"I have to leave this place and everyone should do it too! Someone wants to harvest your souls to cultivate, if you stay here then you will all die." The alchemist said and then rapidly tried to leave the building and leave this village. But Alex grabbed his wrist and stopped him.
"Don't you want to help them? You are an alchemist, I thought you could do anything and save any live." Alex asked the alchemist and did not let him leave.
The alchemist could not break free from Alex and had to stop, because he realized that the man in front of him was much stronger and he could not offend him anymore.
"Yes, I can save any lives when they are ill, but these people are cursed and it is not my specialty. All the people that knows how to curse are dark and malign, they do not know what humanity is. He or she will kill all the people here and then move on to the next village. And for a cultivator to kill people so silently and being capable to suppress their fear is not a weak one. He could be anywhere and they are very tricky. So, let me go!" The alchemist shot all his thoughts like a shotgun and he could not breath as he finished, the fear in his heart was visible.
Alex nodded and then let him go, the alchemist was a little surprised, but then he laughed loud and ran away.
What the poor alchemist did not know was that he was condemned the moment he met Alex. Before Alex let him go, Alex transferred a little bit QI into the dantian of the alchemist and blocked any way of future growth. Alex even added a little hole to the dantian, where the already existent QI will escape slowly and without evidence.
"Hehe, you might be stronger than me, but the curse is always stronger. You will die here!" The alchemist thought while escaping.
Alex looked around after the alchemist left and only the guard was left here. The guard did not look preoccupied that his Lord died, he stood there and saw the situation indifferent.
"Guard, come a moment please!" Alex said suddenly.
The guard nodded and walked quickly towards Alex: "Yes sir, how can I help you!"
Alex did not reply, he put his hand on the head of the guard and in the next moment, the guard shout and like if he woke up, the guard shout: "What happened here? Oh Lord, why is the Lord dead? Did you kill him?"
The guard was really out of himself, he could not even remember that his Lord died in front of him a few moments ago.
"Do not worry, you will not end like him, but now go to sleep." Alex said and the guard suddenly fell on the ground and was sleeping very profoundly.
Then Alex stepped out of the building and with a 'SWOOSH', the whole village was free from the curse that took away their fear from death. Alex also made them sleep, because he knew that the brain needed some time to recuperate from the curse and if they woke up directly, they would flip out like the guard and they would be out of place.
"Should I find that dark cultivator or continue my way?" Alex asked himself, he was not very motivated to hunt a soul thief, but it was at the same time interesting to know how this people cultivate.
At the end his curiosity to find out what this people did with soul was bigger, than his motivational aspect to not do it.
In a blink of an eye, Alex scanned the whole village again to search the source of that black QI, but he did not find anything that might be the source. So, he knew now that the cultivator was not in the village, but somewhere else in the near.
Alex looked around the village and saw a few farmer houses a few miles away from the village, they were only three buildings and around them was a large farm with all types of vegetables and wheat.
Alex walked slowly to the farmer houses and on his way, he met more people that were harmed by the curse, so he also gave them their liberty again.
A little later, Alex was there and he saw that the farmer houses were a little abandoned and then he looked closely at the growing corps and saw that they already passed the limit to be harvested.
"It seems like the cultivator is in the near, I can feel him." Alex said to himself and walked to a small stable where horses should be kept, but it was empty. The building was emanating a strong black QI aura and Alex could even see it if he looked closer. It was very condensed.
Alex entered the stable and it was empty, he looked around and saw directly a strange form in a corner of the stable that was moving from one side to another. Alex could hear what it was saying: "Why is the connection interrupted, it is impossible. There is no one in the radius of 500 kilometer radius that can stop the curse. Did I fail calculating, no it is impossible!" "Ahhhhhh"
Suddenly the body of the person began to shake and to scream angrily. It seems like it did not feel the presence of Alex. This person looked very angry and it was very understandable.
Alex sympathized with the young man in the corner, yes it was a young boy. Alex could understand what it feels when a plan fails, even if he is the cause for the plan to not work. Whatever, he had to tell the boy to look at him and stop him and study him, because the boy seems to not see his presence.
"Pst, Pst, hello! Can you turn and look at me?"