The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 869 You’re so cruel!!

Nanzhou Pilgrimage City, Yingxianju.

After Pan Chengfeng settled Qin Shurou, he returned to his room. During this period, Pan Chengfeng needed to recuperate and did not plan to go out for a stroll.

He took out the pill and swallowed it. Just as he was about to practice his skills to digest the pill, he suddenly remembered that he had not yet carefully studied the secret method of 'burning the body with thunder and fire'.

So he took out the secret jade slip and placed it on his forehead, using his spiritual sense to investigate. To be honest, Pan Chengfeng was quite looking forward to this secret technique.

Half an hour later, Pan Chengfeng frowned and said, "This is a f*cking secret method that uses soul power as a price to forcibly improve one's realm. Isn't this tantamount to suicide?!"

Although the soul can be repaired by spiritual medicine, each use will harm one's own soul, and spiritual medicine that repairs the soul is much more difficult to find than spiritual medicine that repairs the spirit!

If the consumed soul power is not replenished in time and remains in a weak state for a long time, it will not only affect the cultivation level, but may even cause the soul to be destroyed.

With a clatter, Pan Chengfeng threw the jade slip on the table and said with a look of disgust, "According to the jade slip, the secret method is to burn the soul with the power of thunder and fire, temporarily increasing the magic power by three times at the cost of consuming soul power.

But the soul will always be in a burning state, and the length of time depends on the strength of each person's soul.

If I use it, I can almost reach the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm. Although it is very tempting, it comes at the cost of my soul.

If I really have to face death, I might as well use the Overlord Fist to increase my strength fivefold!"

Pan Chengfeng didn't want to practice it, but he couldn't help but reach out and take the jade slip back. He put it against his forehead and examined it for a while, muttering, "After all, I worked so hard to get it. I can't bear to throw it away like this. I'll see if I can improve it."

In the guest room, Pan Chengfeng sat cross-legged with his head held high and a jade slip on his forehead. He had maintained this posture for seven days and seven nights.

Finally, Pan Chengfeng opened his eyes, touched his chin and said, "I want to experiment, but where can I find a soul?"

After a few days of mental rehearsals, Pan Chengfeng finally figured out a way to improve it. He muttered to himself, "I need to find some souls to test this out. Where can I find the souls of cultivators?"

After thinking for a moment, Pan Chengfeng chuckled and said, "I'm really stupid. There's already something ready here, why would I bother looking for so much trouble myself~~"

Pan Chengfeng hurried to the residence of the Yugui Sect, found Li Ke's room, knocked on the door and said, "Brother Li, it's me~"

Li Ke was reading a book on the geography of Nanzhou. Hearing this, he said calmly, "Brother Pan, come in~"

Pan Chengfeng pushed the door open and walked in. With a smile on his face, he took out two bottles of 'Jade Liquid' and said, "Brother, are you studying hard? I'm sorry to bother you. I apologize first~"

Li Ke put down the book and said, "Junior Brother Pan, why are you so polite? Do you want to talk to me about something?"

Pan Chengfeng put down the nectar and took out a few plates of animal meat and some spiritual fruits. He said, "It's nothing, really. I'm just too bored. I want to have a drink with my senior brother~"

Li Ke smiled slightly and said, "Alright, then have a few drinks with Junior Brother."

The two were of the same age, Li Ke was only thirty years older than Pan Chengfeng, so they had something in common when they chatted. Pan Chengfeng talked for a long time.

Li Ke was not stupid. He knew that Pan Chengfeng must have something to talk to him about. Although he had not been in contact with Pan Chengfeng for a long time, he still understood Pan Chengfeng's character.

So when Pan Chengfeng was talking nonsense, he suddenly interrupted and said, "Junior brother, tell me what you want to talk to me about~"

Pan Chengfeng was just talking about going out for a drink when he heard Li Ke's words. He rubbed his hands and said, "Brother, please understand. It's nothing. I just wanted to borrow some souls from you~"

"So that's what it is?" Li Ke thought to himself, "The Yu Lei Sect's cultivation techniques don't seem to require the use of souls. What does this kid need a soul for?"

Li Ke smiled calmly and said, "So it's just about this. It's just a small matter. Tell me, how many do you need?"

Pan Chengfeng thought for a moment and said, "Let's start with 80,000. We'll talk later if it's not enough~"

Li Ke stood up in a flash, his face filled with anger, "Junior brother, do you think collecting souls is easy for me? You're asking for so many!"

Pan Chengfeng blinked and said, "Too much? Then how about a little less? A few hundred first, is that okay?"

Li Ke was furious and was about to lose his temper, but then he seemed to remember something, chuckled and sat down again, saying, "Junior brother, if you want 18,000, it's not impossible, but I can't give it to you for free~"

After Li Ke finished speaking, he was about to finish the wine in the glass when Pan Chengfeng snatched it back.

Pan Chengfeng frowned as he cleared the remaining food and drinks on the table and said, "Since we want to talk business, then let's set a clear price~"

After a while, Pan Chengfeng cleaned up the table. Li Ke was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, "Sure enough, this guy is just as stingy as the rumors say."

Pan Chengfeng originally wanted to come here for free, but when he heard that he had to pay, he wondered if he could be served with good food and wine? You should be the one serving him.

Li Ke was not angry either, and said calmly: "For a mortal soul, one hundred low-grade crystal beads, for a Qi-refining foundation-building cultivator's soul, one hundred high-grade crystal beads..."

"Wait!" Li Ke was halfway through quoting the price when he was interrupted by Pan Chengfeng. Pan Chengfeng asked, "Senior Brother Li, are you sure? One hundred high-grade crystal beads are needed to cultivate Qi and establish the foundation?!"

Li Ke said calmly, "That's right. What? You think it's too expensive? That's fine, you can go find someone else to buy it from~"

Pan Chengfeng was able to spend hundreds of thousands of high-quality spirit stones to build it, and that money also bought him a pretty little beauty. Pan Chengfeng felt it was worth it.

But he felt a little painful about spending money to buy souls, after all, these things would be consumed.

Seeing that Pan Chengfeng didn't say anything, Li Ke continued to quote: "A Jindan cultivator would get 10,000 high-grade crystal beads, a Yuanying cultivator would get 1,000,000 high-grade crystal beads, and a Shenhua cultivator's soul would get 10 high-grade spirit stones~"

The more Pan Chengfeng listened, the more frightened he became. Finally, when he heard the price of a Divine Transformation cultivator's soul, Pan Chengfeng sneered, "According to what Senior Brother Li said, all we have to do is kill people, extract their souls, and sell them, and we'll get rich?"

Li Ke said calmly, "Do you think everyone needs souls? Only our Ghost Control Sect needs them for their cultivation techniques, and we can capture them ourselves. Who would pay to buy them?"

Pan Chengfeng touched his chin and thought to himself, "A mortal's soul is probably useless. After all, a mortal's soul is too weak. I can only use the soul of a cultivator."

After Pan Chengfeng pondered for a moment, he said with an unhappy look on his face, "Alright! First, five hundred souls of Jindan cultivators, one hundred of Yuanying realm cultivators, and ten of Huashen realm cultivators!"

Li Ke chuckled and quickly took out a palm-sized jade pot, then took out his soul-catching banner, took out the monk's soul from the banner and put it into the bottle.

Pan Chengfeng looked at the jade pot in Li Ke's hand and asked, "What is this? It can actually hold a soul?"

Li Ke said proudly, "This is something our Ghost Control Sect has researched for many years to make it easier to collect souls. We call it the 'Soul Pot'. If you put a soul in it, it won't lose its soul power."

Pan Chengfeng said "oh" and asked, "Why do the colors of these souls seem different? Some are blood red?"

Each soul looks like a small flame, most of them are light red in color, and a few are darker in color. In the end, Li Kefang's five souls are all blood red.

Li Ke explained: "Mortals who have never killed anyone usually have a light blue soul, which means they have never committed murder in their lifetime and are not plagued by karmic fire.

Most cultivators' souls are light red. After all, on the path of cultivation, killing is inevitable. Either you kill or you are killed. The darker the color, the more serious the killing, and the deeper the karmic fire.

Pan Chengfeng continued to ask, like a curious baby, "What is Karma Fire?"

Li Ke continued to explain: "Karma fire is the accumulated suffering and punishment caused by doing too many evil deeds in one's lifetime.

Legend has it that after you go to hell, you will be punished according to the karmic fire in your body, and you will not be able to be reborn into a good life in the next life.

Those who practice Buddhist techniques love to kill those monks with heavy karma fire, as this can help them accumulate merit and improve their cultivation."

"I see~" Pan Chengfeng was enlightened and flattered: "Senior Brother Li knows so much~"

After Li Ke finished packing the soul, he handed the soul pot to Pan Chengfeng and said, "Master told me all this. Bring me the spirit stone~"

Pan Chengfeng took the soul pot and said with a smile: "Can I..." "No! Chenghui will give you fifty high-grade spirit stones and one hundred and fifty million high-grade crystal beads. Not even one less!"

Pan Chengfeng angrily paid the money and turned around to walk a few steps. Li Ke suddenly said, "Junior Brother Pan, you haven't paid for the Soul Pot yet. It's a top-grade spiritual treasure."

Pan Chengfeng took out a few low-grade spirit stones and threw them to Li Ke, then gritted his teeth and said, "You're so cruel!!"