Boom!
Xue Yuanshan's headless corpse crashed to the ground, making the earth tremble. Everyone in Clear Water City watching the scene froze in shock. No one had expected his head to suddenly explode.
Dragon Horned Deer Lord looked terrified. "How ruthless!"
Ji Qingyue spoke coldly, "His soul had been tampered with. The moment he mentioned something he was not supposed to, he would be silenced!"
"There is actually such a method?" Wei Fan looked surprised. He had never even heard of such a technique.
Li Yunfei nodded. "There is. This secret art is used by Sacred Sects and certain powerful factions to prevent their core inheritances from being leaked. With the disciple's willing consent, they open their soul and have the technique placed upon it. The moment they attempt to reveal secrets to outsiders or someone tries to search their soul, their soul collapses, thus protecting the core inheritance.
"I never expected such a thing to be used to keep someone's collusion with demons from being exposed."
He had not expected Xue Yuanshan's soul to have been sealed with such a secret art either. Ordinary people neither possessed nor learned this method.
Even in a place like the Sacred Sect, only some Transmission Elders would learn it, because this secret art had no offensive power. It was useless for ordinary people to learn.
Of course, even if they had anticipated it, it would have been useless. Even if they had warned Wei Fan, he could not have broken it. So long as it involved who had colluded with demons, Xue Yuanshan's soul would be silenced.
It was a secret art that even soul-searching could not overcome. Even a Martial King might not be able to break it.
"This is merely a case of *there is no silver buried here, so