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Chapter 501 Blessing
When the sound ended, all the terrifying ghost shadows around disappeared. The whole world was spinning rapidly, and the flow of light and shadow made people dizzy.

She felt a chill between her brows, and then, the extreme physical and mental exhaustion from the battle, coupled with the price of using the secret technique many times, made her unable to hold on any longer and she passed out.

It was unknown how long it took before Liuying regained some consciousness. It took her another long time to overcome the fatigue and sleepiness brought by weakness and finally wake up from the coma.

I quickly glanced around. The sky was blue, the mountains were lush and green, and the ground beneath me smelled moist and the fragrance of green grass...

It's a normal world!

I came back alive!
I actually came back alive!

It's too dangerous! It's really too dangerous! This secret place where there is no chance of survival, I will never go in again, even if you kill me!

"Are you awake?" Just when Liuying was feeling relieved, a familiar voice rang out.

It was the Soul-stealing Master who had been outside the whole time. He said anxiously, "I saw that other teams could come out in an hour or two. Why did it take you seven days to come out?"

There were many questions: "Also, what's going on in there? Why are you so badly injured? You can't even maintain your transformation technique?"

"Do you know how many people were watching you after you got out? If I hadn't gone through so much trouble to rescue you out of consideration for our fellow disciples, you would have died long ago!"

"Also, where's Fei Gui? Why didn't he come out? Did you get separated in the secret realm? Didn't they say that a group of people would enter and leave together?"

……

Questions came pouring down like raindrops, making it hard to cope. Fortunately, Liuying had already gotten used to it and just tried her best to grasp the key points in the words.

It turns out that I have indeed been in the secret realm for seven days! But why did it take only one or two hours for others? Could it be that the tasks we encountered after entering were different?

Didn't the flying ghost come out? Come to think of it, although this guy is at a higher level than me, he has also practiced the Spirit Explosion Technique to perfection, with high damage and a large range, enough to hurt those in the Return to Void Realm, but after all, it consumes too much energy.

It is really difficult to replenish in this secret realm. Swallowing the souls of those three cannon fodders is just a drop in the bucket. It is really difficult for him to persist with me until the last hour. I myself did not expect that I could survive.

This secret realm is really too dangerous!

The first five days were actually relatively okay. Although those strange creatures were difficult to deal with, everyone was still able to attack them after all. Some powerful five-element spells, talismans, and magic weapons could cause damage to them and hinder their attacks.

Even some protective magic weapons have some obstruction and control effects that can help everyone escape death. Even formations can have a certain delaying effect, allowing everyone to have time to recover.

But there was really no solution to the last two days. On the sixth day, the strange whispers could only be resisted by relying on spiritual consciousness, the power of the soul, and one's own will. All kinds of defensive magic weapons were useless.

The ghosts on the last day were even more abnormal. No spells or magic weapons could harm them. Even the fifth-grade top-grade talisman that he treasured had no effect. Instead, it made them split and become more numerous.

Only the power of spiritual consciousness and soul can have some effect and barely force them back, but it is also impossible to really hurt them. It is so weird and inexplicable that people can't understand how these ghosts are formed.

Oh, by the way, I seem to have received a blessing in the end, called...

"Speak! Are you mute?" The Soul-Taker got anxious and kicked over, his voice becoming fierce.

Now I am too weak. My magic power is exhausted, my spiritual consciousness is depleted, and my soul is severely damaged. Coupled with the backlash of the secret technique, I will be in a weak state for at least one or two years. Moreover, all my magic weapons and elixirs have been almost consumed, and even my trump card of talismans has been used up. I can't resist at all, so I had better try to be submissive.

After thinking through the pros and cons in a split second, Liuying began to describe the things in the secret realm in her weak voice: "To be honest, Senior Brother, the secret realm is a blood-red world with two eyes in the sky. As soon as we entered, a voice told us that we had to survive for seven days..."

After talking intermittently for a long time, Liuying finally told everything that happened in the secret realm. Of course, she did not mention the news of the blessing at the end.

Liuying is not stupid. Although she can't figure out the purpose of this blessing for the time being, telling others will most likely bring trouble to herself. The senior brother in front of her is definitely not a good person. For something that sounds like a reward, he will definitely not take into account the friendship between fellow disciples.

"Fei Gui is dead? Wasn't he at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage? You are only at the late stage, how could he not last as long as you?" Soul Stealing Master looked unconvinced: "Also, I have inquired and confirmed in the past few days that once you successfully return alive from this secret realm, you will get some benefits. Some are on the final monster, and some are in the treasure chest guarded by the monster. Since you are back, where is the reward?"

"I didn't see how Fei Gui died, so he was most likely dragged away by those ghosts." Liu Ying wanted to change the subject: "Anyway, I didn't kill him, it's just bad luck for him. Even in front of Master, I will say the same thing!"

Unfortunately, Soul-Snatching Master was not fooled, and said in a cold voice: "I asked you about the reward? You won't tell me there is none, right?"

"I don't know what good it is! Maybe there's a treasure chest, but you saw my situation." Liuying tried her best to act innocent: "I was completely exhausted and unconscious at that time. Even if there was a treasure chest, I couldn't open it to take it."

After saying that, Liuying fumbled around her body, found her storage bag at her waist, unlocked the lock array, and threw it out: "If you don't believe me, just look for yourself! These are all I have left. If you need anything else, feel free to take it!"

The previous seven days were filled with continuous battles, and the things in Liuying's storage bag had been almost used up. If I remembered correctly, there were only some spirit stones and some broken magic weapons left, which were of little value.

As for the things on my body, since this senior brother was able to rescue me from the entrance to the secret realm and bring me to this remote place, he must have checked them carefully along the way. So I am not afraid of him checking them again.

The Soul-Taker was not polite and simply picked up the storage bag and began to check it.

Liuying was also not idle. She began to sense her body, trying to find the so-called "blessing of Khorne".

The word Khorne doesn't sound like a good thing. It feels similar to the naming method of the demons. Could it be that the secret realm is a demon secret realm, and the two eyes in the sky actually belonged to a Hedao-level demon?
The demons in the Hedao realm are very powerful!
The Soul-Devouring Sect is a large sect of demon cultivators, and is well-known throughout the land of humans and demons. But so far, the strongest demon that Liuying knows and has ever seen is only at the Return to Void Realm. Even so, the sect's supreme elder at the Hedao Realm still bows and scrapes to it, without any dignity of a Hedao Taoist Master.

She had also seen quite a few other low-level demons, all of whom had strange appearances and extremely twisted mentalities. They took pleasure in slaughtering, toying, and destroying. They were arrogant and domineering, causing casualties to tens of millions of mortals and monks at will. They had no humanity at all.

Liuying thought she was a complete bad guy. In order to improve her realm, she devoured countless souls. But compared to those demons, she could only say that her actions were not worth mentioning. She was as noble as a saint. Using her remaining spiritual power to perceive, Liuying soon found something wrong between her eyebrows.

There was a strange symbol there, which seemed to be made of brass. No one could feel what it meant, but it was silently rotating, forming a vortex, and seemed to be constantly absorbing something from the outside world.

What the hell is this thing? What is it absorbing?
It's not spiritual energy! It's not divine consciousness! It's even less of a soul!

This... seems to be an evil thought? It is just a simple emotion! It is the dissipation of spirit!
Liuying struggled to sit up. There was indeed a desolate wilderness around them. There were only two of them. The strange symbol did not absorb much evil thoughts. It just kept spinning without any sign of stopping.

"There's nothing in it!" Soul-stealing Master threw the storage bag back at once, his eyes gleaming with ferocity: "Tell me! Where did you hide all the things?"

"Everything is here, you can check it at will." Liuying just lay down and played, not caring about the consequences at all.

The Soul-Devouring Sect is a demonic sect. In principle, they do not forbid disciples from fighting each other. However, if someone is killed, the perpetrator will still be punished, more or less. He does not think that this fourth senior brother will attack him.

Of course, devouring one's own soul is the fastest way, but unfortunately this behavior of cannibalism among fellow disciples is a taboo in the sect and is not included in the sect's precepts, but every new disciple will be severely warned countless times.

It might be because they were practicing the same technique and had absorbed too many other souls, causing their own souls to become mixed. Absorbing the souls of fellow disciples would most likely cause the absorber to go crazy and completely lose their mind. No one would do such a stupid thing.

“I understand!” Soul-stealing Master stared at Liuying for a while, and finally seemed to remember something, and slapped his head: “I remember! A team came out before, and they said they got a sacrificial method to summon a great being, and someone else got a method to refine evil magic weapons! Those things disappeared after they were used! You must have learned something too!”

I have to say, this senior brother does have some brains in his head, and his guess is almost right.

"I didn't learn anything." Liuying just shook her head: "Besides, even if I recite something to you now, do you really dare to practice it?"

Seeing the fear on his brother's face, Liuying sighed, "Hey, now that the secret realm is almost explored, brother, you are a spirit, and there is no secret realm for you to explore. Let's go back and report to the master quickly, and don't waste time here."

The Soul-Snatching Master's expression changed and he didn't speak for a long time. Liuying could clearly see the unwillingness on his face.

Finally, he compromised, summoned a golden gong magic weapon, and took Firefly back to his own nest.

As she was about to face an even more difficult master, Liuying did not dare to delay at all and immediately began to study the mysterious symbol between her eyebrows with all her strength.

Tried to touch it with spiritual consciousness, tried to resonate with soul, tried to move it... none of them succeeded. Instead, when I vented the pain I had suffered over the years with the most straightforward emotions, it did have some effect.

That emotion quickly disappeared without a trace, and even Liuying's original mood improved a lot, making people calm down instantly.

Is this an emotion collection formation? But what is the use of this? Can it release a spiritual attack full of emotions?

Unfortunately, Liuying tried many times but was unable to mobilize the emotions absorbed by the mysterious symbol, as if the mysterious symbol did not listen to her at all.

After thinking it over carefully again, Liuying turned her gaze to her own sea of ​​consciousness.

The sea of ​​consciousness is also on the head, and also between the eyebrows, but it is deeper in the eyebrows, and the mysterious symbol is indicated in the eyebrows.

The sea of ​​consciousness, also known as the Niwan Palace, is the residence of a person's soul and the source of a person's thoughts and consciousness. In the Soul-Devouring Sect's practice, this place plays a vital role.

Those absorbed souls of others were processed here and transformed into the purest soul power, which went all the way down and sank into the Dantian. With the nourishment of the soul power, they cultivated the most important spiritual root for cultivators, which was located between reality and illusion.

After all, the essence of all magic skills is to transform one's own spiritual roots, to use various methods to make one's own spiritual roots better, to increase the upper limit of one's own cultivation, and to break through the shackles of one's original spiritual roots.

Of course, such magic power is not without price. The soul is not only composed of pure soul power, but more importantly, it is the memories carried in the soul and the emotions emitted by the soul itself.

No matter how powerful a person's soul is, there is a limit to the memories it can contain, and there is a limit to the emotions it can resist and digest in each period of time. Even the most eager for quick success and instant benefits, one still needs to be cautious when practicing, strictly follow the operation of the technique, and not devour the souls of others without limit.

The most important skill in the Soul-Devouring Sect's practice is essentially the process of dealing with other people's souls in the Niwan Palace, which consists of three main steps: stripping away memories, dissolving emotions, and transforming flexible power.

Let’s not talk about the third transformation for now. The previous stripping of memories and dissolving of emotions does not mean that all these things can be thrown out of the body, but rather they are stripped out and placed as waste in the Niwan Palace’s sea of ​​consciousness.

Fortunately, the sea of ​​consciousness, which can be called a "sea", is actually very large. It is no problem to accommodate the memories and emotions of hundreds of thousands of people. This is also the main reason why the disciples of the Soul-Devouring Sect can check the memories of others.

Of course, these hundreds of thousands of people cannot be composed solely of mortals. We must try to devour souls that have achieved success in cultivation and are at a level of strength comparable to our own, so that we can make the most of this sea of ​​consciousness space and achieve the most cost-effective development.

Naturally, a lot of other people's memories and emotions have accumulated in Liuying's sea of ​​consciousness, most of which are useless.

Seeing that the distance was getting closer, Liuying no longer hesitated and directly sent a hundred memories and emotions into the vortex formed by the mysterious symbols.

Almost in an instant, those things disappeared, and the vortex became a little bigger, but there was still no other change, and it could not be controlled.

Knowing that the method is feasible, there is naturally nothing to say. Liuying directly sent all the unused memories and emotions into it.

As time went by, Liuying felt that her mind became clear and she seemed to be much more relaxed.

Well, now I understand why so many disciples and elders in the sect have suddenly gone crazy for no reason over the years. It’s because of these memories and emotions!
They polluted the sea of ​​consciousness and suppressed wisdom and spirituality!
It is said that it can store hundreds of thousands of copies, but how can it be that simple! There must be many important secrets in this technique that have not been told to us!

Fortunately, I have been blessed! This garbage has a place to go!
After figuring out the situation, we arrived at the old nest.

(End of this chapter)