Chapter 50: Devouring the Demon Soul (Seeking Recommendations)

  In the Xian prison, Lao Hei's sharp claws pinched lightly, and with a crisp cracking sound, the Soul Capturing Card emitted a half-transparent virtual shadow that rushed out of it, faintly letting out a beast's roar.

  These low-grade soul-capturing tokens are all one-time use items, and once you crush them to release the evil spirit inside, they lose their usefulness. Lao Hei casually discarded the shattered jade token and shouted at the evil spirit: "Little cat, where are you escaping to?"

  This is a tiger-type demon soul, as indicated on the jade plate, it is a mid-tier demon beast of the first level 'Black Stripe Tiger', and in its lifetime, it had strength equivalent to that of a human cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining. Now it's all dead, leaving only a wisp of demon soul, posing no threat to any cultivators.

  Moreover, this is the Immortal Prison, where even Old Black doesn't need to lift a finger; with just a thought, he can borrow the magical power of the first layer of the Immortal Prison to immobilize the demon soul on the spot.

  Wooooo...

  The black tiger's ferocious soul was fully exposed, baring its teeth and brandishing its claws, roaring and posturing in various ways to intimidate Old Black. Unfortunately, in terms of appearance, Old Black was even more ferocious than it.

  "Kitty, kitty, be good... As the saying goes, a mouse eating a cat is only natural...". Old Black swished his old mouse tail and slowly walked up to Hei Hu's demonic soul. Opening his big mouth, he sucked in with force, and with a whoosh, he sucked the demonic soul into his mouth.

  "Ah! Delicious, so savory, the soul of a high-ranking spirit is indeed incomparably tasty."

  At this moment, Lao Hei is completely demonized, and it's estimated that everyone will agree that he is a true devil from outside the domain.

  In Su Che's mind, a picture flashed: one day, Lao Hei would grow into a demon king who destroyed the world, trampling mountains of corpses and seas of blood, his double horns piercing the sky with countless holes, his big mouth sucking in tens of thousands of cultivators who screamed as they were swallowed...

  This scene was also sensed by Lao Hei, who chuckled and said: "Master, rest assured, I will work hard to reach this height as soon as possible. The master's dream is my goal; wherever the master's eyes are on, I will go to destroy their sky and extinguish their earth!"

  Su Che couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking to himself: "I don't have such extreme pursuits...... How about it, was the demon soul you just swallowed effective?"

  "It's effective, it's effective, it's too effective!" Old Black nodded repeatedly: "Finally found a way to enhance my soul power, and I can help the master deal with stronger enemies."

  "Good, as long as it's effective!" Su Che was also delighted in his heart. The Soul Power that Lao Hei mentioned was actually the Tianmo Power used to secretly calculate others. If devouring the demon soul could enhance his soul power, this meant that soon after, he would be able to use the method of possessing and devouring souls to launch a sneak attack on others at critical moments, helping him defeat opponents with stronger powers than those in the fourth or fifth layer of Qi Refining...

  For now, Lao Hei's existence is Su Che's greatest reliance on defeating his opponents, but this is Su Che's ultimate trump card and cannot be used lightly. Once used, all opponents and bystanders must be silenced!

  "Master, this method of upgrading also has its limitations. It requires a certain amount of time to fully digest the demon soul that was just absorbed before absorbing another one. Otherwise, I, Lao Hei, will suffer from the backlash of the demon soul and become a violent madman with a deranged mind, which would be truly falling into demonic possession."

  "This is normal." Su Che nodded in his heart: "Any method of enhancing one's strength must be done gradually. If it goes against reason and rises extremely fast, there will inevitably be a terrible negative effect. Lao Hei, our road is long, we must grasp the right degree when doing things, can't be too impatient."

  "Yes, master, Lao Hei remembers."

  Next, Su Che didn't idle around and directly went to the store that Lei Xiao had previously mentioned, paying respects to the elder of the Lei family.

  He is Lei Xiao's uncle, over 40 years old, with a foundation period cultivation. However, he still holds the status of an outer sect disciple, and in the sect, Su Che only needs to call him "Shixiong" (senior brother).

  It can be seen that becoming an inner disciple of the Tianxuan Sect is much more difficult than imagined. Generally, only those who have advanced to the later stage of Qi Refining before the age of 20 or have successfully built their foundation before the age of 30 are eligible to apply for the assessment of inner disciples. After submitting the application, one must pass a comprehensive evaluation by the Golden Elixir period master and complete a designated assessment task, and the sect's contribution value must also meet certain requirements...

  In short, a super sect like Tianxuan Sect is filled with talented individuals, and the competition is fierce. Every step forward in status or position is extremely difficult to achieve.

  Under the guidance of Uncle Leixiao, Su Che successfully purchased three magical instruments: Wuxing Ring, Kunxian Rope, and Liehuojue.

  The three magic tools were all middle-grade magic tools, because Su Che was only at the second layer of Qi Refining, and could only control middle-grade magic tools at most. Even if he had a high-grade magic tool, casually manipulating it for a few moments would lead to an awkward situation where his true energy would be depleted.

  However, these three magical instruments are considered top-notch in the middle grade, with good practicality and controllability, and are also quite suitable for Su Che's spiritual root attributes.

  "Wu Xing Huan" is a defensive artifact, with a ring as thick as a goose egg that can simultaneously inlay five attribute spirit stones. When facing an enemy's attack, it can trigger different spirit stones according to the characteristics of the Wu Xing attributes, instantly creating an attribute-dominant defense shield.

  For example, if the enemy launches a water-based spell attack, using the 'earth overcomes water' law, the earth-based defense created by the Five Elements Ring will be superior to other attribute defenses in terms of innate attributes.

  "Binding Immortal Rope" is a wooden attribute magic tool that can entangle and lock the opponent's magic tool, or directly tie up the opponent, with the rope having a paralyzing poison that can completely dissolve the opponent's ability to act. In the Spirit Grass Medicine Garden, Su Che had once been locked by Ling Long in this way...

  Moreover, Su Che possessed a Wood-type Spiritual Root, so controlling Wood-attribute magical tools would be even more effortless.

  "Lava Drill" is a purely offensive magic tool, with a cone-shaped drill head over a foot long, which attacks enemies with high-temperature flames, not only can melt steel, but also forms a splash damage effect of flame splashing. Su Che simultaneously possesses the fire-based spiritual root, and this type of fire-attributed magic tool is also a good choice.

  These three pieces of equipment cost Su Che more than 400 spirit stones, and that was with a discount for being an acquaintance. Afterwards, still at this shop, Su Che replenished over a dozen mid-grade spirit talismans and three high-grade spirit talismans, throwing out another 300 spirit stones.

  This time, Su Che's Qian Kun bag was left with less than four hundred spirit stones. As the saying goes, money comes and goes like flowing water. Fortunately, in a few days, he would still receive Ling Long's payment of two thousand spirit stones as promised. Hopefully, she would keep her word and not regret it afterwards...

  As for the therapeutic pills like Dahuang Dan, Huichun Dan and Qudu Dan, they must also be fully prepared. However, these types of pills are not used in large quantities, so a few dozen Ling stones would be sufficient to cover the cost.

  Having bought everything they needed, Su Che and Lei Xiao bid farewell to that uncle of the Lei family and returned together to Xuán Jī Peak.

  Before parting ways, Su Che said: "This time, I'll be going to the Sealing Demon Domain with Yu Qing Shixiong for training. We'll return within two months at most and won't delay our agreed-upon spiritual grass transaction."

  "On the premise that you can come back alive." Lei Xiao's words were almost joking, but his expression was serious: "The Demon Sealing Domain is extremely dangerous. Our Lei family disciples are not allowed to enter there until they reach the later stage of Qi Refining. Although Yu Qing Shixiong is the number one figure among our Xuanji Peak inner door disciples, I'm afraid that when faced with real danger, he will be unable to take care of you completely, so you must be extra careful."

  "Don't worry." This time, Su Che patted his shoulder: "I'll definitely come back alive. You guys from the Lei family, prepare 80 Earth Spirit Dan, and wait for me to exchange them for my two Silver Whisker Grasses."

  Lei Xiao was taken aback and asked: "Didn't we agree on one for thirty? Why did you raise the price?"

  Su Che smiled and replied: "My two Silver Whisker Grass, one is 500 years old in medicinal age, the other is at least 800 years old in medicinal age. Wanting twenty Earth Spirit Dan from you isn't excessive, right?"

  "Eight hundred years of medicinal age, Silver Whisker Grass?" Lei Xiao finally understood and calculated in his heart before speaking frankly: "If it's really eight hundred years of medicinal age, asking for twenty Earth Spirit Pills is not excessive at all, even ten more would be acceptable."

  "That's great!" Su Che rushed him and winked: "The extra ten grains, the two of us secretly divide them quietly, okay?"

  Lei Xiang's eyes sparkled as he nodded and said, "Alright! But remember, when you see my third sister in the future, don't ever let a word slip out."

  "Don't worry!" Su Che laughed and turned around to leave.

  So he decided to give Lei Xiao five pellets of Earth Spirit Dan on a whim, Su Che felt that he had been troubling him time and time again, and couldn't always let him follow him in vain. Moreover, having such a good friend was not easy either, and one must learn to cherish it.

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