Embers of Sword

Chapter 208 Swallowing Soul
A scarlet beam of light shot out from the sky above the snow-capped mountains.

Xie Xuanyi's body was directly "pierced through".

This beam of light shot out for a hundred feet, breaking a small snowy mountain in half.

Heavy snow was flying all over the sky.

The pierced black clothes shattered along with the snow.

next moment.

Xie Xuanyi appeared a hundred feet away, and the "black clothes" that were pierced in the air were like a dream bubble, and they were shattered.

He raised his arms solemnly.

The speed of the beam of light just now.

It's quite fast indeed.

Even though he dodged immediately, he was still "hit".

Half of the sleeve was burned into nothingness!
What would happen if you were really hit?

Xie Xuanyi looked back at the slowly collapsing small snow mountain behind him. Within the range of his spiritual consciousness, the breath of the dragon girl Ao Ying had disappeared. After the beam of light was shot out just now... this witch burst out at an extremely fast speed. It seemed that this was her forbidden technique and her last means of escape.

"Is that pupil just now the secret treasure of Chiling City?"

Xie Xuanyi silently recalled the scene just now.

In that blood-red eye.

He didn't feel the aura of Dragonborn blood, but it did feel familiar.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the secret treasure of Phoenix Blood?

Xie Xuanyi had a blank expression on his face. He raised his hand and waved it gently.

A ray of sword energy leaped out in the air.

When fighting with Ao Ying before, Xie Xuanyi realized that this woman not only had dragon blood, but also carried a treasure.

She is different from those assassins of Chiling City.

In any sense, she can be regarded as the "prodigy of the demon country"!
He burst into murderous intent.

Ao Ying will definitely fight to the death, and now that she has played all her cards... there is still a possibility that she can escape.

therefore.

When Xie Xuanyi stabbed out the Spring Breeze, he engraved his own "Sword Qi Mark" on the dragon girl.

"Escaped to the north?"

The sword energy exploded in the air, flew and circled several times, and then pointed to the north.

Xie Xuanyi raised his eyebrows.

This should be the direction from which Ao Ying came. Is he scared by my beating and preparing to escape back to Lilan Mountain?
But this is not a good choice.

It has now been occupied by humans, and I guess a "big hunt" is going on!
But for me, it is good news.

Because the divine fruit is in this direction.

……

……

“Escaped…?”

Dozens of miles away.

In a cave in a snowy mountain, the ground suddenly cracked, and a figure covered in blood emerged from the ground, accompanied by a low dragon roar.

Smoke and dust flew everywhere.

The scales on his body gradually faded away and turned into a pool of thick bright red blood. Ao Ying looked pale as he lay in a pool of cold blood, covering his forehead with his hands.

Waves of tearing pain spread into my heart.

pain!
It hurts so much!
This secret treasure of Chiling City cost her such a huge price just by using it once.

All the energy in my body is almost exhausted.

Besides.

All the dragon blood in his body was also drained.

The red clothes on her body had been completely torn to pieces. After struggling for a long time, Ao Ying slowly stood up and slowly walked out of the cave.

Under the sunlight.

The snow-capped mountains on all sides are like a world of glass, shining with dazzling light.

She stepped back again.

"This is... Li Lanshan."

Ao Ying was a little confused.

She reached out and touched the crack between her eyebrows, wondering why Feng Mou would bring her to such a place.

This secret treasure of Chiling City already possesses "intelligence".

A creature with "intelligence" is more difficult to tame than an inanimate object.

And this phoenix eye, needless to say.

Even as powerful as Prince Jiu, who had tamed it for many years, had never taken the "Phoenix Eyes" for himself.

Ao Ying narrowed his eyes and chuckled softly, "Do you think that I can only survive if I escape to Lilan Mountain?"

No response though.

But apparently, this is the answer.

The reason why Ao Ying went all the way south.

In fact, it was not because she found a map of a secret place south of Arashiyama in Prince Jiu’s secret treasure box.

She knew very well who Prince Jiu was.

This person is vicious and cunning.

If there really is such a priceless secret map...

Prince Jiu had already remembered it in his heart, and then destroyed it completely!

How can I let myself get it?
Ao Ying's real purpose is to force the spirit of the "Phoenix Eyes" to reveal itself.

This secret treasure requires the essence and blood of an ancient saint.

Ao Ying didn't know where the ancient saint's blood essence came from, and she also didn't believe that Prince Jiu would put such an important secret map into the box.

But she knew one thing.

If I take Fengmou south and touch the border of the human race.

Ten lives, all must die!
If she died in the territory of the Demon Country, Fengmou would not have any reaction... So many years have passed, and there are countless demon cultivators coveting this secret treasure. It can just find a new host.

But if you die on the human border, it will be a different story!

If the secret treasure of the demon race is "picked up" by a great cultivator of the human race...

The end will be very miserable.

Therefore, her intention of going all the way south was to force Feng Mou to make a decision in the face of death.

This secret treasure is far more powerful than my current strength and needs to be "alive" more than I do!
At this moment.

Ao Ying heard the whistling sound of the flying sword.

Her heart suddenly trembled, and she quickly retreated into the darkness of the cave.

Ao Ying endured the severe pain and used a secret technique to seal the snow cave, and then carefully sent out a wisp of divine consciousness.

The battle just now almost broke her heart...

not far away.

Several sword lights slowly passed over the snow.

"Have you heard about the 'Jia Geng' incident?"

"A cloud ship that was so good...it just sank like this..."

"I heard that Xie Zhen is on the ship, I don't know how he is doing now."

Several young human cultivators were riding their swords and chatting, with a lot of emotion in their tone.

Ao Ying is always brave.

This time, he only dared to send out a small wisp of divine thought.

However, after seeing the auras of these human practitioners clearly, she often breathed a sigh of relief. The strength of these human practitioners was average. Three of them were at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and one had just reached the Qi Controlling Stage. Moreover, their spiritual practice was also very ordinary and they were completely unaware of her "existence".

The few breaths that Ao Ying explored with his divine sense were the most difficult moments.

She was afraid that these young sword cultivators who appeared in pairs might be like the young man in black...

If so.

As soon as his spiritual thoughts came out, he would probably be captured and killed.

Fortunately, God still "favors" me.

Ao Ying listened silently for a few words and realized that something was wrong… If he remembered correctly, this kind of cultivator would not appear in the area close to Lanshan on weekdays. This area, with a radius of nearly a hundred miles, is a "forbidden zone" for the demon country and the human race. Due to their fear and vigilance against each other, even if they step into this area, they will form a formation and there are large numbers of them.

Then think back to the previous encounter with the young man in black.

Ao Ying vaguely guessed the reason.

"Legend has it... that the Da Chu royal family would regularly conduct 'Northern Hunts', sending out the geniuses from the four realms to hunt down geniuses from the Demon Realm."

She frowned and said, "The guy I just met should be one of the human race's geniuses?"

After taking a deep breath, Ao Ying decided to make a bold move.

She carefully removed the secret pattern of the cave, and then released a wisp of demonic aura.

"Ok?"

really.

The few wandering cultivators who were passing by slowly were immediately attracted by the evil spirit.

"There is a demon... Look at its aura, it is very weak! It should only be at the Foundation Establishment stage!"

"Do it!"

"Don't let it get away!"

The sword practitioner who was at the Qi Controlling Realm was the first to sense the demonic aura. His eyes lit up, and without saying a word, he immediately controlled his sword and flew towards the snowy mountain cave.

The other companions also hurriedly followed.

Several sword lights crashed into the black cave in the snowy mountain.

After a while.

This dark and gloomy snow mountain cave was illuminated by faint light, and the ground was covered with blood and debris.

Ao Ying sat in a pool of blood, expressionless. She slowly reached out and took out the heart of the sword cultivator who controlled Qi, swallowed it into her mouth, and chewed it hard. Gradually, a little more blood color appeared on her pale cheeks.

For the demon race.

Many injuries can be recovered by "eating".

The human race would use the demon's heart to make elixirs and absorb its vital energy.

same.

The demons will also eat the dantian of human practitioners and practice as well.

"Fortunately, the strongest among them is only at the Qi Controlling Stage... The sword energy is still not able to pierce my dragon scales."

Ao Ying murmured, "Otherwise, I might really die here."

Just now was her weakest moment.

She released the evil aura in order to lure these sword cultivators to come and kill her.

She had already guessed that Lilan Mountain was the hunting ground for this northern hunt.

It won't be long.

It is very likely that there will be a young man in black like the one just now coming. The concealment of my own formation pattern can deceive some low-level cultivators, but it will definitely not deceive such an existence.

In my current state, it is impossible for me to support such a battle.

She must find ways to "recover".

"The human race is hunting in the north, and they have to do it at this time..."

Ao Ying finished eating the remains of three human cultivators. Her injuries recovered slightly, but she was still in a state of severe damage.

A gloomy look flashed across her face.

I don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

Amidst the devastation, there was still a human cultivator "alive". He was the weakest, and had his limbs broken by Ao Ying, who cruelly turned him into the shape of a human pig... This was intentional, as Ao Ying deliberately left this weakest cultivator behind and decided to "eat" him last.

Before "eating" him.

She needed to recover some of her energy so that she could perform the demon race's "soul-devouring" technique.

"Please...don't kill me..."

The monk begged the beautiful woman in front of him. He cried bitterly and his heart was close to collapse.

He couldn't imagine that he and his group would encounter such a thing!

Before the Northern Hunt, no one warned that a great demon would "show weakness to the enemy" and deliberately release a weak aura to lure humans to kill it...

Besides, what realm is this demon at?

Even the Qi Control Realm cannot break through its body defense!
The perfect cave? Half-step to Yin God?
"..."

Ao Ying just looked at the person in front of her indifferently. She stretched out her hand and pressed it on the head of this foundation-building cultivator.

Buzz!
For an instant.

The head was bleeding from all seven orifices.

The foundation-building monk opened his lips and wanted to wail in pain, but the next moment his entire head oozed red blood and fire and began to burn.

After a dozen breaths, the snow cave returned to calm.

The last foundation-building cultivator was destroyed, both body and soul.

"Northern Hunt... Jia Geng..."

"Wu Zong...Qian Tian Palace..."

Ao Ying sat cross-legged, quietly digesting the information in the mind of this foundation-building cultivator.

Halfway through digesting it, her expression suddenly froze and turned ugly.

"Xie Zhen?"

A face flashed across the sea of consciousness of this foundation-building cultivator.

This face.

It was the human swordsman he had encountered earlier in the Ghost Ridge.

"A disciple of Xie Xuanyi from Dasui Sword Palace?!"

The extra color on Ao Ying's face, which had finally appeared, disappeared again.

She was very familiar with the name.

Xie Xuanyi from Dasui Sword Palace!
Everyone in the entire demon country knows about it.

This name is not only famous in the Da Chu Dynasty—

This is a complete killer!
In the past, several venerables of the Demon Country were killed by Xie Xuanyi! Almost every major force wanted to eat him alive. It is said that several great venerables even thought about doing it themselves, but this person's cultivation speed was too fast and his killing power was too strong... Every time he fought with the venerables of the Demon Country, the battle ended in a moment, without giving the other side a chance to fight back.

However, later I heard that Xie Xuanyi died while being hunted down by "their own people" in the Da Chu Dynasty.

The great masters of the Demon Country breathed a sigh of relief.

A monster like Xie Xuanyi.

Once promoted to Yang God, he will become a serious threat to the Demon Kingdom!

However, no one expected that this person would actually accept a disciple.

"No wonder he's so strong."

Ao Ying was a little dazed.

She spoke with a fearful look on her face: "However, hasn't the human race developed too much in recent years?"

This time, the soul-devouring technique was very successful.

There is a lot of information in the sea of consciousness of this foundation-building cultivator.

Before the Northern Hunt.

The group bought the case files from Fangyuanfang and studied them carefully. Now all the "archives" of Fangyuanfang have entered Ao Ying's mind.

"The Holy Son of Qiantian Palace, Xie Sheng of Jiangning, Wu Yue of Wu Zong, Dao Sect..."

The more you absorb soul information.

Ao Ying's expression became uglier.

"Are all these people monsters and geniuses on the same level as Xie Zhen?"

"The Great Chu Dynasty has so many geniuses?!"

She felt a vague tingling sensation on her scalp.

According to the information from the sea of consciousness of this foundation-building cultivator, the geniuses from each major force in this Northern Hunt have strength comparable to that of "Xie Zhen"!

In other words.

There are many geniuses like Xie Zhen!

She simply couldn't imagine the scene of seven or eight Xie Zhens besieging her together...

Does the Da Chu Dynasty really have so many Cave Heaven Sword Masters of this level of combat power?

What else is there to fight?
"What's worse is that Chiling City might be catching up to Li Lanshan soon."

Ao Ying touched his forehead and gritted his teeth as he said, "The arrival of Lord Jiu will probably alert the Yin Gods of the human race... If things get worse, the Yang Gods of both sides may show up. Do I really have a chance to survive?"

This last sentence.

Of course, I’m asking “Feng Mou”.

only.

This evil eye will only "react" after absorbing secret blood.

This kind of question will naturally not be answered...

Ao Ying's expression was extremely gloomy. She slowly stood up, and the skull in her palm that was burnt by blood and fire suddenly burst with a bang!
"Since you brought me here... it means that this so-called 'Ancient Saint Secret Realm' really exists."

She slowly stood behind the shadow of the snow cave and looked at the rolling mountains.

"Is the Ancient Saint's Secret Realm located in the Lilan Mountains?"

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(There will be another update tonight.)
(End of this chapter)