Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 1240 - 1240 74 The Fool Achieves Merit

Chapter 1240: Chapter 74: The Fool Achieves Merit Chapter 1240: Chapter 74: The Fool Achieves Merit Purple Emperor chuckled, “I don’t have any intention to intimidate you now. With your experience, just think a bit deeper and it won’t be hard to determine that what I’m saying is true.”

Everyone’s expression became incredibly grave in an instant, and silence reigned for a long while.

Those with great cultivation aren’t necessarily strong in soul consciousness, but those who are strong in soul consciousness are certainly high in cultivation!

This was common knowledge.

Feng Yin also pondered for a long time, before suddenly speaking up, “If this Abyssal Lord is so formidable, why doesn’t he come out directly? To the likes of us, as you say, we’re just ants that could be wiped out at his whim!”

Hearing Feng Yin’s voice, the remnant soul of the Purple Emperor shuddered, and a bone-chilling fear and wariness shone through his eyes.

This voice, which sounded quite gentle, was to the Purple Emperor the most terrifying demonic whisper in the entire world!

His fear of Feng Yin was now even greater than that of the Abyssal Lord!

“What’s the matter?”

Feng Yin asked with a beaming smile, “Does Lord Purple Emperor disdain speaking with me?”

“No, no, no, no…”

The Purple Emperor repeatedly denied it, hurriedly starting to answer, “Because the Abyssal Lord cannot come out at this moment.”

“Oh? Why is that?”

Feng Yin wondered, “If he disperses into fragments, couldn’t he come out easily? So many starry evil spirits can come out, but why can’t their leader, the Abyssal Lord, come out?”

“This may be related to his fundamental secret, which he naturally won’t mention. But as I see it, if he could come out like that, he would have done so long ago rather than waiting until now!”

The Purple Emperor said, “But you’re asking me the fundamental reason, I really don’t know.”

Seeing Feng Yin frown and a fierce light appear in his eyes, the Purple Emperor hurriedly exclaimed, “I truly don’t know, I would definitely tell if I did!”

Feng Yin frowned, and his thoughts raced as he tried to make sense of it all.

Right then, the consciousness of the Illusory Silkworm came in a timely manner, “I actually do know the reason.”

Feng Yin smiled in relief and said, “Then I understand. Please continue asking your questions… Ah, Lord Purple Emperor, why so tense? We’re good friends, aren’t we?”

Hearing the words “good friends,” the remnant soul of the Purple Emperor couldn’t help but shudder and lowered its head.

Good friends?

Dare not!

If I had a “good friend” like you, I would think it too late even if I killed myself right now!

Afterwards, Qing Ming and others continued to probe other questions, covering everything in great detail.

The Purple Emperor was genuinely cooperative, sparing no details and showing no signs of impatience.

Feng Yin, meanwhile, retreated to a corner, where the Illusory Silkworm, invisible and silent, landed on his hand and began to engage in a dialogue through the transmission of soul consciousness.

“Do you know? About this thing with the Abyssal Lord?”

“Of course.”

“Why won’t he come out?”

“He’s too big, he can’t come out.”

“……”

Feng Yin was speechless. After a pause, he added, “Aren’t they all made up of starry evil spirits? Why can’t he just disperse into fragments and come out? After he comes out, couldn’t he just reassemble? Isn’t it too late for that?”

Feng Yin found this quite puzzling, confident that his understanding was not mistaken.

“That’s not how it works.”

The Illusory Silkworm explained, “These starry evil spirits are undoubtedly the tiniest soul particles beneath the stars. Correspondingly, their strength is also extremely weak, probably even less than ordinary ants in the human world. They can only grow stronger through devouring.”

“A starry evil spirit itself, only after it has devoured a considerable volume of living beings, will it have the capacity to devour others of similar volume. That is to say, after devouring something the size of a small cat, it only then qualifies to devour another of its kind.”

“Likewise, when it comes to devouring lower rank Abyss cultivators, approximately ten of the same kind can merge. But generally, when facing resistance, it’s very difficult—if not impossible—for starry evil spirits to devour Abyss cultivators.”

“Even if they combine to devour the other, when the time comes to split, they will still separate.”

“Split?”

Feng Yin pondered, “Like today, they’ve devoured one hundred disciples from Supreme Mountain, taken over their bodies. Are you saying they will have to split?”

“That’s the principle. But in this possessed state, they can maintain it for about ten days. During these ten days, they can continuously devour anything they see that is lower than or equivalent to the Supreme Mountain disciples… Once the splitting period comes, they’ll distribute the devoured power evenly, and the body will instantly shatter, permanently annihilated…”

“And among these spirits gathered by this body, there will be a mutual devouring. So, to avoid being devoured by their own kind, all these spirits will scatter at the same time, in all directions.”

“That is to say… this continent will suddenly have millions of these invisible, intangible demonic spirits.”

“Once they come into contact with human, beast, Demon Beasts, or demon tribe settlements, one of them can silently wipe out a whole city within a few days. When that time comes, there’s basically no way to contain them…”

“Generally speaking, once they start to split voluntarily, there is no longer any method to restrain them. After all, millions will be going out in an instant… invisible, intangible, silent… Even highly cultivated masters would struggle to notice, and if they do, there’s still a chance of oversight, one mistake could mean downfall.”