Until Qu Wuming finished casting the spell, Xing Xin lay on the ground like a dead pig, motionless.
Qu Wuming did not try to search Xing Xin's soul after the spell was cast, so as to understand the secrets and past in this person's mind - sect elders like Xing Xin were active or in the sea of consciousness. The sect's ban was passively planted to prevent the sect's secrets from being revealed through the soul search method after being captured by the enemy. If you rush to search for its soul, once these restrictions are triggered, it may lead to unpredictable consequences.
For people like Xing Xin, it no longer matters what secrets he hides.
If he wasn't just curious about what he stole from the Ghost Servant Village, Qu Wuming wouldn't even think of going to all the trouble to seal him up and kidnap him here.
Looking at Xing Xin who seemed to be in a deep sleep, Qu Wuming said in a deep voice: "Xing Xin, in your life, you have been stealing everywhere for your own benefit, without caring about the life and death of others! You don't know how many times you have acted recklessly and relied on yourself. Killing ordinary people as a cultivator is really worthy of death! Today, I will do justice for heaven and end you! If you are unwilling to accept it, then wait until you reach the ghost world and pay tribute to the souls of all those who were killed by you. Go complain!"
After saying that, Qu Wuming raised his hands and lowered his hands to chop off Xing Xin's head. Then with a flick of his finger, his body was immediately wrapped in two balls of Hongmeng Dark Thunder Fire, and after a few breaths, it was burned to ashes.
Qu Wuming raised his hand in a false gesture, and Xing Xin's storage ring flew up from one of the ashes and fell into Qu Wushe's hand.
"You should find a way to crack his storage ring and see what's inside." Qu Wuming ordered.
"Okay!" Qu Wushe caught the storage ring, and the power of his spiritual consciousness surged toward the layer of spiritual consciousness that was sealed on the storage ring. Although Xing Xin had personally laid down that layer of bans, without Xing Xin's blessing at this time, even though Qu Wushe's spiritual consciousness was not as powerful as Xing Xin's, it was only a matter of time before the remaining bans were wiped out.
Qu Wushe lifted the consciousness seal of the storage ring at the side, while Qu Wuming raised his hand and picked up a thumb-sized translucent ball from the ashes on Xing Xin's head.
The golden light flashed on the bead. If you magnified it a hundred times, you could recognize that the golden light was the seals that Qu Wuming had penetrated into Xing Xin's eyebrows before.
And what's inside these seals is Xing Xin's Zifu space.
Using this method to peel off the seal of Xing Xin's Purple Mansion Space can keep her Purple Mansion Space from collapsing after Xing Xin's death, but the time it can be maintained is also relatively limited - after about twelve hours, if her space is not removed, The barrier sacrifice has become a fixed secret realm, and the Zifu space will still end up collapsing.
Many unnatural secret realms in the Eastern Continent were actually created by the Zifu space of the monks in the Void Refining Stage after his death. However, a considerable part of them were left to future generations by monks in the Void Refining Stage who took the initiative to perform sacrifices before their death. After all, there were still a small number of people like Xing Xin who had the space of the Purple Mansion stripped away by the enemy.
Qu Wuming didn't want to sacrifice it and turn it into a secret realm. The resources and spiritual stones required to do so were really valuable, and for Qu Wuming, the gains would outweigh the losses. Besides, Qu Wuming already has enough space treasures of his own, and there is no need to treat the enemy's Zi Mansion space as trophies and then refine them into treasures - Qu Wuming has no habit of collecting such trophies.
With a thought in his mind, Qu Wuming fired a spell, and a door of light suddenly appeared on the bead.
As if he was worried about what kind of protection there was, Qu Wuming very carefully raised a protective light shield and then stepped inside.
What surprised Qu Wuming was that when he walked out of the other side of the light door, what he saw was a ghostly world.
In the gray Zifu space, a towering stone mountain seems to support the entire sky like a pillar of heaven. At the foot of the stone mountain is a well-proportioned two-story mountain - that is the symbol of the second-level ascetics in the Void Refining Stage. Every time the cultivation level increases, the ground in the Zifu space will automatically rise by one level.
And on this two-story terraced mountain, there are actually no less than a hundred caves built densely - some of those caves are relatively independent, some are connected to each other, one next to the other, and many of the caves seem to have seals. , from time to time there are various sounds like howling lone wolves, or some weird cries coming from behind those seals. The entire mountain is also engraved with colorful runes, which glow faintly in the faint black mist, as if forming some kind of formation.
"What is going on?!" Qu Wuming looked at the caves carefully, and couldn't help but feel his scalp numb, and said to himself, "Is he... using his Zifu space as a prison?"
After a while, Qu Wuming lowered his escape light and landed in front of a cave, looking inside through the translucent restriction.
The interior space of the cave was not large, only about ten feet in diameter, and the surrounding stone walls were covered with talisman formations, which still seemed to be running automatically at this time, emitting a faint light.
In the middle of the cave, there lay an unconscious old man in ragged clothes. There were iron chains around his limbs and neck, and there were also a large number of runes flashing on the iron chains.
Qu Wuming narrowed his eyes and looked at the old man carefully for a moment, but found that he did not recognize him. Although there is a layer of restriction, Qu Wuming's spiritual power can penetrate directly from the outside and will not be blocked by this restriction.
Qu Wuming judged that the old man's previous cultivation should be at least in the late stage of spiritual transformation, but now he is close to the state of exhaustion... There is not much left in his cultivation and the essence in his body.
From the runes on those iron chains, Qu Wuming could roughly judge that these iron chains were not all used to seal the old man's mana, but had some effect of extracting mana and essence at the same time.
Perhaps this old man was also Xing Xin's enemy before, and was trapped here by Xing Xin, using his body and magic power as material to support Xing Xin's cultivation.
No wonder Xing Xin, who was originally inferior to Qu Wuming in cultivation, was able to leave Qu Wuming's cultivation far behind in the same period of time. Even though there were special factors in Qu Wuming's cultivation method, she could improve her own cultivation in this way. Because, it is naturally much faster than meditating cross-legged by one's own strength.
Qu Wuming understood clearly and was secretly frightened by Xing Xin's despicable behavior. Then he slowly moved to the cave next door.
As soon as he approached the forbidden area of the cave, Qu Wuming saw a man chained inside.
The man was not in a coma. He was sitting blankly in the middle of the cave. When he saw Qu Wuming outside, he was stunned for a moment. Then he stood up as if he was crazy and rushed towards Qu Wuming with all his teeth and claws. .
However, his limbs and neck were locked by iron chains. Not only did he not jump to Qu Wuming's side, but he was pushed back by the force of the iron chain's repulsion. He flew back with a squeak, and then fell down. On the ground.
However, the man seemed not to feel any pain at all. He let out a hoarse roar and got up again and rushed towards Qu Wuming. If there were no chains holding him back and no restrictions between him, Qu Wuming had no doubt that he would pounce on him and bite him.
However, amidst the man's roar and his claws, Qu Wuming also saw clearly the man's state - his eyes were dull, his mouth was tongueless, his mouth was open hoarsely, and saliva had already flowed down the corner of his mouth to his chin - Apparently Xing Xin had his tongue pulled out, and he was driven crazy in this cave at some point.
Another poor guy.
Qu Wuming continued to walk towards the next cave.
In the cave next door, what was locked was a woman.
However, this woman's condition seems to be slightly better than that of the man next to her.
But that's just because there didn't seem to be any injuries on his body.
Judging from the appearance, this woman has a curvy figure, her skin is as white as gelatin, and her long black hair hangs down on her shoulders. She is half lying and half sitting on a soft mat. Just one look at it makes people... I can't help but feel the urge to hold it in my arms and care about it.
However, her eyes were dull and her expression was depressed. Seeing a stranger appear outside the restricted area, she just turned her head blankly and looked at Qu Wuming, without any emotion in her eyes. Then she lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers indifferently, as if she didn't realize that she was doing this at all. At that time, it was actually a state where not even a single hair was covered, and all the spring light was released.
She seemed to have no sense of anything in the outside world, but when Qu Wuming saw her, he couldn't help but clenched his fists secretly.
This woman no longer recognized Qu Wuming.
But Qu Wuming recognized her.
Although it was just a one-time encounter many years ago, Qu Wuming still recognized her.
Because she was once the junior sister of one of his confidante.
She was originally a disciple of the female cultivator sect Peach Blossom Valley, and was a fellow disciple of Han Ling'er who died a thousand years ago...
The last time they met was more than a thousand years ago. At that time, she and Han Ling'er were like a pair of sisters. They were talking and laughing, and they were so happy.
Unexpectedly, when they met again, Han Ling'er had already passed away, but she was in this state!
Qu Wuming's eyes casually glanced at the entrance of the cave, and he quickly found the foundation of the formation that maintained the cave's restrictions.
This is Xing Xin's Zifu space. For Xing Xin, it is considered the safest place. Therefore, the restrictions in these caves are basically all designed for the inside of the caves. The arrays to maintain the operation of the restrictions and the placement of spiritual stones The places are all placed carelessly at the entrance of the cave to facilitate Xing Xin's operation.
Qu Wuming pressed his hand on the forbidden formation of this cave. Soon, the forbidden light curtain at the door flashed and became a state where he could enter and exit freely.
Qu Wuming stepped into it, cautiously came to the woman, waved and threw an old robe of his to wrap the naked woman, and then asked tentatively: "Hao Yan'er, do you still recognize me?" me?"
When the woman he called Hao Yan'er heard this, she raised her head blankly, tilted her head slightly to look at Qu Wuming, and after a long time she said in a daze, "Uncle, who are you? We seem to have met somewhere. ?..."
