Volume 5: Crimson Blood Cave Mansion Chapter 7: Searching for the Soul

  At this moment, Qin Yu had no idea that a mid-stage Yuan infant cultivator was about to search for him in his own region, and his attention was completely focused on his mind.

  That scorching blue airflow rushed into the Soul Power area with a withering force.

  Water has no constant shape, and the power of this intangible soul is also the same. Although it's been stirred up, it can naturally calm down with time, but of course, the time it takes to calm down isn't short either.

  In mind.

  Compared to the vast soul power, the core of soul power - that disk emitting winding electric snakes is a person's true core "soul"! The relationship between the soul and soul power is like the sun and sunlight.

  The soul is the true body. Qin Yu's current cultivation is just an understanding of some of the power of the soul, but as for the true fundamental soul, he has not touched it at all.

  The soul, that is the forbidden zone that cultivators cannot touch.

  "What is the scorching blue airflow emitted by the meteor tears?" Qin Yu's attention was completely focused on that suddenly appearing blue airflow, which pierced through the Soul Power area and flew directly towards the soul.

  The realm of soul power is like a turbulent sea, and in the center of this turbulent sea of soul power, there is a small island like a disk, that is the soul!

  When the green airflow flew to the central round disc island, the soul directly absorbed the green airflow, and the seven-color light of the disc that emitted the winding electric snake suddenly became chaotic. The green light surged up in an instant, and after a moment, it returned to its original state.

  At that moment, the vast soul power around Ling's body flashed a cyan light, and all the soul powers seemed to have transformed once, while Qin Yu himself also underwent an extremely great change.

  "What a wonderful feeling."

  Qin Yu's eyes suddenly opened, and a sharp light shot out from his eyes. Mental power, control power! Qin Yu's mental control power at this moment was much stronger than before, and this kind of mental control power had many uses. For example, controlling the circulation of true yuan within his body.

  The stronger this control, the more obedient Qin Yu's true yuan force is. Later on, when attacking, it will also be even more subtle to control.

  However, the power of the soul seems to be even more difficult to control. When Qin Yu tried to control the power of the soul again, he found that the power of the soul had also changed. In the past, the power of the soul was like an untrained scholar, but now it was a strong and powerful man, undergoing an indescribable change, making it even more difficult to control.

  With Qin Yu's suddenly increased soul control power, he could still only control one-tenth of his soul's power.

  Control power grows, and the soul's power also transforms. Qin Yu still can only control one-tenth of his soul's power, which is also one-tenth. What does this explain? Qin Yu was puzzled, but he couldn't understand at all, because whether it's soul control or the nature of the soul, it's fundamentally impossible to suddenly improve.

  Control, requires repeated attempts to control, the more times, the slower it will increase. As for the power of the soul, it also advances slowly with the transformation of the soul as one's skills improve.

  Just now, Qin Yu's control and soul power have both taken a step forward. For cultivators, this is fundamentally impossible. All of this is due to the cyan hot air current from "Meteor Tears".

  "What exactly is Meteor Tears?" Qin Yu became even more curious about the Meteor Tears that had merged into his body.

  Qin Yu also tried to release the power of his soul, and in an instant, he was shocked to discover that a mid-stage Yuan Ying master was flying over him from above, and that Yuan Ying master had even used his spiritual sense to probe.

  When his spiritual consciousness swept over Qin Yu, he didn't find anything at all. Conversely, when Qin Yu's spiritual consciousness spread out, the other party didn't feel a thing.

  Two levels of spiritual awareness, the spiritual awareness of a mid-term cultivator like Yuanying is slightly lower than Qin Yu's, and they can't even detect Qin Yu's spiritual awareness. As for the principle, Qin Yu doesn't understand it at all, which is indeed quite profound.

  Qin Yu only knew the result: a powerful spiritual sense could discover a weak and small spiritual sense, while a weak and small spiritual sense was fundamentally unable to discover a powerful spiritual sense.

  After a moment, Qin Yu suddenly appeared from under the coral like lightning. At this moment, Qin Yu's state was unprecedentedly good, and the impact of "Flowing Star Escape" had completely disappeared. Moreover, at this moment, Qin Yu had also learned the "Soul Search" technique.

  "Xiao Hei is in the northwest and still very far away." Qin Yu closed his eyes and clearly felt Xiao Hei's presence.

  Xiao Hei and Qin Yu had a special feeling since they were young. They could both sense each other's presence.

  Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. In his heart, he quickly thought through the situation: "From the current situation, it seems that Sang Mo issued a wanted order because of his son's death. And these sea-bottom demonic cultivators seem to be able to easily distinguish that I am not a demonic cultivator. Even if it is a weaker demon beast than me!"

  Qin Yu still remembered the scene when he and Xiao Hei had just dived into the deep sea, where those weak and small demon beasts saw Qin Yu and flew away in fright.

  "Those demon cultivators can identify me, and with the wanted poster, it's impossible for me to move an inch in the underwater world. Moreover, I'm completely ignorant of this underwater demon cultivation world. Now, the most important thing is to sneakily kill a demon cultivator and use the soul-searching method to figure out what's going on with these underwater demon cultivators."

  Qin Yu was very clear that in an unfamiliar environment, he had to be extremely careful.

  Qin Yu's spiritual awareness spread out, and he was very confident in his own spiritual awareness. Even the spiritual awareness of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator couldn't detect him, which could be imagined how formidable Qin Yu's spiritual awareness was.

  Turning into a stream of light, Qin Yu directly traversed southward.

  But just after flying for a short while, Qin Yu discovered that not far away there were eight demon cultivators. He immediately stopped using the power of the stars to gather his breath, but his spiritual awareness did not avoid them at all. After all, these eight demon cultivators were only in the Golden Dan stage.

  "Third Brother Sangpang, the clan leader is almost driven mad this time, and he also asks us to keep searching without letting us rest."

  A cultivator of the demon race said that these eight cultivators were indeed members of the Sang tribe among the octopuses, and these eight tribesmen acted together. It was also these eight people who slacked off, after all, if one person was assigned a block to search, the speed would be much faster.

  "Damn it, I don't know where that cultivator has rolled off to. Within a range of 100,000 li, there isn't even a single island with cultivators, and after searching for so long, the clan leader has also issued a wanted notice. But almost every hundred li, someone is searching. And yet, not even a ghostly shadow can be found." San Tan said angrily.

  Qin Yu's expression changed as he sensed something with his spiritual awareness from a distance.

  He knew the wanted poster would attract many cultivators to come after him, but he didn't expect that on average, there would be one cultivator every hundred miles. To think that a distance of a hundred miles was nothing for cultivators.

  Qin Yu, however, was unaware that within this area of about 100,000 miles, the cultivators hunting for the demonic cultivator were densely packed. After all, most of the cultivators believed Qin Yu to be in this region. As for farther away places, there were much fewer people, and most of the cultivators were just casually searching around.

  The demon hunter usually cultivates and is very bored, so he is very enthusiastic about chasing a certain immortal.

  "Eight demon cultivators." Qin Yu thought about the possibility of killing eight demon cultivators, and after a moment's consideration, he slowly shook his head. "No, it's not possible to solve all eight at once, and that Sang Mo has let his clansmen out. They must have a way to communicate with each other, if they were killed all at once, the news would spread, and so many pursuers would gather here, that would be terrible."

  "Consider yourselves lucky, all eight of you."

  Qin Yu did not use the power of the stars in his body to propel himself, but instead relied solely on his physical strength, darting through the water like a sharp arrow. The principle behind Qin Yu's original cultivation method was to convert the resistance of the water into a driving force. With Qin Yu's physical abilities combined with his aquatic movement technique, this speed could be considered quite fast.

  They soon left those eight demon cultivators far behind.

  "Simply relying on brute strength to traverse through the water, the speed is still not comparable to flying with the power of the stars." Qin Yu's spiritual awareness discovered that there were no cultivators around, and he began to stir up the power of the stars again, preparing to rapidly advance forward. However...

  Qin Yu's face changed color.

  In front of him, there were actually two more demon cultivators. These two demon cultivators released their spiritual awareness to search around, and it was possible that they were also chasing after Qin Yu.

  "This is just a few miles, and I've encountered people chasing me again." Qin Yu finally understood how dense the pursuers were, especially within this hundred-mile radius. Generally, cultivators who happened to be passing by would casually expand their spiritual sense to search.

  The two demon cultivators looked very robust, one of them was bald and wore a battle armor. The other had even more muscles, his skin was dark blue all over, and he grasped a black rod in his hand.

  "Hey, old chap, these days are really boring. Have you been hunting on the water surface recently?" The bald-headed man wearing armor asked casually to the giant green-skinned man.

  The blue giant god smiled mysteriously and said, "Of course, last time I went to the nearby continent's coastal area to hunt, I was very lucky and happened to meet a fishing boat. There were more than a dozen people on it, including several women. I transformed into my true form on the spot and ate half of them in one breath. The rest were all stored in my storage ring. Haha, those people saw my true form and shouted 'water monster'."

  "Can't you let me...?" The bald-headed man gave a hint with his eyes to the giant in green.

  The blue giant laughed and said, "Good... good..." The blue giant couldn't say anything else, as a fist had already pierced through his chest, right where the heart was located. His heart had shattered into pieces.

  "Damn it!"

  Qin Yu's eyes had a hint of ruthlessness, and since hearing what they said, Qin Yu decided to kill the two.

  The bald man was shocked as soon as he saw Qin Yu: "Who are you?" The bald man was extremely surprised in his heart, he didn't feel any aura at all, and Qin Yu directly killed his brother with one punch, the speed was frightening.

  Qin Yu stared at the bald man's character, a hint of cold smile on his mouth: "You can be the target of my soul search!"

  "What does 'soul searching' mean?" The bald-headed man was perplexed.

  To search for the soul, the other party's soul must still be present. If a person's body dies, their soul will soon drift away from the body and enter reincarnation. Therefore, there are two ways to search for the soul: one is to directly search for the living person's soul; the other is to kill the opponent immediately and search while the soul has not yet left the body.

  The blue-bodied giant had died for a while, and his soul had already left his body, so Qin Yu put the Soul Searching Watch on this bald-headed man with war armor.

  "Are you... a cultivator, the one who killed Sang Mo's son?" The bald-headed man suddenly said.

  Qin Yu's eyebrows twitched, and his opponent suddenly recognized him at once.

  "You actually recognized me, tell me, how did you recognize me?" Qin Yu stared at the bald man and asked. The bald man secretly took a deep breath, since his opponent didn't immediately attack, this also gave him a thread of chance to escape.

  As for fighting with Qin Yu, judging from the move that just killed his friend, he had already determined Qin Yu's strength.

  The bald man smiled and said, "This is indeed a very simple matter. You don't have any beastly aura on you at all. Your aura is different from ours. As for those who dare to enter the deep sea, either they are extremely powerful cultivators or complete idiots. And in this area above... there isn't..."

  The bald man was still talking, but he suddenly found that Qin Yu's figure had flashed and appeared in front of him from ten meters away.

  "Ah!"

  The bald man immediately reacted and wanted to resist, but his fist had just been extended.

  Pong!

  A loud cracking sound, Qin Yu's fist directly shattered the bald man's fist, and in the midst of the bald man's astonishment, it pierced through his chest and shattered his heart. At the same time, Qin Yu's hands fiercely grasped the bald man's head.

  Demon Path - Soul Search!

  After a moment, Qin Yu withdrew his palm and also took back the two golden elixirs of the two demon cultivators, who were both in the middle stage of the Golden Elixir.

  Qin Yu gave the bald man a chance to speak because Qin Yu didn't want to make any mistakes. If he had killed the green giant and then immediately killed the bald man, the bald man would definitely have been fully focused on defense.

  If he were to self-destruct again, Qin Yu would have to stay far away, far enough for the other party's soul to drift away. So Qin Yu let the other party speak, but the other party took action halfway through speaking.

  "Destroy the body and eliminate all traces."

  Qin Yu directly stored the two corpses of the demon cultivators and their armor and weapons into his spatial ring. Normally, people's storage rings weren't very large and they needed to get rid of some useless items, but Qin Yu didn't care about that.

  Put all the corpses into the space ring, which is absolutely a top-notch way of destroying evidence.

  After absorbing the memory of that demon cultivator, Qin Yu completely understood the entire underwater demon cultivator world, and his doubts instantly disappeared. A hint of confident smile appeared on the corner of Qin Yu's mouth: "So that's how it is!"