In the Outer Realm Battlefield, Wang Lin Becomes the Soul Devourer

"Furthermore, there is thunder-attribute energy within this Thunder Frog. If it can be absorbed, it will be of great benefit to future cultivation."

Li Muwan skillfully extracted the inner core from the beast, then used a specialized technique to draw out the thunder-attribute energy from the Thunder Frog, sealing it into a jade bottle before presenting it to Luo Chuan.

Luo Chuan only took the thunder-attribute energy; as for the inner core, he had no use for it and gifted it to Li Muwan to be used as medicinal material for her future alchemy.

Over the next few months, Li Muwan remained at the Hengyue Sect to discuss formations and alchemy with Luo Chuan, even forgetting that her brother, Li Qiqing, had been waiting for her for quite some time.

Elder Liu Wenju stroked his beard, looked at the anxious Li Qiqing beside him, and smiled. "Young friend, there is no need to be nervous. Our Ancestor is not the type to bully others, and he certainly will not harm Miss Wan'er."

"The Ancestor has only been cultivating for thirty years, yet his current strength has already reached the pinnacle. He would never do anything so outrageous."

Hearing these words from Elder Liu Wenju, Li Qiqing naturally stopped worrying about the situation inside, though he still feared that if they returned too late, the Ancestor might punish them for being too playful.

Just as Li Qiqing was about to use a jade slip to send a message, he saw Li Muwan and Senior Luo Chuan walking out from the depths of the bamboo forest.

Elder Liu Wenju stepped forward and bowed respectfully toward Luo Chuan. "This disciple greets the Ancestor."

Luo Chuan stood with one hand behind his back and asked softly, "During the time I was in seclusion, did anything happen at the Hengyue Sect?"

Elder Liu Wenju replied, "Reporting to the Ancestor, experts from the Giant Devil Race visited twice during this period, but upon hearing that you were in closed-door cultivation, they did not dare to disturb you."

"The Giant Devil Race..."

Hearing this, Luo Chuan narrowed his eyes subconsciously and thought to himself, What are those fellows doing here? Could it be because of me?

Now that the experts from the Vermilion Bird State had yet to arrive, the fact that the Giant Devil Race from a Level 5 cultivation state had come here instead meant there must be some ulterior motive.

After all, Luo Chuan knew the situation of the Giant Devil Race better than anyone. Back when he was still in the Nascent Soul Realm, he had once killed an expert of the Giant Devil Race at the Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Perfection.

That fellow, seeing his exceptional talent, had tried to forcibly occupy his body to perform a soul possession, hoping to perfectly fuse with his physique and gain a higher level of cultivation talent.

Luo Chuan said indifferently, "If the Giant Devil Race comes again, tell them I have no time and instruct them not to come here in the future."

Hearing this, Elder Liu Wenju touched his nose in embarrassment and whispered, "Ancestor... the Giant Devil Race is a Level 5 cultivation state. It is said that their Ancestor's cultivation has already broken through the Yingbian Realm. If we offend them..."

"Yingbian Realm..."

Luo Chuan ignored him.

Although he could not currently contend with an old monster of the Yingbian Realm, if he could break through to the Spirit Transformation Great Perfection, he could naturally wipe them out easily using the Seven-Colored Ultimate Realm.

As for the other experts of the Giant Devil Race, Luo Chuan did not care at all.

As long as it was not an old monster of the Yingbian Realm, everything else was trivial.

Elder Liu Wenju did not say anything more; after bowing, he left in a dejected manner.

Li Muwan pursed her lips and said, "Senior, Wan'er must leave as well. I have been away from the Luohe Sect for several months; if I do not return, the Ancestor will worry."

"Very well." Luo Chuan did not refuse Li Muwan, and with a wave of his right hand, a special jade slip appeared before her.

"This jade slip contains a trace of my special divine sense and can kill any cultivator below the Spirit Transformation Realm. If you encounter danger, crush it, and it will naturally help you resolve the trouble."

"Consider it the karma for you teaching me about alchemy and formations."

Li Muwan nodded gently, then summoned her flying sword and left the Hengyue Sect with her brother, looking back with reluctance.

Watching Li Muwan's departing figure, Luo Chuan did not ask her to stay. After all, given her personality, even if he had asked, it would have been impossible for her to remain at the Hengyue Sect to cultivate.

Luo Chuan stood with one hand behind his back, gazing at the blue, sea-like sky, and said calmly, "I wonder how things are going on the Outer Realm Battlefield."

The Outer Realm Battlefield was a void of space where rifts frequently appeared. These rifts could suck in any cultivator, and even experts at the Spirit Transformation Realm dared not enter them rashly.

A-Dai jumped onto the corpse of a Giant Devil and began skillfully dismantling its armor, his gaze lingering on Liu Mei, who was sitting cross-legged and cultivating.

"Senior Sister, Master said that the spiritual energy here is abundant and that one breath of it could greatly increase one's cultivation. Why is my cultivation still at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage?"

Liu Mei slowly opened her eyes and replied softly, "I am not sure, but the spiritual energy here is indeed much more potent than in the Zhao Kingdom. Cultivating here yields twice the result with half the effort."

"Then do we still need to continue searching for treasures here?"

"As you wish."

Liu Mei had no interest in the treasures here and closed her eyes again to continue cultivating.

Before entering, their master, Luo Chuan, had already said that treasures and pills were of little significance; as long as they could break through to the Core Formation Realm, that was more important than anything else.

Seeing that his Senior Sister had returned to her cultivation, A-Dai did not say anything and continued to scavenge for treasures among the corpses of the Giant Devil Race.

Just then, A-Dai's gaze landed on a golden soul not far away, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "It's you! You've actually become a Soul Devourer."

Indeed, the golden soul before him was none other than Wang Lin, who had been taken into the Heaven Defying Bead and pursued relentlessly by Teng Huayuan!

Wang Lin's physical body had been destroyed, leaving only his soul, and after arriving here, he had become one of the local Soul Devourers.

"Soul Devourer... do you recognize my current form?"

Wang Lin did not approach A-Dai, for he did not trust anyone on the Outer Realm Battlefield, especially cultivators from the Zhao Kingdom.

Although A-Dai had helped him in the past, as the saying goes, one must always be on guard, especially against such cultivators.

They might already know about his possession of the Heaven Defying Bead, so even if A-Dai had helped him before, he had to be cautious to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Wang Lin looked coldly at the surrounding souls and began to familiarize himself with them; these souls were what Senior Situ Nan called Wandering Souls.

These Wandering Souls also possessed self-awareness, but their purpose for existing here was to constantly devour the physical bodies of other cultivators to enhance their own strength.

As for the Soul Devourers, which were of a higher rank than Wandering Souls, there were currently only three in the entire Outer Realm Battlefield, and they had existed here for countless years.

The existence of the Soul Devourers served to keep the Wandering Souls in check, preventing their numbers from becoming so high that the spatial energy would become unstable; thus, the Soul Devourers fed on the Wandering Souls.