Chapter 324 - 138: Black Insect Soul Control, Traces of Resentful Fury! Incarnation of Heaven

"This man is tight-lipped. Interrogating him won’t be easy. I wonder which True Master is skilled in the art of questioning?"

Tianyunzi found it regrettable.

If they could find a disciple who truly dared to expose the Gui Chen Sect’s secrets, the outcome would be far better than this.

He didn’t mention Soul Search.

Almost everyone present possessed the ability to perform a Soul Search. They also had means of distorting a Soul Spirit. If they were to rely on a Soul Search for answers, no one here would likely trust the results.

’This Celestial Secret Elder... his Magical Treasure is quite impressive...’

A glint flashed in Su Bai’s eyes.

"I’ll do it!"

The moment Tianyunzi finished speaking, a short, elderly woman in red robes stood up from atop a Magic Altar.

The old woman had fair skin and hair as white as a crane’s feathers. Dressed in garish red, her voice was raspy—she did not seem to belong to the Righteous Dao.

In truth, she was from Celestial Province, a master of the Evil Dao.

She was quite proficient in many methods of the Evil Dao, such as Soul-Searching and Soul-Purifying, forced interrogation, torture, and other arts of torment. In these skills, she was unrivaled among those present.

"Mrs. Wu, you’d best be sure about this."

Xiao Yu’s expression was grim as he forced the words through clenched teeth.

"Don’t you dare make a mistake."

"Hee hee..."

Mrs. Wu let out a sinister chuckle, ignoring him completely. She simply turned to the Leader of the Gui Chen Sect and cupped her hands in a mock salute.

"Brother Gui Chen, do you dare let me ask him a few questions?"

"Ask away."

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect felt numerous gazes upon him, but three with the most powerful Divine Intent stood out. He spoke nonchalantly, his heart remarkably calm.

Had he not broken through to his current realm, he might have been perturbed. But at this moment, he felt an unusual sense of peace, so profound there wasn’t a single ripple in his heart.

Seeing the Leader of the Gui Chen Sect looking so composed, the Celestial Secret Sect Master’s brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

’This Leader of the Gui Chen Sect is a little *too* calm...’

’It’s as if he has absolute confidence.’

"Then you’ll have to excuse my methods."

Mrs. Wu chuckled again. She turned one palm up in front of her chest, opened her mouth, and blew.

WHOOSH!

A stream of sinister air flowed from her mouth. As it passed over her palm, it suddenly transformed into a cloud of black smoke that billowed downwards with an audible BUZZ.

On closer inspection, it wasn’t black smoke at all. It was a black mist composed of minuscule insects, almost invisible to the naked eye.

"AAAAHHH!!"

The tiny insects were incredibly fast, lunging forward in the blink of an eye.

With a blood-curdling scream from the disciple, the countless black insects swarmed towards his seven orifices.

They burrowed violently inside!

"Soul-controlling Insects?"

Tianyunzi’s face paled, and he subconsciously took a step back.

These tiny, ink-black insects were malevolent creatures cultivated in a soil of countless vengeful souls.

They fed on vital essence and blood, could devour a person’s marrow and flesh, and, most terrifyingly, could control their soul.

They moved with the whistling speed of the wind. Metal, stone, and earth could not stop them. Even a Cultivator’s Magical Presence and many Defensive Arrays were powerless to block their path.

They were vicious things, ranked in the top ten of the Exotic Insect Chart.

This was a Secret Technique passed down through the Wu Family. The Cultivator had to raise these insects from birth, merging their own soul with the mother insect until it was completely refined.

Although Mrs. Wu was only at the Void Realm, her control over these black insects made even some Feathered masters wary of her.

’Soul-controlling Insects.’

Su Bai watched with a calm expression, showing neither delight nor anger.

In his travels across the world, he had seen many similar things.

Between heaven and earth, it was survival of the fittest. The Ten Thousand Spirits devoured and slaughtered one another. This was true in both the Great Xia Dynasty and the Dayu Immortal Dynasty.

Evil Strongmen, in particular, were masters of such methods.

"AGH!"

A moment later, the Gui Chen Sect disciple let out an earth-shattering scream. Then, with an audible CRACK-CRACK from his bones, he stood up.

His eyes were lifeless, his face contorted into a savage mask.

"Mrs. Wu!"

Xiao Yu’s eyes narrowed as he barked out her name.

But before he could say more, the very air around them surged like a violent tide, and streams of icy gazes locked onto his body.

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect glanced nonchalantly at the Rebirth Buddha Venerable and the Celestial Secret Sect Master.

The Divine Thoughts of those two instantly froze, already fixed upon him.

If he made the slightest move, he would be met with a heaven-shattering blow in the very next instant.

The red-robed old woman beamed.

"No need to worry, Sect Leader Xiao. My little darlings are as gentle as can be. They won’t harm your disciple."

With that, she softly chanted a few words before speaking slowly:

"Tell us everything you know."

"Yes."

The Gui Chen Sect disciple began to speak, his expression vacant:

"This Earth Palace is used by the Sect Leader for his Alchemy. Over the long years, we have gathered the souls of countless infants, the blood of adolescents, and the marrow of young adults... all of it has been collected in the Earth Palace..."

Under the influence of the Soul-controlling Insects, the Gui Chen Sect disciple held nothing back, revealing everything he knew.

The Earth Palace beneath the Da Yu Capital City actually held the blood and essence of over a hundred million people!

And the lifeblood consumed by that Gui Chen Sect Elder was merely the leftover dregs.

"What about the Seven Heroes and Three Li?"

"Are they imprisoned in the Earth Palace?"

The expressions of the assembled True Masters grew tense as they listened. Someone suddenly demanded an answer.

"The Seven Heroes and Three Li..."

A look of agony crossed the Gui Chen Sect disciple’s face. He was about to speak when his body suddenly convulsed.

"So be it. If you wish to know, then I shall tell you."

The Leader of the Gui Chen Sect spoke suddenly, as if he were about to confess.

An immense power seemed to radiate from his words. The Gui Chen Sect disciple’s body trembled violently before he let out a shrill, wretched howl.

From his seven orifices, streams of black Demonic Qi gushed out, forcing out all the countless Soul-controlling Insects.