Chapter 82: A Single Slip-Up

  A middle-aged man walked out slowly and said faintly, "We know you can defeat the lower-level Dou Zun, but if you think you can defeat us, it's a bit too arrogant, isn't it?"

  "Oh, a half-sage, it seems you're the little leader of this group. I've never said that I'd personally come to collect you." Xiao Xing Meng raised the corner of his lips and smiled. "Half-sage level, among them is already a small leader who knows quite a bit. Little Fourth, capture this one alive, as for the rest, just kill them."

  As soon as the words fell, the "Little Medicine Immortal" who had been silent beside him lifted his robe and took off his disguise mask. With a sound of bones loosening, the body of the "Little Medicine Immortal" gradually transformed into a tall and thin man - Duò Zhāo Míng. At the same time, his aura changed, and the fake Dou Wang turned into an extremely dark and deep Dou Qi, which even the Half Saint couldn't grasp his true strength.

  As the inheritor of the vast Soul Clan, the secret method of changing one's body naturally encompasses everything.

  Xiao Xing Meng smiled and said, "As you said, although I have opened countless hangs, but for the previous half-saint, it's still a bit too difficult for now. To be on the safe side, let Xiao Si pretend to follow me, I'm really too TM clever."

  That half-sage's eyes narrowed, seeing Soul Chao Ming's appearance, he knew today was doomed! Damn it, who is this guy?! If he had a relationship with the Soul Temple, that would be fine, but could he mobilize such a strong fake daughter to do things for him? This guy is at least at the Dou Sheng level, could this kid be the son of the Soul Clan's patriarch?!

  But in reality, things were even more absurd than he had imagined.

  "Hehe." At that time when the half-sage was still in shock from the sudden change of events, Soul's clear laughter suddenly rang out.

  "What are you laughing at?" Facing Soul Asgard, that half-saint knew it was already a dead end, now he could only see if there was any way to let his own people escape.

  "It's really hilarious that you didn't notice at all, your companion has been cut into pieces." Soul Chao Ming's cold and low voice slowly echoed, bringing unbelievable content to the half-saint.

  The sound had just fallen, and except for that half-saint, the several people on the opposite side had their bodies scattered all over the ground, with clean cuts like a mirror surface. The blood only splashed out after they "scattered" to the ground. Even in the Douqi Continent, probably only Soul Chao Ming would have such an abnormally ruthless and cruel killing technique. Soul Chao Ming's exquisite "cutting" speed that exceeded the limits, that half-saint didn't catch his trail at all. Under Xiao Xing Meng's command, it was already done in an instant.

  The terrifying power of the Kasou's morning sun made the half-saint, who had always been ready to die, feel a hint of retreat for the first time. His foot involuntarily took a step back, but he had no chance of escaping.

  Hun Chao Ming once again circled around to his back at a speed that he fundamentally couldn't react to, instantly cutting off his meridians and sealing his Qi.

  His ruthless and extremely strong methods made Ye Kan and A Zi feel a bit collapsed in their three views of this person. They expected their senior brother to be awesome, but they didn't expect him to be so awesome!

  The power gap was too great, and the half-saint was easily knocked to the ground like a child by Soul Chao Ming. Unfortunately, things didn't go as smoothly as Xiao Xing Meng had predicted. At the same time that the half-saint fell to the ground, a strange power burst forth from his head like an unsealed seal.

  Noticing something unusual about the soul, Akatsuki immediately scanned the opponent's situation and attempted to use Soul Search on them, but quickly stopped.

  "This secret technique seems to be activated when the opponent is captured, and it can destroy all memories. Even if the person is still alive, they will become an amnesiac... I really didn't expect this, teacher. The opponent actually has a secret technique that counters our Soul Searching Technique." Hún Cháomíng helplessly shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fortunately, I made a big sacrifice to bring that poisonous female body with you here, but it seems the information was cut off."

  "This situation was beyond Xiao Xing Meng's expectations, and he said with a hint of disappointment: "Do you know the countermeasures against our Soul Clan's soul-searching technique? The soul-searching technique is also an advanced method in our Soul Clan, and there are very few people who can understand this move, even among the ancient seven clans."

  He paused for a moment, and Xiao Xing Meng raised his mouth, saying: "So, we can only use the most stupid method. The target maintained by the other party is Xiao Yan, and they also know our Soul Searching Technique. There are not many people like this, send someone back to Hei Tan City Xiao Family, thoroughly investigate."

  "Soul Morning Answered: 'Understood.'"

  "You go back and make arrangements, bring this half-sage back to the Soul Temple. Ye Kan and A Zi will follow you four senior brothers back to the Soul Temple as well. As for me, I'm going to explore the underground route. Originally, I didn't believe in the existence of 'alien water', but after coming here, I've confirmed that it's real." After finishing speaking, Xiao Xing Meng flew into a volcano mouth with an urgent yet unhurried manner, adopting a standard diving posture, and landed in the molten lava with full marks... The splashing water was like a weak explosion, not even a single drop of lava splashed out...

  ……

  "Hmm, I still can't figure out why the teacher was so sure there's 'strange water' here just because someone came?" Ye Kan asked Ah Zi on their way back, but Ah Zi looked equally perplexed.

  "Little brother, I'll answer you," Hún Cháo Míng said, "Firstly, the fire element has greatly decreased, and strange things have appeared in the world. However, the key point is still the change in the other party's murderous intentions."

  "As a killer, I can detect even the slightest change in murderous intent. When we first arrived, our opponents had no intention of killing us, not even when we appeared as soul temples. It wasn't until Master deliberately revealed his true form that they emerged with thick murderous intent. The message about giving us an alien object, both Master and I have thought of two possibilities."

  "There are two possibilities. First, the people from the Yin Temple will either kill or capture us to extract information and find our master, because in their eyes, our master is an unknown entity with only a connection to the Soul Temple being certain. Second, on the other hand, if the news of the alien object is true, by contributing the alien object, they can use the rules of our Soul Temple to enter our temple's interior and search for our master within. The first option has a lower cost but also a lower success rate, while the second option has a higher cost but also a higher success rate."

  "But they never thought that the master would come in person, or rather, they never expected that the establishment of the Soul Temple was for the master to search for rare objects all over the world. So when they saw the target, Master, coming in person, they thought it would be better to just kill him directly, and then came out, right?" Ah Zi continued.

  Nodding, Soul Chao Ming continued: "That's right, the other party had no killing intent at first, which means that their original purpose in sending people here was not to kill or capture members of the Soul Temple, but to help them find the anomaly water and allow their people to successfully enter the Soul Temple. Because anomaly water is different from anomaly fire, anomaly fire is violent and showy, its aura is easy to sense, while anomaly water is calm and introverted, its aura is extremely difficult to sense. I estimate that they only knew the exact location now, unfortunately, the other party has a secret method to destroy memories. Otherwise, Master wouldn't have had to jump directly into the lava to find it."

  Ye Kan suddenly realized and paused for a moment before saying: "No wonder the teacher told us to leave first... If he rushes in to look for him, it's likely that he'll have to search for a long time."

  "With Teacher's powerful perception, he might still have a bit of feeling, but if others were to come... I reckon they wouldn't be able to find it in this lifetime, like finding a needle in the ocean." Hún Cháomíng shook his head helplessly. The Ten Ya Volcanic Belt was composed of ten massive volcanic ranges, and its scope was enormous. Moreover, who knows when that strange water would flow with the lava?"

  To put it simply. Although Xiao Xing Meng came with top-notch equipment for this search task, the difficulty level of this task is hellish!