Invincible Over the World
Chapter 248 - 248 248 Black Demon City

248: Chapter 248 Black Demon City 248: Chapter 248 Black Demon City Both of their faces turned ugly, they hadn’t expected Huang Xiaolong to plant a spiritual imprint.

Spiritual branding, this ancient secret technique, had been lost for many years.

Over six hundred years ago, there was a Holy Domain Expert who, through this very technique of spiritual branding, controlled some family heads and Sect Masters of major families sects, triggering a bloodbath in the Martial Soul World, leaving everyone in utter despair.

Back then, tens of thousands of Innate Experts died at the hands of that Holy Domain Expert!

Innate Experts, tens of thousands of them!

As for the Postnatal Strong People, they were innumerable.

Rivers of blood flowed!

Later, some Holy Domain Experts hiding in mysterious spaces were provoked and joined forces to encircle and kill him, but in the end, it was a Half-step Divine Domain Expert who took action and finally killed him.

That Holy Domain Expert was later known by later generations as the Blood Demon.

Seeing the expressions on their faces, Huang Xiaolong let out a cold laugh, his hands flashed with light, summoning the Shura Blade.

The Shura Blade emitted a buzzing strange sound, and black light flowed over the blade’s edge.

The color drained from their faces in shock.

“I, I am willing to open up my Soul Sea!” the man with the horse-like face quickly blurted out.

“I am willing as well!” the man with the scar panickedly followed suit.

Compared to death, they naturally preferred to let Huang Xiaolong plant spiritual imprints in their Soul Seas.

Although this meant that their lives were completely in Huang Xiaolong’s hands, it was better than being killed right now.

Seeing this, Huang Xiaolong smiled coldly, then he instructed the two to open their Soul Seas and began operating his Soul Skill.

A pair of dark purple soul characters appeared in his pupils, and then, under the fearful gaze of the two men, the dark purple soul characters shot out from Huang Xiaolong’s eyes in an instant, entering their minds and planting two spiritual imprints in their Soul Seas.

In these past three months, Huang Xiaolong had cultivated the Ancient Puppet Technique to the First Order, which allowed him to display spiritual branding.

Moreover, he combined the spiritual imprint of the Ancient Puppet Technique with his Soul Skill.

Using the Soul Skill to carry out the spiritual branding had a better effect.

Those being controlled would not show any differences externally, making it impossible for even those who knew them well to detect any issues.

The two could feel the spiritual imprints planted by Huang Xiaolong in their Soul Seas, which completely eradicated any thoughts of betrayal.

“Swallow these two Elixir Pills,” Huang Xiaolong said as his hands flashed, taking out two Elixir Pills the size of a fingertip from the Asura Ring.

The two men looked at the Elixir Pills in Huang Xiaolong’s hand, their expressions changing.

“What are these?!” they blurted out.

Huang Xiaolong’s expression grew cold, “I told you to swallow them, just swallow them!” With a wave of his hands, the two Elixir Pills fell into their hands.

Their expressions flickered for a moment, but in the end, they swallowed the pills.

As soon as the Elixir Pills entered their mouths, a warm current flowed within their bodies, and they felt their injuries healing at a noticeable rate.

Only then did they realize they had misunderstood Huang Xiaolong; the pills were Healing Pills, not Poison Pills.

Looking at Huang Xiaolong, their eyes were filled with gratitude.

“Now take me to your Sky Witch Sect and give me an overview of your sect’s situation,” Huang Xiaolong said.

“Yes, Master!” the two replied respectfully.

Huang Xiaolong soared into the air, led by the two, and left the Battlefield Plain.

As for the Asura Ghost Claw, Huang Xiaolong would return to train here later.

On the way, the two men briefed Huang Xiaolong on the situation of the Sky Witch Sect.

The middle-aged man with a horse-like face was called Du Xin, and the one with the scarred face was called Deng Guang.

Both were elders of the Sky Witch Sect, and Chen Xiaotian, the Sect Leader of the Sky Witch Sect, was their mentor.

Chen Xiaotian had five major disciples.

However, among Chen Xiaotian’s five major disciples, two were the strongest, and the other three were only Innate Third Stage, Fourth-stage, and Fifth-level.

Apart from these two, the Sky Witch Sect had more than one hundred and thirty Innate Experts, but only about twenty were at the Innate Middle Stage.

As for those at the Innate High Stage, there were only two.

One of the Innate High Stage was their mentor Chen Xiaotian, at the Innate Seventh Stage Late Stage, and the other was the Supreme Elder of Sky Witch Sect, Geng Ken, who was at the peak of Innate Seventh Stage Middle Stage.

Speaking of Chen Xiaotian’s Martial Soul, Huang Xiaolong was surprised to learn that Chen Xiaotian’s Martial Soul was actually a Wind Fire Tree!

Wind Fire Tree, a Natural Martial Soul, was one type of tree Martial Soul—a Eleventh-level First-class Martial Soul!

In the Martial Soul World, tree Martial Souls were extremely rare, even rarer than Fei Hou’s river system Martial Soul, not to mention a Super Martial Soul that manifested as a tree.

That Geng Ken’s Martial Soul wasn’t a Super Martial Soul, but a Top Level Tenth Grade Martial Soul—Artifact Soul type: Sky-shattering Hammer.

Even though Geng Ken was only the Supreme Elder, his influence within the Sky Witch Sect was not weak.

Of the more than twenty elders, half obeyed his orders.

Therefore, Chen Xiaotian did not have absolute control over the Sky Witch Sect.

“Geng Ken,” Huang Xiaolong muttered to himself.

Geng Ken was not as strong as Chen Xiaotian but could control half of the Sky Witch Sect’s power and stand on equal footing with Chen Xiaotian, indicating that he must have his advantages.

Du Xin and Deng Guang flew northwards with Huang Xiaolong leading the way.

After more than three hours, Huang Xiaolong saw a stone city standing in the midst of the desert.

The stone city was enormous.

Perhaps due to being battered by winds and sands over long periods, the city walls and stone facades were mottled with wear.

As they got closer, Huang Xiaolong noticed that many parts of the wall bore a dark hue.

This was likely the result of bloodstains dried over the years, an indication that only extensive bloodshed could leave such marks.

Clearly, the walls were stained with the blood of many people.

It could be hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions!

“Is this Black Demon City?” Huang Xiaolong inquired.

“Yes, Young Master, this is Black Demon City,” Du Xin and Deng Guang respectfully replied.

Huang Xiaolong wasn’t comfortable being called ‘master,’ so he had them address him as ‘Young Master’ instead.

The Sky Witch Sect was located within Black Demon City.

Huang Xiaolong nodded, then led the two men towards the gates of Black Demon City.

“It turns out to be Elders Du Xin and Deng Guang.” When they approached the gates of Black Demon City, a man who seemed to be the Guard Captain came forward, cupped his fists with a smile, had the gate’s blockade lifted, and allowed Huang Xiaolong and his companions to enter.

Du Xin and Deng Guang nodded to the Guard Captain and entered the city gate with Huang Xiaolong.

Upon entering Black Demon City, Huang Xiaolong walked the streets, observing his surroundings.

The streets of Black Demon City were not wide, only about twenty meters across.

Shops lined both sides of the street.

However, it lacked the prospering feel of the Broken Blade Empire Imperial City or other main cities.

Many of the shops showed signs of sword and knife marks, and some signboards were left with just half intact.

As they walked along the street, occasional bloodstains were visible on the ground.

Obviously, these were left over from recent fights.

As Huang Xiaolong walked the streets, many passersby cast unfriendly glances his way, yet when they saw Du Xin and Deng Guang behind him, their expressions changed to fear, and they all made way.

Du Xin and Deng Guang were dressed in the robes of Sky Witch Sect elders.

In Black Demon City, the Sky Witch Sect was one of the top three forces.

(I will organize the following plot a bit; today, there will be only one update, and tomorrow, there will be two.) (To be continued.

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