Soul Slaughter (Part 2)
Although no fiends dared to approach Long Xingyun after his ruthless act, they made their opinions loud and clear.
“Long Xingyun or whatever turned against his own people? How is he able to hurt souls that Fiend-Sealing Pagoda is protecting?” Mu Mengfei muttered under her breath.
“I have no idea how to explain this, but I have a bad feeling about this,” answered Helian Kong, shifting his gaze to Gui Ximing and Gui Bao. “Something about their eyes tells me they’re plotting something we don’t like.”
Gui Yeming locked eyes with Helian Kong and quietly uttered, “Say your last prayers.”
Helian Kong involuntarily juddered.
“It is your honour to become sacrifices for Blood Domain Demon Soul, hahaha,” Long Xingyun boomed, attracting all the attention toward himself.
Once upon a time during Helian Kong’s era, all cultivators teamed up to stop Ghost Gate from using Blood Domain Demon Soul and Blood Domain Demon Skull. To appease the cultivators and save themselves from extermination, Ghost Gate got rid of the technique and vowed to never use it again.
“Gui Yuzi, you’re the mastermind behind the promotion of that sickening technique, aren’t you? You want Ghost Gate to be exterminated?” Helian Kong brayed.
“Kekeke, and how will they know about what takes place on this island?”
Gui Yueming meandered over to Helian Kong. “I swore to pay you back for crossing me.”
“Hand me your life, then!”
Helian Kong thrust his hand toward Gui Yeming, aiming to reduce their threats by at least one. Howbeit, Long Xingyun dashed over to Gui Yeming’s side and beamed a red light, robbing Helian Kong of his soul energy and incapacitating him.
“What?!” Helian Kong fought tooth and nail to stop himself succumbing to the pressure or groaning.
“Helian Kong, it’s my turn.”
Long Xingyun grabbed a handful of blood from He Liankong, allowing him to drag Helian Kong into his grasp without physical contact. Choking Helian Kong, Gui Yeming fumed, “You sabotaged my plan and constantly protected Mu Yu, yet you want to be released? I’ll turn you into my ghost slave so that you live on as a miserable for eternity.”
Gui Ximing spawned a black chain to his hand, then lodged it in Helian Kong’s shoulder.
“Ugh! I should’ve killed you the moment you set foot on this island!”
“Regrets are useless. On your knees!”
Helian Kong couldn’t stop himself driving his knees to the ground.
“Gui Yeming, what are you doing?” blustered Mu Mengfei, maintaining her distance to be on the safe side.
“I’m benevolently giving the rest of you souls a choice: do you want to be devoured as those two fiends were, or would you rather sensibly become part of my Nine Nether Ghost Banner?” Gui Yeming threatened, summoning a red flag from his body that started an eruption of cries from the souls trapped inside as it drew energy from Long Xingyun’s Blood Domain Demon Soul to work around Fiend-Sealing Pagoda’s formation
“Being devoured means being released, no?” Mu Mengfei blurted, reminding the other souls that a second death was a true escape from their misery as trapped souls.
“I’m going to take down as many Ghost Gate scum as I can before I go!” a middle-aged soul behind Mu Mengfei declared.
Long Xingyun discharged his red qi again, freezing the charging souls in mid-air.
“How could I forget that it’s pointless to threaten souls? Guess that means I have to get my hands dirty,” cockily voiced Gui Yeming, activating Nine Nether Ghost Banner to suck all of the souls in.
“Gui Yuzi, you’re the one who planned this?” questioned Helian Kong, teeth tightly pressed together.
“What did you think I stayed here with you lot for five millenniums for?”
“Wh-, argh!”
Gui Yeming subjected Helian Kong to the energy of his Nine Nether Ghost Banner again. Over the next hour, Gui Yeming collected all of the souls, minus Gui Yuzi, Helian Kong, Mu Mengfei and Bo Hong, inhabiting the island. Despite his threats, killing the souls would have been a waste.
“Helian Kong, didn’t see this coming, did you?” Gui Yuzi ridiculed,
Mu Mengfei and Bo Hong were chained up, while Helian Kong’s soul energy was being sucked out of him through the two chains lodged in his soul.
“Kill me already!”
“Kill you? You could’ve been released as soon as I arrived on the island if it wasn’t for Blood Domain Demon Skull and Blood Domain Demon Soul. I might’ve let you go if you didn’t back up Mu Yu. As payback for interfering, I shall let you suffer,” Gui Yeming responded.
“Your Lordship, Helian Kong can still serve as a hostage. We can use him to force Mu Yu to hand over Walk-in Heart Genesis,” Gui Ximing suggested.
Gui Yeming guffawed. “We’ve completed the majority of our goals, and we can return home once we obtain Walk-in Heart Genesis from him.”
“Mu Yu is still hiding in the pagoda. As a formation caster, he has the advantage over us and has other skills in his arsenal to counter ours, ranking him as a tough opponent for us. We have already lost three people and a Divine Lunar Stone to him.”
“He can’t hide in there forever. Without this old fart getting in the way, I can also enter the pagoda to slaughter him myself,” contested Gui Yeming.
“We have a favour to ask our prince here,” Gui Yuzi suddenly said.
Long Xingyun bowed his head. “My life is yours, Master.”
“Good to hear,” Gui Yuzi replied, smirking.
“What do you mean, Master?”
“I mean it is time for you to return what is rightfully mine.”
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