Teammates First Appear
Ming He's consciousness awoke from its hazy state, only to be horrified to find that everything before him was still pitch black.
What happened?
A huge, glaring question mark appeared in Ming He's mind.
Before, he didn't know how long ago, after all, he didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
He broke free from that powerful family scion who appeared out of nowhere, and with his mere Three-Ring Soul Elder level, he managed to fight a Five-Ring Soul King to a stalemate.
If it weren't for the worry that a rescue team might arrive from ' Sena City ' at any moment, Ming He would have definitely used up his Soul Power to take down that fully armed Soul Elder and drain his blood!
He refused to believe that a Soul Elder's Soul Power could be greater than his, a Soul King's.
Not to mention, Ming He had just had a "full meal" not long ago, and the continuous flow of Soul Power was still being converted.
In a battle of attrition, even Soul King of the same level can't beat him!
What happened next?
In the darkness, Ming He sensed the Soul Power within his body while trying his best to activate the other four senses besides sight.
The result was terrible; his Soul Power was directly sealed by an unknown method, and the things on his hands and feet seemed to be shackles.
However, the four senses, including hearing, were not affected. One could faintly hear the chirping of birds and feel the gentle breeze carrying the fragrance of grass and trees on one's cheek.
"Wrong--!"
Ming He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have gotten rid of that big family scion by relying on the effect of the ' Blood Shadow Clone ', and then tracked down the Healing System Soul Master by following his sense of blood energy.
After easily subduing and knocking out the opponent, they bound him with "Blood-Devouring Vine" vines and fled overnight to a remote forest hundreds of miles away.
How come he, Ming He, is the one who's been captured now?!
Within the territory of the Star Luo Empire, in an unnamed forest.
Ling Yi looked at the Fallen Soul King, who was slumped under a towering tree, with a smile on his face.
As the saying goes, "You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub," how could one stay close to this fallen Soul King and watch him run away in the middle of the night, exhausting his Soul Power, without temporarily acting as a prisoner?
This was, after all, a Soul King. Even though Ling Yi had used most of his skills, he could only hold his own against the opponent and could not achieve a decisive victory.
Not to mention that the opponent also has a clone Soul Skill that can switch between reality and illusion, and its speed is incredibly fast.
In his Blood Shadow form, his movement speed far surpassed that of Jiang Yuan, who was also Soul King. If Ling Yi been on the defensive, using stillness to control movement, and only needing to change the flames on his "Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade" in the shortest amount of time each time, he would have barely managed to block those swift and fierce attacks.
If this person is truly determined to escape, Ling Yi, with his current strength, has no way to stop him.
As the night passed, Ling Yi's energy and spirit returned to their peak state. However, as dawn approached, Ming He, who had been knocked unconscious by Ling Yi's surprise attack from behind, suffered a double blow to his Soul Power and physical strength. Before he could even react, he lost consciousness.
The experience of being a prisoner lasted less than ten hours. Well, apart from being bound by vines and feeling a bit uncomfortable, everything else was alright.
He calmly and deliberately put the Soul Tool shackles that sealed his Soul Power on the Fallen Soul King, whose name he did not yet know. Then he took out a fine needle that he usually used for surgery and used his Soul Power to sever the man's optic nerve.
Ling Yi glanced at the newly crafted Soul Tool shackles, which had only been in use for a little over a year, and shook his head inwardly.
These are not the Soul Tool shackles that were once used as payment for medical treatment and could only seal Soul Scholar. Instead, they were reforged by Ling Yi after he thoroughly studied the Soul Guidance Array Patterns related to Soul Power sealing, gradually enhanced their effects, and then used "Heavy Dark Steel" as the material.
Unfortunately, time is limited and information is scarce. At present, this set of handcuffs and shackles can only seal the Soul Power of Soul Elder.
It was this unknown Fallen Soul King Soul Power was exhausted beforehand that allowed him to successfully seal the Soul Power within the opponent's body while the opponent was weakened.
Of course, thanks to the inherent toughness of "Heavy Dark Steel", even if the opponent's Soul Power is restored, they will not be able to break free from the shackles that are strong enough to lock up the Beast Martial Soul Emperor when their limbs are unable to exert force.
The Weiyi troublesome thing is the various unreasonable Soul Skill in the Douluo Continent, which sometimes don't even try to compete with your strength.
For example, the Fifth Soul Skill of this nameless Soul King, which can manifest Blood Shadow Clone, can obviously break free from the restraints of the shackles themselves.
Of course, Ling Yi didn't intend to give the opponent a chance to use their Soul Skill.
Ten days later, inside the belly of a small mountain in an unnamed forest.
The space is not large, about 2.5 meters high and 4 meters long and wide. The Weiyi light source is a three-finger-wide vent in the top of the stone chamber.
Ming He lay peacefully on the simple wooden bed in the center of the stone chamber, his chest open.
The literal openness stemmed from the formidable Life of a Soul King Rank; Ling Yi could clearly see the beating heart, the expanding and contracting lungs, and the slightly wriggling, white intestines...
"Alright, experiment number one thirty-three, Ming He, summon your Martial Soul—!"
Ling Yi stared intently at the body that was exposed from the inside out, and gave a command in a low voice.
"Buzz—"
A faint humming sound was quite clear in the silent stone chamber.
The dark red Soul Power, like an old ox in its twilight years, moved slowly and laboriously, and a grayish-brown vine sprouted from the palm of the body.
Ten days is enough time for Ling Yi to use sound as a starting point to control the rhythm of the other party's Life and hypnotize them when the other party's energy and spirit are exhausted, their vision is closed and their hearing is enhanced.
After learning every detail of the other person's life, Ling Yi's original reservations and reluctance vanished without a trace.
Leaving aside the three villages that had vanished and the patrol team members, the sheer amount of blood behind this person's meteoric rise from Two-Ring Grand Soul Master to Five-Ring Soul King in just two years was enough to make Ling Yi carrying out the experiments he had only ever imagined in his mind.
Ten days later, with the "Ruyi Hundred Treasure Purse" hanging from his waist and a blue-gold bracelet inlaid with two gems, one large and one small, on his left wrist, Ling Yi strolled out of the nameless forest. He looked at the Sun in the sky, determined his direction, and headed east.
At noon, on the official road, Ling Yi followed the flow of people toward the city ahead.
Looking up at the three large characters on the city gate from afar, a strange light flashed in his eyes.
Dragon Rising City
This is a border city located in the north of the Star Luo Empire, less than two hundred miles away from the border between the two great empires.
Like the previous ' Sena City ', ' Dragon Rising City ' is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial family, but belongs to the territory of a vassal kingdom.
Ling Yi's gaze swept calmly over the endless stream of merchants passing by, while he recalled relevant information about the city in his mind.
Judging from the height of the city walls and the length extending to both sides, "Dragon Rising City" is much larger than "Sena City" and is almost the same size as "Wood Plant City", the capital of the "Water Wood Duchy".
However, in terms of prosperity, "Wood Plant City" is a notch below "Dragon Rising City".
Suddenly, a commotion broke out on the street ahead.
"Yang Shelly, don't push your luck!"
A hoarse voice, as if someone were squeezing its neck, screamed in alarm.