newbobooks Chapter 69 Soul Seal
Chapter 69 Soul Seal
Ning Xiaoxi, who had fallen into a deep sleep filled with helplessness, was suddenly awakened in the middle of the night.
I clutched my wildly beating heart, feeling as if something terrible had happened.
[Tuanzi, what's wrong?]
[A powerful demonic aura emanates from it, filled with resentment!]
【where?】
[The location of the Celestial Master Pavilion.]
【live streaming】
There is no moon tonight, and the sky is dark.
Di Jie came out of the main house and walked along the back corridor to a separate courtyard with the words "Lingpu Garden" written on it at the fourth courtyard. The main building of this courtyard is a three-story blue brick building, with a two-story wooden building on each side. The courtyard is full of evergreen pine and cypress trees, and even in early spring, the courtyard is full of greenery.
Dijie walked into the wooden building on the west side, opened a cover, and entered the basement.
The basement was dug very deep, with at least a hundred steps. The steps were almost vertical, taking up little space, like the entrance to a cylinder, where you could slide right in. At this depth, coupled with the flashing sound-blocking and stabilizing runes on the walls, anything that happened underground would probably go unnoticed.
The basement was large and contained five cages covered with black cloth. The cages were not large, and you could see the black cloth being bumped and bulged from time to time, but you could not hear a sound.
"My lord, you've arrived." Di Jie's chief clerk stood respectfully to the side. "We've been up all day and are exhausted. What do you intend to do, my lord?"
"Originally, I wanted to transport them to the capital and sell them for a good price, but I didn't expect to be implicated by Tu Shan and dismissed from my post. Now, the attention of the deputy pavilion master and the others is all tied up with Tu Shan. Although they can't take care of me for the time being, it's not easy to transport live animals out either." Di Jie said bitterly, "That damned Tu Shan clan. If the king had listened to the advice earlier and wiped out all these remaining alien races, this kind of mess wouldn't have happened today."
The clerk bowed his head and bent over, almost hiding himself in a hole in the ground. He was just a lowly clerk; how could he dare to presume to discuss the king's decisions?
"It's a pity that this area is no longer a place where wandering demons are willing to live. I hope that my grandfather can do his best to let me come back." As he spoke, Di Jie tore open the black cloth covering a cage. A small Netherworld Mist Sable bared its teeth at him in the center of the cage, but the cage bars were covered with various talismans, preventing it from escaping.
Di Jie's eyes lit up. "A little demon that has reached the sixth level of the intermediate stage at only five months old, that's rare!"
The cage was placed on a spirit crystal inscribed with a binding charm. The snaps on the four sides of the cage were opened, and the little ferret's body was fixed to the spirit crystal. Di Jie activated the spirit crystal, transforming it into spiritual power that flowed into the little ferret's chest, revealing the light of a black demon core. Spiritual power continuously gathered into the demon core.
"Hiss!" A sharp hiss came from the little ferret's mouth, and the two cages next to it suddenly shook violently, the frequency of the bulges obviously increased, and the force became greater and greater.
The registrar glanced at it a few times and then ignored it.
Di Jie continued to gather spiritual energy, and soon the spirit crystal was completely consumed. Although the immobilization talisman was gone, the little sable was like a drunkard, swaying and unable to move, its black demon core bulging out, shining brightly.
Suddenly, Di Jie picked up a wooden knife, his spiritual power condensed on the blade, and a layer of hazy white light shimmered. With a swift motion, Di Jie slashed the little sable's chest open, and its demon core leaped out of its chest.
Ning Xiaoxi jumped to the ground, almost throwing away the jade cabbage she was clutching, her eyes wide as she stared at the screen.
With lightning speed, Di Jie grabbed the demon core and yanked it out. As the demon core was pulled out, a faint shadow of a small sable was also dragged out of its body. The sable's physical body gradually lost its life force and slumped onto the stone platform, only its eyes still staring wide-eyed, witnessing the tragic scene of its soul being extracted.
The faint shadow was tinged with a hazy gold.
"It actually has merit?" The greed in Di Jie's eyes was so real that he stretched out two fingers, pinched the shadow, and actually forced it into the demon core. Then he wrapped a talisman on the surface of the demon core.
Ning Xiaoxi strained to zoom in, carefully examining the patterns on the talisman. After looking at it for a long time, damn it, she still didn't recognize it.
Di Jie placed the demon core wrapped in talisman paper into an open black box on the table next to him.
Ning Xiaoxi's face was ashen. Was this the extraction of a demon's soul, or rather, the extraction of a living demon? If you were to fight a demon, you should kill it; this method of stripping away its core and extracting its soul was clearly not a legitimate means.
The other four cages fell silent when the little ferret's soul was pressed into the demon core and wrapped in talisman paper. Quietly, very quietly.
There were five cages in total, containing two adult Netherworld Mist Sables and three juvenile Netherworld Mist Sables. Di Jie extracted their demon cores, wrapped them in talisman paper, and placed them in a box.
This wiped out the entire family of Netherworld Mist Sables on the grassland! Ning Xiaoxi sat heavily back on the bed. She had thought Lord Dijie was kind and compassionate after the last autopsy, but what did she see now?
"It's a pity that the Flame Shadow Falcon is too fierce. It would rather self-destruct than be captured, otherwise we could have gained even more." Di Jie brushed over the few demon cores with regret. "Skin these few and throw their bodies onto the Tushan Grassland."
"My lord?" The registrar looked up in surprise.
"Hmph! Anyone who dares to cause trouble on my turf will have to pay the price. The corpses are just a deterrent. These spineless rogue demons are only good for this much when they die."
Ning Xiaoxi felt her limbs turn icy cold. This kind of Earthly Fiend Lord was a complete stranger to her. She couldn't help but clench the jade cabbage in her hand.
"Yes, sir." The registrar bowed his head again and did not raise any further objections. "It's just that if you set off tomorrow, there's a bit of a rush, and there are some things that haven't been packed yet."
Di Jie picked up the box, pondered for a moment, and said, "You don't need to come this time either. I have a feeling that the old man, the Deputy Pavilion Master, is hiding something, so it's hard to say what we'll face when we return to the capital. Even Chief Secretary Fang hasn't told me anything; it seems I've been too lenient." Reaching the steps, Di Jie curled his lip. "I've been managing this place for seven years; how could I let Tianyou reap the rewards so easily?"
[Ding! Awakened Advanced Heaven and Earth Restriction Array, a powerful spell. This array can be used to set up large-scale Heaven and Earth Restriction Arrays. Once activated, it isolates demons from the outside world, restricts their demonic power, and draws spiritual energy from the world and the demons themselves to continuously suppress them. Furthermore, mastering advanced talismans allows for the sealing of powerful demons and demon lords even at higher levels.]
The torrent of water rushing into her brain like a tidal wave left Ning Xiaoxi feeling dizzy. Various runes and formations appeared before her eyes like a movie, then were imprinted in her mind. It seemed that although Tuanzi's skill unlocking was a little late, it had finally arrived.
"Soul Sealing Talisman!" A talisman slid past her eyes, and Ning Xiaoxi immediately recognized it as the runes on the talisman that Di Jie had used to wrap the demon core. "Does it really require a high-level talisman to deal with a mid-level demon?" she murmured, as if the talisman was somewhat weak.