He grew a brain, but not much of one; Death Messenger: Who's the real Evil Soul Master here?!(4k)

"The Evil Soul Master we're facing are a group of ruthless and violent killers, so don't have any pity for them, understand?"

Beside the campfire.

The firelight illuminated Ma Xiaotao's solemn face, flickering between light and shadow.

The outer court disciples also looked serious; they certainly wouldn't take anything lightly involving Evil Soul Master...

Ma Xiaotao glanced around and saw Lu Cheng with a calm expression, gently picking up a broken stick, poking at the campfire, and resting his chin on his hand, deep in thought.

As for this person... she naturally had no good instructions to give.

In his memory, Lu Cheng had been an undercover agent in the Holy Spirit Cult for a long time. No matter how vicious those Evil Soul Master were, they were nothing more than a bunch of greenhorns in front of this Holy Spirit Cult's holy son, and were easily manipulated.

When she joined the Holy Spirit Cult, she was shocked by Lu Cheng's evil nature.

In terms of ferocity and brutality... even all those so-called Evil Soul Master combined are probably no match for this Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult.

"..."

She was stunned for a moment, and when she looked again, she saw Lu Cheng raise his head, a warm and gentle smile on his face.

In that instant, her throat bobbed, and a chill ran down her spine.

It was as if he were slowly overlapping with the image of the Holy Spirit Cult's ruthless and unbelievably wicked Holy Son from my memory.

"Gurgle~"

No matter how much time has passed, I can never completely forget what I remember; it's just too unforgettable.

Ma Xiaotao turned her head somewhat stiffly.

She also recalled some unpleasant memories, such as the fear of being dominated by that true demon Lu Cheng.

That guy really beat me up badly.

A ruthless person who uses his own life as capital and all living beings as pawns.

What are you thinking about?

Lu Cheng raised an eyebrow, his expression slightly surprised.

"Cough cough cough... Grandmaster, when you become stronger in the future and surpass me in strength... you won't beat me up, right?" Ma Xiaotao quietly leaned closer, her narrow phoenix eyes looking a little guilty.

She had been having so much fun that it took a gust of cold wind to wake her up.

Who exactly is this Grandmaster she's been teasing and "playing with" all along? Is it too late for him to apologize now?

If I wait until I'm hung up and spanked later, it will probably be too late, and even Sister Lexuan won't be able to save me.

"Hehe..." Lu Cheng chuckled.

Stirring the fire, he said calmly, "Perhaps."

Ma Xiaotao: "..."

Is a settlement possible?

Or... while he's sick, she could give birth to a child for him before he dies, so that if he dares to beat her, she can beat his child instead.

The surrounding disciples, both from the inner and outer courtyards, all looked on in surprise.

Clearly, no one expected that Ma Xiaotao, the fearless and arrogant inner court prodigy, would be so cautious and submissive in front of her junior brother Lu Cheng.

It's true that everything has its counter.

"What exactly is the relationship between Xiaotao and junior Lu Cheng?" Gongyang Mo asked seductively, picking at her nails.

"Ugh~" Yao Haoxuan next to him moved aside, looking disgusted.

"It should be pure friendship," Dai Yueheng said with a smile.

"Pure friendship... tsk tsk." Ling Luochеn stood to the side with her arms crossed, her beautiful eyes glancing indifferently at Ma Xiaotao with a hint of disdain.

An old cow eating young grass, shameless.

Whether she felt a little envious is hard to say.

"Gongyang Mo, stop staring at my Xiao Cheng!" Ma Xiaotao blocked Gongyang Mo's view and said with a somewhat unfriendly look.

"Hey, she just glanced at this handsome young man because he's good-looking, why are you being so stingy?" Gongyang Mo said seductively.

"You sissy, I knew something was wrong with you!" Ma Xiaotao's eyes twitched, and she snapped angrily like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

"Alright, everyone come over here."

Wang Yan waved his hand.

He gathered the people who were fooling around together.

"We have now fully entered the Ming Dou Mountain Range and stepped into the area where those bandits had been operating. The only challenge is to find them and then completely annihilate them. I don't have much time left... I need to return to the Star Luo Empire to report in time."

All the disciples nodded, their faces showing relaxed smiles.

After all, with this lineup, wiping out a few Soul King Evil Soul Master is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

The Ming Dou Mountain Range are treacherous, varied, and complex. Once inside, they are all hidden by tall, lush foliage. The group of Evil Soul Master were caught between the Sun Moon and Moon armies and the Star Luo Empire. When the former came to besiege them, they would run to the latter's territory, and vice versa. The two armies were constantly clashing, which is why they allowed these guys to run rampant.

"..."

"There is a tree here called the Wenlan Tree. It is yin in nature, and its heartwood is a favorite food of many Evil Soul Master. Eating it can help with cultivation..." Wang Yan took out half of the light blue heartwood.

"And I was in this vicinity, and I noticed many hollow tree trunks, as well as half-cut tree cores."

The implication is clear: those Evil Soul Master are most likely in the vicinity.

Everyone looked at Ma Xiaotao, their eyes gleaming with fervor and excitement.

"Everyone spread out at a distance of ten meters, and search for the target according to the Wenlan Tree mentioned by Teacher Wang Yan..." Ma Xiaotao's phoenix eyes flashed with a cold light as she gave a soft shout.

Lu Cheng: "..."

Has she changed her personality? Is that something Ma Xiaotao, with her simple-mindedness, would say?

But then she thought about it again. In the Simulation memories, she seemed to have served as the Sea God Pavilion Master for more than twenty years, and had been tempered a lot. It seems that time can indeed change a person.

Lu Cheng smiled with satisfaction.

"Clap clap clap!" Applause. "Good reasoning, good command."

Everyone looked on in astonishment.

"But you seem to have forgotten... I am a spirit-type Soul Master."

Lu Cheng said Youyou.

In the dark night sky, blood-red eyes gleamed.

Everyone: "..."

"At coordinates of 30 degrees due east and south, in a cave 300 meters down the hillside," Lu Cheng said slowly.

Wang Yan: "..."

His current Spiritual Detection range has long exceeded a distance of more than 2,300 meters in diameter. If a single range were to expand infinitely, it could also reach a distance of 2,000 meters. In his eyes, nothing can hide.

The next instant, their Spiritual Sharing with everyone present.

They were all shocked by the glimpse of Lu Cheng's Spiritual Detection, which was just the tip of the iceberg. After all, this Spiritual Sharing was already considered a divine skill on the arena, making him invincible in battle, and now...

Their detection capabilities are also incredibly advanced.

Within a one-kilometer diameter, the entire forest is presented in a three-dimensional form in everyone's mind, as if from God's perspective.

The once pitch-black night sky was completely exposed under Lu Cheng's Spiritual Detection, and the dense jungle seemed to have been completely cleared away. Hundreds of points of light emanating a dark aura instantly attracted everyone's attention.

The Evil Soul Master, who were originally hidden, were now as conspicuous as if they were carrying signal sources in the eyes of many Shrek students.

"Awesome."

Yao Haoxuan gave a thumbs up.

Let's go.

Lu Cheng waved his hand, signaling Ma Xiaotao to take the lead.

At least on the surface, this girl seems pretty "reliable" and has some leadership qualities.

We walked outside the cave.

Just as Lu Cheng was filled with relief and waiting for Ma Xiaotao to make a change, the latter suddenly roared, "Follow me and charge in to kill the enemy!"

Immediately, the crimson phoenix flames spread like wildfire, extending two wings from its back and charging straight inwards.

Behind him followed numerous inner court disciples, their fighting spirit boiling.

Lu Cheng: "..."

Okay, there have been changes... but not many.

She didn't experience this tragedy in the Simulation Device either, since the Ming Dou Mountain Range were directly flattened by the Sun Moon Empire, and she also joined the Holy Spirit Cult and became a saintess, so she missed it.

It seems there's no way to avoid a tragic ending. However, out of friendship, he will step in to change the inevitable fate of death and severe disability, which can be considered a clear conscience.

After all, he has always been a kind-hearted person.

The flames of war suddenly ignited, and the battle lines continued to advance inward.

Ma Xiaotao and her gang were unstoppable, killing anyone who stood in their way.

With the amplification from Lu Cheng's Spiritual Sharing, they had seen through the entire cave. There were only three Soul King in total; the rest were mere shrimp soldiers and crab generals, utterly vulnerable.

The only corpses hanging on the mountainside and cave walls were men, women, children, and the elderly. Some were headless, some were dried into human skin, and others were in various gruesome states, making one's scalp crawl.

"You beast, prepare to die!"

Ma Xiaotao, with her Crimson Flame Wings and Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar, roared within the cave, radiating a terrifying aura.

"Damn it, what kind of monsters are these..." The Death Messenger looked astonished, but a cold smile flashed in his eyes. "They're all in, huh? Well then, I won't be polite."

"Give me the power, explode!!!"

"Careful!"

Lu Cheng remained expressionless and gave a soft shout.

At the same time, his Spiritual Sharing reached its peak, and the flow of time around him seemed to slow down. Ice shields rose up in front of him, mainly protecting the back row, that is, the reserve team, Wang Dong'er, Ning Tian and others.

Ma Xiaotao, on the other hand, fared rather badly.

Even with Lu Cheng's reminder, they could only manage to save themselves.

Ma Xiaotao's wings trembled and contracted as she tried her best to protect herself. Dai Yueheng used the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, Chen Zifeng used "Defense," Xi Xi was encased in an ice shield by Ling Luochеn...

"Boom!"

A terrifying roar emanated from the cave.

The corpses of countless civilians and Evil Soul Master suddenly swelled, then erupted with a terrifying force. Bone fragments, foul-smelling yellow blood, and thick green corpse poison turned the place into a living hell. This explosion was not a one-time event. During the first Corpse Explosion, many Evil Soul Master were still fighting and were swept away and killed by the Corpse Explosion, becoming the energy source for the second Corpse Explosion.

Immediately following was another earth-shattering explosion that swept through the entire cave.

And then I heard about the explosion.

Xuan Zi, who was drinking above the cave and slightly dissatisfied with the lackluster bandit suppression and the inability to teach that little beast a lesson, suddenly had a moment of daze.

My heart started pounding.

Oh no! Under his leadership, the team is going to get into trouble again!!!

"..."

As he took in everything inside the cave, his gaze gradually became vacant.

Even though Lu Cheng's reminder was timely and supplemented by Spiritual Sharing, it was still difficult to overcome.

However, many of the inner court disciples who rushed to the front and were in the core area were still seriously injured. Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng were the strongest and were not infected by the corpse poison. The former barely managed to stabilize herself and coughed up blood, but the latter was knocked unconscious by the powerful shock wave.

Xi Xi, Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng fared slightly worse, their bodies tainted with corpse poison, but fortunately they didn't lose any limbs; their faces were just purple, clearly in dire need of treatment.

Gongyang Mo and Ling Luochеn were positioned towards the back. Gongyang Mo was further protected by an ice shield placed on him by Ling Luochеn, so his injuries were only minor, but he was temporarily unable to use his Soul Power and needed to recuperate for some time...

In other words, under his leadership.

Before that little beast could even suffer the brutality of the Evil Soul Master, the entire Shrek Academy's regular team, on whom high hopes were placed, was the first to be crippled...

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Xuan Zi's eyes were bloodshot and filled with hatred as he stared intently at the Death Messenger was trying to escape in the distance.

"You beast, I'll kill you!!"

The phantom of the Godly Taotie Bull slowly emerged behind him, and a thick, steady, earth-yellow Soul Power surged from his body. Xuan Zi stretched out his hand and aimed it at the Death Messenger in the distance, and a terrifying suction force suddenly appeared.

It suddenly pulled the latter's figure towards it.

"..."

The Death Messenger's pupils suddenly contracted, his face turning bitter. Another expert?!

But at the critical moment of life and death, he happened to catch a glimpse of the corpse of another Evil Soul Master Soul King, and a plan came to mind.

"Drink it!"

So, during the glide, the Death Messenger touched the eye (the corpse of the Evil Soul Master Soul King), used R Flash (Soul Skill) to adjust his position, and rammed the (Corpse of the Evil Soul Master Soul King) into Xuan Zi, thus creating a teleportation swap.

"Boom!"

The Corpse Explosion obscured Xuan Zi's vision.

The person drawn to the latter's palm was replaced by a bomb.

The bones and flesh exploded, leaving Xuan Zi's face filthy.

Although the damage is not high, it is extremely insulting.

Only after Xuan Zi wiped his vision clean did he realize that the Soul King had already disappeared.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Only Xuan Zi's angry roar remained inside the cave.

On the other side.

The Death Messenger executed a dazzling display of skill, making a graceful escape. While still savoring his own performance, a shadow of gloom flashed in his eyes. "That damned old bastard, he wiped out my life savings in an instant. But thankfully, these things helped me stop..."

He glanced at the dozen or so inhuman-looking corpse slaves standing at the end of the cave. With them there, if they all self-destructed at the same time, stopping the old man who seemed to be a Super Douluo shouldn't be a problem.

"When I return, even Titled Douluo will be reduced to a corpse slave..."

etc.

The Death Messenger's pupils suddenly contracted.

At the far end of the field of vision, right in the center of the twelve corpse slaves, stood a figure dressed in a turquoise outfit, clearly one of the outsiders who had previously invaded the cave. But the more one looked at his face, the more eerie he became.

The incredibly handsome young man was now leisurely sitting on the shoulder of a burly corpse slave, looking at him with a playful gaze.

His Blood Pupils were filled with a sinister charm.

From this perspective, it seemed as if the other party was the ruthless killer, while he appeared to be an honest and kind person.

"No... why didn't the corpse slave attack him?!" The Death Messenger's eyes trembled, and even his escape speed slowed down, his eyes filled with doubt and uncertainty.

Only he could command those corpse slaves; anyone else who approached would be instantly torn to shreds.

But this young man... remained so calm and composed.

Just as he attempted to manipulate the corpse slaves, he was struck as if by a hammer blow, his mind reeling and pain spreading through his brain.

His control over the corpse slaves had long since been unknowingly plundered.

When?!!

P. S.: Two more chapters tonight, I'll try to write as much as possible today.