so frightened that it wanted to escape, and it immediately took action, taking advantage of the time when its subordinates were entangled with the human and fleeing madly.
"Go." Zhongli Tingzhou caught a glimpse of its fleeing figure and smiled lightly.
The black gas lingering on his fingertips flew out at a faster speed and penetrated into the body of the purple wandering soul when it was about to escape from the dome.
The purple ghost was terrified and let out terrifying screams. It fell from the dome and lay on the ground with its body twisted until it was sucked dry.
The purple bead was also absorbed by the black air, and after returning to the Yin-Yang Bead, the power was fed back to the host body.
Zhongli Tingzhou saw the last crack on the surface of the Yin-Yang Pearl, which was the gap connecting the yin and yang sides, and quickly repaired it a little.
He had always had a hunch that this crack would probably be the most difficult to repair, and it turned out that his intuition was not wrong.
It can be clearly felt that this wandering soul is stronger than the previous purple wandering soul, but the quality of the repair is not as good.
This could only be the case if the last crack required more energy than the others.
After the leader died, the other green wandering souls scattered like birds and beasts.
Those who escaped slowly soon became part of Zhongli Tingzhou's collection of beads.
The whole hall was silent, everyone had run away.
Zhongli Tingzhou raised his head, looked at the little wandering soul that was looking at him, and hooked his finger at it.
The little wandering soul was startled, and after a while it slowly floated down.
"If you move so slowly again next time, don't follow me." Zhongli Tingzhou was very dissatisfied with it because it was like an old grandfather, doing everything slowly.
The little wandering soul shook its body a few times, not sure if it was saying it understood. Then it spat out all the green beads it had swallowed and looked at him ingratiatingly.
"It does have some other uses." Zhongli Tingzhou raised his eyebrows and put away the beads, as well as the beads scattered around the hall.
The little wandering soul also took action immediately, helping him to find the land in the corner and then presented it to him in a flattering manner.
Zhongli Tingzhou put them all away and when he turned around, he suddenly remembered and threw a green bead over.
The little wandering soul looked at him a little blankly.
"If you're any slower, I'll kill you." Zhongli Tingzhou walked away without looking back.
The little wandering soul then realized that the soul bead was given to it by the other party. It was so moved that it wanted to cry, but it had no eyes, so it immediately followed happily holding the soul bead.
After absorbing the soul bead, the little wandering soul's power increased significantly and its movements became much faster.
He took Zhongli Tingzhou and found another territory of purple wandering souls. Relying on his control over the wandering souls, he killed all the wandering souls in this area and forced them to flee. Unable to bear the heavy burden, they finally fled to other places for refuge.
Other disciples of the sect who were unaware of the situation discovered that they were encountering wandering souls more and more frequently, sometimes encountering more than a dozen or even dozens of them at a time.
The disciples who had originally gathered together were also separated due to some accidents.
In a palace somewhere deep in the fairy palace, a pair of evil eyes opened in the darkness, filled with a sinister smile.
"The once-in-a-century feast is about to begin again."
"Yes, another century has passed. This time, I must grab more opportunities."
The response was a voice full of violence.
"It's time, Immortal Court, I am determined to win." Another powerful voice echoed in the air, like a polyphony.
"Are we going to use the flesh and blood of the human race and their souls for blood sacrifice this time?"
"This centennial feast is different from the past. It is said to be a revival of the past thousand years of glory. The opportunity I have been waiting for has come."
"It's better to be cautious. We can't attract that person's attention."
"Once I have cultivated the body of an evil god, that man will no longer be a threat to me. The first thing I will do when I get out is to kill him!"
"What a joke! The person who has cultivated the body of an evil god should be me."
"Wrong, it's me."
"It's me!"
…
The arguments that were heard in the depths of the Fairy Palace were not known by the people in every corner. In fact, their actions had already been seen by certain creatures.
A violent voice withdrew from the quarrel, and the soul returned to its own territory, opening its gloomy eyes indifferently.
There were several men kneeling below, all of them looked like wandering souls, but the aura emanating from them was stronger than that outside. They all lowered their heads and sincerely submitted to the wandering souls on the throne.
"Pass on my order. The feast has begun. Hunt down the disciples of the human race with all your strength. I want to get the most nameplates in this year's feast."
"Yes, my lord." Several powerful wandering souls bowed their heads in response, and then left the hall one after another.
At the same time, various powerful leaders simultaneously issued orders to hunt down the human race and seize the nameplates.
The spiritual practitioners later discovered that these wandering souls were becoming more and more crazy, with dozens of them appearing each time. Later on, they not only actively attacked people, but also robbed humans of their storage items.
"Big Brother, these wandering souls are so powerful, and there are too many of them. It is becoming increasingly difficult for us to deal with them."
Zhou Zechang had a distressed look on his face. In fact, the strength of these wandering souls was not much greater than theirs. The reason why they were difficult to kill was because of their strangeness.
"There's something fishy about this. The sudden increase in the number of these wandering spirits means that either their leader discovered our invasion and is trying to kill us all, or they are carrying out some unknown purpose."
Feng Xinxing was also very suspicious as to why the number of wandering souls suddenly increased, considering that they were in a relatively peripheral area.
"The former is less likely and cannot be infiltrated outside, while the latter is more likely."
"What purpose could these wandering souls have? However, after they eat cultivators, their strength does increase. Could this be their purpose?" a junior fellow student speculated.
Junior Brother Nan hesitated for a moment and said, "Come to think of it, I saw something strange before."
"Tell me what's the matter!" Everyone's eyes immediately focused on him.
"I saw a wandering soul kill a spiritual practitioner and take away his storage bag."
It is normal to loot the spoils after killing someone outside, but it feels a bit unharmonious when it comes to wandering souls.
"I understand." Feng Xinxing said suddenly.
"What does the eldest brother know?" everyone asked.
"I roughly know what the purpose of these wandering spirits is. If I'm not mistaken, they probably want the house number plates on us."
At the same time, Yuan Ran asked a similar question.
"What's the use of the house number for the wandering soul?"
"To be precise, the wandering souls call what we call doorplates nameplates. This kind of doorplate seems to be something that is of special benefit to them. So every time someone enters the Fairy Palace, these wandering souls will start to snatch the nameplates from humans." Pei Zhenghai replied with a shrug.
"What do the nameplates do to them?"
"I don't know about that. It seems that no one has figured it out in the past. Because the Fairy Palace is said to be guarded by powerful wandering spirits, no one has ever dared to go deep into the Fairy Palace."
Yuan Ran suddenly asked an irrelevant question, "Do you think Master Uncle would dare to break in?"
"Well, that's hard to say. I think given your great-grandmaster's character, it's really possible." Pei Zhenghai no longer dared to underestimate Zhongli Tingzhou.
Yuan Ran was speechless, because he felt that this kind of thing was perfectly normal for his great-grandmaster Uncle Zhongli.
In a corner of the Fairy Palace, there is a medium-sized palace located just downstream of Zhongli Tingzhou.
"What's going on? Why are there so many wandering souls coming here?"
Chen Binyu stared at the wandering souls that kept rushing in, his face turning pale.
"Something must have happened up there. Let's kill all the wandering souls that can be killed first, and then we can hide away." Wen Hongru used the Eight Divine Swords without hesitation.
The violent energy of the Eight Divine Swords has a more obvious effect on these wandering souls.
The wandering souls they killed left many soul beads on the ground.
Chen Binyu looked at these soul beads, and a hint of greed flashed in his eyes.
These soul beads had a really good effect on them. After he digested more than a dozen soul beads, he could already feel that his realm, which had been stuck for a long time, was loosening.
He believed that after digesting more soul beads, he would be able to break through to the out-of-body stage soon.
At this moment, something strange happened.
A sharp and piercing voice suddenly came from another place.
The sound was getting closer, and there was also a strong sense of crisis.
"Oh no, it seems like a more powerful wandering soul is coming." Chen Binyu's face changed.
"Retreat first." Wen Hongru made a prompt decision.
"But what about the soul orb?" Chen Binyu was reluctant to part with the soul orb that would explode after they killed him.
But too many green wandering souls poured in and there was no chance to pick them up.
"Which is more important, life or the soul bead?" Wen Hongru asked him directly and retreated while fighting.
Chen Binyu gritted his teeth. He had no choice but to follow him out.
After escaping, the two men put away their knives and fled.
Not long after, the purple wandering soul arrived at the palace and found that the two humans had escaped. It immediately let out an angry roar.
"What's wrong with these wandering souls? Why do they suddenly act like crazy?" Chen Binyu was still frightened when he heard this voice.
"The situation has changed and it will be more dangerous next." Wen Hongru said calmly with a sullen face.
"What's changed?" Chen Binyu didn't understand.
"I heard from the elders and master that the wandering souls in the Immortal Palace want the doorplates on us, which they call nameplates." Wen Hongru said.
When Chen Binyu heard this, he suddenly felt uncomfortable. Why didn't these elders and the sect leader tell him?
"Why do they want our house number?"
"It seems that there is something in the depths of the Immortal Palace that is attracting them. Getting the nameplate is equivalent to getting a pass. Don't forget, the doorplate itself comes from the Monument of Ten Thousand Immortals, so it is normal that it is related to the Immortal Palace." As the chief, Wen Hongru must know the most.
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"Take a black card and throw it out." In another palace in the Fairy Palace, facing the attack of hundreds of wandering souls, Gan Mulan said very calmly.
A female disciple took out the black card on her body without hesitation and threw it out without thinking.
More than twenty of the wandering souls that originally attacked them immediately chased after the black card.
"It really works." The female disciples were very surprised.
"As expected, these wandering spirits are not only after our flesh and blood, but also after our house numbers. If we don't give them to them, they will keep chasing us."
Gan Mulan made a prompt decision.
"Evacuate here first, find other people to meet up, and then make a long-term plan."
Everyone listened to her and chose to retreat without hesitation.
Similar things happened almost everywhere in the Fairy Palace. Those who were afraid of the attacks from the wandering spirits dared not advance any further. Some people were besieged by wandering spirits because of their greed and were unable to escape.
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