Chapter 9: The Attack of the Five Souls Essence

On the planets in the outer region of the Five Souls Desolation, soul compasses were scattered across five planets in total. Qu Yi had already used the Boundless Star Route to arrive at one of these planets.
The activation and deactivation of the Boundless Star Route caused significant spatial disturbances.
Thus, when Qu Yi arrived on this outer-region planet, the resulting spatial disturbance was noticed by a Great Perfection-stage cultivator from the Qingyun Sect. He set up a spatial teleportation array tens of thousands of miles away.
Naturally, this Great Perfection-stage cultivator immediately informed Feng Qu from the Immortal Realm of his discovery.
Qu Yi also noticed this cultivator from the Qingyun Sect. He instantly teleported to his side, already holding the mid-tier immortal weapon, the Shangjin Sword.
“Fellow cultivator, you’re really unlucky. Why did you come to this planet?” Qu Yi said with a light smile as he swung his sword.
The Shangjin Sword was a mid-tier immortal weapon. To unleash its spatial attack capabilities, Qu Yi needed a large amount of gold-element primordial energy. But he didn’t mind at all, as during his time in the Vast Heaven Immortal Mansion, the Xingluo Cauldron had gathered an enormous amount of gold-element primordial energy in the Puppet Immortal Realm.
As soon as the Shangjin Sword was drawn, it created a spatial seal, with golden sword energy swirling violently within that space.
The Great Perfection-stage cultivator from the Qingyun Sect didn’t even have time to react before he was locked in by the sword’s spatial attack. Just as he tried to beg for mercy, he realized the sword energy was already ravaging his body, causing it to completely disintegrate.
With just one swing of the sword, the strongest cultivator in the cultivation world—a Great Perfection-stage being—died.
Qu Yi’s appearance, the drawing of his sword, the cultivator’s attempt to send a message, and his death—all happened in an instant. After killing this cultivator from the Qingyun Sect, Qu Yi immediately entered the Inch Realm Sphere.
Almost at the same time, Feng Qu from the Immortal Realm appeared on a nearby mountain. After receiving news of the cultivator’s death, he immediately teleported there.
Naturally, as soon as Feng Qu emerged from the spatial teleportation array on the mountain, he detected the spatial disturbance caused by the Shangjin Sword and immediately confirmed that the cultivator who had alerted him was dead.
“Qu Yi, you can’t escape! Let’s see how long you can sustain spatial travel,” Feng Qu shouted angrily.

At this moment, Feng Qu was still confident that Qu Yi could only use the Boundless Stars a few times. He believed that after using it a few more times, Qu Yi’s true energy would be exhausted, and then any of the ten faction’s strongmen who discovered him could capture him alive.

Feng Qu arrived at the space of chaos, waved his hand, and released a surge of Wood Element primordial energy, creating a Wood Element domain that solidified the surrounding space.

After venting his anger in this way, Feng Qu didn’t notice that nearby in the air, a tiny speck was moving against the wind. That speck was, of course, the Tiny Realm Ball.

Apart from Feng Qu, who had arrived on the outer planet of the Five Souls Perilous Realm, the other nine strongmen from the upper realm also arrived on the nine outer planets using their own space teleportation arrays.

Undoubtedly, none of these ten had found Qu Yi.

“Damn it! Qu Yi has escaped again!”

The ten men from the upper realm were so enraged they felt like vomiting blood. They had thought that in the cultivation world, accomplishing anything would be effortless. But after arriving here, they had been played by Qu Yi several times while trying to capture him.

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Qu Yi was inside the Tiny Realm Ball, practicing in silence. Under the control of the Artifact God, the ball moved into the sky of the Five Souls Perilous Realm and flew toward its inner area.

Meanwhile, the ten faction’s strongmen were searching for Qu Yi on the outer planets of the Five Souls Perilous Realm.

However, these strongmen didn’t realize that after failing to catch Qu Yi, the Golden Soul Spirit had already set its sights on them.

The reason the Five Souls Perilous Realm was known as a “perilous realm” in the cultivation world was that those who entered never returned, constantly intimidating the strongmen there.

This time, all the Great Perfection-stage beings from the ten factions were mobilized. If they were devoured by the spirits of the Five Souls Perilous Realm, it would undoubtedly create more powerful spirits there.

The five soul spirits had already connected with each other and learned about the current situation in the realm. They understood that they couldn’t deal with the ten strongmen from the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and Monster Realm, but they could take on the strongmen from the ten factions, allowing some spirits to rapidly enhance their strength.

At that moment, on one of the outer planets of the Five Souls Perilous Realm was the planet under the responsibility of a Great Perfection-stage being from the Lan Yang Palace, who was tasked with searching.

This being from the Lan Yang Palace had a slightly reddened complexion, and his robust frame emitted intense fluctuations of Fire Element true energy as he flew swiftly through the air.

On the planet, there were many precious herbs that made the cultivators of the cultivation world salivate, such as the Fire Sun Fruit, Sea Yin Grass, He Mian Jing Tai, and so on. Yet, this being at the Mahayana stage dared not descend to the ground. After the strong warriors from the ten sects arrived at the Five Souls Desolation, as long as they touched the ground or came into contact with trees, they might be attacked by spiritual spirits. All the strong warriors had learned their lesson and did not want to be harassed by these spirits anymore.

So, even though he saw many tempting herbs on the ground, this being from the Lan Yang Palace at the Mahayana stage also did not dare to descend and pick them. What if those herbs contained spiritual spirits or even more terrifying soul spirits? By then, it would be too late to regret it.

Thus, this being from the Lan Yang Palace continued to fly in the air. But he was completely wrong—does flying in the air mean safety? Meanwhile, underground, one of the five soul spirits, the Wood Soul Spirit, was lurking, waiting for this being from the Lan Yang Palace to fly over. Around it, there were also hundreds of spiritual spirits in the early stage of tribulation, waiting for the Wood Soul Spirit to kill this being so they could share his primordial spirit. The primordial spirit of a being at the Mahayana stage could help those hundreds of spirits advance to the middle stage of tribulation.

It could be said that no being at the Mahayana stage had come to the Five Souls Desolation for a long time. These spirits usually needed a long time to advance, but with the strong warriors from the ten sects arriving this time, it was like they had been given a gift. Soon, the being from the Lan Yang Palace flew in the air and reached above the area where the Wood Soul Spirit was lurking.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the Wood Soul Spirit emerged from the ground, resembling a wooden spear, piercing through the sky and entering the body of this being from the Lan Yang Palace. The Golden Soul Spirit took the form of a sword, while the Wood Soul Spirit took the form of a wooden spear. By the time this being from the Lan Yang Palace sensed the attack by the Wood Soul Spirit, it was already too late. When the Wood Soul Spirit entered his primordial spirit and tried to devour his soul, he trembled in fear.

Soul spirits devour souls, while spiritual spirits only devour primordial spirits.

“No!”

This being from the Lan Yang Palace had only a fleeting thought before completely losing consciousness, his entire soul being devoured.

Immediately, the Body at the Mahayana stage of the Blue Sun Palace fell freely from the sky, creating a large hole in the ground upon impact. Meanwhile, the Wood Soul Spirit had emerged from his body and suddenly disappeared into the starry sky, heading to another planet to devour the soul of any Mahayana-stage being or late-stage Tribulation-stage warrior there.

The hundreds of Tribulation-stage spirit entities lurking underground simultaneously rushed into the body of the Blue Sun Palace’s Mahayana-stage being, surrounding his primordial spirit and devouring it greedily.

In an instant, tribulation clouds formed above the planet, as if countless beings were about to undergo tribulation. It turned out that after devouring the primordial spirit of the Mahayana-stage being, some of these spirit entities rose in strength by one level, thus having to face the test of heavenly tribulation.

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Not only was the Wood Soul Spirit attacking the Mahayana-stage being; the Gold Soul Spirit, Water Soul Spirit, Fire Soul Spirit, and Earth Soul Spirit were also on planets in the outer regions, leading many Tribulation-stage spirit entities to attack Mahayana-stage beings and late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors on various planets.

The strength of the top ten sects’ warriors was rapidly declining.

At the Taiyuan Sect, only eight Mahayana-stage beings remained, with only five late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors alive, including Sect Leader Tai Ming.

At the Qingyun Sect, only five Mahayana-stage beings remained, with only three late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors alive.

At the Blue Sun Palace, only five Mahayana-stage beings remained, with only four late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors left.

At the Yingtian Sect, only six Mahayana-stage beings remained, and there were still four late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors, including Sect Leader Ying Hua.

At the Jinyang Sect, five Mahayana-stage beings remained, and five late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors survived, including Sect Leader Jin Xiong.

At the Biyan Peak, six Mahayana-stage beings remained, and fortunately, eight late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors were still alive.

At the Cangyang Valley, only four Mahayana-stage beings remained, but ten late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors survived, including Sect Leader Cang Huang.

At the Bai Shou Peak, five Mahayana-stage beings survived, along with five late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors, including Sect Leader Qing Long.

At the Xianyue Cliff, five Mahayana-stage beings survived, as well as five late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors, including Sect Leader Tu Long.

On Jiugong Island, six Mahayana-stage beings survived, and luckily, eight late-stage Tribulation-stage warriors remained, including Sect Leader Shui Long.

It could be said that the seven sect leaders secretly controlled by Qu Yi all survived. Due to their status, they had always followed the ten leaders from the upper realm and thus avoided being attacked by the five soul spirits.

The ten from the Upper Realm had always been in space, waiting constantly for news from the strong warriors of various factions. After a long time with no news from them, they realized that the strong warriors of those factions might have encountered misfortune, so they went to various planets and finally discovered the fact of the Five Souls Essence’s attack. Thus, the ten from the Upper Realm had to accept this devastating loss and immediately ordered the surviving strong warriors from those factions to come to space and reunite with them. As a result, there were now ten groups of people in space, scattered across ten locations, each with a melancholic expression.