Chapter 94: Chapter 92: Azure Heaven Killing Array
A Foundation Establishment Realm soul was likely stronger than the souls of ten thousand Red Soul Bone Beasts combined!
But Cang Songzi wasn’t an Undead, and his soul had just left his body. It had no power to resist and could only be devoured by the Little Gray Skeleton.
If an ordinary Undead Creature could devour the soul of a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator, it could probably advance to the Perfect Red Soul Realm.
The Realms of Undead Creatures were divided according to the color of their Soul Fire.
Gray, Red, Cyan, Blue, and Purple were the five major Realms. The higher one climbed, the harder it was to advance, requiring an almost oceanic amount of souls to be devoured.
A Gray Soul might only need to devour a hundred of its own kind to advance to an ordinary Basic-level Red Soul. But for the lowest-level Red Soul to advance to a Cyan Soul, it was hard to say if even a hundred thousand or a million same-level souls would be enough.
Following this logic, one could imagine how difficult it was for Undead Creatures to advance in the later stages. But the suppression from higher levels was also pushed to the extreme, and their strength was naturally beyond question.
Jiang Jichen didn’t know if Little Gray would be able to advance to the Red Soul Realm after devouring Cang Songzi’s soul.
At that moment, Cang Songzi’s soul was twisting and struggling within the Little Skeleton’s gray Soul Flame, but it was all in vain.
"Jiang Jichen, you can’t kill me! I’m a member of the Cang Family and Lingxu Temple! If you kill me, you and everyone associated with you will be buried with me!"
Cang Songzi, not wanting his soul to be completely destroyed, immediately used the Cang Family and Lingxu Temple to intimidate Jiang Jichen.
Hearing Cang Songzi’s words, Jiang Jichen’s expression seemed to shift as he asked, "And then?"
Cang Songzi’s soul was overjoyed, thinking Jiang Jichen was scared. He hastily said, "As long as you don’t erase my soul, I can let this matter go entirely. The Cang Family and Lingxu Temple won’t trouble you anymore!"
As long as their soul wasn’t destroyed, a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator could reconstruct their physical body!
Jiang Jichen looked at the old man, thinking, ’This guy has been high and mighty for so long his brain has turned to mush. How could he say something so childish?’
"You old bastard. You say you’ll kill my family and friends, and then you say you won’t. Are our lives just toys in the hands of you ’superiors’? Heh, do you really think I don’t know what you’re thinking?"
"Right now, you say you’ll let it all go, but you’re definitely thinking that the moment I let you leave, you’ll turn right around and bring people from the Cang Family and Lingxu Temple to kill me and exterminate my family and friends!"
"Little Gray, devour this old coot!"
Jiang Jichen wasted no more words and had the Little Gray Skeleton devour Cang Songzi’s soul.
"You...!"
Cang Songzi had indeed been thinking that. But he never would have imagined that a mere teenage plebeian could have such a sharp gaze, as if he could see through everything. ’This kid is more monstrous than an old monster!’
By now, the Little Gray Skeleton had already begun refining Cang Songzi’s soul. The gray Soul Flame burned, intending to melt down Cang Songzi’s soul into the purest Soul Power to strengthen its own Soul Fire.
The inhuman pain of having his soul burned made Cang Songzi scream incessantly.
"Jiang Jichen, you... you little bastard! When I die, your aura will be marked! The methods of the Cang Family and Lingxu Temple are not something a little ant like you can imagine! They won’t let you go! Aaaargh..."
As Cang Songzi’s soul was burned, it grew fainter and fainter, on the verge of disappearing. That would mean it was truly and completely erased.
Jiang Jichen watched Cang Songzi’s soul as it was about to dissipate and said coolly, "The Cang Family and Lingxu Temple, you say? One day, I’ll pay them a personal visit."
After he finished speaking, Cang Songzi’s soul, filled with unwillingness, was completely exhausted and fully refined by the Little Gray Skeleton.
But what left Jiang Jichen speechless was that even after devouring the soul of a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator like Cang Songzi, the Little Skeleton’s soul was still gray. The gray Soul Flame was only half a shade brighter than before, and its skeleton had gained a slight luster.
’Looks like it had some effect after all!’
At that, Jiang Jichen began to search Cang Songzi’s body.
Cang Songzi was from the Cang Family and Lingxu Temple, and he was a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator. His possessions were bound to be incredibly valuable!
Sure enough, Jiang Jichen found a High-Level Storage Bag on Cang Songzi’s waist!
Forget what was inside; the High-Level Storage Bag alone was priceless, comparable to a top-tier Innate Spirit Weapon.
A High-Level Storage Bag could practically contain a world within it.
An ordinary High-Level Storage Bag usually had over a thousand cubic meters of internal space. The one on Cang Songzi’s waist was of good quality, with over thirteen hundred cubic meters of space inside—enough to hold a great many things.
Now that Cang Songzi was dead and his Divine Soul was completely erased, the Divine Sense imprint on the High-Level Storage Bag had dissipated on its own. With a turn of his Divine Thought, Jiang Jichen branded it with his own.
At this moment, Jiang Jichen’s Divine Thought swept through the space of the High-Level Storage Bag, and the collection inside instantly stunned him.
High-Level Primordial Spirit Pills, High-level top-quality Qi Blood Pills, Intermediate Top-grade Soul Nourishing Pills, Third and Fourth Grade Condensing Spirit Pills...
A Sixth Level Innate Spirit Moon Sword, a Seventh-Level Innate Dark Blood Saber, an Eighth-Level Innate Red Iron Rod, a Ninth-Level Innate Flowing Cloud Ring...
*Daoist Qi Condensation Technique*, *Cang Family Foundation Establishment Scripture*, *Sleeve Concealing Skill*, *Embrace Guarding Concentration Sword*...
Besides those, there were also various precious materials for Artifact Refining and Alchemy, as well as High Tier Spirit Beast Inner Cores.
It was truly a dazzling sight. The bag had everything one could wish for, no different from a treasure trove!
What Jiang Jichen didn’t know was that this was the hundred-year collection of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator Cang Songzi. Cultivators like him only ever trusted themselves, and felt most at ease keeping all their worldly possessions on their person. But now, it had all fallen into Jiang Jichen’s lap.
Although countless dazzling treasures lay before him, Jiang Jichen’s gaze was sharp. His eyes finally settled on just three items.
The first item was a Foundation Establishment Pill. It was held in an Upper Grade Pill Jade Bottle, emitting faint, circling halos of Spirit Medicine light, looking incredibly mystical and extraordinary at a glance.
In the entire Celestial Pearl Country, one might not even find a handful of Foundation Establishment Pills. A Grandmaster would have to exhaust the savings of half a lifetime to exchange for a single one, or sell their life to a major power to obtain it. One could only imagine how precious it was.
The second item was a Red Copper Sword. It looked somewhat dilapidated, even showing spots of rust, but it was a Spiritual Artifact!
Above Innate Spirit Weapons were Spiritual Artifacts. Spiritual Artifacts were divided into three major grades: Profound, Earth, and Heaven!
This Red Copper Sword was a Profound-level Spiritual Artifact. However, the Spiritual Patterns on its body were somewhat damaged, so it had currently degraded to the level of a top-tier Spirit Weapon. Nevertheless, it was still the most powerful weapon here.
The third item was a corner of a tattered Array Map. Others might not recognize it, but how could Jiang Jichen not?
According to legend, the second greatest array of ancient times, the Azure Heaven Killing Array, had shattered into countless pieces and scattered across the various realms. And now, Jiang Jichen was actually seeing a fragment of it here!
It had been tossed into a corner. Cang Songzi clearly hadn’t recognized it, perhaps only noticing the ancient, time-worn marks etched upon it and collecting it as a mere antique.
’The Azure Heaven Killing Array... even a broken fragment, once activated, will unleash heavenly killing intent. The stars themselves will shift, and corpses will surely fall!’
Jiang Jichen took out the tattered corner of the Array Map, his heart trembling.
