Chapter 257: The Savior of Rong Cheng

"Lu Xun... how did you get so strong?"

Chu Youqing covered her mouth, looking at Lu Xun with amazement and admiration.

Beside them, Murong Wan's eyes also glittered.

Seeing the two astonished girls, Lu Xun wanted to say, "I'm this strong entirely thanks to your hard work."

Now he can kill across realms into the Six Realms, mainly relying on the sharpness of Babala's spell and the destructive-level sword intent.

These two are Lu Xun's ultimate weapons.

Moreover, his high-quality true qi and spiritual power have also reached the Six Realms level.

On the contrary, his magic cultivation, which had already broken through the Six Realms, is merely a conventional means, not overly excessive.

Southern Ming Separation Fire and Phoenix True Flame are also crucial.

Especially Southern Ming Separation Fire.

Without Southern Ming Separation Fire, it would not be so easy to dispel the Six Realms demon cultivator's Nascent Soul.

Therefore, Lu Xun's current overpowered combat strength is inseparable from the two girls' efforts.

"Right, Teacher Fu Yue, Rong Cheng has hundreds of thousands of souls sucked into the Myriad Soul Banner; let's first help them return their souls."

There are still important matters to attend to.

In Rong Cheng, hundreds of thousands of people's souls were drawn into the Myriad Soul Banner by the Six Realms demon cultivator with the aid of the Nine Nether Annihilation Formation.

During the final battle, the Six Realms demon cultivator, to hold back Lu Xun, released all the souls inside to block him.

These souls, having been sucked in not long ago, can still be rescued.

"Good."

This matter is indeed important.

After all, it concerns the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Thus, everyone sprang into action.

"Go!"

On a street, Lu Xun protected a group of souls, performed a soul-returning technique, letting them enter his body.

These souls, being extremely weak, are translucent to the naked eye, hard for ordinary people to see.

For Lu Xun, this is naturally no problem.

"Ah..."

Not long after the souls returned to their bodies, someone opened their eyes.

"My head hurts..."

More people woke up.

Many held their heads.

Just after the souls returned to their bodies, a headache is a perfectly normal phenomenon.

Besides the headache, there may be a light-headed feeling, making walking feel airy, even causing stumbles.

This is the normal abnormal reaction of ordinary people's souls after being separated for a period.

"I almost died..."

"Me too."

After surviving the disaster, each person felt joy and lingering fear.

"Mom~"

After a little girl woke up, she excitedly flung herself into her parents' arms.

"Niu Niu..."

Her mother was overjoyed, hugging the little girl and tearing up with happiness.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

The father repeatedly kowtowed in thanks to Lu Xun in the sky.

His action moved many others.

The people around followed suit, kowtowing as well.

"It's him, it's Lu Xun... I knew I recognized him."

"So he really is Lu Xun? He's so awesome, he killed all those hateful demon cultivators."

Someone recognized Lu Xun.

Reminded by his words, others also reacted.

After being taken into the Myriad Soul Banner, their souls frantically struggled inside, and many saw the scene of Lu Xun killing his way into the formation's eye.

However, under those circumstances, few recognized Lu Xun.

Until now.

"Lu Xun... he saved us!"

"Not only did he save us, he saved all of Rong Cheng; without him, Rong Cheng would be doomed!"

This news spread rapidly through the surroundings as more and more people woke up.

"Youqing, has the crisis in Rong Cheng been resolved?"

Ten or so minutes later, another figure descended from the sky.

This is Chu Youqing's mentor, Qin Xinyue.

Unlike Fu Yue and Fu Xue, Qin Xinyue has been a mentor at the Qingxu Palace for many years.

She herself has been stuck in the Six Realms for many years, unable to break through, so she devotedly teaches students at the Qingxu Palace.

This too is a form of cultivation.

Teacher, you came just in time.

Chu Youqing saw Qin Xin Yue and showed a pleased expression.

Immortal Cultivation values the primordial spirit.

Helping souls return to their proper places is what Immortal Cultivation excels at.

For Martial Cultivation, however, it would be considerably slower.

In the East, the number of Immortal Cultivators is far fewer than that of Martial Cultivators.

Therefore, in the Martial Manor, most are Martial Cultivators, with only a small number of Immortal Cultivators.

Another reason is that Immortal Cultivators mostly belong to major powers; the Martial Manor has administrative duties requiring handling many trivial matters, which Immortal Cultivators find troublesome and thus avoid joining.

"Lu Xun... has he become this strong?"

After Qin Xin Yue briefly understood the situation, she took a deep breath, involuntarily gazing toward the distant Lu Xun, her eyes filled with astonishment.

"Teacher, let us first help the souls return to their places."

"Good."

Qin Xin Yue restrained her surprise and began to act to help the souls return.

As soon as she acted, her speed increased greatly.

As a Six Realms Immortal Cultivator, doing this was as easy as picking up a pin for her, even faster than Fu Yue.

With everyone's combined effort, it didn't take long before all the drawn-out souls returned to their places.

Sir, your great kindness is unforgettable to us!

Before Lu Xun, a group of souls bowed deeply to him.

They were the resentful souls inside that enormous Myriad Soul Banner.

Do not underestimate these resentful souls.

The strongest among them, even dealing with a Six Realms cultivator would be somewhat taxing.

Moreover, a large number of resentful souls could threaten cultivators of the fourth or fifth realm.

These resentful souls were implanted with soul seals by Demonic Cultivators to control them; then, within the Myriad Soul Banner, they fought each other, devoured one another, and the strong grew stronger.

If this group of Demonic Cultivators could capture all ten million people of Rong Cheng, using the souls of those ten million, they could raise within the Myriad Soul Banner a resentful soul of the seventh or eighth realm, or even stronger.

These resentful souls are not inherently evil; they became this way only because Demonic Cultivators controlled and tormented them.

Thus, when burned by the Southern Ming Separation Fire, the evil power they possessed was completely eradicated.

What remained was their original selves.

As for those who were utterly evil, not a trace would remain under the scorching of the Southern Ming Separation Fire.

This is the wonder of the Southern Ming Separation Fire.

Unless Lu Xun specially controls it, the Southern Ming Separation Fire will not harm pure and good souls.

Like the ancient remnants within evil souls.

Given the severity of the Southern Ming Separation Fire, if attacked indiscriminately, even the ancient remnants of a Tenth Realm powerhouse would not survive.

Naturally, this characteristic of the Southern Ming Separation Fire mainly targets spiritual entities such as souls.

If applied to flesh, however, this trait is not particularly outstanding.

"What do you plan to do next?"

Lu Xun asked the group of souls.

They had been captured by Demonic Cultivators for who knows how many years, their bodies long turned to dust.

Only their souls remained.

His words left this group of souls bewildered.

They also did not know where they should go next.

"Lu Xun's brother, the Pure Void Palace has a dedicated Ghost Cultivation Department to take in cultivators whose bodies were destroyed in battle, allowing them to join the Pure Void Palace."

President Wu suggested.

Ghost Cultivation Department?

Indeed, after the High Martial Era descended, Lan Xing experienced countless battles big and small; some cultivators had their bodies slain in combat, but their souls survived.

Such cultivators, aside from seizing another body, can only walk the path of Ghost Cultivation.

"Leave them to me; I will bring them back to the Pure Void Palace. As for this Myriad Soul Banner, I will first bring it back to the Pure Void Palace for processing, remove their slave seals, and then return it to you."

Qin Xin Yue voluntarily offered to help.

"Then it will be trouble for you."

After President Wu finished speaking, he looked at Lu Xun: "Lu Xun's brother, you have achieved such great merit this time; once the war ends, the Martial Manor will certainly not shortchange you. This Myriad Soul Banner is too evil; it will surely be uniformly managed, and you will be given appropriate compensation at that time."

His explanation actually stems from an unwritten rule among cultivators.

In battle, whoever kills the enemy claims the spoils.

However, concerning such an evil treasure as the Myriad Soul Banner, the Martial Manor will certainly not allow it to drift away.

Especially this Myriad Soul Banner has reached the level of a magic artifact, equivalent to a sixth-rank treasure.

Lu Xun nodded: "Good."

After Lu Xun agreed, Qin Xin Yue waved her hand and collected the Myriad Soul Banner.

"The war is urgent; I will go ahead first."

After bidding farewell to everyone, she moved her form and flew toward the sky.

"President Wu, this is now left to you."

Fu Yue then turned her gaze toward President Wu.

"Elder Fu, rest assured, I will handle the subsequent matters properly."

President Wu nodded.

After the crisis in Rong Cheng was resolved, there were still many matters to be dealt with.

"Lu Xun, your strength is indeed formidable; once these matters are settled, you can go to the heavens to participate in the war against the demon tribe."

"Fu Yue looked at Lu Xun again and said."

"I will, Teacher Fu Yue."

"Good, if you want to find me, you can go to Yu Heng Fortress."

"Okay."

After Fu Yue finished speaking, she also left this place.

The battle with Yao Xing was fiercely underway, and she didn't have much time to stay on the ground.