Duan Qian's comfortable thoughts lasted only a short while. Very soon, you treated him roughly, forcibly digging useful information about Lord Yuyan out of him.
Duan Qian had not earned the title of Dusk Executioner for nothing. This soul spirit possessed the power to wreak havoc upon mental energy. Otherwise, he would not have been so highly valued by the Compassionate World Honored One, who had even disregarded the known risks to refine him into Heaven Gouging Great Compassion, his own primary combat supreme treasure.
Duan Qian's soul spirit trait did not merely govern slaughter. The denser the killing intent, the greater the supreme treasure's power. He could also obtain fragmented memories from the soul spirits he devoured. These memories contained information of tremendous importance to their original owners—either the locations of hidden treasures or secrets they wished never to spread abroad.
Almost every time you fed a soul spirit to Duan Qian, you carried out such a forced excavation. Yet the information you had obtained until now had been rather ordinary.
In your view, Lord Yuyan was, after all, a Star Sea Quasi-Emperor. Having ruled an entire realm for so long, perhaps something useful truly could be unearthed from him. Though you thought so, you were only trying your luck and held no great expectations. Yet when you shared the information obtained from Duan Qian, you received an unexpected delight...
After committing all the information to memory and repeatedly deducing it, the joy on your face deepened. Perhaps you had not obtained all of Lord Yuyan's memories, but even within these fragments were two pieces of news immensely useful to you.
One concerned a place where Lord Yuyan had once fallen into danger and nearly died. Lord Yuyan might not have understood it, but as you sensed it, you