Chapter 92: The Demon Soul

  "Very good, the timing of your move was just right!" Xi Feng praised, slowly falling beside the corpse of the clam spirit.

  With a practiced air, he extracted from the corpse of the clam spirit a silver-glowing orb the size of half an inch, and placed it in a wooden box. He then proceeded to remove the two shells from the clam spirit's body, shrinking them down with a spell before placing them in a jade box as well. All of these items were then stored away in his inventory bag.

  "The demon core of this clam-like demonic beast is really beautiful, other third-grade demon cores are not as good-looking." Xun San muttered to himself.

  Xi Feng took out a three-inch black bottle, pointed the mouth of the bottle at the head of the corpse of Bao Jing, pinched a strange incantation in his hand, and began to chant in a low voice.

  This incantation was not only very long, but also sounded somewhat eerie and ominous to Zhao Di's ears, giving him a chilling feeling.

  After reciting the incantation for half a stick of incense, Xi Feng's face was already beading with sweat the size of beans. The tips of his fingers, pinched in a strange hand seal, condensed into a white glow about an inch in diameter that shone with an otherworldly beauty.

  He thrust the white light sphere into the corpse of the clam spirit, then continuously transmitted spiritual energy and changed his gestures, as if to pull something out from the corpse of the demon beast.

  A moment later, a white light enveloped a smaller green light point that flew out of the corpse of the clam spirit. The green light point struggled desperately to escape from the control of the white light, but it was unable to break free. In the end, under the pull of the white light, the green light point was pulled into the small black bottle.

  "This is a soul-calling technique! That green light point is the soul of this clam spirit!" Red Dust explained, seeing Zhao Di's puzzled expression.

  "This spell is extremely difficult to master, and the requirements for spiritual awareness are too high. Although it's a foundation-building spell, generally, one can only learn it in the middle of the foundation-building period." Da Han Zhou San also said.

  "Does this evil spirit have a special purpose?"

  "This I'm not very clear about, but the Evil Dao Ghost Cult and some miscellaneous Dao Qigong cultivators are willing to pay a high price for this demon beast's soul. Especially the high-level demon beasts' demonic souls, their value is not lower than other materials!" The big man shook his head and said.

  Zhao Di looked towards the mortal world, but the girl shook her head and showed an "I'm also unclear" expression.

  Xie Feng spoke up after putting away the demonic beast's soul: "The Ghost Sect has many unimaginable powerful artifacts and treasures that are all powered by the power of yin souls, so they need a large number of souls to refine equipment or offer sacrifices for special techniques. I'm not entirely clear on how they're refined specifically. The Ghost Sect's techniques are the most secretive and mysterious, rarely seen in the markets." After a moment, he continued: "This time everyone contributed their strength, each person gets two shares. This third-grade demonic elixir plus materials and demonic souls is worth 1,000 spirit stones, with each person getting 200 spirit stones. Let's take a break and meditate for now, then continue our search."

  In the following months, the five of them found two third-level demon beasts and four fourth-level demon beasts, all of which were relatively common sea demon beasts. Under Xi Feng's command, they almost didn't expend much energy and solved them one by one. There was only one fourth-level demon beast - the flying catfish, with a pair of wings and a snake-like tail, that caused them some trouble due to its extreme speed and high agility. However, under the five people's tacit cooperation and prolonged siege, it was finally injured by Zhao Di's flying needle, which made its wings inconvenient to move, allowing Xun San's Rolling Wave Halberd to directly cut off its head.

  Normally, it would take two or three months to find one of these beasts, but this time, almost every month they could find one, and sometimes even two. It seems that the claim that the number of demons in the Xingchen Sea is increasing and becoming more active has some basis.

  After smoothly killing several fourth-level demon beasts, Xi Feng led the crowd to carefully move eastward, trying to find a lone fifth-level demon beast. The attack power of a fifth-level demon beast is far beyond what a fourth-level demon beast can match! After all, a fifth-level demon beast is equivalent to a human cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, but because its spiritual intelligence is too low and it doesn't know how to use magical artifacts, relying only on its innate powerful body and instincts to act, Xi Feng and the others think they have an opportunity.

  Even with top-grade defensive magic tools in hand, it's still difficult to defend against a sudden attack by a fifth-level demonic beast. Therefore, the five of them didn't dare fly close to the sea surface again, instead flying in mid-air, using their eyes and divine sense to search for traces of the fifth-level demonic beast.

  "Look at that white foam on the surface of the sea!" Hongchen suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, pointing to a spot on the sea about ten or more miles away.

  With the cultivator's far superior eyesight to ordinary people, and the good view of the empty sea surface, several people clearly saw that in a certain part of the sea, many small bubbles kept emerging, these bubbles did not burst immediately, but accumulated on the sea surface, forming a white bubble group of over ten zhang in size.

  Xue Feng said with a hint of surprise, "This seems to be the air bubble produced by the Bloodthirsty Shark's roar! There might be one in this sea! Follow me." As he spoke, Xue Feng didn't approach the air bubble, but instead flew towards a nearby coral island that was only several hundred meters in size.

  After arriving at the Coral Island, Xi Feng explained his tactical arrangement: "The fifth-grade demon beast not only has high attack and defense powers compared to the fourth-grade demon beast, but it is also extremely fast. If it discovers that we are outnumbered and wants to escape, it will be very difficult for us to surround and kill it with our current abilities. So, let's set up a formation first, trap it, and then use the formation's power to launch a joint attack, which will give us a great opportunity to destroy this demon."

  "How can we lure this demon into the formation?" Zhao Di asked.

  He took out a half-transparent jade bottle, with some liquid flowing inside, and smiled: "Hehe, the Bloodthirsty Shark is the most common fifth-level demon beast in the Star Ocean. Its habits have long been understood by people! This thing is called Fish Stench Liquid, which is colorless, tasteless, non-toxic, and harmless to human cultivators, but it's the favorite of Bloodthirsty Sharks! Moreover, Bloodthirsty Sharks can track the smell of Fish Stench Liquid within a hundred miles. So as long as we sprinkle this liquid in the center of the formation, it will make this not-so-intelligent fifth-level demon beast obediently enter the formation on its own. Once inside, I'll immediately activate the formation and trap it."

  "The Bloodthirsty Shark is a fifth-grade demon beast, its teeth are exceptionally hard and sharp. If the cultivator is bitten by it, he will definitely die on the spot. Even if an extreme-quality magic weapon is bitten by it, it will likely be severely damaged or even destroyed instantly. Only Zhao Wu's flying needle magic weapon is too small to be bitten. Therefore, in this battle, Zhao Wu took charge of the main attack." Xi Feng said to Zhao Di: "The scales on the Bloodthirsty Shark are also extremely tough, and the flying needles can't pierce them. The only weakness lies within its body, when we attack later, I will let Di Er help you lure the Bloodthirsty Shark to open its mouth wide, then you take advantage of it and stab the flying needle into its mouth with a flurry of stabs. Just be careful not to hit the brain between its two eyes, where the demon core is located."

  He took out a set of formation flags and five red mid-grade spirit stones, handing them all over to Hong Chen, saying: "These are the items needed to set up the Three Yang Blazing Fire Formation. You can arrange it on this Coral Island. With Fourth Sister's experience in setting formations, I'm sure you'll be able to complete it within an hour."

  "Triple Sun Blazing Fire Formation? This formation isn't large and isn't particularly complex, half a time period is enough!" Hong Chen took over the spirit stone and array flag method plate, and on Coral Island chose a location to begin carefully and meticulously setting up.

  Then Xi Feng said to Di Er, "Di Er, you should also contribute those two puppet beasts of yours. In order to attract the attention of this bloodthirsty shark, we can only use them as cannon fodder!"

  Di Er nodded slightly, not saying a word. With a slight flick of his right hand, two fist-sized miniature wooden tigers flew out from his sleeve and landed beside him, instantly transforming into five or six feet long wooden tigers.

  Di Er lightly patted the two wooden tigers' heads, and a hidden compartment appeared on their foreheads. He then took out two cyan low-grade spirit stones and placed them in the compartments on top of the wooden tigers' heads. After closing the compartments, the eyes of the two wooden tigers immediately shone with a bright cyan light, and a faint cyan spiritual glow emanated from their entire bodies. Their spiritual power fluctuations were similar to those of a fifth or sixth layer Qi Refining stage cultivator.

  "Is this the Puppet Beast?" Zhao Di asked curiously, suddenly remembering a certain jade box in his storage bag!

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