First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 225: Promotion of the Soul General

"Crash!"

As General Wei Bai of the Human Charm Army was beheaded, his body parts scattered.

The other soldiers seemed to have lost their souls and fell to the ground one after another.

A large number of decaying heavy armor, shields, weapons, and other items crashed onto the ground, creating a resounding noise and stirring up rust-filled dust.

The military formation naturally collapsed!

Looking at the lifeless bodies of the Human Charm soldiers on the ground, Shen Mo suddenly realized.

It turned out that General Wei Bai was the key node of this military formation!

Once he was killed, the military formation would collapse.

The other soldiers who relied on the formation immediately became lifeless shells.

Similar to when a magic tool loses its master's control, it loses all its power!

"What bad luck!"

"These weapons are all worthless pieces of scrap metal. Even if I sold them all, they wouldn't be worth ten spirit stones."

"There are no souls inside... I worked so hard, but didn't gain any benefits."

Li Zhong complained with disdain as he rummaged through General Wei Bai's remains.

These Human Charm soldiers were not living beings; they only had three parts flesh and blood, with the rest being ghostly bodies condensed from ghostly aura.

But they were not pure ghosts, so they naturally couldn't produce souls!

It can be said that, except for hungry ghosts, heavenly demons, and other living beings, no one would be interested in them.

Killing them would bring no benefits to cultivators!

"I have another use for these Human Charm corpses. How about I exchange a thousand spirit stones for these thousand or so remains?"

Shen Mo's expression changed, and he spoke up.

Chen Mengze, Jiang Yingying, and Peng Chen Shu knew that Shen Mo had a Soul Refining Banner.

They thought that he wanted to refine these Human Charm corpses into the banner.

Therefore, they showed no curiosity or desire to explore.

But they didn't know that even if these lifeless shells were refined into the Soul Refining Banner, they would be useless and only add thousands of immobile damaged soul generals.

And Lu Ming, Yao Ting, Li Zhong, Song Fang, and others didn't even know about the Soul Refining Banner.

So when they heard that Shen Mo wanted to spend spirit stones to buy these corpses, they couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"Shen Junior Brother, what do you want these soul corpses for? Could it be that you have cultivated a technique that requires ghostly aura?"

Facing Li Zhong's question, Shen Mo shook his head slightly and smiled without saying a word.

Seeing this, Lu Ming and the others also understood that Shen Mo didn't want to reveal his methods, so they stopped their curiosity.

Afterward, Shen Mo took out a thousand low-grade spirit stones from his storage bag and handed them over for them to distribute themselves.

According to the amount of effort they put in during the battle earlier.

Li Zhong and Song Fang received slightly more spirit stones.

Chen Mengze and the other five received a little less, but no one had any objections. After all, this was just a small part of the gains from this trip.

The real benefits were still in the depths of the underground palace!

There was no need to make things unpleasant over a few or a dozen spirit stones.

"You guys go ahead, I'll join you after I finish dealing with these Human Charm corpses!" Shen Mo said with a faint smile.

Everyone understood his meaning and walked towards the open palace gate.

Leaving Shen Mo alone, facing the scattered Human Charm bodies on the ground.

Shen Mo activated his Flawless Eye.

Only after seeing them walk far away did he take out the Soul Refining Banner and summon seventeen small Heavenly Demon Soul Generals, ordering them to devour the corpses on the ground.

It wasn't that Shen Mo was suspicious of them!

The Soul Refining Banner had now transformed into a precious treasure.

And it was a terrifying precious treasure!

The Heavenly Demon Soul Generals inside could continuously grow stronger by devouring living beings, and they could even advance to become third or fourth rank soul generals!

If this matter were to be known and spread...

I'm afraid that with his current strength, he wouldn't be able to protect this banner at all!

It might even bring disaster upon himself.

Just imagine, if the Yuan Dan Ancestor of the Linjiang Sect learned that he possessed such a peculiar treasure, what would his reaction be?

In the best case scenario, he would hand over this banner and then destroy it.

After all, Shen Mo himself was clear in his heart.

He wouldn't slaughter mortals and cultivators recklessly just to refine this banner and cultivate a third or even fourth stage soul.

But how could others know what he was thinking in his heart?

Even if they knew what he was thinking.

How could they possibly take the risk of raising a great demon king and let him continue to possess the Soul Refining Banner?

Therefore, unless necessary, Shen Mo would not easily use the Soul Refining Banner.

And the fact that the demonic souls within the banner retained their demonic characteristics was not disclosed by Zhao Lingyin, Chen Shu, or Chen Mengze.

It's not that he didn't trust them, but there were too many ways in the cultivation world to search memories.

Shen Mo himself had learned the Soul Searching Curse!

Just in case, it would be better not to reveal this matter to anyone.

As for his friends who knew about his possession of this banner... it wasn't a big problem.

The Soul Refining Banner that hadn't mutated was just an ordinary evil cultivation artifact.

Among the disciples of the five major immortal sects.

It was extremely normal to kill evil cultivators and possess one or two evil cultivation artifacts.

Only those who recklessly slaughtered mortals and cultivators would be listed on the Black List of the Guardian Division!

"Chi!"

"Chi chi!"

As the seventeen little demonic souls condensed and continuously devoured the heads of human and demon corpses, their aura gradually grew stronger.

After devouring more than a hundred soul corpses, their cultivation realm also advanced from the mid-stage of the second stage to the late stage of the second stage.

"Go in!"

Shen Mo shook the Soul Refining Banner and collected them inside.

After about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

His expression changed slightly, and he once again formed hand seals, condensing powerful souls with formidable auras.

There were a total of eighteen soul figures, including Hong Jue, the Lone Wanderer, the Ghost Bride, and the Green Skin Ghost Iron Mountain.

Now they had all been tainted by demons and became mutated demonic souls!

In this way, when fighting against powerful native demons, he didn't have to worry about them tainting his soul.

"These human and demon soul corpses should be enough for them to reach the peak of the second stage."

With a thought, Shen Mo let these newly mutated demonic souls continue to devour the soul corpses on the ground.

...

Several hours later.

Outside the palace gate, there were no more human and demon corpses left except for piles of broken heavy armor and weapons.

Even the General of the Human and Demon Guards had become a meal for the mutated demonic souls.

One by one, the terrifying mutated demonic souls stood obediently in front of Shen Mo, exuding a strong bloodthirsty aura.

"Now, in the Soul Refining Banner, there are..."

"There are eighteen mutated demonic souls that have reached the peak of the second stage, nine in the late stage of the second stage, and thirty-one in the mid-stage of the second stage."

"There are thirty-six little demonic souls at the mid-level of the second stage."

"The other two hundred or so are newly refined demonic souls, and their cultivation realm is still at the early stage of the second stage."

In the Tian Shan battlefield, besides exterminating demons, Shen Mo also refined many second-stage early-stage demonic souls into soul figures.

"However..."

"With my current cultivation level, it's not easy to condense them all!"

"It's fine if they just stand there. Once they are deployed to kill enemies, the consumption of my spiritual power will be terrifying."

"Being able to simultaneously use five peak second-stage demonic souls is already the limit!"

After some calculations, Shen Mo roughly understood his peak combat power when exerting all his strength.

Even if he encountered powerful demons like Tian Mo Wanwu, he could basically beat them down.

The blood curtain rolled up.

The figures were swept back into the Soul Refining Banner.

"I wonder how Chen Senior Sister and the others are doing?" Shen Mo summoned the Lightning Sword and flew towards the depths of the palace.

(End of this chapter)