Chapter 301: Wailing Ghost Valley

With no other man around, out of both spite and physical need, she ended up becoming involved with the League Leader, Yu Long.

From that point, Yu Long became infatuated and invited her to stay at his residence.

There, their relationship was discovered by his son, Yu Yun.

Wanting to protect his mother, Yu Yun confronted Xiao Ran and warned her to stay away from his father.

However, during their confrontation, he was unable to resist her charm and also became one of her admirers.

Xiao Ran then maintained relationships with both father and son as well as several powerful elders of the League of Independent Cultivators, allowing her to move unhindered within the organization.

But women are perceptive.

The first to notice something wrong was Yu Long’s Dao companion, Fei Hongxue.

She attempted to assassinate Xiao Ran in secret, but her plan failed due to her own son interfering, allowing the protagonist to escape.

While fleeing, Xiao Ran recalled an opportunity Xiao Shou had once mentioned in a previous life.

In the western region of the League of Independent Cultivators, within Broken Soul Mountain and Wailing Ghost Valley, there existed a strange stone that could directly strengthen one’s soul after absorption.

So she fled into Wailing Ghost Valley.

After the failed assassination, Fei Hongxue realized her son had betrayed her.

While confronting him in anger, Yu Yun’s wife overheard everything.

Driven by jealousy and hatred, Yu Meimei personally led members of the Yu clan into Wailing Ghost Valley to hunt down Xiao Ran.

Yu Yun’s mother also followed soon after.

Within the harsh environment of Wailing Ghost Valley, the two repeatedly pushed Xiao Ran into life threatening situations.

However, Xiao Ran used various methods to separate them from their forces and defeat them one by one.

In the end, when killing both Fei Hongxue and Yu Meimei, she deliberately chose the most dangerous area of Wailing Ghost Valley, setting up a chain explosion formation using Tier 5 Thunderburst talismans.

The explosions left them without even intact bodies and the surrounding terrain was completely devastated.

At the same time, a large section of the Wind Eye Stone mine was exposed.

After happily mining the entire deposit, Xiao Ran hurried back, intending to stop Yu Yun who had come to prevent his mother and wife from pursuing her.

When Yu Yun arrived at the scene, he sensed the severing of his blood ties and Dao companion bond.

Seeing the remains of his mother and wife, he demanded an explanation from Xiao Ran.

However, Xiao Ran’s attitude of rather betraying the whole world than allowing anyone to betray her nearly drove him to collapse.

She then scolded him and his father for being lustful and unfaithful, saying that such an outcome had been destined the moment he abandoned his wife.

In the end, with just a few words, she pushed the ashamed Yu Yun to take his own life.

At the same time, Jian Li who had come to the League of Independent Cultivators heard that Xiao Ran had been defiled by Yu Yun.

He personally took action to kill Yu Yun and installed a new leader leader.

Of course, Xiao Shou did not mention this part of the plot.

He only explained the various map details described in the novel when Xiao Ran was ambushing enemies in Wailing Ghost Valley, along with the locations of the Wind Eye Stone mine, the Soul Soothing Spirit Crystal, and the dangers present in different areas.

After hearing about the Soul Soothing Spirit Crystal, Monk Tongchan felt a stir in his heart.

Since these Soul Soothing Spirit Crystal were beneficial to the soul and harmless, and since everyone claimed that he would suffer a soul collapse during a future breakthrough, he might as well take this opportunity to collect more of them.

They could nourish his soul while he suppressed his cultivation, waiting until he identified and resolved the issue before advancing.

Fu Young also had his own thoughts.

Once he obtained the Ten Thousand Year Wind Eye Stone and forged his life-bond artifact, his eye of purgatory and bloodline abilities could be kept as hidden trump cards.

He would instead rely on his own cultivation techniques and spells in direct combat.

Unless facing an opponent of vastly higher level, he should be able to handle most enemies.

Thus, after reaching an agreement, the group, each with their own goals, purchased intelligence maps of the area around Broken Soul Mountain.

After a brief day of rest, they set out on the twelfth day of the eleventh month toward Broken Soul Mountain.

The so called Broken Soul Mountain meant that entering it would broken one’s soul, a place of certain death.

Of course, this mainly applied to low level cultivators.

In reality, it was a natural danger zone.

A unique wind constantly swept through the mountain, appearing unpredictably from all directions.

This wind could tear apart one’s divine sense and soul.

Low level cultivators, whose souls were fragile, would have their souls completely scattered if struck by it.

Only those with strong cultivation and powerful souls could withstand it for a short time.

Fortunately, what they sought was not on the mountain itself, but in a gloomy valley behind it.

At the entrance of the valley, eerie wailing sounds echoed all year round.

The soul cutting wind there was even stronger and more concentrated than on the mountain, swirling densely at the valley’s mouth.

With such intensity of wind...

Even cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage could not endure it for long.

They would have to retreat halfway after entering the valley, or risk losing their lives.

Only by using special protective barriers to shield the soul could one enter safely.

However, at a glance, the valley contained nothing but the soul cutting wind.

Not a single blade of grass grew there and it was completely barren with no obvious opportunities.

Because of this, it was named Wailing Ghost Valley, and very few people were interested in it.