Chapter 723

"Insidious, truly insidious..."

In the gray mist-filled Soul-Locking Mountain, Lu Ran looked at the "Ox-Head" that had died miserably at his feet, muttering continuously.

He hadn't walked for long and had already slain a few Prison Heaven Demons; he should not have left the Prison Heaven clan's sphere of influence yet, and he had already encountered an old friend—the Soul-Splitting Demon.

This group of ox-headed, human-bodied Soul-Splitting Demons had truly helped Lu Ran's career take off!

Every time Lu Ran interrogated spirits and obtained information, he would use this clan's evil techniques, Soul Prison and Soul Fire.

No matter how tough a man was, he couldn't withstand the burning of the ghostly Soul Fire for a few dozen seconds.

Lu Ran's interrogation work was always successful, and behind this, it was naturally because the Soul-Splitting Demon clan's evil techniques were extremely cruel!

"Snort."

Suddenly, Lu Ran heard the sound of a horse snorting.

Deng Yuxiang frowned slightly and immediately turned her head to look.

On the rugged mountain road, cold mist swirled, and a tall figure walked over from afar.

There wasn't just the sound of a horse snorting, but also the "clatter-clatter" sound of chains!

"Soul-Hooking Demon?" Deng Yuxiang spoke softly. She didn't have spirit-defense techniques, but fortunately, her absolutely powerful strength realm gave her unparalleled mental fortitude.

This was the only reason she could resist the enemy's mental shock.

Jiang Ruyi did have a divine artifact, the Ice Heart Bracelet, which could help people build a mental defense system, but that bracelet was currently worn on Yan Shuangzi's wrist.

"Clatter-clatter..."

The unique sound of shaking chains made one's hair stand on end. In the damp and cold mist, a huge figure gradually took shape.

"How insidious has it become~" Lu Ran couldn't help but grin.

This gray mist-shrouded mountain road was already eerie, and now an even more terrifying creature had walked out.

Demon: Soul-Hooking Demon!

If the Soul-Splitting Demon clan were ox-heads, then the Soul-Hooking Demon clan were truly horse-faces!

It also walked upright in human form and had a particularly ferocious horse head.

It was pitch black all over, with a robust body, and in its hands, which were like hooves and palms, it carried an iron chain that kept shaking as it moved.

"The body size is about 4 meters; it looks like a River Estuary Realm initial stage." Deng Yuxiang looked up at the behemoth.

The Soul-Hooking Demon clan's strength realm can be judged by their body size.

Often, such demons contain magic crystals in their brains, and they will not shatter into energy after death, but will leave behind flesh and bones.

In other words, from now on, there was an extra "horse meat" option on the Ran Sect disciples' menu.

Well, if they could bring themselves to eat it...

Lu Ran also sized up the terrifying demon and muttered, "If you ask me, let's not call them Soul-Splitting Demons or Soul-Hooking Demons in the future.

Let's just call them Soul-Splitting Oxen and Soul-Hooking Horses, shall we?"

Deng Yuxiang said indifferently, "Do you want to play for a while?"

The "play" she spoke of should be torture and killing.

It is no exaggeration to say that when facing this clan, no matter how cruel the human race's methods are, it is not too much.

When people encounter the Soul-Hooking Demon clan, a miserable death is by no means the worst ending!

The spirits of people after death will be entangled by soul-hooking chains, and the iron chains can also ignite ghostly flames to continue torturing the soul.

The cruelty of the Soul-Hooking Demon clan is even more visually shocking, enough to make those who see it collapse!

Soul-Splitting Oxen at least put the spirits into black mist groups (Soul Prison), while Soul-Hooking Horses like to tie up human spirits one by one, burning them while dragging them along the ground as they walk.

Parading them through the streets.

Wantonly collecting negative emotions such as human panic and fear.

The heart-wrenching screams of human spirits are the sounds the Soul-Hooking Demon clan likes to listen to the most.

"Clatter-clatter!"

The Soul-Hooking Demon's eyes were sinister as it stared at the two tiny humans, frantically shaking the chains in its palms.

Soul-Hooking Evil Technique: Life-Taking Sound!

The originally crisp sound of the chains shaking became increasingly piercing, making one's hair stand on end and fear arise in one's heart.

However, the two Sea Realm experts acted as if they hadn't heard it.

"Neigh!"

The Soul-Hooking Demon let out an angry neigh, raised its horse hoof, and stomped down fiercely.

In an instant, the earth tore apart!

The cracks under the horse hoof continuously extended, killing toward the location where the two were.

Soul-Hooking Evil Technique: Soul-Hooking Demon Hoof!

"Hoo!" From the cracks, gusts of gray mist suddenly sprayed out.

At this point, even if Lu and Deng were Sea Realm experts, they had to dodge.

Because these gusts of cold gray mist could impact the souls of all living things! Although the damage to the soul was relatively minor, it was enough to make people tremble in body and spirit.

The moment the two jumped left and right, the Soul-Hooking Demon didn't let them off and let out another neigh.

"Neigh~~~"

It suddenly raised its right hoof, energy surging on it.

In an instant, five chains appeared out of thin air, entangling Lu Ran's neck, wrists, and ankles respectively.

Soul-Hooking Evil Technique: Soul-Hooking Five Chains!

When mentioning this technique, the first word that comes to mind must be "dismemberment by five horses"!

Over the past forty years, I don't know how many Great Xia citizens have been cruelly killed by these five chains.

"Swish~" Lu Ran's figure disappeared abruptly, and the five chains entangled nothing.

"Snort?" The Soul-Hooking Demon's body stiffened, sensing energy fluctuations behind its head, but before it could turn around to resist, a cold blade had already wiped across its neck.

Fresh blood splattered!

A huge horse head rolled down from that massive body.

"Thump!"

The headless behemoth fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing Lu Ran solve this clan cleanly and neatly, Deng Yuxiang didn't say anything either. She walked over carrying the Blood-Drinking Curved Blade and stabbed it into the horse corpse.

"Hum~"

The Blood-Colored Divine Weapon, Blood-Drinking Curved Blade, trembled gently, wantonly absorbing the horse blood.

This divine weapon is quite special!

It is only a first-tier divine weapon and has not activated a divine weapon domain, but it can absorb the blood of humans and demons.

When Deng Yuxiang first learned of this, she was truly a bit surprised.

For her, this was undoubtedly a good thing!

This meant that this divine weapon had a very clear cultivation direction; presumably, as long as it drank enough blood, this blade would eventually activate a divine weapon domain.

After sucking the horse blood out of the bones, Deng Yuxiang walked toward the horse head that had rolled to the side.

Lu Ran knelt on one knee, took off the divine power bead string around his neck, and the demon bones gradually melted under the divine power beads, turning into pure energy.

Deng Yuxiang looked at Lu Ran and said, "When we go back, I'll string another divine power bead string for you to wear on your ankle."

"Sure." Lu Ran nodded.

Stomping directly into the demon bones to melt and absorb them was quite convenient.

The two absorbed the Soul-Hooking Demon's bones completely and also obtained a palm-sized magic crystal from the decomposed horse head.

It was a rhombic polyhedron, and thick energy could be seen circulating within it.

If it were in the human world, this would be a rare cultivation treasure that could assist humans in breaking through cultivation bottlenecks.

However, in a "high-martial world" like Holy Lingshan, it was just so-so.

When Lu Ran killed the Ghost Moon Fox clan before, he also harvested a large number of magic crystals, all of which were piled up in the backyard warehouse, allowing his companions to take them at will.

【Master.】

【Hmm?】 Lu Ran put the magic crystal into his pocket.

"Little Wu discovered a battle group; the fighting is very intense!" Yan Shuangzi appeared quietly and stood beside Lu Ran.

Lu Ran nodded and said, "With so many types of demons spread throughout Soul-Locking Mountain, it would be strange if they didn't start fighting."

Yan Shuangzi immediately said, "It's not demons fighting each other; Little Wu said he saw humans."

"Ah?" Lu Ran's heart stirred, and he hurriedly asked, "Where? What kind of people?"

Are there really humans hiding in Soul-Locking Mountain?

And Little Wu found them so quickly?

"Flap-flap-flap~"

In the cold mist-shrouded sky, the sound of flapping wings came from far to near.

Lu Ran immediately raised his hand, feeling a pair of claws grip his forearm.

Only after flying back to Lu Ran's side did the Black Lord Wu Ya cancel its invisibility state and speak in human language: "Sect Master, I saw a team about thirty or forty kilometers away.

There are about twenty people, mainly composed of Red Scarf believers and Industry Ox believers.

They were surrounded and intercepted by Soul-Splitting Demons and Soul-Hooking Demons. I helped them a little and assisted them in breaking out of the encirclement..."

The more he spoke, the quieter Wu Huan's voice became.

His mission was reconnaissance, not combat, and he shouldn't have exposed himself.

Without Sect Master's orders, Wu Huan participating in the battle without authorization would likely be punished.

It's just that...

The Fifth-Rank God Red Scarf believers and Sixth-Rank God Industry Ox believers were all weak god disciples.

Wu Huan saw their miserable state of fighting in blood and couldn't bear for human compatriots to be buried here and have their souls cruelly tortured.

Wu Huan also believed that these weak god disciples could all become Ran Sect disciples, worship Sect Master, and like himself, live peacefully on Holy Lingshan.

Considering all this, Wu Huan unleashed the Witch Lord Wu Ya Divine Technique: Witch Cry!

It wantonly released sonic attacks against the demon camp, covering large areas and causing the demon troops to fall into chaos and suffer mental shocks.

"In which direction?" Lu Ran immediately asked, "Lead the way quickly; let's go over and take a look."

The Black Lord Wu Ya turned its head and pecked toward the deeper part of Soul-Locking Mountain with its beak.

Lu Ran raised his head, gazing at the mountain cliffs looming in the damp and cold gray mist, and immediately summoned the ancient bronze mirror.

The Black Lord Wu Ya spoke again: "Sect Master, the leader of that troop is a general wearing silver armor and a red silk ribbon tied around her head.

Although it's a man, it should be a female hero disciple."

Third-Rank God: Nüying?

Lu Ran couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

In his mind, an image emerged for the first time: a tall, heroic female general, covered in blood, fighting bravely on the battlefield.

Nüying sect disciples are mostly natural leaders, courageous and resolute.

What is even more commendable is that disciples of this sect are mostly loyal and devoted, viewing death as returning home!

Even if you don't know the other party, you can use such stereotypes to label them.

The accuracy is very high!

Because the god Nüying's standards for accepting disciples are relatively strict, the number of disciples in this sect is not large.

And the Nüying sect is relatively special; over 80% of the believers in the sect are female.

Therefore, when you are lucky enough to see a male Nüying believer, the accuracy of your stereotype will be infinitely heightened!

"Hoo~"

The floor mirror quietly took shape, and Lu Ran stepped in, stepped to the edge of the cliff, and looked toward the deeper part of Soul-Locking Mountain.

Nüying disciple... hmm, must get to know her well.

I hope this dirty Holy Lingshan hasn't tarnished your loyal heart.

Don't let me down.

(End of chapter)