"Buzzz!! Crackle, pop, pop!!!" A treasure shaped like a metal cap sat on an unconscious old man's head. The cap hummed and trembled, releasing strange electrical sparks and a wash of blue light.
"Urgh!!! Aaaah!!!" The unconscious cultivator screamed.
"Sizzle, sizzle!!!" Strange light erupted from the metal cap and surged toward another cap worn by a thin young cultivator beside him...
"Hm?" The thin cultivator suddenly opened his eyes, excitement shining in them. "Excellent! As expected of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator-he knew quite a lot!"
A full quarter of an hour passed before the metal cap on the old man's head lost all its spiritual radiance. His eyes had rolled back, foam spilled from his mouth, and he lay utterly unconscious.
"Tsk! This treasure Brother Second Better refined really is useful!" The thin cultivator removed the cap from the old man's head and studied it as he muttered. Several unconscious black-armored cultivators lay beside the old man.
This thin cultivator was none other than Li Xiaoya, who had come out to investigate. His so-called investigation consisted of capturing Demonic Path cultivators and using the Soul Search treasure Second Better had refined to search their souls. Of course, Li Xiaoya could forcibly search their souls with his divine abilities even without the cap, but that consumed a considerable amount of divine sense and magic power. Using the cap made things much easier, greatly reducing that expenditure as well as the risk of backlash from the cultivators. It was an exceptional auxiliary treasure, though it had one flaw: cultivators whose souls it searched were basically reduced to idiots.
Li Xiaoya already hated these cultivators from the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect, so naturally he felt no pity for these Demonic Path cultivators who had committed countless evil deeds.
Earlier, he had captured