Chapter 48

At the same time, in a guest room of a small inn, Hua Xiajiu sat on a wooden chair, took out a Soul Condensing Pill, and swallowed it without hesitation.

The Soul Condensing Pill melted in his mouth, and a cool, warm energy instantly drilled into Hua Xiajiu's mind, being completely absorbed by his soul form.

Buzz——

In the next moment, Hua Xiajiu felt his soul form tremble violently, gradually solidifying and shrinking at a visible speed.

Feeling the changes in his soul form, Hua Xiajiu couldn't help but feel delighted. Compared to the extreme pain of soul refining, this was like heaven and hell.

But the good times didn't last long, only for three breaths, and the soul form stopped changing.

Hua Xiajiu slowly opened his eyes, calculated for a few breaths, and then took out a Soul Refining Pill and swallowed it without a word.

After nearly ten breaths, a dazzling light flashed in Hua Xiajiu's eyes, and his expression was filled with joy.

Hua Xiajiu felt that his soul form had shrunk by one-fifth, now less than three meters, and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "One Soul Condensing Pill is as effective as three rounds of soul striking, and one Soul Refining Pill is as effective as a full day of continuous soul refining."

Just then, Hua Xiajiu suddenly felt a strange energy fluctuation rapidly and secretly spreading towards him. He was startled and hadn't had time to react when a sweet smell entered his nose, quickly entering his mind. Immediately, he felt dizzy and fell off the chair.

As he fell, Hua Xiajiu's soul form lost contact with his body, and he could no longer control it. He was instantly terrified.

A faint sound was heard, and the wooden door of the guest room where Hua Xiajiu was staying was pushed open from the outside. A young man in golden robes and a slender cultivator quietly entered, while another follower hid in the shadows outside the door.

"Ha ha ha—indeed a rookie just starting out, with no defensive warning formations outside the room." The young man in golden robes looked at Hua Xiajiu, who was lying stiff and motionless on the ground, and laughed wildly.

"Master! The effect of the Soul Separation Incense only lasts for twenty breaths. To avoid any changes, we should act quickly!" The slender cultivator, seeing that the young man in golden robes wanted to say more, reminded him.

The young man in golden robes nodded, his ugly face twisted, and his expression filled with a perverted sense of satisfaction. But looking at Hua Xiajiu's unchanged handsome face, he couldn't help but feel a bit regretful, thinking that if Hua Xiajiu had shown fear and begged for mercy, it would have been even more enjoyable.

In the next moment, the slender cultivator patted his storage bag, and a blood-red needle appeared in his hand. A glow of true essence flashed, and he stabbed it towards Hua Xiajiu's dantian, intending to first destroy Hua Xiajiu's true essence cultivation, reducing him to an ordinary person and stripping him of his combat ability.

Sss—

In a flash, Hua Xiajiu's right middle finger lifted, and two bright beams of light suddenly shot out, aiming at the hearts of the slender cultivator and the young man in golden robes. These were the strongest attack methods of Hua Xiajiu, the laser gun of the robot.

The slender cultivator and the young man in golden robes were completely convinced of the effect of the Soul Separation Incense, so they had no guard against Hua Xiajiu. With a distance of less than a meter, at the speed of the laser, they couldn't dodge, and before they could even react, a hole the size of a finger appeared in their chests, with most of their hearts missing.

The slender cultivator looked bewildered, looked down at his chest, and his expression showed confusion and disbelief as he fell to the ground, his breath gone.

"Ah—this—this, how is this possible? How could I die?"

A scream echoed, and the young man in golden robes stumbled backward two steps, hitting the wall and falling down. Although he was slightly farther from Hua Xiajiu, he was also easily killed due to his lack of guard.

A large-headed figure suddenly appeared at the door, and upon seeing the situation inside, his face changed drastically. Without even checking Hua Xiajiu's condition, he decisively fled.

Hua Xiajiu glanced at the fleeing figure and felt lucky. He was still separated from his body and couldn't control it much. He could use the laser gun only because of the special nature of his mind.

After a while, the effect of the Soul Separation Incense disappeared, and Hua Xiajiu returned to normal.

Absorbing the soul energy of the two, Hua Xiajiu's soul energy increased significantly in quantity.

He casually put the two corpses into his storage bag and then quietly left the 'Small Inn.'

Half an hour later, in another small inn. Hua Xiajiu sat cross-legged in the guest room, eyes slightly closed, sorting through the memories of the young man in golden robes and the slender cultivator.

After a while, Hua Xiajiu slowly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with contemplation.

The Great Wu Empire, besides the Five Spirits Sect behind it, had many large and small cultivation forces within its territory, with three families and four sects being the most powerful. Among them, the Ice Blood Sect and the Heavenly Gate Sect were part of the four sects. These forces used to follow the Five Spirits Sect, obeying its orders and regularly paying tribute with rare treasures.

However, ten years ago, the Five Spirits Sect underwent a major change, its power and strength plummeting, and it was removed from the list of the nine major sects. The Great Wu Empire also disintegrated, and the three families and four sects became restless, no longer under the control of the Five Spirits Sect. They even began to compete with the Five Spirits Sect for cultivation resources in the Great Wu Empire. The appearance of Ice Blood Sect and Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators in Cangnan County was due to this.

The young man in golden robes was named Zhao Shiguang, the son of the patriarch of the Zhao family, one of the three families in the Great Wu Empire. The Zhao family's strength was not inferior to that of a second-rate cultivation sect. This time, Zhao Shiguang came to Five Spirits City because the Zhao family had obtained a selection token from the Purple Mystic Sect, allowing him to participate in the selection.

By killing the son of the Zhao family patriarch, Hua Xiajiu would naturally face fierce retaliation from the Zhao family. However, considering that he would participate in the Purple Mystic Sect's selection the next day, if he successfully joined the Purple Mystic Sect, with its strength, this matter might bring him some trouble later, but it would be easily resolved for now.

What worried Hua Xiajiu more was that an elder of the Zhao family had once been a disciple of the Purple Mystic Sect and was now an inner disciple of the Purple Mystic Sect's Five Elements Hall. The person responsible for the selection in Five Spirits City was this elder of the Zhao family.

Thinking of this, Hua Xiajiu regretted not killing Zhao Shiguang's other follower to eliminate future troubles. At this point, it would be difficult for Hua Xiajiu to find and kill this person in the vast Five Spirits City before he could report.

Since the matter had already happened, Hua Xiajiu could only learn from it and avoid making the same mistake in the future. For now, he had no other choice.

Considering that he still had to participate in the Purple Mystic Sect's selection the next day, Hua Xiajiu temporarily put Zhao Shiguang's matter aside and prepared to continue using pills to refine his soul.

With the experience from earlier, Hua Xiajiu specifically found a set of defensive and warning array flags from Zhao Shiguang's storage bag, refined them, and carefully set them up between the windows and doors of the guest room.

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