"Senior, are you trying to get me killed?"
Ling Chengxia turned to Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, a cold smile spreading across his face.
"No, no, that is not what I meant. But how did you evade the backlash of that contract, little friend?"
Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King was exceedingly curious about this matter.
It concerned its very life.
Back then, the Alliance Contract that it, the Flame Demon Wolf Clan within the White Shadow Secret Realm, and Ling Pengyun had signed was merely a Quasi Fourth Rank Soul Contract.
Now that Ling Chengxia had been able to destroy the Quasi Fourth Rank Soul Contract between himself and Zhang Renli, that aged Golden Core Completion devil cultivator, there was a chance that Ling Pengyun might one day destroy the Alliance Contract binding it as well—and make a move against it.
Yet it was trapped by that contract, with no means whatsoever to dissolve it.
Ling Chengxia did not answer, but the chill contained within his smile deepened further.
The reason he had been able to evade the backlash of the Temporary Demon Contract he had signed with Zhang Renli, the other four Golden Core devil cultivators, and the Dragon Abyss Flood Python was chiefly because he had relied on no fewer than three Quasi Fourth Rank Seal Removal Spirit Talismans.
These Seal Removal Spirit Talismans were a type of talisman created by predecessors of the Cultivation World specifically based on Soul Contracts, capable of evading the backlash of Soul Contracts.
Under normal circumstances, the Soul Mark manifested by a Quasi Fourth Rank Soul Contract could only possibly be neutralized with a genuine Fourth Rank Seal Removal Spirit Talisman.
A Quasi Fourth Rank Seal Removal Spirit Talisman could only neutralize part of the power of a Soul Mark manifested by