Chapter 385: Being Struck by Lightning Every Month and Not Gaining Anything?

Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-Five: You Can't Help But Gain Something From Being Struck By Lightning Every Month

A sinister wind brushed against their faces, and the scene instantly fell into a dead silence, save for the wails of various ghosts echoing through the place.

Humph humph—

Moo—

Baa—

Whether it was the withered elder or Vice Cult Master Shi, both were in the Fusion Stage with thousands of years of experience, yet neither had ever witnessed such a situation before.

Vice Cult Master Shi's expression was not quite coherent; just a moment ago, he had said with a serious face that things were troublesome and that the opposing side had successfully refined the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner.

Looking at the current situation, even if the opposing side refined ten Ten-Thousand Soul Banners, it probably wouldn't be considered a trouble.

The withered elder also hadn't expected that he would refine such a bunch of things; he had merely passed by a small village by chance and discovered that the concentration of bloody aura there was astonishingly high, making it extremely suitable for refining a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner, so he swept up all the bloody aura and chose a secluded spot to race against time to refine it.

With a great enemy before him, the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner was successfully refined at the final moment, and he was about to use the enemy's blood to sacrifice to the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner, intending to unleash a million fierce ghosts to claim their lives.

As a result, he summoned a pile of things like this?

The withered elder gritted his teeth, formed hand seals with both hands, and once again activated the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner.

"No matter, whether they are humans or livestock, since they can be refined into the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner, they all count as fierce ghosts!"

Seeing the withered elder continue to use the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner, Vice Cult Master Shi also thought of the same problem.

This Ten-Thousand Soul Banner only looked hilarious, but its power was not to be underestimated!

The pigs, cattle, and sheep scattered in a rush, running in all directions, and if it weren't for the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner holding them back, they would have long run out of sight.

A few pigs even nudged the withered elder and strolled off to other places.

"Go, eat them!" The withered elder laughed wildly and gave the order decisively, intending to bury Lu Yang and the other two here!

Withered elder: "……"

Vice Cult Master Shi: "……"

"Senior Brother Lu, is this a battle between Fusion Stage experts?" Tao Tianye sent a voice transmission to Lu Yang; she had little experience and it was her first time witnessing a Fusion Stage battle, so she couldn't understand this method of combat.

Lu Yang thought to himself, it's my first time encountering this kind of situation too.

"Immortal, why is it that refining livestock into a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner makes them uncontrollable?"

Inside the spiritual space, the Immortal Fairy was laughing so hard she was doubled over, unable to catch her breath for a long time.

"Hahaha, what a fool, refining a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner with livestock, why didn't you use bugs to refine it, hahaha……"

Once she caught her breath, she explained to Lu Yang: "The essence of the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner is to command souls, and the souls that can be commanded must be living beings that have developed spiritual intelligence, like humans or demonic beasts; the higher the cultivation and the greater the resentment of the humans and demonic beasts before death, the stronger the power."

"A pack of livestock without spiritual intelligence, do you expect them to understand orders and attack?"

"But how do I remember that infant souls can also be used to refine a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner? Infants shouldn't have spiritual intelligence either, right?"

"It is possible to refine a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner with infant souls, but you haven't noticed one thing: demonic cultivators do not immediately refine infant souls into a Ten-Thousand Soul Banner; this process takes several years, during which the size of the infant souls does not change, but their intellect gradually grows until they reach an age where they can understand orders, and only then is the refinement considered complete."

Before the Immortal Fairy became an immortal, she had dealt with demonic cultivators quite often; during the ancient times, order was chaotic and demonic cultivators could be seen everywhere, so her understanding of demonic cultivators was even deeper than Vice Cult Master Shi's.

At the end, she also exhorted Lu Yang: "You must study well in the future, don't be like this old illiterate."

Having obtained the answer, Lu Yang relayed it to Tao Tianye, earning a look of admiration from her.

Senior Brother Lu is indeed knowledgeable and well-informed.

Wait, why does Senior Brother Lu know so much about the demonic path?

The withered elder tossed the Ten-Thousand Soul Banner aside and pulled out a necklace, where each bead of the necklace was a small skull, the skulls having ferocious features and varying expressions.

This was his life-bound magic treasure, the Eighteen-Generation Clan Necklace; to refine this necklace, the refiner first needed to marry, have children, and propagate the family, and upon reaching the eighteenth generation of descendants, take the life of the most outstanding descendant of each generation, making them endure painful torture to refine them into individual beads, and then use the wife's intestines as the thread to string the eighteen beads together.

The withered elder tossed the Eighteen-Generation Clan Necklace, the necklace broke apart, and the skull beads expanded and grew large, turning into skeletal heads floating in the sky, snapping and biting at Vice Cult Master Shi.

Just this move alone would deter the vast majority of Fusion Stage experts from facing it head-on.

"Haha, you old fellow are cruel enough, even refining your own eighteen generations of descendants into a demonic weapon; the bloodlines of the eighteen generations are connected, and their source all comes from you, so you can use this necklace with ease!"

Vice Cult Master Shi's expression remained unchanged; he recognized the origin of the necklace, but so what, to be able to mingle his way up to the position of Vice Cult Master of the demonic cult right under the nose of Cheng Dao, his methods were absolutely beyond what the withered elder could imagine.

He held the large white-bone scythe, spikes grew out from the handle of the scythe and pierced into his palm, and the large white-bone scythe absorbed the blood from his palm, causing a red line to appear down the middle.

Swish—

Vice Cult Master Shi wielded the large white-bone scythe, and light descended from the heavens, instantly illuminating the entire mountain peak brightly, severing six of the eighteen demonic heads.

The withered elder's face changed: "How can the compatibility of this scythe be even higher than my necklace!"

Vice Cult Master Shi took large strides forward, fighting with the remaining demonic heads: "Nonsense, to refine this scythe, I pulled out my own bones and nourished them with blood day and night, keeping my bones active even after leaving my body, before finally refining the bones into a scythe!

"No matter how close your relationship with your eighteen generations of descendants is, how can it compare to me and my own bones!

"Madman!" The withered elder cursed loudly; pulling out all one's bones to refine them into a magic treasure was a process that required hundreds of years and was extremely susceptible to underhanded plots, and if any accident occurred, one's vital energy would be greatly depleted at best, or one would perish at worst.

"Hehe, who told Cult Master Qin to highly regard me and protect me during the refinement process!"

The two fought with hearty abandonment, the withered elder's demonic path methods emerging in an endless stream as the eighteen demonic heads continuously combined to disrupt Vice Cult Master Shi's attack, while Vice Cult Master Shi's form turned into streaks of afterimages that were hard to fathom, his large white-bone scythe harvesting lives and preventing the withered elder from engaging in close-quarters combat.

"Establish a rule here: except for me, within a radius of five hundred Zhang, everyone's movements shall be sluggish!" The withered elder utilized the power of rules to restrict Vice Cult Master Shi's actions.

Lu Yang and Tao Tianye instantly felt as if they had fallen into a quagmire, making it difficult to move.

Vice Cult Master Shi sneered, his divine soul exiting his body; while the physical body's movements were sluggish, the soul would not be affected, so he switched weapons, his soul carrying a massive hammer and smashing it toward the withered elder.

"As if you're the only one who can set rules? Establish a rule here: within a radius of five hundred Zhang, no one is allowed to use demonic weapons!"

The Eighteen-Generation Clan Necklace grew dim and lusterless, and the eighteen demonic heads vanished.

"With only a soul left, you dare to clamor in front of me!" The withered elder met Vice Cult Master Shi with his bare body, only to be sent tumbling by a strike from Vice Cult Master Shi's hammer.

He cried out in dismay: "How is it possible, how can your soul be so powerful!"

The withered elder was extremely confident in his own soul, as soul techniques were what he excelled at, yet in terms of soul strength, he was actually slightly inferior to Vice Cult Master Shi.

"If you got struck once a month by heavenly lightning worth a billion, you would be like this too!"

Vice Cult Master Shi cursed furiously; he risked his life to cross the lightning tribulation every month, so how could he not gain some results?