This time, the Evil Spirit Masters had struck within the Heaven Dou Empire, in a remote village called Shanshui Village in Fasinuo Province of the Balak Kingdom. It was roughly two hundred li from Nuoding City in the Original Work.
The village was named Shanshui Village because of its beautiful scenery, nestled against mountains and beside water.
There were over three hundred villagers without Soul Power in the village, as well as three Soul Masters who possessed Soul Power. One of them had reached the Soul Ancestor level and served as the village's guardian.
The neighboring Jiming Village had always traded with Shanshui Village. However, ten days ago, they had failed to contact Shanshui Village's trade caravan, so they sent three strong men to investigate.
But when they arrived at Shanshui Village, the sight before them scared the wits out of them. All three hundred-plus villagers, including one Soul Ancestor and two Soul Grand Masters, as well as two Spirit Hall deacons from the Soma Branch Hall—a total of three hundred and fifty-seven people—
The two Soul Grandmaster deacons had been deemed missing some time ago, which coincided exactly with the time Shanshui Village had lost contact with the outside world.
Every one of them had been turned into a desiccated corpse. Not a single drop of blood remained in their bodies; it had all been drained away.
That familiar method made it obvious at a glance that Evil Spirit Masters had paid them a visit.
As for why they had chosen Shanshui Village, perhaps they had learned that there was an elderly Soul Ancestor-level Soul Master in the village.
Absorbing the power of a Soul Ancestor was entirely comparable to absorbing several hundred ordinary people.
The neighboring villages of Shanshui Village had not suffered any incidents only because they