Cultivating Immortals in Two Realms, I Possessed the Primordial Thunder Vine

Chapter 91 The Lower Realm?! The Soul-Devouring Gourd

For the next six months, Xu Changjun meticulously honed his mental strength.

Although this spiritual power that appeared out of nowhere was powerful, even just a portion of it was enough to benefit him immensely.

Not to mention the core power of the Three-Eyed Clan, the primordial power of the thirty-six-faceted prismatic crystal body, which Xu Changjun has yet to be able to truly utilize even a fraction of.

This is a huge difference in level and a fundamental gap that cannot be bridged in the short term.

Xu Changjun urgently needs more secret techniques related to the soul to study. Learning from others can help him find the key to entry.

He suddenly remembered the "Soul Summoning Black Fiend Six Ding Six Jia Dispatch Method" that he had obtained from Senior Brother He when he killed the Blood Fiend Cult cultivator in the ruins cave.

This technique requires extremely strong mental power to control those powerful ghosts and gods.

Now that the conditions are met, Xu Changjun can't wait to give it a try.

During his years of seclusion, his main practice of the "Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Orthodox Method" has reached a bottleneck, and further improvement would be extremely difficult.

However, the development of spiritual power gave him another dimension of insight: the path of the soul is different from the magic system, and is a more hidden core of origin.

Enhancing our capabilities in this area is also essential.

Moreover, according to the intelligence he has recently gathered, everything is peaceful and the Moon Spring Clan is behaving itself. It is probably still some years before that giant python that has transformed into a dragon is born.

Therefore, Xu Changjun asked the patriarch to allow him to leave the family for a period of time and go to other places to hone his skills.

Considering that Xu Changjun has already reached the Purple Mansion level of combat power, he can roam freely around Cloud Cave Lake. Being complacent and self-sufficient is never what cultivators pursue.

Therefore, Xu Weichao, the patriarch of the Xu family, did not stop him, but only instructed him to go and return early so as not to delay important family matters, with a time limit of six months to a year.

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Compared to the hasty departure last time, Xu Changjun was well-prepared this time and seemed quite at ease. He sent someone to inform Uncle Fu and then left directly.

Moreover, Xu Changjun deliberately chose a different route than last time.

Instead of heading towards the Canglan River, he went in the opposite direction, heading directly towards another, more difficult path, the Nanshan Road.

As they ventured deeper into the dense forest, the air was thick with smoke and haze, and human habitation was rare, with even hunters being few and far between. Xu Changjun pulled out a footboard made of five-colored copper.

These five-colored copper footboards were cast in the same batch as the Golden Hall. They were specially crafted by the weapon refiner Xu Changjun. They have no other function than to contain a magnetic conversion array. They were baptized by lightning along with the Thunderfire Refining Hall. They seem unremarkable, but they contain a powerful electric magnetic field.

Xu Changjun circulated his magical power, releasing a slight spark of electricity. The platform on the ground slowly rose, and Xu Changjun leaped onto it, firmly planting his feet on the platform.

Electricity crackled beneath his feet, and the pedals vibrated violently, as if some invisible force, corresponding to and repelling the Earth's magnetic field, was twisting and turning. Under Xu Changjun's control, it transformed into a streak of light and flew straight into the distance.

Its speed was as fast as lightning, or more like a magnetic field explosion, propelling Xu Changjun's speed to increase wildly.

This was forged by Xu Changjun using the same principles after he cultivated the Thunderfire Refining Palace. However, it was a simplified version of the Thunderfire Refining Palace. Now, the five-colored bronze palace weighed hundreds of thousands of kilograms, and Xu Changjun could not control it at all.

Otherwise, if that thing could levitate, with its magnetic field power, Xu Changjun felt it would be like an aircraft, capable of traversing the void and shaky terrain. Combined with the Nine Lives Thunder Python pulling the Golden Palace, it would be incredibly majestic.

Although he can't activate it now, as long as he's strong enough, it's something he'll be able to achieve sooner or later.

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Along the way, Xu Changjun passed through mostly desolate and sparsely populated areas, with few people around. The few mountain villages he encountered were only small-scale settlements.

Xu Changjun moved at an extremely fast speed, and the magnetic field of the entire planet Earth was omnipresent, which was one of the core elements that laid the foundation for the rules of the universe.

Xu Changjun controlled the magnetic field explosion, propelling himself forward with magnetic force. It was as fast as lightning, and he flew four or five hundred miles in one breath without stopping. He then landed in a mountain stream to rest and catch his breath.

Due to his greatly increased strength and his comprehension of electromagnetic power, Xu Changjun, propelled by the magnetic field, was able to travel at a seemingly rapid pace without expending too much power, retaining at least 70% of his internal magical energy.

Just as Xu Changjun stopped, his brows furrowed, he looked up sharply, and a golden light flashed in his eyes, clearly indicating that he had discovered something!

"No, this ghostly aura is so obvious."

After being fused with the crystal head of the Three-Eyed Clan, Xu Changjun's senses were greatly enhanced, surpassing the range of normal people. No matter what was happening around him, even if it was several kilometers away, he could not miss it.

Without lingering, Xu Changjun leaped up, his figure leaping continuously through the woods, heading towards the direction of the anomaly. His speed increased more than tenfold, making him like a phantom among the mountains. In the blink of an eye, Xu Changjun saw a valley.

At this moment, the valley was filled with eerie atmosphere and a heavy, ghostly aura, as a soul-summoning ritual was being performed.

The village in the valley was already littered with corpses, and blood flowed, staining the earth red. The bodies of men, women, children, and even infants were piled on the altar, where several monks dressed in black robes were performing a ritual.

As the ceremony proceeded, a chilling aura could be felt creeping through the valley, and the once clearly visible valley was gradually enveloped in a thin layer of white mist.

Within the white mist, the faint, illusory figures drifted slowly. As the ritual progressed, the black-robed cultivator's high-pitched voice gradually echoed throughout the valley. Within the white mist, those ghost-like figures slowly solidified, revealing a series of blank, human-shaped figures.

In an instant, visible ghosts and vengeful spirits appeared in the void, seemingly still retaining a trace of their former nature, staring blankly at their surroundings. When they noticed the corpses on the altar, they immediately let out painful howls.

Immediately, within a very short time, their bodies began to darken, turning completely black and transforming into extremely ferocious ghosts.

These corrupted and ferocious ghosts seemed to have an extreme aversion and hatred for life. They roared and pounced on the black-robed cultivator in the arena.

At that moment, the black-robed cultivator at the heart of the formation produced a gourd. He opened the gourd, aimed it at the remnant souls, vengeful spirits, and ghosts, made hand seals, and chanted a phrase.

"receive"!

Instantly, a powerful suction force surged from inside the gourd, sweeping away the remaining souls in the valley in an instant.

A moment later, the white mist dissipated, and the valley returned to calm. However, the piles of corpses left on the ground gave people an extremely eerie and terrifying feeling.

They saw several black-robed cultivators gathered together, whispering among themselves.

"Mortals in the cultivation world are nourished by spiritual energy, and their souls are two to three times stronger than those in our lower realm. Just collecting the remnant souls of this small village is comparable to the harvest of a small war in the lower realm."

"This is just the life force of an ordinary person. If we could obtain the divine soul essence of a few Qi Refining cultivators, we could probably fill this Soul Devouring Gourd, and then we would have completed our mission."

"This smuggling trip to the upper realm was incredibly successful. Maintaining this passage will be crucial for our future development!"

"With the spiritual energy of the upper realm, we can wash away the dust of the mortal world without any worries, and our strength will increase by leaps and bounds. At that time, it will not be impossible for us to gain a foothold in the cultivation world."

The murmurs of the men in black robes reached Xu Changjun's ears, leading him to discover, to his surprise, that this group seemed to be hiding some secret.

"The lower realm? The Soul-Devouring Gourd..."

(End of this chapter)