I conquer the immortal with my strength.

Chapter 334: Alone in the Killing Cave
Watching Qi Shilei die of suffocation, Xia Daoming looked towards the direction of Zhilu City.

Although all he saw was darkness and he couldn't see the Killing City at all, his eyes revealed a strong murderous intent.

He was under the jurisdiction of General Chai Hanshan of Xicheng.

He needs to report his travel to her.

Therefore, it is self-evident that Qi Shilei's ability to track him down in the first place is obviously related to Chai Hanshan.

"Fortunately, there were not only Qi Shilei but three people who came. All three were killed in an instant. Moreover, I specially asked Xiao Jin to take action, and the magic weapon he used was also the Ten Thousand Snakes Poison Banner. Even if Chai Hanshan knew that Qi Shilei came for me, she would never suspect that it was a newly promoted Jindan cultivator like me who killed the three of them in one fell swoop."

Xia Daoming quickly retracted his gaze, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then his mind moved, the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner swayed in the wind, and black gas rose into the sky and poured into the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner.

The inky black air disappeared, leaving only two shriveled corpses on the cold ground.

In a short period of time, Xia Daoming used the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner to kill the two fake elixir monks very quickly and efficiently without any setbacks.

Obviously, after being promoted to a Jindan cultivator, the power of the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner in his hands increased a lot.

After taking a look at the two shriveled corpses on the ground, Xia Daoming's heart moved, and black gas escaped from the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner, covering Qi Shilei's body.

By the time Xia Daoming put away the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner again, Qi Shilei had already turned into a dried corpse.

"Having a low realm also has its advantages. Not only can it make the enemy look down on you, but it can also easily divert trouble away and prevent people from suspecting you." Xia Daoming looked at his masterpiece, a smile of success appeared on his face.

Next, Xia Daoming skillfully cleaned up the battlefield and quickly left the place of trouble.

As for what will happen here later, he no longer thinks about it. Anyway, he has already determined that it has nothing to do with him.

Two hours later.

A bare mountain top covered with ice.

Xia Daoming counted the gains from this battle and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

“This person is indeed worthy of being the elder of the Qi family who has the most hope of entering the late Jindan stage in recent years. He is also one of the seedlings with the hope of reaching the Yuanying Avenue. He has a lot of good things on him!
Fortunately, I showed weakness to the enemy, disturbed his mind with the Mysterious Ice Net, and came up with a strategy of pretending to build a plank road while secretly attacking Chen Cang, which helped Xiao Jin to kill with one blow, and prevented him from activating this talisman in the first place.

Otherwise, this talisman can burst out with the power of a late Jindan peak cultivator's attack. I'm afraid I will have to use other means to leave clues, and I will lose such a good talisman for nothing."

"Hey, this is..." Xia Daoming was secretly rejoicing in his heart that the tactics and strategies were used properly, when suddenly his eyes lit up. He picked up a gray bead as big as a pigeon egg, which was covered with dense holes. Each hole had a bottomless vortex. He stroked his chin and racked his brains to recall the information related to the bead.

"This is the Soul Refining Bead. Yes, this is the Soul Refining Bead. It is recorded in a certain volume of books in Canglang Mansion." Looking at the bead over and over again, a light suddenly flashed in Xia Daoming's mind, and he remembered a record he had read in Canglang Mansion.

According to records, this bead is the seed of a soul-refining grass that has long been extinct.

This bead can absorb evil spirits and transform them into spiritual energy.

The Soul Refining Pearl, which contains a large amount of spiritual energy, is nurtured by blood and qi day and night, and is constantly compressed and polished by powerful spiritual consciousness. It can evolve into a powerful spiritual attack magic weapon, the Thorn God Pearl.

Unfortunately, the Divine Thorn Pearl is only a one-time consumable magic weapon.

Once used, one needs to find a way to capture the ghosts and evil spirits again, refine their souls, and then nourish them with blood qi day and night, and constantly compress and polish them with powerful spiritual consciousness, before they can become the Thorn God Pearl again.

Moreover, the power of the Thorn Divine Pearl is not only related to the number and quality of evil spirits and ghosts absorbed, but also closely related to the strength of the spiritual consciousness of the person who refines it.

The stronger the spiritual consciousness, the more powerful the polished divine bead will be.

A cultivator like Qi Shilei in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, with his level of spiritual awareness, can only refine the Thorn God Pearl that has a great attack effect on the soul of a cultivator of the same level.

If facing a cultivator in the late Jindan stage, the effect of the attack would be much worse.

Moreover, the amount of Qi and blood consumed in nurturing such a thorny divine bead is also quite considerable.

It is a disposable consumable, and each time it is refined, it takes time, energy, and blood. Of course, it is not easy to absorb a large number of powerful ghosts and evil spirits. Moreover, after the refining is successful, it can basically only be used to deal with cultivators of the same level.

Therefore, even though the attack method of the Thorn God Pearl is strange and unpredictable, and can produce unexpected and powerful attack effects, it is still like a chicken rib to the cultivators, and they are unwilling to spend time and effort to refine it.

The Soul Refining Bead was only used to capture evil spirits and ghosts. Later, with the disappearance of the Soul Refining Grass, the Soul Refining Bead gradually became a legendary item.

Because Xia Daoming's spiritual awareness was so powerful that it was far beyond his realm and could be compared to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, he paid a little attention to this record when he read it. He thought that if he had this pearl, he could find a way to slowly absorb and collect enough evil spirits, and then when he had free time, he could use his powerful Qi and blood to nourish them, and use his spiritual awareness to slowly compress and polish them, and refine them into the Thorn God Pearl, in case of emergency.

Later, when he returned to Qingyuan Gate to inquire, he found out that the pearl had long been extinct and could not be found anywhere, so Xia Daoming gave up the idea.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed and the matter of refining the soul beads was completely forgotten.

I didn't expect to find this pearl in Qi Shilei's storage ring today.

"Sometimes, things in the world are really coincidental. I tried to find it but couldn't find it back then, but now I get it without any effort! I don't know whether Qi Shilei prepared this pearl specially for entering the Killing Cave, or whether he got it accidentally? But these are meaningless to me. Anyway, Qi Shilei gave me this soul refining pearl at the right time!"

Xia Daoming weighed the soul-refining bead in his hand and looked towards the direction of the killing cave thoughtfully.

One day later. At the dark entrance of the killing cave, a young figure jumped down without hesitation.

The young figure was Xia Daoming.

Alas!Alas!
As soon as I jumped down, I felt gusts of dark wind rushing out from the whirlpool.

Those gusts of cold wind were not only as sharp as blades, piercingly cold, but also carried with them violent, brutal, and bloodthirsty thoughts that rushed straight into people's souls and wills.

The monks can use magic weapons to protect themselves from the sharp and cold wind blades, but the murderous and bloodthirsty thoughts are pervasive and cannot be resisted without special soul-type magic weapons.

If the cultivator's soul and will are not strong and firm enough, these few attacks will probably cause him to become mentally disturbed, and he will be completely filled with murderous and bloodthirsty thoughts, and become a beast that only knows how to kill and bloodthirst.

Xia Daoming's soul and will were strong and firm, and his body was as strong as a magical weapon. The impact of the gusts of cold wind entering his body did not pose any threat to him.

However, the power of the cold wind was still beyond Xia Daoming's expectations, which made him feel awe-inspiring and he dared not be careless.

Soon, flames appeared on Xia Daoming's body, and it turned into a fire dragon that swirled around him.

Inside the fire dragon, there was a faint glow of armor, and within the glow of the armor, there was a faint shadow of a red flaming turtle.

The fire dragon lingering around his body is an ancient jade talisman that Xia Daoming obtained from a Jindan monk, the Fire Dragon Jade Talisman.

This talisman can provide a defensive power comparable to that of an early Golden Elixir.

The defense is not strong, but the advantage is that the ancient jade talisman is not like a magic weapon, and it consumes very little mana when it is used.

Of course, the ancient jade talisman is a consumable and will be constantly consumed. It will become less and less with each use and will eventually turn into fragments.

Most people would not be willing to use it unless it is a critical moment.

But Xia Daoming is not an ordinary person.

A mere ancient jade talisman with a defensive power comparable to that of an early golden elixir was nothing to him, so he could just scrap it.

The armor was a defensive magic weapon made by Xia Daoming using the shell of a red-flame spiral turtle. It was not a magic weapon and needed to be activated with qi, blood and strength.

Xia Daoming only put it in a semi-activated state, which did not consume much blood, energy and strength.

Then Xia Daoming flipped his hand again, grabbing the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner in one hand and the Black Tiger Knife in the other.

After making all these preparations, Xia Daoming finally passed through the vortex of dark wind.

He passed through the vortex of cold wind and soon landed on the ground.

The ground was as cold as the eternal ice.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Take your life!"

As soon as his feet touched the ground, before he had time to feel the coldness of the ground, fierce and violent murderous thoughts rushed into his brain, and then a rolling black fog came from the passage ahead.

When the black fog came to the front, it suddenly shrank towards the center and transformed into five evil ghosts in the appearance of humans.

Some evil spirits hold spears, others hold broadswords, and long spears...

He rushed towards Xia Daoming with a ferocious look on his face.

Seeing this, Xia Daoming calmly waved the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner in his hand towards the evil spirits that were charging towards him. The banner unfolded, and billowing black gas rushed out, transforming into a huge mouth. Long black ropes rushed out of the huge mouth, wrapped around the five evil spirits, and then were retracted into the huge mouth.

Then the huge mouth turned into black gas and shrank back into the banner.

The banner surface became slightly darker.

“No wonder some evil cultivators would go to the Nether Wasteland Ruins to refine evil weapons and magic treasures. The ghosts and evil spirits here are really excellent materials for refining ghost-like magic weapons.

Unfortunately, ghost-type magic weapons are a double-edged sword. The more powerful the ghost-type magic weapons are against the enemy, the more severe the erosion of their own souls and thoughts. The power cannot be increased without control, otherwise the souls and thoughts will be controlled by the ghosts condensed by the magic weapon, and the person will become a walking corpse.

Otherwise, there are so many powerful ghosts and evil spirits gathered in this killing cave, I can take this opportunity to absorb and refine them with the Ten Thousand Snakes Poison Banner, and increase its power to a terrifying level."

When Xia Daoming saw that the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner had undergone a slight change, he was delighted but also secretly alert.

Seven days later.

Deep inside a passage in the Killing Cave.

Xia Daoming held the Black Tiger Knife in his hand, with the Ten Thousand Snakes Poisonous Banner and the Soul Refining Pearl hanging over his head, and engaged in a fierce battle with two snake-shaped, six-legged, four-winged evil spirits.

(End of this chapter)