Peerless Tang Sect: Hurricane Infinite Wind

Chapter 37 Evil Soul Master

In a hotel in the Far North City, Wu Xuan stretched hard and walked out. One night's rest in this city was enough, and he didn't plan to stay for a long time.

Hall! Wu Xuan ate the pastry with great pleasure.

"Have you heard? Lanshan City seems to have encountered an evil soul master." A thin man whispered.

"Yes! I heard that the entire family of the mayor of Lanshan City was wiped out. That's hundreds of lives. What should we do if that evil soul master comes to our Jibei City?" An older man sighed.

"Hey! You old man, stop talking nonsense. Our Far North City is so remote and sparsely populated. That evil soul master would only come here because he has nothing better to do." A big man slammed the table and said.

"I'm just saying just in case!" the old man said stubbornly.

"Shut up, all of you fools, stop gossiping. Let me tell you, that evil soul master has alerted the governor of Beiling City, and high-level soul masters from Beiling City will be coming to deal with him soon." A soul master dressed as an officer walked into the hall and shouted harshly.

"Yes, yes, yes! Master Soul Master is right." A group of civilians bowed their heads and said.

Wu Xuan shook his head and continued eating his breakfast. He would be passing through Lanshan City on his way back to Shrek Academy anyway, so he could just go and take a look.

After leaving the Far North City, Wu Xuan continued on his journey.

"Wu Xuan! What are those evil soul masters that ordinary humans talk about? Are they any different from you ordinary soul masters?" Bingdi asked curiously.

Wu Xuan's face was grave as he spoke, "The reputation of evil soul masters on the continent is extremely poor. Those who become evil soul masters are all extremely vicious and cruel, relying on killing and devouring lives to increase their strength. Therefore, every evil soul master is a ruthless and inhumane being. If we really want to compare them, even the human-faced demon spider among soul beasts would be inferior."

"Is there such evil among humans? In the eyes of us soul beasts, you humans are quite united!" Bingdi said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Humanity has never been monolithic. To ask why, this touches upon a fundamental question." Wu Xuan smiled. "Ice Emperor, what do you consider to be of the same race?"

The Ice Emperor smiled and said, "That's easy. My soul beast clan is of the same clan, and so is your human clan."

Wu Xuan shook his head in disdain and said, "You soul beasts all have strange shapes, different habits, and different strengths. You kill each other every day. Just because you are all called soul beasts, does that mean you are all one race?"

The Ice Emperor's expression froze, but he still said stubbornly, "The strong prey on the weak. This is the law of survival among soul beasts."

"Haha! The strong prey on the weak! That's right. What I want to tell you is that it's the law of the jungle. Soul beasts are not divided by race, but by class. Soul beasts only have predators and prey. Just like humans only have rulers and the ruled, strength is the only dividing line."

"There's no such thing as the same clan or different clans. A ten-thousand-year soul beast is no longer the same species as a hundred-year soul beast. Even if they're from the same clan, it's the same."

"It might be a little better among humans, but the gap between ordinary spirit masters and civilians has long been like an insurmountable mountain."

"For those evil soul masters, civilians and low-level soul masters are nothing more than food for them to cultivate and become stronger." Wu Xuan said self-deprecatingly.

"Is that so?" Bingdi was speechless for a long time.

Wu Xuan looked at Bingdi, lost in his own world, and shook his head, chuckling twice. "You little brat, you're bickering with me? I can make you withdraw with just a few words. Do you really think I went to college in my previous life for nothing?"

After a brief moment of pride, Wu Xuan continued on his way.

The journey of hundreds of kilometers only took Wu Xuan a few hours at his speed.

"Hiss~ Ugh! Ugh. This is the stench of a large number of rotting corpses!" Wu Xuan stopped vomiting and frowned as he looked around carefully.

Following the stench of corpses, Wu Xuan finally saw a small, shattered village. The sight was so intense that Wu Xuan nearly vomited his breakfast. The village was littered with decaying corpses, and purple-black blood stained the ground. The corpses had died in horrific fashion, with not a single intact body. Everyone in the village, young and old, had perished, their bodies scattered across the wilderness.

"Ugh!" Wu Xuan held back his dry heaves and began to check the condition of the corpse. After all, he was a man who had experienced many storms and waves, so he still had some patience.

After some inspection, Wu Xuan came to the final conclusion that the body had died no more than half a month ago.

After calming down, Wu Xuan still couldn't help but feel angry about the evil soul master's actions.

If this evil soul master is not higher than the Soul Emperor, he will definitely kill him with his own hands.

But if he surpasses the Soul Emperor, he will try to take a detour. Although he is angry about the evil soul master's methods, he will not act impulsively. He values ​​his own life more and he cannot care about everything in this world.

Noon, Arashiyama Castle.

This is not a particularly prosperous city, but it is several times more prosperous than the Far North City where Wu Xuan settled before, and its population is far greater than that of the Far North City.

Along the way, Wu Xuan had discovered more than two hands worth of villages that had been massacred. Some had been reduced to white bones, while others had no trace left. This showed that the evil spirit master's evil deeds had not been a short period of time.

Wu Xuan was now somewhat curious. How could this evil spirit master dare to slaughter the entire village for such a long time, and even wipe out the entire City Lord's Mansion? Although Lanshan City was relatively underdeveloped, it was very close to Beiling City, a major city in the north of the Douling Empire. From Beiling City, it would only take a day to get here, depending on the speed of the spirit master. A powerful spirit master could even reach here in just a few hours.

Wu Xuan couldn't understand why someone dared to wipe out the entire City Lord's Mansion in this location, attracting the attention of Beiling City. Unless this evil soul master was fully confident in his own strength, or there was something hidden in this city that was extremely important to this evil soul master, Wu Xuan couldn't understand why he came here.

As he walked into the city gate, Wu Xuan clearly found that the guards guarding the city had become much stricter in their inspections. Only after careful questioning could he be allowed to enter the city, but there was no way he could leave the city.

After Wu Xuan entered the city, he came to a small stall selling cakes near the City Lord's Mansion and casually threw out a gold soul coin.

"Look at the scale! Give me the best." Wu Xuan said lightly.

"Okay! Please wait a moment, sir." The vendor packed the pastries skillfully.

"Uncle! Can you tell me what happened in the city recently? Why is the security so strict?" Wu Xuan asked calmly with his arms folded across his chest.

The middle-aged man whispered, "Young man, if you don't have something important to do, it's better not to go into the inner city in the near future."

Wu Xuan's eyes were calm, without any ripples.

The middle-aged man looked at Wu Xuan, then looked around, lowering his voice a bit. "Recently, the City Lord's Mansion, where the Qi family resides, was completely slaughtered overnight! City Lord Qi was kind to his people and a Level 48 Soul Master, yet he was killed overnight. This incident has caused a huge uproar and is a clear provocation to the royal family. The Soul Master sent by the Governor of Beiling City will probably arrive tomorrow."

"So that's it!" Wu Xuan narrowed his sharp eyes.

"Guest, I have a little piece of gossip here, do you want to know?" The middle-aged man said and looked around cautiously.

Wu Xuan threw out another gold soul coin and said calmly, "Tell me about it."

The middle-aged man put away the gold soul coin and, after making sure no one was around, whispered, "A distant nephew of mine happens to be the manager of the Xinyuan Restaurant across the street. He was on duty last night and vaguely saw a black-robed figure covered in blood limping towards the north of the city. That black-robed figure is most likely the evil soul master, so the evil soul master is likely still in the north of the inner city. So, I advise you, young man, to stay in the outer city if you don't have any urgent matters recently, it's safer!"

"Thank you!" Wu Xuan nodded, took the pastry handed to him, turned and left.

Now that they knew the enemy was in the north of the city, it would be easy to deal with. If they could be seriously injured against a Level 48 Soul Master, then the evil soul master would be at most a Soul King. So Wu Xuan had no reason to ignore it.

(End of this chapter)