Despicable and Shameless Dark Soul Society, Changes on Minghuang Island

[Hearing this name, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's expression changed drastically!]

"Dark Soul Society?"

Su Yang had also never heard this name before.

In the simulation, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's reaction seemed to indicate some prior involvement.

[Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable transmits a message to you, asking you to inquire about any current news regarding the Dark Soul Society, describing them as hypocritical, shameless, cruel, and insane.]

"Using so many adjectives, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable clearly hates the Dark Soul Society immensely."

"Could there be a life-or-death feud between them?" Su Yang rubbed his nose, making a guess.

[You continue to inquire.]

[Dock True Monarch tells you detailed information about the Dark Soul Society.]

[The Dark Soul Society, like the Seven Islands Alliance, is also a large alliance organization.]

[However, one operates in the open, while the other operates in the shadows.]

[The Dark Soul Society's greatest objective is to overthrow the Seven Islands Alliance and re-dominate this sea area.]

[Two hundred thousand years ago, the Seven Islands Alliance did not exist in this sea area.]

[The ones ruling here were the seven major powers within the current Dark Soul Society.]

[They were not an alliance back then.]

[Not only did they wage war against each other.]

[They also wantonly destroyed the territories of different factions.]

[They heavily exploited ordinary cultivators.]

[High-grade spiritual roots, special physiques – as soon as they were discovered, they would find ways to extract them and implant them into their own descendants and disciples.]

[This situation only ended with the birth of the first Grand Alliance Leader of the Seven Islands Alliance, Lingguang Saint.]

[He was born on Lingguang Island and discovered his peerless talent from a young age.]

[However, he did not reveal it and cultivated in secret. When he was able to travel across the sea, he left this sea area and went to Tianqing Continent.]

[After achieving success in his cultivation, he returned to this place and overthrew the seven major powers.]

[He destroyed mountains and temples, extracted spiritual veins, leveled ancestral lands, liberated cultivation resources, and established the Seven Islands Alliance.]

[He set the order for the entire sea area.]

[This led to the current cultivation world of the Seven Islands Alliance, which is generally orderly and peaceful.]

[But even a dying centipede is still strong. Although the seven major powers were destroyed.]

[They had disciples and elders who, along with some of their foundational heritage, survived.]

[When they met and conferred, the Dark Soul Society was formed.]

[The Dark Soul Society's conduct is extremely malicious.]

[They not only strike at the cultivators of the Seven Islands Alliance but also guide the decline of some small and medium-sized factions.]

[This way, they could acquire talent and the accumulated wealth of these factions.]

[Thus strengthening the Dark Soul Society's foundation, and then through their cunning schemes, achieve their own goals.]

[This time, they once again influenced and controlled Strange Lifeforms through unknown means, endangering the safety of Minghuang Island.]

[You were somewhat surprised. You originally thought the Strange Lifeforms appearing on Minghuang Island were also led by a commander, but you didn't expect them to be related to the Dark Soul Society.]

[You bid farewell to Dock True Monarch and head towards Fire Source City.]

[On the way, you ask Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable if he has any grievances with the Dark Soul Society.]

[He tells you that he once established a faction, but because his alchemy skills were too high, he was the foremost existence among the fifth-tier alchemists on Minghuang Island.]

[Even the sixth-tier Pill King on the island was not as skilled as him in refining fifth-tier pills, nor did his pills have the same quality.]

[It was precisely because of this that the Dark Soul Society targeted Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable.]

[Under the guidance of the Dark Soul Society.]

[Not only was the faction established by Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable destroyed, but his wife and two sons also died at the hands of the faction guided by the Dark Soul Society. Only his youngest daughter managed to escape.]

[If it weren't for a chance encounter where he saw through the Dark Soul Society's plan.]

[He would likely have been forced to serve the Dark Soul Society by now.]

[But because of this, he was hunted down, resulting in the destruction of his physical body and the damage of his primordial spirit, leaving only a wisp of remnant soul trapped in a ring.]

[If he hadn't accidentally met you, he would have likely perished silently in the ring.]

[You listen and feel great sympathy for your teacher's experience.]

[Two days later, you arrive at Fire Source City and see Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's daughter again.]

[At this time, she can no longer maintain her vital energy and has become frail and old.]

[Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable accompanies her through the final journey of her life.]

[Age 290, the Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's daughter passed away.]

[After burying her, you left Fire Source City.]

[After some thought, you did not return to Qixia Island, but instead traveled all over Minghuang Island.]

[Age 293, you comprehended the origins of various places on Minghuang Island, and your first Tier 4 Origin Body Refining Technique broke through to minor accomplishment.]

[Age 298, you broke through to Nascent Soul Layer 5.]

[Age 332, you were cultivating in a market town.]

[Suddenly, you sensed the spiritual energy around you fluctuate violently, then rapidly decrease, as if being devoured by something.]

[Sensing something was wrong, you flew out of your rented cave dwelling, intending to leave the market town.]

[But suddenly, a giant centipede-like monster erupted from the ground, exuding a powerful aura.]

"How could a Strange Lifeform suddenly appear in the inland of Minghuang Island?"

Outside the simulation, Su Yang felt something was wrong.

He quickly opened the simulation screen.

He saw a giant, insectoid monster with thousands of legs floating above a large market town, exuding a terrifying aura.

Thousands of long legs stretched out in different directions, piercing the bodies of Nascent Soul True Monarchs and rapidly absorbing their magic power and origins.

In just a few breaths, a Nascent Soul True Monarch would turn into a dried corpse.

As for the lower-cultivation Golden Core True Persons and Qi Refining cultivators.

Most were crushed or even exploded by its terrifying aura the moment the Strange Lifeform appeared.

In the simulation, Su Yang was also being attacked by several of the Strange Lifeform's long legs.

He seemed capable of handling it on his own.

Seeing this, Su Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

This Strange Lifeform was only Tier 5, and not particularly strong even within Tier 5.

It wasn't as powerful as the two Strange Lifeforms with Deity Transformation combat power on Fenghua Island, which had put more pressure on him.

"Only High-level Deity Transformation strength? Then the simulated Su Yang should be safe this time."

Su Yang let out a long sigh.

"No."

His pupils suddenly constricted, and he discovered something different.

This Strange Lifeform lacked the innate sacred aura that Strange Lifeforms possessed in his memory.

A Strange Lifeform without a sacred aura? Was it still a Strange Lifeform?

To quickly see the result, Su Yang switched to text simulation.

[Several Deity Transformation Venerables broke through space and appeared, launching a siege on the centipede monster.]

[After a fierce battle, the centipede monster was directly killed, with no signs of revival.]

"As expected, this isn't a Strange Lifeform, just identical in appearance."

"Then how did it appear?"

"Was it offspring produced by the Strange Lifeform's self-reproduction?"

"Or the Dark Soul Society!"

Su Yang had a premonition that this must have something to do with the Dark Soul Society.

He continued to watch the simulation.

[You feel that Minghuang Island has fallen into a huge vortex.]

[You decide to leave Minghuang Island.]

[You arrive at the coast, holding the sea chart you had prepared long ago.]

[You head towards Zisha Island, a small island closest to Minghuang Island.]

[Half a year later, you arrived at Zisha Island.]

[You discover that the island is extremely small, less than one ten-thousandth the size of Qixia Island.]

[The strongest beings here are only a few ordinary Nascent Souls, posing no threat to you.]

[You temporarily stayed on Zisha Island.]

[Age 349, you broke through to Nascent Soul Layer 6.]