Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 109 - 107: Striking at the Heart (Please Subscribe)
Chapter 109: Chapter 107: Striking at the Heart (Please Subscribe)
"The ’Soul Searching Technique,’ as the name suggests, is a powerful secret technique that can directly search a person’s soul and examine their memories. The minimum cultivation requirement for using this technique is the Golden Core Stage.
In the Cultivation Realm, the ’Soul Searching Technique’ is infamously notorious. For a period, many Golden Core Stage cultivators relied on this secret technique to wantonly capture other low-tier cultivators, using this method to spy on others’ secrets and seize their opportunities, causing low-tier cultivators to live in fear and trepidation.
Later, a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal stood out, united with dozens of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators from various sectors of the Cultivation Realm, and issued an immortal rule specifically targeting the ’Soul Searching Technique.’
That rule states that unless there is a deep, unending enmity between the two parties or if the soul-searching target is a demonic cultivator, any Golden Core Stage cultivator is strictly prohibited from executing the ’Soul Searching Technique’ to pry into others’ privacy, violators will be killed without mercy.
After the promulgation of this immortal rule, within a mere century, hundreds of Golden Core Stage cultivators were killed by Nascent Soul Stage cultivators for violating the rule. There was even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator who was killed by that Tribulation Crossing True Immortal for protecting a disciple who broke the immortal rule.
Since then, no Golden Core Stage cultivator has dared openly violate this rule. Those who secretly practice the ’Soul Searching Technique’ do so with utmost caution, afraid of being reported by someone to the Nascent Soul Stage cultivators of other sects.
Currently, there are no Nascent Soul Stage cultivators in the Boundless Desert Sea. Additionally, since it is being used on a demon cultivator, Cao Wenjin dared to openly use the ’Soul Searching Technique’ in front of other cultivators.
However, just as he began to employ the ’Soul Searching Technique,’ Blood Demon Cliff, whom he had restrained with the ’God-Banning Talisman,’ suddenly opened his eyes and roared, "You wish!"
Before the roar had finished, his head exploded with a "boom".
Ugh!
Cao Wenjin let out a muffled grunt, waved his sleeve, and sent the headless body of Blood Demon Cliff flying, then quickly took a healing spirit pill for divine sense wounds from his storage bracelet and swallowed it.
After doing all this, those who were guarding him finally recovered from the shock of the sudden change. Xiao Bufan, who was closest, immediately looked at him worriedly and asked, "Master, are you alright?"
"I’m fine," the old man replied, his face gloomy. "I didn’t expect that his divine soul had a protective restriction planted in it. I triggered the restriction halfway through the soul search, allowing him to briefly break free from the God-Banning Talisman’s control and self-destruct his divine soul!"
Cao Wenjin recounted the events with a sullen expression and closed his eyes to organize the findings from the previous soul search.
The ’Soul Searching Technique’ has plagued the Cultivation Realm for many years, so naturally, there are powerful cultivators who have researched countermeasures against it.
Whether a Golden Core Stage or above cultivator plants a special divine soul protection restriction in one’s soul, or practices certain special secret techniques that protect the divine soul, both can serve as a counter to this technique.
However, whether it’s planting a special protection restriction in the soul or practicing a secret technique to protect the divine soul, the cultivator must have opened the Purple Mansion, allowing their divine soul to manifest and reside there.
Blood Demon Cliff, who came from the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect, a major demonic sect, had a divine soul protection restriction planted by the top expert of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect at that time, the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator ’Blood Evil Celestial Demon,’ after opening his Purple Mansion. With this restriction, even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator couldn’t learn the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect’s secrets by using soul search on him.
However, since the ’Blood Evil Celestial Demon’ had fallen decades ago, the restriction left in Blood Demon Cliff’s divine soul had greatly reduced in effectiveness. Plus, Cao Wenjin, seeking absolute certainty, used a precious Tier Five Spirit Talisman, the ’God-Banning Talisman,’ to block Blood Demon Cliff’s divine soul, thus holding on until halfway before triggering the restriction.
It was with the help of the ’God-Banning Talisman’ that Cao Wenjin was able to withdraw his divine sense from Blood Demon Cliff’s Purple Mansion in time before the latter self-destructed his divine soul, otherwise, the self-destruction would have greatly harmed him, possibly even ending his cultivation path! frёeωebɳovel.com
After organizing the memories and intelligence acquired from Blood Demon Cliff’s divine soul in his mind, Cao Wenjin suddenly opened his eyes, showing a look of delight as he said to the group, "I found it, quick, come with me."
With that, he immediately waved his large sleeve, releasing a flying spirit ship carrying nine Purple Mansion Stage cultivators, heading towards the hidden old nest of demonic cultivators in the Desert Sea.
Meanwhile, following the complete demise of Blood Demon Cliff due to his divine soul’s self-destruction, a furious roar suddenly echoed within an underground cave somewhere in the Boundless Desert Sea.
"Who? Who dares kill my sect’s guardian?"
The roar reverberated throughout the cave, causing many individuals inside to glance over, and soon, the news of Blood Demon Cliff’s soul token being shattered spread to everyone’s ears within this Demon Cave.
In the place where the roaring sound rose, deep within a cave’s underground blood pool, an elderly man with a sinister expression and a hooked nose, draped in a blood-colored robe, was sitting cross-legged atop a blood-red lotus floating on the pool, his face full of anger.
This hooked-nose elder was Blood Nether, one of the only two remaining Golden Core Stage cultivators of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect, with a Seventh-Layer Golden Core cultivation, and he was the Vice Sect Leader of the sect.
Back when the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect suffered severe losses in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, the original Sect Leader "Blood Evil Celestial Demon" and two Nascent Soul Stage Supreme Elders all perished, along with eighty to ninety percent of the ten-plus Golden Core Stage Elders. Only Blood Nether and another heavily injured Ninth-Layer Golden Core Elder, Blood Nether, managed to escape with their lives.
But the good luck of the two did not last, for when they led about ten surviving Purple Mansion Stage cultivators of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect over the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, they were suddenly besieged and pursued by several Tier Five Demon Beasts and twenty to thirty Tier Four Demon Beasts.
Although Blood Nether and Blood Nether managed to escape death using the "Blood Escape Technique," the wounds left by the Tier Five Demon Beasts’ Divine Techniques still haven’t healed to this day, and only six of the ten Purple Mansion Stage cultivators, including Blood Mo Luo and Blood Demon Cliff, managed to escape.
Upon fleeing to the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm, Blood Nether, who was already severely injured from the siege by the Immortal Dao cultivators, immediately went into hiding to recuperate, while Blood Nether, due to his lighter injuries, took on the duties of the Sect Leader as Vice Sect Leader, conducting the daily affairs of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect.
Now, with Blood Mo Luo too injured to fight and Blood Demon Cliff unexpectedly perished, the already stretched manpower of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect decreased by two more, leaving Blood Nether fuming with anger.
"For Blood Demon Cliff to fail to even deploy the Blood Escape Technique, a Golden Core Stage cultivator must have intervened. Which Golden Core Stage cultivator of the Yellow Sand Sect laid hands on him? This matter must be thoroughly investigated!"
On the blood lotus, Blood Nether’s blood-red eyes flashed eerily, and he immediately commanded the Demon Sect disciples operating outside to investigate the circumstances of Blood Demon Cliff’s demise.
However, Blood Nether could never have foreseen that Blood Demon Cliff, warded with the Divine Soul Restriction by the former Sect Leader "Blood Evil Celestial Demon," would end up having his soul searched successfully, thus exposing the location of this Demon Cave.
Therefore, when Cao Wenjin led nine Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to suddenly descend upon the Demon Cave and launch an assault, Blood Nether was completely stunned.
Though this Demon Cave was the hideout of their Blood Slaughter Demon Sect in the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm, due to the demise of the original high-tier Array Masters, it was only guarded by a Tier Four Middle Grade Array.
And how could a mere Tier Four Middle Grade Array fend off the assault of a Sixth-Layer Golden Core cultivator and nine Purple Mansion Stage cultivators!
Just the first wave of attack, the array was shattered by Cao Wenjin and his group, and dozens of low-tier Demon Dao cultivators inside were instantly killed by the aftershock in the cultivation chamber.
The Blood Slaughter Demon Sect had been in the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm for nearly thirty years, leveraging resources brought from the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm, coupled with the characteristics of rapid advancement through Demon Techniques, they had successfully nurtured a new generation of Demon Sect disciples, many of whom had successfully reached Foundation Establishment, and even some of the outstanding ones had progressed to Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment!
However, now, these disciples, representing the future hope of the Demon Sect, were reaped like wheat by Cao Wenjin and his group, and within moments, most of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect’s resurgence potential turned into cold corpses.
"Stop!"
Blood Nether in the blood pool suddenly came to his senses, emitting a thunderous roar, and the blood in the pool surged up, transforming into several blood-red flood dragons that soared towards Cao Wenjin and his group.
Simultaneously, two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators from the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect, also in seclusion in the depths of the Demon Cave, roared out and charged from the seclusion chamber to engage in battle with Xiao Bufan and the other Purple Mansion cultivators.
Blood Nether, with cultivation at Seventh-Layer Golden Core, as the current Vice Sect Leader of the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect, possessed superior Demon Techniques and magical artifacts compared to Cao Wenjin, hence even though wounded, he initially pressed Cao Wenjin, forcing Guo Shuyun, Chen Family Ancestor, and several other Late-Stage Purple Mansion cultivators to step forward and assist.
Those able to reach Purple Mansion Stage were certainly no fools; if Cao Wenjin were to fall, he might still escape, but they surely couldn’t evade Blood Nether’s pursuit. Thus, despite knowing the mortal risk of engaging in conflicts of higher-level cultivators, none hesitated even a bit.
With assistance from several Late-Stage Purple Mansion cultivators and Cao Wenjin carrying the Yellow Sand Sect’s heritage treasure, the "Divine Sand Gourd," they finally managed to withstand Blood Nether’s frenzied attacks.
Their battle took them from underground to the skies, and the clash’s aftershocks collapsed the ground below, forming a Celestial Pit dozens of square miles large, and the clouds in the sky, scattered by the energy from Golden Core Stage cultivators’ combat, fell as rain.
The battle raged from morning till night, and into the next day’s noon, ultimately, the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect’s side found itself outnumbered. As the two guarding Purple Mansion cultivators were one killed and one severely injured and fled, Blood Nether, facing the encirclement by nine Purple Mansion cultivators and one Sixth-Layer Golden Core cultivator, begrudgingly had to deploy the "Blood Escape Technique" and make his retreat.
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