Data cultivation, I observe immortality in the five elements

Chapter 240 Demonic Traces, Soul Searching

When the short-bearded man said, "I have lived here for a long time," Luo Yan's heart suddenly moved.

If things don't go well next, it doesn't seem to be unacceptable to have such a sensible local snake by your side.

It will be very convenient to do many things if you have someone to help you.

"It's not impossible to spare your life."

"Since you said you know Yong'an City very well, let me ask you, do you know the traces of the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect?"

"Use this news to exchange for your own life!"

Luo Yan stood there quietly, without squinting his eyes, but his tone was very indifferent.

Behind him, all kinds of complicated runes were densely covered, and rune chains were intertwined, which looked extremely terrifying.

It seemed as if he had to take action immediately.

"This"

The short-bearded man paused and took a look, looking rather hesitant.

"It seems you don't want to talk anymore."

Luo Yan frowned, his voice instantly became colder, and a talisman light appeared in his palms.

The rune chains behind him also gradually solidified.

The short-bearded man has no doubt that once he is hit by these runes, he will die without a burial place.

So he hesitated no more.

"Senior. Junior didn't mean that!"

The short-bearded man was anxious and quickly realized that his life was still in the hands of others.

"It's not that the junior doesn't tell the senior the truth, it's actually that the junior doesn't know the specific information about these Soul Refining Sect disciples!"

"Senior, did you think that because there were many demon cultivators in Yong'an City, they were disciples of the Soul Refining Sect?"

"Actually, that's not the case. The number of true Soul Refining Sect disciples is extremely rare."

"Basically, among the demon cultivators in Yong'an City, less than one in a hundred can pass the Soul Refining Sect's test and become its disciple!"

"Many demonic monks who want to join the Soul Refining Sect need to find a special connection point first, and then they will receive instructions for further assessment."

"This instruction is generally divided into several steps. First, the minimum cultivation level must be in the foundation building stage, and if you are majoring in skills, it is best to use the skills in the 'Soul Refining Pavilion' as the foundation."

"The second thing is to look at the monk's true strength. It's like the type of person who has at least made many gains in this kind of battle between good and evil."

"Even the juniors speculate that their acceptance of the devil's energy will have a certain correlation."

"Only when these conditions are met at the same time, can it be possible to pass the assessment."

According to the short-bearded man, if you want to become a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect, you must pass many tests.

Only those who have passed the test may be accepted into this sect.

Upon hearing this news, Luo Yan looked at this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes with a strange expression, giving him a very surprised look.

You must know that he has used his powerful perception ability to eavesdrop on a lot of information about Yong'an City in the past few days.

Luo Yan even supervised several demonic monks.

When these people gathered in a private teahouse, they even discussed openly and openly how to join a major demonic sect such as the Soul Refining Sect.

As demonic monks, they didn’t know anything about the underground connection point!

But the guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him is not a demonic monk, but he knows it very well.

Of course, Luo Yan did not rule out the possibility that he might have been misled.

So he immediately set up a barrier formation to completely isolate the atmosphere here.

From the outside, it looks like a scorched earth, nothing special.

Even if someone passes by, it is impossible to discover this as long as they don't come close.

This is the power of the barrier seal.

Luo Yan worked hard to master the power of this system.

Now it seems that he made the right choice.

In many cases, the sealing array is quite convenient to use.

"How do you know this?"

"I think this should be the absolute secret of the Soul Refining Sect!"

Luo Yan's tone suddenly became very cold, without any warmth, and he exuded a terrifying aura.

This kind of information should be an absolute secret of the Soul Refining Sect. How could he, a casual cultivator, know about it.

At this juncture, if this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes is still playing tricks on me...

There is no need for him to waste time here anymore.

So Luo Yan's eyes were full of scrutiny.

It seems that my patience is running out.

Luo Yan exuded an extremely strong aura, like a god bathed in the might of heaven, with a penetrating gaze and calmness.

Although he didn't say much, the meaning was clear: 'If you keep talking nonsense, I won't listen to your nonsense anymore'.

"Senior, this junior definitely didn't lie to you."

The short-bearded man gritted his teeth with a look of determination on his face.

In order to survive, he began to slowly reveal the source of his information.

"I have to talk about this from a friend of my junior. We grew up together and later practiced together."

"Maybe it's because he has an arrogant personality and is quite nosy, so he has many enemies."

"Also because almost all of our cultivation resources are obtained from the monthly battle between good and evil. For these two reasons, we almost never contact each other on weekdays."

"Even the communication talisman, unless there are special circumstances between the two of us, we generally won't use it easily."

"The reason is that I am afraid that one day my identity will suddenly be exposed and the other party will be implicated."

"After all, when making a living in Yong'an City, you have to be cautious and cautious in everything."

"Because the monthly battle between good and evil will involve many family monks and disciples from large and small sects."

"Once our identity is discovered by them, we will be completely finished."

The short-bearded man spoke loudly.

Luo Yan also heard the caution in his words, and roughly guessed that it was not easy for casual cultivators to survive.

However, he did not interrupt and still listened patiently to what he had to say.

As long as he could get information about the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect, he could still afford to waste this little time.

"Except for the monthly battle between good and evil, where we have a very tacit understanding of cooperating with each other, we almost never meet in private."

"It just so happened that during that battle between good and evil, I waited for him outside the city for a long time, but I didn't even wait for his arrival."

"The next day during the day, I ran outside the courtyard where he lived and rented a house where I could just observe the general situation on the other side."

"But I continued to monitor it for half a month, and found that there was no movement at all in that yard."

"So I guessed that something might have happened to him."

"In order to find out the real reason why my friend disappeared for no reason, I began to investigate silently."

The smile on the short-bearded man's face also faded a lot at this time. He looked at the green figure in front of him with a little respect. He took out a jade slip from his storage bag and handed it over.

"It just so happens that due to personal luck, I have an ancient secret technique that can monitor what is happening in a certain area."

"In order to find out what exactly happened here, I used the forbidden talisman on my body to break the formation outside his yard, sneaked in secretly, and placed some monitoring runes inside in advance."

"I think if my friend was targeted by someone like them and killed, he would most likely not let go of the things in that yard."

"After all, although monks like us are in the foundation-building stage of cultivation, they still have a persistence engraved in their bones when it comes to grabbing resources."

"In addition, people in our realm will more or less plant some elixirs in the cave, or leave some good things."

"With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live doctor, I used that ancient secret technique to monitor the situation for more than half a year, but there has been no news."

"Just when I was about to give up on monitoring that compound."

"Finally, the formation in the courtyard was disturbed, and a figure of a man in black robe came in."

The short-bearded man recalled what happened many years ago, with a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

There is still a little strange emotion in it.

Obviously that information is very simple.

"After the man in black robe entered the courtyard, he lowered his guard and revealed a very familiar face."

"It still has the face of my friend, but his body is shrouded in a strange black shadow, and he often talks to himself in the air."

"After I noticed something was wrong with my friend, I did not come to visit him, but continued to monitor him."

"Until I saw him swallowing souls to improve his cultivation."

After many careful observations and comparisons, the short-bearded man finally determined a fact.

Those are the friends we have now, definitely not the friends we were before.

Although this man's face is still the most familiar face.

But in the world of immortality, there are too many ways to change one's face. Faces and other things can be changed.

The short-bearded man has been living in Yong'an City since he was a child, a place where good and bad people are mixed.

Nature knows this very well.

Prudence is something engraved in his bones.

If he hadn't been more careful, he would have died!

The reason why the short-bearded man was sure that the man was not his friend was because they both majored in martial arts.

They all came from that secret realm in the beginning.

The two grew up together and are naturally very familiar with each other.

Based on their understanding of each other, they could tell at a glance whether the other party had practiced magic techniques.

In front of people who know each other very well, it is difficult to hide this even if you want to.

Therefore, although the two of them participated in many battles between good and evil, they usually refined the 'trophies' into blood crystals and then exchanged them for spiritual stones.

It is absolutely impossible for oneself to absorb the energy in the soul.

The short-bearded man knows one truth very well, that is, once you are exposed to something like the magic method, it will be difficult to switch to it.

The friend he monitored through the ancient secret method had the same face as a real person.

But to improve one's cultivation level, one needs to use the soul, a special method for demonic cultivation.

This is a fact that cannot be concealed.

It was through constant monitoring of this person that the short-bearded man learned that if he wanted to join the Soul Refining Sect, he had to pass multiple assessments before he could become a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect.

"Even if you are sure that that person is not your friend, from the story you told, he should not be a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect."

"At most, he is an assessor. Am I understanding you correctly?"

The short-bearded man was stunned and nodded awkwardly.

Then his voice changed and he hurriedly added:

"Senior, I really don't lie to you!"

"This is the only information I know that may be related to the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect."

"And I believe that even if you go to someone else, you won't know more than me."

Luo Yan's eyes kept falling on the short-bearded man, and he was constantly weighing the authenticity of what the man in front of him said.

"Where does your friend live?"

"Is there any way to lure him out of the city?"

Since the guy in front of me has already mentioned this, it just needs to be verified.

The verification method is also very simple, that is, catch it and everything will be clear.

He was just an ordinary demonic monk. Luo Yan didn't believe that he could escape his grasp.

"He lives not far from East Street in Yong'an City, but I don't recommend that senior come directly to his door."

Facing Luo Yan's eyes, the short-bearded man gave his own advice.

Because he knew very well that the cyan figure in front of him was most likely to cause trouble for the people from the Soul Refining Sect.

If you can't find it, it's easy to get angry at yourself.

It's like gods fighting and mortals suffering.

So the short-bearded man gave his own explanation:

"Once, I overheard that person saying something like this to the communication talisman: 'When I master the method of blood body, I can take the examination as a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect.'"

Luo Yan frowned when he heard what the short-bearded man said:

"You mean, that person is not an outsider pretending to be someone else or taking his body, but an incarnation?"

"This is the junior's guess"

"If the senior is eager to find information about the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect, I can take you to that person's residence now, and you will find out when you find out."

The short-bearded man had a flattering look on his face, and his words were full of sincerity.

Luo Yan was silent for a moment, then looked at him deeply:

"Not enough. This news is not enough to buy your life."

"unless."

When he heard the first half of the sentence, the smile on the short-bearded man's face froze, and a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

The whole person was shaky and his body was trembling.

Luo Yan even sensed a hint of murderous intent from him.

Then disappeared again.

But the moment the word 'unless' fell, the short-bearded man's eyes burst out with a strong desire to survive.

Showing a smile uglier than crying:

"Senior, please stop playing tricks on me. What should I do specifically to save my life?"

When saying this sentence, the short-bearded man looked particularly serious.

His body tensed up, as if he had made some kind of decision.

Luo Yan didn't seem to notice that this guy was constantly mobilizing the spiritual power in his body to attack the sealing formations in front of his eyes.

"I am quite suspicious. If you want to survive, you have to let go of your memory and let me investigate!"

(End of this chapter)