Chapter 419 - 395: Soul Search and Wind Wall

Chapter 419: Chapter 395: Soul Search and Wind Wall

BOOM BOOM BOOM...

At the same time Zhang Chi discovered the Red Blood Spirit Carp, the Spirit Fish also spotted him. They immediately let out a series of roars, then spat out water arrows that pierced the surface, shooting toward Zhang Chi with incredible speed.

"Pathetic tricks!"

Zhang Chi scoffed, effortlessly scattering the water arrows with a wave of his hand. Even the attacks from the two Fish Kings only managed to push him back a short distance.

SWISH SWISH...

After that, Zhang Chi deployed a series of Array Flags, enveloping the entire pool.

The temperature within the array space then skyrocketed. Flames soon surged, transforming the area into a sea of fire.

The residual Restrictions around the deep pool were broken within the sea of fire, and the water in the pool was evaporated in an instant, revealing the bottom.

Although the Red Blood Spirit Carp were still alive, their strength was instantly and drastically reduced.

BANG BANG BANG...

Zhang Chi waved his hand and summoned his Top Grade Treasure Cauldron. He smashed it down violently, killing all the Red Blood Spirit Carp in just a few strikes, including the two Fish Kings.

Afterward, Zhang Chi quickly processed the Red Blood Spirit Carp and stored them in his Storage Ring.

Besides the Spirit Carp, he also discovered a good deal of Spirit Medicine at the bottom of the pool, especially a type of blue Spiritual Algae that only showed slight signs of withering even when scorched by the flames.

This algae was the food source for the numerous Spirit Fish, but now Zhang Chi had harvested it all.

However, Zhang Chi had no intention of cultivating the Spiritual Algae to raise more Spirit Carp. That was because the carp would need to grow to Tier Four to be of any significant help to him.

This would obviously take a very long time; even a few hundred years might not be enough.

He had been able to harvest so many Spirit Carp this time entirely because there were no natural predators here. The Spirit Fish could live for as long as they wanted, until they died of old age.

The two Spirit Carp Kings, for instance, were likely a thousand years old.

’Good. Normally, it would take me at least four or five hundred years to reach the Nascent Soul Limit, and even then, I might not have a Soul Condensing Pill or Nine Yang Spirit Mulberry. If I hit a bottleneck while trying to break through to Nascent Soul Peak, it could take even longer.’

’But with these Red Blood Spirit Carp, it’s a different story. It’s entirely possible for my Body Refining Cultivation to reach Tier Five first. When that happens, I won’t have to fear even a Divinity Transformation Powerhouse.’

Having reaped such a great harvest, Zhang Chi’s mood soared, and his heart filled with anticipation for the future.

SWOOSH!

With a grand wave of his hand, he immediately retrieved the set of Array Flags.

But at that very moment, five Nascent Soul Peak Cultivators wearing black cloaks suddenly flew out from the shadows.

"Kid, you’re pretty good. To think you could break the Array here and harvest so much."

"Yeah, it looks like it’s our lucky day."

"What are you standing there for? You’re surrounded! Surrender at once and let us plant a Restriction on you. Become our slave, and we’ll be merciful enough to spare your life!"

The five Cultivators didn’t attack directly, instead gloating arrogantly.

As soon as they appeared, they had already surrounded Zhang Chi, completely unconcerned about him escaping.

Apparently, they had witnessed the entire process of Zhang Chi breaking the Restrictions and killing the Spirit Fish.

They hadn’t made a move because they saw Zhang Chi’s value. They wanted him to break more of the Restrictions in this place for them, so they could plunder more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Plus, Zhang Chi was alone. They believed they could easily handle him, so none of them were in a hurry to report to the Heaven-defying Alliance Leader.

"Why don’t you worry about saving your own lives first!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chi was not only fearless but also gave a disdainful sneer.

He had discovered them long ago. He just hadn’t bothered to act since they hadn’t shown themselves.

SWOOSH!

As he spoke, Zhang Chi raised his hand. A dazzling Golden Sword Light shot out instantly, circling as smoothly as flowing water before striking at the cultivators.

The source of the Sword Light was a Golden Flying Sword. It was not Furnace Carbon, nor the Star Sword, and certainly not a Spirit Treasure Flying Sword, but rather a Top Grade Magical Treasure he had casually refined over the years.

Although this Flying Sword was relatively ordinary, when powered by his formidable Swordsmanship, Divine Thought, and Sword Essence, killing Same Tier cultivators or even Nascent Soul Peak Cultivators was as easy as turning over his hand.

"No!"

The cultivators had no time to react to the sword strike. Their defensive measures were utterly useless and instantly pierced.

A line of blood appeared between their eyebrows, and they fell to the ground.

Even their Nascent Souls were just escaping when they were ensnared by threads of Sword Light and swept toward Zhang Chi.

The Sword Light even drilled directly into their Nascent Souls and sealed their cultivation. They didn’t even have a chance to take Zhang Chi down with them.

"Spare us!"

"We were wrong!"

"Don’t kill us! We are Heaven-defying Alliance cultivators! Our Alliance Leader is a Divinity Transformation Celestial Monarch, and he’s here too! If you kill us, he’ll never let you go!"

The Nascent Souls could only beg for mercy in every way they knew.

At the same time, they were filled with terror and confusion, completely unable to understand why Zhang Chi, who clearly had a Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivation, possessed such immense Combat Power.

But unfortunately for them, Zhang Chi couldn’t be bothered to respond. He immediately grabbed one of the Nascent Souls with a large hand and began a Soul Search.

"This... Is he insane?"

"This is good! He’ll definitely suffer a backlash, and then we’ll have a chance to escape!"

The Nascent Souls were first shocked, then couldn’t help but feel overjoyed, their hearts filling with anticipation.

Clearly, they all felt that Zhang Chi’s cultivation was weaker than theirs, and that his Divine Soul was likely inferior as well.

In that case, not only would his Soul Search fail, but his Divine Soul would also be severely injured, or he might even die. He was basically courting death.

Forget Zhang Chi—even a Divinity Transformation Celestial Monarch wouldn’t dare to casually perform a Soul Search on them.

"Oh no!"

But in the next moment, they all showed expressions of terror and disbelief.

Because not only was Zhang Chi fine, but the eyes of the Nascent Soul being searched instantly turned vacant, as if its consciousness had been erased.

Apparently, Zhang Chi’s Soul Search had succeeded, and he didn’t seem to have suffered any backlash at all.

There was even a Restriction within that Nascent Soul’s Divine Soul, meant to block any Secret Techniques like Soul Search.

But now, that Restriction seemed to have failed completely.

"Impossible! He must be using some trick to scare us! He can’t really be doing a Soul Search!"

"If he really is performing a Soul Search, even if he’s fine now, his Divine Soul is bound to be severely injured or even collapse later!"

At this point, the Nascent Souls could only deceive themselves, and they were all convinced they were right.

But unfortunately, Zhang Chi soon finished the Soul Search, and still, nothing had happened to him.

The Nascent Soul, on the other hand, was now completely mindless.

Even its Divine Soul was extracted on the spot by Zhang Chi using a Secret Technique and tossed into the Beast Soul Banner.

"No!"

"Don’t do it!"

The remaining four Nascent Souls were scared half to death, their Divine Thoughts surging as they continued to beg for mercy.

Whatever Zhang Chi was doing, their companion was clearly and utterly dead. Even his Divine Soul had been torn apart and devoured, ensuring he would never be reincarnated.

At this moment, they were filled with immense regret—regret for acting so rashly after discovering Zhang Chi, and for not immediately sending a message to the Heaven-defying Alliance Leader.

But unfortunately, it was too late for everything.

Soon, Zhang Chi performed a Soul Search on all four of them, one by one, before extracting their Divine Souls and feeding them to the Demon Souls in the Beast Soul Banner.

Only in their "final moments" did they realize that Zhang Chi truly could ignore the Restrictions in their Divine Souls and was genuinely performing a Soul Search on them.

’So the Gu Family has descendants, and they even offered the cave dwelling’s map to that Divinity Transformation Celestial Monarch from the Heaven-defying Alliance. No wonder he and that Divinity Transformation Powerhouse from the Beast Alliance appeared here together.’

After performing the Soul Search on the five Nascent Souls, Zhang Chi had a sudden realization.

At the same time, not only was he not nervous, but he even let out a slight sigh of relief.

The two Divinity Transformation powerhouses were currently plundering Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Since they were following a map, the areas they were searching were different from his, so he wouldn’t run into them anytime soon.

As for the other Heaven-defying Alliance cultivators and Beast Alliance Demon Beasts, while he might run into them anywhere, they were no threat to him at all.

In fact, the more Nascent Soul Peak experts he encountered, the more he would gain.

However, he didn’t let his guard down, nor did he plan to specifically hunt cultivators from the Heaven-defying Alliance or powerhouses from the Beast Alliance.

The plundering speed of a Divinity Transformation Powerhouse was certainly not slow.

Once they finished looting, they would definitely move on to other areas, and it was possible they would run into him then.

Besides, if he were to go on a killing spree against Beast Alliance powerhouses and Heaven-defying Alliance cultivators, he would surely reveal his own position ahead of time.

SWOOSH!

Therefore, Zhang Chi immediately collected all his spoils of war and the Top Grade Treasure Flying Sword, then departed quickly.

Next, Zhang Chi plundered a few other locations, soon finishing off all the treasure spots marked on the map left by Wei Wei without missing a single one.

These places were all covered by powerful Restrictions, but to Zhang Chi, they were hardly worth mentioning.

Zhang Chi could see these Array Restrictions clearly. He himself was a Tier Four Peak Array Master with various powerful Magical Treasures, so breaking the arrays was obviously not difficult.

Of course, this was also because the Array Restrictions here were ancient, and all of them were either broken or had their power greatly diminished.

Otherwise, even if Zhang Chi used a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, he might not have been able to break them completely.

After plundering so many treasure spots, Zhang Chi’s haul had undoubtedly grown even larger. He had even obtained several treasures on the same level as the Red Blood Spirit Carp King.

At the same time, Zhang Chi inevitably encountered more than one wave of powerhouses from the Beast Alliance and the Heaven-defying Alliance.

It was just that these experts were completely vulnerable before Zhang Chi.

Even though some of them had impressive Combat Power, none were worthy of forcing Zhang Chi to use his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure or the Star Sword.

These encounters also provided Zhang Chi with a large amount of spoils, further increasing his gains.

’After all this time, those two Divinity Transformation powerhouses must be about done with their looting. Plus, I’ve killed a fair number of Demon Beasts and Nascent Soul Peak cultivators. They must have been alerted by now.’

’Besides, it’s about time I went to check out the inner part of this cave dwelling!’

Without delay, Zhang Chi transformed into an Escape Light and flew toward the interior of the cave dwelling.

Soon, he encountered a Wind Wall formed by powerful gales, which served as the barrier between the outer and inner sections of the cave dwelling.

The force of the wind within this Wind Wall was incredibly strong; even Nascent Soul Peak Cultivators working together and using a Pseudo-Spirit Treasure couldn’t withstand it.

That was why Qin Yushan and the others had originally planned to explore the outer area together and then look for a weak point or some other clever way to get through.

If they couldn’t find one, they would simply give up.

But Zhang Chi obviously wouldn’t do that. He immediately summoned the Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure Jade Ruyi to protect himself, took a deep breath, and charged into the Wind Wall.