I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 179: Demon Cultivation

Can they really dig a hundred zhang deep with this kind of excavation?

Even if there are areas where divine consciousness is missing, there are other disciples from other sects who will follow up and search. How is it possible to discover anything?

Lin Xuzhe looked at them and thought of himself. These Qi Refining rogue cultivators were doing such useless work. Wasn't he doing the same?

For a moment, he thought of Qin Rou. Lin Xuzhe felt a bit disheartened, but another person appeared in his mind.

Lin Xuyuan, his younger brother who had never broken through to Foundation Building in his entire life.

He didn't want to become like Lin Xuyuan, living his whole life without hope after a hopeless breakthrough. He wanted to leave some hope for himself, even if that glimmer of hope seemed faint, he still had a direction to pursue.

With that in mind, he continued searching. However, when he saw a few rogue cultivators digging in a different location underground, Lin Xuyuan smiled and descended.

He pretended to be a Qi Refining rogue cultivator and wanted to give these people some advice, telling them not to waste their efforts.

"Fellow Daoists, I wonder if there are any treasures here?" Lin Xuzhe smiled and asked.

Seeing Lin Xuzhe suddenly appear beside them, these rogue cultivators were stunned. But when they saw that Lin Xuzhe, like them, was also at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, they relaxed. One of them clasped his hands and said, "Fellow Daoist, we are just searching around. Who knows if there are any treasures here."

"Yes, we heard that there is nothing here, just a matter of luck," another person said.

"Fellow Daoist, we are just taking a casual look."

There were four of these rogue cultivators, and their strengths were quite balanced, all at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. At this moment, when they saw Lin Xuzhe asking questions, they all explained.

However, Lin Xuzhe was surprised. After descending, he noticed a strong smell of blood coming from these people. They were probably not ordinary.

But these four rogue cultivators didn't give him a chance to continue questioning. Faced with Lin Xuzhe, who was only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and alone, they immediately attacked. Each of them used a flag and waved it towards Lin Xuzhe, with evil sounds roaring and black aura swirling.

But they were immediately subdued by Lin Xuzhe. He was at the third level of Foundation Building, so if they were at the later stage of Qi Refining, they might pose a threat to him. However, these four were only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and no matter how many tricks they had, it was useless. The gap was too big.

But when Lin Xuzhe saw the flags they used, he felt a chill in his heart.

He recognized these artifacts.

They were called the Hundred Soul Banners, famous in the cultivation world. They were easy to refine, even cultivators at the early stage of Qi Refining could refine them on their own without the need for an artifact refiner. Moreover, these banners were extremely powerful, far superior to ordinary artifacts, and had a high cost-performance ratio.

However, although these banners looked formidable, their refining method was extremely cruel. They required the souls of mortals, and if they had the souls of cultivators, it would be even better.

Generally speaking, cultivators who possessed these banners would undoubtedly be labeled as demonic cultivators, and they were true demonic cultivators, not those who borrowed the label.

These Hundred Soul Banners also had the potential to grow. If they absorbed the souls of a hundred people, they would become the Hundred Soul Banners. If they absorbed the souls of a thousand people, they would become the Thousand Soul Banners. And if they absorbed the souls of ten thousand people, they would become the Ten Thousand Soul Banners. With the Hundred Soul Banners at the Qi Refining stage, it would be difficult for cultivators of the same stage to match them. With the Thousand Soul Banners, even Foundation Building cultivators could be fought against. As for the Ten Thousand Soul Banners, although they hadn't appeared in Zhao Country in recent years, with the current chaotic situation, it was possible. The effects of these banners were unimaginable.

These four people, facing him, each took out a Hundred Soul Banner, intending to quickly end the battle. But when Lin Xuzhe saw the Hundred Soul Banners of these four people, he felt a chill again.

Each Hundred Soul Banner represented the death of at least a hundred people. These four people were not strong, so it was estimated that these Hundred Soul Banners were refined using the souls of mortals.

In other words, these four Qi Refining cultivators alone had killed at least four hundred people.

"Senior, spare us."

"Senior."

The four people who were subdued showed fear in their eyes and immediately begged for mercy from Lin Xuzhe. But when Lin Xuzhe glanced at them, they dared not say anything more. It was because Lin Xuzhe's gaze was too terrifying.

"How many people have you killed?" Lin Xuzhe asked at this moment.

Upon hearing this question, the eyes of these four people shifted, and then one of them said, "Senior, we obtained these things from killing a demonic cultivator and found them in his storage bag. We just felt that they were powerful, so we used them."

Lin Xuzhe didn't say anything. It was obvious that these four people were not honest, and there was no need to ask further.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xuzhe took out a bottle of pills from his storage bag and fed one to each of them.

"Senior, Senior, what kind of pill is this?"

"Senior, please don't, ah!"

Ignoring their pleas, Lin Xuzhe coldly watched these four people after feeding them the mysterious pills. At this moment, these four people were extremely panicked after ingesting the pill without knowing what it was.

Their panic was justified. This pill was not ordinary. It was refined by Lin Xuqing before, and after eating it, it would make people lose their senses and answer any questions. He even gave this pill a nice name, the Truth-Telling Pill.

After a while, these four people's eyes became unfocused, and Lin Xuzhe began to ask questions.

"Did you refine the Hundred Soul Banners yourselves?" Lin Xuzhe asked at this moment.

He asked a question, and all four of them who had eaten the True Pill eagerly answered:

"It is!"

"This banner is incredibly powerful. Who wouldn't be tempted?"

"I refined it, I refined it."

"I still need to refine one more."

Hearing the words of these four people, Lin Xuzhe sighed, knowing that none of them were honest.

"Where did you kill mortals, and how many did you kill?" Lin Xuzhe asked again.

"We don't know, too many to count."

"Who cares about the mortals' village? If we killed them, we killed them."

"It's like killing chickens."

"They kept screaming, so annoying."

Lin Xuzhe looked at these four people and had already sentenced them to death. Like these four cultivators, they would be hunted by everyone in the cultivation world and wouldn't win anyone's favor.

"Why did you come here and dig the ground?" Lin Xuzhe asked again, thinking about their digging just now.

"There are treasures here."

"That's right, there are good things buried underground."

"How could there be no treasures in the secret realm?"

"A madman told us!"

"A madman? What madman?" Lin Xuzhe was shocked. He didn't expect there to be more to the story. It seemed that they didn't dig randomly, but intentionally searched for something. This was interesting.

At this moment, the four people eagerly answered again:

"It's the madman from the village. When we were killing those mortals, a madman came out."

"He told us not to kill. He knew there were treasures there and told us to bypass those mortals."

"But we still killed them and killed him too!"

"We didn't spare anyone!"

"What do you mean?" Lin Xuzhe asked in confusion.

"He was too noisy!"

"We ate him."

"He had a good heart, but his liver was a bit tough."

"We fed the rest to the dogs."

"The dogs didn't even eat it."

"We absorbed their souls into the Hundred Soul Banner, preventing them from being reincarnated."

"I didn't expect him to really have treasures."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuzhe looked at these four people. He didn't expect them to be even worse than he had imagined. Such behavior was intolerable to both heaven and man.

But treasures?

"What exactly is the treasure?" Lin Xuzhe asked again.

"A treasure map."

"It's from the secret realm."

"It marks the location of the treasures, right here."

"We are currently digging."

Upon hearing these words, Lin Xuzhe searched through the storage bags of these four people and indeed found a treasure map. Opening it, he was surprised to find that this treasure map seemed to be a map of this secret realm. There was a marked point where he was currently located. He didn't know where this madman got it from, but thinking about what they did to the madman, Lin Xuzhe's gaze turned cold.

(End of this chapter)