In the following days, Zhang Ling continued flying eastward, hoping to return to human territory.
But to his dismay, all he saw was endless yellow sand. He had flown quite a distance in the past few days.
He didn't know how long he had been in the river before.
...
This afternoon, Zhang Ling was flying at low altitude when a loud noise came from not far away.
Zhang Ling frowned, landed on the ground, suppressed his spiritual power to the lowest level, and carefully approached the source of the sound.
He hadn't seen a single person for days. He didn't know what was happening with the noise, but there was a high probability that someone was there, and he wanted to check it out.
Soon, Zhang Ling hid behind a sand dune and peeked out.
He saw several sand pits of varying sizes not far away. One of the large pits was emitting wisps of black smoke.
About thirty or forty feet away from this pit, a person covered with white cloth was lying there. The person was lying face down, motionless, and their life or death was unknown!
Seeing this person, Zhang Ling was filled with doubts. He released his divine sense to investigate the person. The person was already dead, and seemed to have just died.
Then he expanded his divine sense to observe the surroundings. In the sand pit emitting black smoke, he saw a burnt corpse.
The two seemed to have died together. He was quite surprised to encounter other cultivators in this desolate place.
Seeing that there was no danger, Zhang Ling walked towards the corpse.
A yellow light flashed on the corpse, and he flipped it over, face up.
It was a middle-aged man with a square face, wide eyes, a cyan complexion, and blood flowing from his seven orifices, as if he had died from poisoning. His gaze swept across his waist, and there was a gray storage bag.
Obviously a cultivator. With a wave of his hand, the clothes on the person's body opened. There were no demonic纹patterns of异魔人Otherworldly Demons on this person's body, so it seemed to be a human cultivator.
Why would there be a human cultivator here? Zhang Ling was suspicious. But a corpse could not solve his doubts.
Zhang Ling sighed, hesitated, stretched out his hand, and the other party's storage bag flew towards him.
But just as his hand was about to grab the storage bag, a green light cluster lit up on the gray storage bag, and suddenly, like a shooting star, it pounced towards his face.
Zhang Ling cried out in surprise and retreated quickly!
The green light cluster seemed to have spirituality, and its speed also increased greatly. In the next moment, just as it was about to touch Zhang Ling's face,
Zhang Ling stopped. His left shoulder moved slightly, and a black vine the thickness of an arm rushed out. Like lightning, it wrapped the green light cluster tightly.
The light cluster squeaked and screamed! It let out a painful groan.
"Fellow Daoist, spare me! I was also forced to do so. As long as you are willing to let me go, Chen is guaranteed to give you a great benefit!" A voice begging for mercy came into Zhang Ling's mind, and promised a generous gift.
"Telepathy." Zhang Ling's eyebrows jumped, and his divine sense locked onto the green light cluster. He saw a blurred human face emerging from the green light.
"Remnant soul, you wanted to seize my body just now, right?" Zhang Ling didn't ask about the heavy benefits, but said with a gloomy face.
This was a remnant soul of a cultivator.
"Uh… I was just confused for a moment, and I will definitely compensate Fellow Daoist more. I hope you will be generous…" The green light cluster sent out a voice again, apologizing repeatedly.
After hearing this, Zhang Ling didn't say anything. He just controlled the vine to trap the remnant soul in it.
His vine had recovered to one-third of its original state after these few days, and the black light on it carried baleful aura.
This special spiritual power itself had a great restraint effect on remnant souls and other阴鬼yin spirits. Moreover, this was just a remnant soul, so it was naturally easily trapped by him.
Zhang Ling stared at the green light cluster without saying a word.
"I am a true disciple of the Heavenly Limit Sect, and also an enforcement disciple of the Misty Cloud Immortal City. As long as Fellow Daoist lets me go, whether it is profound techniques, or spirit stones and pills, I will definitely satisfy you."
The light cluster flickered a few times, and sent out a voice again.
"Immortal City cultivator." Zhang Ling smiled slightly and continued, "Then why aren't you staying in the Immortal City, why are you here?"
Zhang Ling asked the question in his heart.
Seeming to see that Zhang Ling's tone had softened a little, the light cluster said again; "This, it was a secret mission dispatched by the Immortal City, and cannot be revealed."
"Why, is Fellow Daoist in trouble?" Zhang Ling's face suddenly darkened, and his words became cold. A spiritual light flashed in his hand, and the flying sword hummed, pointing directly at the green light cluster.
"Wait, I really can't reveal the specific mission. Chen's primordial spirit has already been placed under a restriction by the high-level cultivators of the Immortal City." The remnant soul in the light cluster was immediately terrified, and hurriedly transmitted the sound of the primordial spirit.
"Then what use do I have for keeping you?"
Zhang Ling's faint words immediately caused the light cluster to tremble and flicker rapidly, and a stammering voice of astonishment came.
"Although I can't reveal the specific mission, we are a small team."
"Fellow Daoist, you are also here, I'm afraid you are also from the Immortal City, and you must have been lost in this Black Cloud Desert. As long as you let me go, I can show you the way."
"Are there others?"
"Yes, there are ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and a Golden Core senior leading the way. That Golden Core senior is my elder. As long as…"
"I see."
"It seems that you have an extraordinary background, but I hate people who want to seize my body the most. You should die."
Zhang Ling said lightly, but the primordial spirit in the green light trembled violently.
"You can't destroy my primordial spirit, if you kill me, my elders and sect will not let you go."
The primordial spirit in the green light shouted, and a cold light flashed in Zhang Ling's eyes. He saw the black light on the vine suddenly flourish, and quickly rolled a few times. The green light screamed and was torn into pieces.
"I don't lack any techniques, nor do I lack elixirs and magic tools. You gave so many reasons, and even threatened me. How could I possibly let you go!"
Zhang Ling watched the light cluster turn into green smoke and dissipate, and muttered to himself.
After the green light cluster disappeared, a small purple jade bead also fell out. When it was in the air, the gray light on it dimmed, and with a click, it turned into two halves.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ling grabbed the two halves of the jade bead in his hand. Although it was already broken, it was engraved with countless tiny runes.
"This is a Soul Sealing Jade."
After looking at it twice, he recognized it. This object was a kind of soul jade, which could protect the cultivator's primordial spirit from dissipating for a period of time. It was made of top-quality cold jade through special refining and was very precious.
One was equivalent to several top-quality magic tools. He didn't expect this person to have this kind of precious jade.
This also explained why this person could still leave a remnant soul even though he was dead. If he was careless, and was possessed by it, this remnant soul would use the body seizing technique to occupy his body.
Then he carefully searched the person's body, but found nothing else.
Zhang Ling then began to check the gray storage bag. In it, he found two identity tokens, one engraved with the words "Heavenly Limit Sect", and the other engraved with "Misty Cloud Immortal City".
It seemed that this person was not lying. Zhang Ling moved the useful things in this storage bag to one of his empty storage bags.
And the things that could prove this person's identity, along with the storage bag, were destroyed by him.
Then he saw the corpse that was burned to death. He also found a storage bag on this corpse. After a brief inspection, it was the storage bag of an Otherworldly Demon.
It seemed that what this person said about them coming to carry out a secret mission was also true. But this person ended up in this situation, it seemed that their team had also been attacked by Otherworldly Demons.
Zhang Ling didn't dare to stay in the same place for long. He didn't want to meet the Otherworldly Demons or this person's companions. After disposing of the two corpses, he quickly left.
