007CCG Chapter 103 - 19: The Yin Soul Reappears (4th Update)
Xiao Chang and Dong Hongtian were both surprised.
People in the martial arts rarely buy these things because they are too expensive and have to be purchased with Spirit Stones, and not many have the financial means.
Dong Hongtian himself had a few elixirs, which were for treating external injuries.
At first, he had to grit his teeth, save up money for a long time before he could exchange it for Spirit Stones to buy them.
Now seeing Su Jie taking out an elixir so casually, their evaluation of Su Jie went up another level.
He fed Gan Huren and Cui Bingyuan an elixir each, and their twitching, uncoordinated bodies quickly calmed down.
The Soul Nourishing Pill stabilized their souls; in fact, their soul injuries were not that serious, and even without treatment they could have recovered by themselves over time.
Although they practiced martial arts, they had absorbed Spiritual Energy, and their souls had been baptized. Compared to ordinary people, their tolerance for soul attacks was much stronger.
“Thank you, Brother Xu, for the lifesaving grace.”
Gan Huren’s mouth moved, and after finding out he could speak, his face lit up with surprise.
“Brother Cui, what exactly happened?”
Dong Hongtian immediately pressed for the cause of the incident, wondering how things had suddenly turned out this way.
“I don’t know what happened, just entering the room, intending to use the restroom, and as soon as I pushed open the door, a cold wind blew in, then I felt dizzy.”
Cui Bingyuan himself was unclear about what had happened, completely bewildered.
“I felt the same, but I vaguely saw a shadow; it was too blurry though.”
Gan Huren interjected, adding that they hadn’t seen their attacker clearly.
“Are you talking about that one?”
Su Jie pointed to the southeast corner of the ceiling where a gray mist was hovering.
Looking closely, one could see an evil face, hollow eyes, a blurry and insubstantial body, carrying an ominous aura.
It was indeed a Yin Soul.
“That’s him, that’s the thing that attacked me.”@@novelbin@@
As everyone turned to look, Gan Huren instantly had a reactive response, shouting excitedly.
The shouting startled the Yin Soul, which twisted its body off the beam and swiftly pounced toward the crowd.
“Where did you come from, demon, die.”
Dong Hongtian shouted angrily, drew his sword, and stepped forward to make a slashing strike, his swordsmanship like thunder striking down, piercing through the body of the Yin Soul.
The Yin Soul was not hindered and crashed directly into Dong Hongtian’s body.
Crack!
Dong Hongtian’s movements stiffened, he staggered, then turned around and slashed again. After all, with the Third Level of Yunling Realm cultivation, his soul could not be torn apart by a single Yin Soul.
The long sword pierced through the Yin Soul again, but Dong Hongtian’s expression changed—why couldn’t he hit it?
“Try covering the long sword with Spiritual Power.”
Just then, Su Jie suddenly spoke up, reminding Dong Hongtian of the correct way to combat it.
Dong Hongtian’s eyes lit up, and he immediately tried Su Jie’s method, channeling Spiritual Energy into the long sword.
The next moment, a crescent-shaped Sword Qi soared into the sky, accurately penetrating the Yin Soul.
Woo woo!
The Yin Soul whimpered, its body painfully twisting.
Dong Hongtian’s eyes brightened, and his sword attacks became like a violent storm, relentlessly piercing into the body of the Yin Soul.
The twisting body of the Yin Soul gradually faded, its attacks growing weaker, until it finally turned into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipated into the air.
Dead.
A group of people gasped for air, except for Su Jie and Chen Yun.
“What kind of demon is this, that it has no substantial form and can still launch attacks against a person’s soul? I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Dong Hongtian breathed heavily, and despite the lone Yin Soul causing him no injury, his spirit had been greatly shaken.
“No wonder Brother Cui and I were targeted, if there were several more, I would have been in danger just now.”
Gan Huren patted his chest fearfully, with an expression as if he had just narrowly escaped death.
Su Jie glanced at him, thinking that if the Yin Soul hadn’t been masterless, lacking intense aggression, then someone of Gan Huren’s strength, not even at the First Level of the Yunling Realm and lacking Spiritual Power for defense, would hardly survive, let alone against several more.
“Let’s go, check the village to see if there are more of these demons.”
Dong Hongtian was fierce, his blood boiling after just having slain a Yin Soul.
Now knowing the tactics of the Yin Soul, as long as they were not in groups, he was confident he could handle them.
“Good, we can’t let these demons harm people.”
Su Jie agreed, and the group immediately set off, including Gan Huren and Cui Bingyuan, who had just recovered; it seemed they were eager to prove their worth by rushing to the front.
The entire village was not large, estimated to be inhabited by just two or three hundred people.
After a thorough search, no Yin Souls were found, but the bodies of villagers were seen everywhere.
In the village, villagers lay on the ground, long dead and silent.
The village was so quiet because there were no longer any living people there.
“How cruel, that demon actually killed so many people.”
Dong Hongtian’s palms trembled slightly as he spoke through clenched teeth with hatred.
“I’m afraid the murderer is someone else; just one demon could not have done this.”
Su Jie looked at the corpses on the ground, shook his head and said, making a different judgment.
Someone with a Soul Summoning Banner must have visited this place, to reap the souls of all the villagers.
As for why they left a masterless Yin Soul behind, perhaps it was to proclaim their evil deed.
Su Jie had watched the legal channel; ordinary criminals would hide evidence as much as possible after carrying out a crime, hoping to evade the police’s pursuit.
But in the case of serial killers, the criminal might deliberately leave clues, as a way to mock and provoke the police.
This Yin Soul was clearly the murderer’s personal signature, intentionally telling others, “I did this.”
“The Heavenly Soul Sect, huh?”
Su Jie speculated, the method for creating the Soul Summoning Banner being taught to him by Ning Xinyue.
And the Soul Summoning Banner was traded to Ning Xinyue by a Demon Cultivation Sect in Jingzhou, the Heavenly Soul Sect.
According to Ning Xinyue, each disciple of the Heavenly Soul Sect had a Soul Summoning Banner, making it hard for Su Jie not to associate them with this tragedy.
“If there is someone else behind the crime, then the matter is even more serious.”
Dong Hongtian’s eyes were piercing, but now they couldn’t even find the murderer; who knows how long it had been since the actual crime took place.
“It’s a shame we couldn’t come a few days earlier; if we’d run into the murderer, I would have made sure they knew that my Butterfly Sword is not to be taken lightly.”
Gan Huren huffed, causing those around him, including his friends Cui Bingyuan and Xiao Chang, to involuntarily look over and roll their eyes.
Dong Hongtian sighed, though he wanted to bury the villagers, he was afraid of disturbing the scene, and said, “Brother Xu, we should leave for now. Let’s go to Nanyang City. This village is under the jurisdiction of Nanyang City. Inform the local government, and hopefully, they can send some capable people to investigate and bring justice to these unjustly slain villagers.”
“Rely on the government?”
Chen Yun’s voice was disdainful, remarking that if the government were of any use, such a murder wouldn’t have occurred here without stirring some reaction for so long.
Dong Hongtian got on his horse and said, “There are some remarkable people in the government too; maybe they’ll find some traces.”
Su Jie stopped Chen Yun, who was about to speak again, shook his head, mounted his horse, and the group continued on towards Nanyang City.