Chapter 107 Death Canyon
The soul beasts in the Death Canyon are all wild, not captive.
Even if the Spirit Hall took over the entire canyon, it would not be able to truly infiltrate the power of the soul masters into every corner of the canyon.
Especially in the core area of the canyon, the Death Spider King, a hundred thousand year old soul beast, once appeared there, and there must be other powerful soul beasts living here.
If you want to send a group of soul masters to garrison the core area of Death Canyon, then these soul masters must all be strong soul saints or above.
Although the Spirit Hall is the organization with the largest number of soul masters on the continent, it will not waste so much soul master power for a Death Canyon.
Therefore, most of the Spirit Masters of the Spirit Hall stationed in the Death Canyon are distributed near the entrance and the outer area.
The soul beasts living in the Death Canyon are basically as violent, dark, cunning and powerful as the human-faced demon spider. They are all extremely aggressive.
Coupled with the gloomy valley environment and natural ravines, this makes Death Canyon even more dangerous.
Some soul masters were stabbed in the back by their companions, or ambushed by soul beasts. Their bodies or bones were exposed in the wilderness. The undead could not be liberated, so they gathered in the canyon, creating a strong smell of death.
When he reached the pass between two mountains, Xia Liang felt his heart pounding. This was because the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul began to become active after sensing the strong breath of darkness and death.
This place is simply a natural mass grave, perfect for the Undead Skeleton Martial Spirit to absorb the darkness and death energy from the outside world.
Until night, when it was completely dark.
Xia Liang walked around the pass and into a valley forest. After activating his perspective and undead attributes, he could clearly see the undead floating within a radius of one kilometer.
The undead, which looked like white Haunters, wandered in the mountains and forests, making inaudible wails.
As his eyes swept over the ghosts wandering around, the undead skeleton martial spirit in Xia Liang's body became more active.
He was almost certain that practicing in the Death Canyon would not only allow him to increase his soul power faster, but he could also try to use the dark attribute to devour these undead souls that had nowhere to stay.
This not only can quickly improve soul power, but also can strengthen the essence of martial soul, making it closer to the ultimate undead attribute.
In an open space in the valley forest, Xia Liang used his perspective to check the area of several hundred meters and found that the same Soul Saint had been keeping a distance of one hundred meters from him.
The enhanced perspective can even see invisible objects, so even if this Soul Sage uses soul skills to block his own breath and mental detection, he cannot escape the capture of the perspective eyes.
He had just entered the Death Canyon and had not revealed that he had soul bones or other precious items. The silver bracelet soul guide on his wrist was crudely made and did not look worth anything. Logically, it should not have attracted the attention of a Soul Saint.
Xia Liang guessed that this Soul Sage might have been sent by Thorny Porpoise Douluo to monitor him. This should be Qian Renxue's intention.
In the future, he will have to hone his martial soul fusion skills, and sooner or later the martial soul secret will have to be revealed. Xia Liang does not mind Qian Renxue's behavior of sending people to monitor him. Someone monitoring means someone protecting him. Instead, he can feel more at ease training and searching for soul beasts in the Death Canyon. He just needs to be careful not to expose some private abilities.
After some consideration, Xia Liang decided to ignore the Soul Saint who was a hundred meters away, and he activated the undead attribute.
Balls of black and purple ghost lights lit up one after another in the air.
They did not turn into Gastly or Haunter, but just maintained the form of will-o'-the-wisp.
Qian Renxue knew that he had the ability to summon ghost fire to find soul beasts, so it was okay to expose it.
After receiving the order, about 500 will-o'-the-wisp groups suddenly scattered in the air. Their mission was to search for soul beasts like the Shadow Lord in this Death Canyon.
Because they have awakened the dark attribute, they can use the darkness to absorb the light energy. So whether it is the black and purple will-o'-the-wisp, Gastly, or Haunter, they are no longer afraid of the sunlight. Even in the daytime, they do not need to hide in dark places.
In other words, as long as these five hundred will-o'-the-wisp fires are not destroyed by soul masters or soul beasts, they can tirelessly search for soul beasts twenty-four hours a day.
In order to reserve his soul power to deal with unexpected situations, Xia Liang only consumed one-third of his soul power to summon the black and purple will-o'-the-wisp.
Wait until it recovers to full status and then consume some soul power to summon. Repeat this process and you can quickly search every corner of the outer area of Death Canyon.
If you still can't find any trace of the Shadow Lord, then go deeper into the core area to look for it.
After handing over the task of finding the soul beast to the black and purple ghost fire, Xia Liang activated his X-ray vision and continued to look for a suitable place for retreat and cultivation nearby.
Three days later.
Death Canyon, outer area.
In a dark forest at the foot of the mountain, there is a place similar to a cemetery.
Each grave was very random, with no tombstones or traces of burning incense in front of them. Overall, the graves within a radius of 300 meters were distributed in a disorderly manner. This should be the place where the spirit masters of the Spirit Hall buried some people whose bodies were exposed in the wilderness.
During these three days, Xia Liang had been sitting cross-legged in the center of the cemetery, using the strong smell of death around him as a natural mimicry field to practice meditation.
He discovered that during meditation, the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul not only absorbed the natural energy from the outside world, but also madly devoured the surrounding darkness and death energy.
The combination of the two energies not only increases the soul power converted from the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul, but the darkness and death energy can also make the origin of the Martial Soul purer and more powerful.
The effect of practicing in the cemetery as a natural mimicry field over the past three days has been very good. Xia Liang can use his clairvoyance to see that the thickness of the soul power flowing in his body is increasing significantly every day.
The Undead Skeleton Martial Soul is so active and madly absorbs the surrounding darkness and death energy. It is estimated that it will be able to increase its soul power by one level in less than a month.
In a sense, after devouring the corpse of the ten thousand year old red-eyed tree demon king, the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul can be said to have eaten a top-level dark fairy grass. In terms of cultivation speed alone, it is definitely better than any other martial soul.
However, there are pros and cons. This cemetery is located in the outer area of the Death Canyon, and soul beasts often come here to find food.
During the meditation practice, one also has to distract himself to deal with sudden attacks by soul beasts.
Thanks to the awakening of the spiritual attribute and the black and purple will-o'-the-wisps wandering outside as a warning, this concern was eliminated.
At this time, a breath appeared within the range of spiritual perception.
Xia Liang immediately ended his meditation, stood up and looked forward with his perspective. What caught his eyes was a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a Spirit Hall deacon. Judging from the flow of soul power in his body, this middle-aged man was at least a level 60 Soul Emperor.
The ability of perspective was closed. At this moment, the middle-aged Soul Emperor had walked in front of Xia Liang. He was dragging the corpse of a soul master and his eyes swept across the surrounding cemetery.
Xia Liang and the middle-aged Soul Emperor looked at each other and smiled in a friendly manner.
"It's really strange. I didn't expect there would be spirit masters practicing here. Young man, are you also a spirit master from the Spirit Hall?"
When Xia Liang heard the middle-aged Soul Emperor asking about his identity, he shifted his attention away from the dragged soul master's body, then took out a token from his silver bracelet and handed it over.