Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Chapter 1079 Rapidly Improve Cultivation

Thick, fresh blood snaked its way down the groove of the samurai sword, which was stuck upside down in the ground, and finally dripped onto the floor with a "plop".

As Muraki finished chanting the incantation, a blinding and eerie purplish-red magic circle suddenly lit up the ground! The light pulsed like a living thing, illuminating the entire dim room with ghostly shadows.

Behind Muraki, the enormous and twisted phantom of the nine-headed serpent Xiangliu silently condensed and expanded, its nine vertical pupils flashing with greedy ferocity as it stared intently at the immobile offering on the bed.

The fifty-odd priests lying on the beds had gradually awoke, but were still completely imprisoned by an invisible evil force. Unable to resist, their faces were contorted and stiff with extreme fear, their wide-open eyes were dull and lifeless, and a deathly gray completely covered their pupils, leaving only a hoarse groan from their throats filled with a dying despair.

Strands of soul-like spirits were extracted from the eyes, mouths, nostrils, and ears of the priests, as if they were being brutally torn out by an invisible hand!

"Ugh—ugh—!!"

"No...uh..."

A sharp yet silent shriek of the soul echoed on the spiritual level. As soon as these souls left their bodies, they were uncontrollably absorbed by the magic array and then greedily devoured by the enormous hydra phantom behind Muraki! The phantom of Xiangliu seemed to solidify slightly the moment it swallowed the souls, emanating an even colder and more evil aura.

The desperate, intermittent wailing, as if being dragged into an endless abyss, finally vanished completely. In just a few dozen breaths, the fifty-odd priests had completely lost the spark of life, their skin withered and sunken, their eye sockets sunken like skulls, turning into withered, curled-up mummies.

Muraki stopped casting the spell. The crimson light array on the ground flickered violently a few times, as if it had exhausted its last bit of energy, before completely dimming and disappearing. The room returned to deathly silence, leaving only the distinctive stench of decay of a corpse and the faint embers of energy that had not yet dissipated in the air.

"Feeling good, huh?" he asked.

"Hehehe, not bad at all." The hydra Xiangliu replied sinisterly, "If I get a few more high-ranking priests' souls, I can repair my physical body. At that time, my power will definitely not be inferior to that guy Chaos from that day!"

Muraki asked doubtfully, "Really?"

The nine-headed serpent Xiang Liu sneered: "Are you doubting me?"

"The power that Chaos displayed that day was less than one-tenth of its original power. At that time, it only appeared in the mortal world in the form of a ghost god by borrowing the body of Xia Xiyao, that human girl. If it could repair its own physical body, it would naturally be far more than that."

Muraki was silent for a while, then said, "High-ranking priests are not so easy to capture. After this, it will probably be difficult to find such a good opportunity again."

Hydra Xiangliu: "Opportunities will always come. Don't forget, you and your Sunwheel Clan subordinates haven't completely broken free from the Demon Clan's curse control. You wouldn't want to go back to being their servants, would you?"

"..."

Muraki didn't respond, his eyes turning cold.

......

Temple of Priests.

"Have you found out where Chaos was teleported to?"

"I asked the Golden Spirit Priest."

Both the Wood Spirit Priest and the Earth Spirit Priest shook their heads.

"Logically speaking, with such a massive body as Chaos, no matter where it is teleported, it should be impossible for no one to discover it."

"You mean, it's possible that Chaos was transported to some uninhabited area or secret realm?"

"There is another possibility."

The Earth Spirit Priest paused for a moment: "That means they were teleported to the Underworld City."

The Golden Spirit Priest raised an eyebrow: "You believe the explosion in the Underworld City is related to Chaos?"

“That’s possible,” the Earth Spirit Priest said. “Perhaps the power that destroyed the Underworld City wasn’t the Night Family’s Heavenly Star. If Chaos were to recover to its ancient power level, it could cause just as much terrifying destruction.”

"How could an undead creature without a physical body possibly recover to its peak combat strength?"

"I don't know..."

"..."

The Golden Spirit Priest remained silent for a moment, then looked at the Fire Spirit Priest and asked, "How many people from our Priest Palace died or were injured in this Chaos War?"

Fire Spirit Priest: "One hundred and nineteen people were injured, twenty-six died, and fifty-eight are missing."

"Fifty-eight people are missing?" The Golden Spirit Priest's face darkened.

Not quite right.

How could the number of missing persons be more than the number of dead? And by such a huge amount!

The Water Spirit Priest just died, and now so many more people have died in the Priest's Hall...

The Earth Spirit Priest said, "The power of chaos can devour space. It's normal for a corpse to disappear without a trace after death, isn't it?"

"No, that's not right." The Golden Spirit Priest narrowed his eyes, recalling the incident where a high-ranking priest was mysteriously murdered in the city last time: "There must be someone behind this..."

"Wood Spirit Priest, go and investigate this matter thoroughly."

The Wood Spirit Priest nodded: "Alright."

......

"This is the soul of the Water Spirit Priest."

A wisp of dark blue divine soul floated in Ye Ge's hand.

Nangong Qiuyue, Yuli, Yezi, Li Shuying, and Bai Qing all looked surprised.

"Night Song, you killed the Water Spirit Priest?!"

Nangong Qiuyue looked astonished.

"Yes."

"What? When? Was it when you escaped from the Light Alliance prison?"

Ye Ge paused for a moment before recounting the series of events he had experienced to the women.

"So much has happened to you in just three short days, sir." Li Shuying said anxiously, "Blazing Tornado Mountain... such high temperatures, thank goodness you're alright..."

Ye Zi said happily, "So, Lord Ye Ge, you've leveled up to the ninth stage of the Saintly Realm?"

“Yeah.” Ye Ge rubbed his nose. “I thought I was leveling up fast enough. But when I came back, I found out there were two people who were even more outrageous than me.”

Nangong Qiuyue, Yuli, and Yezi all looked at Gao Shenxue.

Li Shuying looked at Gao Shenxue with a hint of envy in her eyes.

Lady Miyuki's talent is indeed quite astonishing.

Whether it's Lord Ye Ge, Xia Xiyao, or Gao Shenxue, their talents are all monstrous.

And she herself...

After all these years, my level is still stuck at the Myriad Manifestations Realm...

"Speaking of which," Gao Shenxue stared at the ghostly blue spirit in Ye Ge's hand, "you're showing this to us now because it's useful, isn't it?"

"Yes, of course it's useful." Ye Ge smiled slightly: "I think this thing can help you quickly improve your cultivation."