Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 869: A Ruthless Person
After this person arrived in the Immortal Realm, not only was his cultivation speed extremely rapid, but his temperament was also extremely ruthless. Anyone who fell into his hands basically had no chance of survival.
Even more outrageous was that killing someone of a higher level was as simple as breathing for him. He once killed a Grand Luo Immortal when he was just a Grand Unity Immortal, and he could easily kill an Immortal King when he was a Grand Luo Immortal.
Apart from a few top geniuses in the Immortal Realm, how many people could kill an Immortal King as a Grand Luo Immortal? Even if they did, it would only be occasionally, after a great battle. Zhu Yin killing an Immortal King was commonplace. Even while drinking tea in an Immortal City, if an Immortal King said something that offended him, he would not hold back.
In less than 100,000 years, Zhu Yin advanced to the Grand Immortal Emperor Realm. In the Immortal Realm, without top-tier opportunities, those who could advance to the Immortal Emperor Realm within 100,000 years were geniuses among geniuses.
But there were still some such geniuses, especially some cultivators who ascended from the lower realms, whose aptitudes were extraordinarily ridiculous. Although these people relied entirely on their own struggles, their advancement speed was often even faster.
However, even among Immortal Emperors, the level of their realms could be completely different.
Zhu Yin was this type of guy with a very high realm. After he advanced to the Grand Immortal Emperor, he single-handedly annihilated a top-tier Immortal Sect in the Immortal Realm. At that time, this Immortal Sect had seven or eight Immortal Emperors, including three Grand Immortal Emperors. Yet, these seven or eight people besieged Zhu Yin alone, and all of them perished. Zhu Yin only suffered some injuries.
Even more terrifying was Zhu Yin's cultivation technique. Every time he killed an opponent, his strength would increase slightly.
Zhu Yin originally wanted to establish a new sect in the location where he had destroyed the previous one. The name of this sect was even known: the Severed Soul Dao Sect. Zhu Yin's name, "Severed Soul Man," was also given to him around this time.
Before Zhu Yin established his sect, he accidentally learned about the passage to the Grand Supreme Heaven. He immediately abandoned his plan to establish a sect in the Immortal Realm, as he wanted to establish his sect in the Grand Supreme Heaven.
In fact, Zhu Yin's existence had long aroused Zi Changluo's vigilance. After letting Zhu Yin inadvertently learn about the existence of the Grand Supreme Heaven, Zi Changluo began to deal with Zhu Yin.
Zhu Yin was clever and cunning. He even thought that Zi Changluo might be intentionally luring him there. Even so, Zhu Yin still went to the Grand Supreme Heaven without hesitation, trusting in his own abilities.
But no matter how confident he was, he never expected that Zi Changluo had an array disc that surpassed the ninth-grade Immortal Array. Moreover, he did not expect that Zi Changluo would invite seventeen Grand Immortal Emperors to deal with him alone. And Zi Changluo himself was a Dao Emperor who surpassed the Grand Immortal Emperor.
It was in that siege that Zhu Yin killed eight Grand Immortal Emperors, severely injured four, and as a result, he himself was also severely injured and captured.
Zi Changluo coveted the Severed Dao technique that Zhu Yin cultivated, so he was unwilling to kill Zhu Yin and imprisoned him in the Soul Locking Prison. Before imprisoning Zhu Yin, Zi Changluo had refined Zhu Yin's heart blood essence. As long as Zi Changluo was willing, he could destroy Zhu Yin at any time.
After many years of continuous questioning, Zi Changluo learned some of Zhu Yin's cultivation methods. Zhu Yin indeed cultivated a vicious technique that could devour the opponent's soul to strengthen his own spiritual sea. Most astonishingly, this technique had no aftereffects.
A person's strength largely depends on his spiritual sea. Zhu Yin's spiritual sea was solid and powerful, so his strength was obviously far superior to others of the same level.
Zi Changluo's technique had taken shape, and he was thinking of ways to study how to cultivate the Severed Dao method concurrently. Therefore, he had not thought of Zhu Yin for a long time. This time, something happened in the Grand Supreme Heaven in the Immortal Realm. Not only Ping Lishang died, which showed that the person who did it was no weaker than him. That's why he remembered Zhu Yin.
Before Gongshu Shipan returned, a flying sword landed in Zi Changluo's hand, and Zi Changluo's face turned ugly. He did not expect that this matter was done by Mo Wuji. Mo Wuji had not only returned but also brought people back to the Immortal Realm.
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Gongshu Shipan quickly led a creature that looked neither human nor ghost into the Dao Emperor's Hall. If one did not use spiritual sense to observe, one could only see a monster with long hair, exuding a strange smell and aura all over its body.
If one used spiritual sense to observe, one would find that the eyes hidden under his hair were somewhat empty, completely numb.
"Zhu Yin, the mistakes you have committed cannot be offset even if you are killed ten thousand times. Now, I will give you a chance to atone for your sins," Zi Changluo shouted sternly, looking at the monster.
Obviously, this creature that looked neither human nor ghost was Zhu Yin.
Zhu Yin seemed to have not heard Zi Changluo's words at all, and his eyes remained empty.
Zi Changluo revealed a very satisfied expression, and suddenly patted his glabella. A rune directly entered Zhu Yin's glabella. He then took out a crystal ball and handed it to Zhu Yin, saying, "This person is called Mo Wuji, and the Immortal Sect he belongs to is called Ping Fan Immortal Sect. Go to him now, and kill him immediately when you see him. Kill all the people around him immediately. When you see the Ping Fan Immortal Sect, kill everything alive around it."
"Kill, kill," Zhu Yin murmured, repeating the words.
"That's right, kill them all," Zi Changluo shouted sternly.
His voice seemed to be engraved in Zhu Yin's mind. After hearing this voice, the killing intent on Zhu Yin's body suddenly became sharp. He raised his head, his eyes filled with fierce light, as if everything around him was also something to be killed in his eyes.
Zi Changluo breathed a sigh of relief and said to Gongshu Shipan, "Shipan, you and Hu Chisheng take ten experts from the Grand Supreme Heaven, plus this Zhu Yin, and also take an Immortal army to raze the Ping Fan Immortal Sect to the ground. Kill Mo Wuji directly. Alas, my injury is really untimely."
"Yes," Gongshu Shipan responded respectfully.
At the same time, a man with a blurry face also walked out on Zi Changluo's right hand side. Even the people of the Grand Supreme Heaven only knew him as Hu Chisheng and did not know his origin and past because he never made friends.
Gongshu Shipan then selected six or seven other people in the hall before leading these people, Hu Chisheng, and Zhu Yin out of the Dao Emperor's Hall.
Zi Changluo stood up, looking at Gongshu Shipan's departing back with a solemn expression. His eyes were full of comfort, as if even though he was injured, there were still people in the Grand Supreme Heaven who could stand up.
No one knew that his injury had long healed. Logically speaking, he should have gone out himself when encountering a strong person like Mo Wuji. Zi Changluo never intended to go there himself from beginning to end. Ever since he heard that Mo Wuji had killed the God Race's Dao Emperor Palun, he had never thought of facing Mo Wuji at the Dao Emperor level.
Similarly, no one knew that after Zhu Yin walked out of the Dao Emperor's Hall, a chilling coldness flashed in his empty and murderous eyes.
Even if Zi Changluo's head was ten thousand times smarter, he might not have thought that the reason why Zhu Yin fell into the trap and was captured by him was intentional.
If one were to talk about ruthlessness in cultivation, it was estimated that no one in this world could compare to Zhu Yin. Zhu Yin was not only ruthless to others but also to himself.
In fact, he had long ago cultivated to the Grand Immortal Emperor Realm. Limited by the environment and resources, his cultivation had been unable to advance.
After searching the Immortal Realm, he found a place called the Soul Locking Prison. He also knew a secret that Zi Changluo did not even know: beneath the Soul Locking Prison was the purest top-level Soul Pond. This place was of crucial importance to his Great Dao. Without stepping into the Soul Locking Prison, he would not be able to take another step forward at all.
This was just like how Mo Wuji had to return to a true mortal life if he wanted to cross the Grand Immortal Emperor Realm. Because Mo Wuji cultivated the Dao of Mortals, and he was the founder of the Dao of Mortals.
Zhu Yin cultivated the Dao of Severance, and he was also the founder of the Dao of Severance. His Dao of Severance had always been to absorb the souls of cultivators to cultivate. By using the primordial spirit and soul of others, he could strengthen his own spiritual sea, enhance his Immortal Essence and primordial spirit, which was considered a vicious technique. Of course, in Zhu Yin's view, there was no good or evil in techniques, only strength and weakness.
After cultivating this technique to the extreme, one's own soul and spiritual sea would be restricted by the rules of heaven and earth, making it difficult to advance further.
After many years of exploration, Zhu Yin finally understood the truth. If he wanted to break this shackle, he had to grind away the foreign Dao in his soul and spiritual sea.
Even if Zhu Yin had high talent and strong aptitude, and the Dao of Severance was remarkable, he could not completely cut off the foreign Dao in his spiritual sea after devouring so many souls.
The method that Zhu Yin found was to use the Soul Locking Prison of the Grand Supreme Heaven. Only in a place like the Soul Locking Prison could his soul be locked, allowing his soul to be constantly tempered, consumed, and smoothed in this prison, finally leading to great results.
After entering a place like the Soul Locking Prison, one basically had no chance of surviving. No one would be brain-dead enough to send themselves into the Soul Locking Prison.
But Zhu Yin did just that. Not only did he do it, but he also did it in a way that Zi Changluo did not notice at all.
One had to know that as long as Zi Changluo had a trace of killing intent towards him, Zhu Yin would definitely die. After so many years, he had managed to completely perfect his technique. Just as he was waiting to leave the Soul Locking Prison, Zi Changluo sent him an opportunity.
Therefore, even though Zi Changluo took him away from the Soul Locking Prison, severing the Soul Locking Prison's continued confinement of him, he did not think of leaving now. Because at the moment he stepped out of the Soul Locking Prison, he knew that his life and death were once again under his own control.
The reason why he wanted to follow Gongshu Shipan to the Ping Fan Immortal Sect was not to help Zi Changluo be a thug, but to sincerely fight that Mo Wuji.
He, Zhu Yin, really wanted to know how powerful the strong person that even Zi Changluo was afraid of was. In addition, he, Zhu Yin, also wanted to know how strong his strength was after his Dao of Severance was completed.
Similarly, he also wanted to regard Mo Wuji as the first big meal after his technique was completed. At this moment, Zhu Yin only hoped that this big meal would not be too shabby.
Of course, he did not know that after he arrived in the Immortal Realm, his descendants had also established a Reincarnation Dao Sect in Zhenxing. As a result, the Reincarnation Dao Sect was destroyed by the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and the Severed Gate established by his descendant Zhu Qu was also destroyed by Mo Wuji. If he knew these things, he probably would not have gone to the Ping Fan Immortal Sect with the idea of eating a big meal.
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