130: Chapter 130 Soul Searching of Li Jiuyou, a Shocking Secret

Li Jiuyou's entire body suddenly stiffened.

He lowered his head slowly, looking at the sword tip piercing through his chest and wreathed in the five-colored light of Reincarnation, his eyes filled with utter lifelessness.

An irresistible, terrifying force was crazily disintegrating and obliterating his vitality, demonic essence, and Divine Soul, dragging him into the endless Reincarnation.

"F-Five... Five Elements... Sword Intent..."

He spat out the words with difficulty, his consciousness rapidly dispersing.

"No... This isn't ordinary Five Elements Sword Intent... It's... Reincarnation..."

At his dying breath, he finally understood just what kind of terrifying existence he had provoked.

"I... am not resigned..."

"Bang!"

His demonized form completely collapsed, and Li Jiuyou's Physical Body violently exploded, turning into fragments of flesh and blood all over the sky that dissipated in mid-air.

A generation of Demonic Path Prodigy, Blood Fiend Sect's Young Sect Master Li Jiuyou, perished right on the spot!

The moment his Physical Body exploded, a dark red illusory figure suddenly darted out from the blood mist, fleeing at extreme speed.

That was Li Jiuyou's natal Divine Soul!

At the very last moment, he abandoned his Physical Body, intending to escape with his Divine Soul and rely on the Blood Fiend Sect's profound foundation to reshape his Physical Body and make a comeback.

"Want to leave?"

A cold light flashed in Zhao Ruoan's eyes as he sneered.

What he had been waiting for was precisely this instant.

He raised his hand and grabbed into the empty air!

"Hum!"

An invisible binding force suddenly enveloped the Void Realm. The dark red Divine Soul illusory figure crashed into an invisible barrier, instantly being firmly fixed in mid-air, unable to move at all.

"No! Let me go!!"

Li Jiuyou's Divine Soul let out a terrified and shrill roar, his illusory face filled with extreme fear.

With his Physical Body completely destroyed, he had already lost all backing. Now he was merely fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of others.

"Let you go?"

Zhao Ruoan's figure moved like a ghost, appearing in front of him in a flash. His five fingers tightly clenched, firmly pinching the Divine Soul's neck.

"I went through all sorts of schemes to suppress you, how could I easily let a tiger return to the mountains?"

"What on earth do you want?!" Li Jiuyou roared in panic, trying to exert pressure with his background, "My dad is Blood Fiend Sect Sect Master Li Wuyai! If you dare kill me, he will definitely flatten the Qingxuan Sect and avenge me!"

Matters having reached this state, he still vainly attempted to rely on his Sect's influence to coerce the other party.

"Your dad?"

Zhao Ruoan acted as if he had heard a heavenly joke, his tone indifferent and cold.

"Rest assured, after handling the matter at hand, I will soon send him down to keep you company."

"You... You madman!"

Li Jiuyou fell into complete despair. All his threats and bargaining chips completely failed; the person before him simply didn't follow conventional logic.

"Now, I ask, you answer."

Zhao Ruoan's gaze suddenly turned stern. Boundless Divine Soul power crushed down, firmly trapping Li Jiuyou's Divine Soul.

"What is the true scheme behind your Blood Fiend Sect's invasion of Cang Prefecture this time? Aside from the Tianlei Cave Mansion, are there any other layouts?"

"I... I don't know!" Li Jiuyou still harbored a shred of luck, keeping his mouth shut and concealing the truth.

"You don't know?"

Zhao Ruoan exerted a sliver of force with his fingertips.

"Ah——!"

An extremely miserable scream resounded through the Void Realm. Li Jiuyou's Divine Soul illusory figure violently twisted and trembled, on the verge of collapsing and shattering.

The pain of a damaged Divine Soul was ten million times more tragic than physical torture.

"It seems you won't shed tears until you see the coffin."

A trace of impatience flashed across Zhao Ruoan's eyes; he couldn't be bothered to waste any more words.

"Since you refuse to speak voluntarily, I will take it myself."

Energy gathered at the fingertip of his other hand, pointing straight at the center of Li Jiuyou's Divine Soul's brow.

An overbearing and boundless Divine Soul power transformed into an invisible needle point, fiercely piercing into the other's Divine Soul Origin!

Soul Searching Technique!

This technique was overbearing and vicious, capable of forcibly plundering the memories of others' Divine Souls. The process was extremely painful and would cause irreversible heavy damage to the Divine Soul, ultimately leading to idiocy at best, or total annihilation of the Divine Soul at worst.

Zhao Ruoan had never cast this before, having only seen records of it in the Sect's archives. But now that his Divine Soul was formidable and blessed by the Great Dao Scripture, casting it was as smooth as flowing water without any obstruction.

"No! Don't! Soul Searching! Ahhhhh!"

Li Jiuyou let out the most miserable wail of his life, his Divine Soul in unbearable agony, as if being repeatedly stirred and torn apart by thousands of red-hot iron rods.

Countless sealed memories were uncontrollably and forcibly dragged out, surging into Zhao Ruoan's mind like a tidal wave.

The past of his cultivation since childhood, past secrets of the Blood Fiend Sect, the hidden plots of Sect Master Li Wuyai, the complete plan of the Blood Fiend Sect laying out Cang Prefecture... All the information was laid bare.

Zhao Ruoan frowned slightly, swiftly screening and sorting through the complicated memories, and soon figured out the true scheme of the Blood Fiend Sect.

Its towering ambition and crazy plotting far exceeded his expectations!

The Tianlei Cave Mansion was merely an insignificant link in the entire plan, by no means the ultimate goal.

Their true calculation was to control three top-tier earth vein nodes within Cang Prefecture and simultaneously activate a large-scale blood sacrifice grand formation!

The Black Wind Mountain Range was only one of them; the other two were respectively located in Luoyun Marsh and Cliff of Broken Dragons.

The three-core earth vein blood sacrifice could trigger the earth vein Evil Qi of the entire Cang Prefecture, break through the ancient Seal, and awaken a desperate situation—the Demonic Burial Valley!

Within the Demonic Burial Valley, the remnant body of an ancient peerless great demon that had once wreaked havoc upon the world was sealed!

The Blood Fiend Sect's ultimate goal turned out to be resurrecting this ancient great demon!

Once the great undertaking succeeded, the entire Cang Prefecture and even the surrounding several prefectures would all be reduced to demonic soil, with hundreds of millions of living beings perishing completely!

"What a massive hand, what a crazy scheme!"

Zhao Ruoan's heart turned solemn; he had to admit that everyone in the Blood Fiend Sect was a madman who stopped at nothing.

He continued to dig deeper into the memories, and a piece of hidden information instantly made his killing intent boil and his gaze turn abruptly cold.

In the memory footage, Li Jiuyou had once secretly met with a man in a black robe, the entire process extremely covert.

The black-robed man's face was blurry and indistinguishable, but their conversation leaked a heaven-shaking secret—the Qingxuan Sect harbored a mole, and it was a high-ranking member of the Sect!

The whereabouts of the five Qingxuan Sect Inner Sect Disciples previously had been leaked by this mole, leading to them being intercepted and killed by the Blood Fiend Sect!

Although there was no real identity of the mole in the memories, two key clues were left behind: their code name was "Shadow", and the communication Jade Slip used during transactions was made of rare Ice Marrow Jade produced in the Northern Territory's cold streams.

"A mole, Ice Marrow Jade..."

Zhao Ruoan silently and firmly imprinted the two clues in his heart.

The normally stable Qingxuan Sect actually had hidden termites within it long ago, with undercurrents surging.

He was just about to continue probing to dig up more clues regarding "Shadow".

"Bang!"

Li Jiuyou's Divine Soul ultimately could not withstand the overbearing erosion of the Soul Searching Technique. Like a shattered bubble, it violently collapsed, turning into specks of light and completely dissipating between heaven and earth.

His Divine Soul was destroyed, and he perished completely.

"I let you off easy."

Zhao Ruoan withdrew his palm, his expression calm and waveless.

Although he hadn't dragged out the true body of the mole, the clue of the Ice Marrow Jade was extremely crucial. Following it to investigate, sooner or later he would drag out this rat hiding in the dark.

His gaze swept across the battlefield, landing on the two items left behind after Li Jiuyou's Physical Body exploded: a Storage Ring, and a small, pitch-black banner whose spiritual light was dim and tattered beyond recognition.

With a wave of his hand and a suction force, both items fell squarely into his palm.

His Divine Sense probed into the Storage Ring, and the scene inside was clear at a glance.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of a Demonic Path major Sect's Young Sect Master, your family fortune is truly substantial."

A trace of satisfaction flashed across Zhao Ruoan's eyes.

The space inside the ring was vast, piled with High-Grade Spirit Stones like a mountain, and the storage far exceeded the entire net worth of an ordinary Qingxuan Sect Elder. Various rare Medicinal Pills and Artifact Refining Materials were dazzling, and there were also more than a dozen top-quality Demonic Path Magic Treasures and a massive amount of Cultivation Technique Jade Slips.

Demonic Path Cultivation Techniques were useless to him, but they could be brought back to the Sect to exchange for resources, or resold, holding a considerable value.

Finally, his gaze landed on that tattered myriad soul banner.

This item was an ancient demonic treasure, formidable in power and full of malevolence, nurturing thousands of wronged souls with monstrous Evil Qi. Had he not struck swiftly and seized the initiative, facing it head-on would have certainly been rather tricky.

"The evil aura is too heavy; keeping it will surely become a disaster."

Zhao Ruoan's mind was already made up. He raised his hand to condense a strand of Five Elements Reincarnation Sword Qi, directly slashing towards the banner surface.

"Chi la!"

The myriad soul banner, which had already suffered heavy damage to its spirituality, was instantly shredded by the Sword Qi, turning into flying catkins all over the sky. Within the Void Realm, a faint sigh of thousands of wronged souls being liberated vaguely sounded, then it completely returned to nothingness.

Clearing away all traces, Zhao Ruoan clapped his hands, feeling refreshed in both body and mind.

Slaying a Prodigy, collecting a Treasure Trove, breaking a conspiracy, and obtaining a secret—this trip to the Tianlei Cave Mansion could be called a perfect conclusion.

He raised his gaze to look at the empty lightning palace, his thoughts moving slightly.

The entire immortal cave blessed land suddenly trembled violently, and the magnificent palace and white jade plaza all turned illusory, transforming into streaming light all over the sky that surged into the center of his brow into his Sea of Consciousness, ultimately condensing into a lifelike miniature purple palace model.

With the immortal cave core collected, the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Formation that had maintained the outside world for a thousand years lost its energy Origin, slowly dissipating and fading away.

The lightning filling the sky that shrouded the valley dispersed, revealing the valley's original tattered and ordinary appearance.