Chapter 431

Chapter 431

Leylin stood outside the Spirit Hall and waited for just a minute when a middle aged man who wore a gold-plated robe of the alchemist, which had three spirit herbs embroidered on the shoulder sprinted towards him.

From his clothes Leylin could make out that he was a Third Rank of Profound Level alchemist.

There were five categories of alchemists in the Grace Mainland; Mortality, Mystery, Soul, Royalty, and Divinity. Under each category, there were seven sub-ranks.

Alchemist categories, with tokens displayed on their clothing and number of tokens corresponding to the sub-rank :

Mortality: White Medicine Bottles

Mystery: Red Flames

Soul: Medicinal Herbs

Royalty: Wonder Pills

Divinity: Medicinal Cauldrons

A smile filled the Alchemist's face all of a sudden, his face servile. He came to Leylin and greeted him. First, he solemnly handed back the token to Leylin and asked, "My name is Jeffery and I am the person in charge of this Spirit Hall. May I know how I can help you?"

Leylin nodded to him. "I wish to find the owner of this token."

Jeffrey's eyes brightened as he asked with caution. "How do you relate to Elder Linus Pauling? Why do you have his token?"

"We have some connections." answered Leylin without specifying.

Jeffrey wore a disbelieving face, his expression interesting. He hesitated for a while and then said, "When Elder Linus came back last time, he announced that he would not refine medicines for anyone for a while. Also, he asked us not to disturb him. Currently, we don't dare to contact him directly, otherwise"

"You have any other way?"

"You shall take that token and directly visit the Flying Cloud Summit. You can talk with his disciples there to see if he wants to meet you or not."

"That's fine with me, where is this Flying Cloud Summit?"

The Dead Soul Mountain range had almost one thousand mountains, scattering in a large area. The distance between the two mountains could take up days of traveling. If he didn't know the exact location, searching with his luck only, he would have to waste much time.

"Hold on. I'll see if I can take you to the Flying Cloud Summit myself."

As Jeffery was communicating with a sound stone to check things at his ends, people in the surroundings discussed about Leylin's status with low tones.

They were eyeing him, guessing his real status with awe. Usually Jeffery is a very haughty fellow but before Leylin he was acting too meek and obedient.

After talking to the sound crystal for a while, Jeffery sighed and shook his head with disappointment. "I'm sorry. I can't leave the workplace currently. If you aren't hurried, can you wait for half of a month later? Then I can take you to the Flying Cloud Summit personally. Is it okay?"

"No."

Jeffery forced a smile while musing, "Then if sir will allow me, I will let my favorite disciple take you there. She knows the location of the Flying Cloud Summit, too."

"Okay."

Having heard that, Jeffery was joyful. He made a call through the sound crystal. "Cherry, come here quickly!"

Not long after that, a girl with a calm expression and wearing a long blue dress walked towards them from a shop not far from there. Her deep blue eyes sparkled as she felt displeased, "Teacher, why did you call me here? I was negotiating the price of the Multi-colored Devil Mask flower. I had almost gotten it."

This girl had long maroon hair cascading over her shoulder. She stood upright, and her eyes were like precious jade, sparkling with a shining blue light.

As she appeared, many alchemists and warriors in the Spirit Hall had their eyes brightened up, with their line of sight gluing on her.

"Cherry, take this guest to the Flying Cloud Summit." Jeffery assigned her with a low tone.

"The Flying Cloud Summit?" Cherry's blue eyes brightened. She looked at Leylin with astonishment, then nodded. "I got it."

"Yeah. Seems our little brother has just visited the Dead Soul Mountain range for the first time. We shouldn't delay his business. Along the way, you should introduce the Spirit Potion Valley and the Precious Tool Valley to him too," advised Jeffery.

Cherry smiled and then nodded. She looked as natural and generous as an elegant orchid flower.

"Lets get going." Although Cherry was extremely beautiful there was no change in Leylin's attitude, he was still only concerned with his business. Speaking not a word more than needed, but despite that his manner of speech and his momentum didn't present him as an arrogant individual but more of an important hotshot.

Cherry nodded. Her blue eyes showed that she was interested in him.

...

The moon shone brightly in the late night.

Under the clear moonlight, Cherry was gliding in the sky with a pair of dreamy blue wings on her back. She was as agile as a fairy in the pellucid night.

She turned to look at Leylin from time to time, but he seemed to be thinking about something else not in the least concerned about her. Since the start of travel, Leylin haven't spoken a single word just quietly following behind her. He didn't even share his name to her and neither her master!

He didn't even show any interest when she used her wings which are Indigo Soaring Wing's a Profound level secret tool. Feeling indignant she used it to maximize her speed, only to find a nonchalant and stoic Leylin following right beside her.

"Hey, why do you want to go to the Flying Cloud Summit?" Cherry couldn't help but wore a curious face. "As far as I know, precursor Linus in the Flying Cloud Summit is one of the five grand Elders of our Spirit Hall. He rarely comes to the Spirit Potion Valley. He stays and refines medicines in the Flying Cloud Summit. He doesn't have many disciples. He's a bit arrogant, though. We haven't met him for years such a mysterious alchemist."

"I have some business with him."

"...." Cherry eyebrows twitched at his conversation ending statement and she couldn't help but sigh not talking anymore.

Leylin also didn't concern himself with her because he was more interested about the strange humming in his head.

After starting his trip, Leylin felt that the Five Devils had been dormant for a really long time, but now, they seemed to be awake all of a sudden. Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The Five Devils in his inner world gathered despair, fear, bloodlust, greed, and resentment into one entity. In the land of the hollow spirits, they had swallowed a lot of hollow spirits, and then laid dormant. They had no response, as they seemed to head towards an evolution, changing slowly.

In his Sea of Consciousness, the Five Devils were like five groups of dusky smoke where he could see the despair, fear, bloodthirsty, greed, and resentment hovering clearly.

A smile crept on Leylin's face, "Oh you want that, but it seems to belong to someone else. But who cares about those weaklings, Go eat your fill."

Leylin lifted the barrier allowing the five dark silhouettes to shoot out from the back of his head. They then jumped through that fire wall agilely, grabbed the three dead souls and swallowed them. Seconds later, they had finished the whole three dead souls.

Seeing their efforts about to be fruitful, the five warriors had been ready to capture the dead soul. However, they suddenly felt dizzy and immediately found five other grey figures inside their fire wall. These figures then besieged and devoured the dead souls.

Leylin didn't register a single tinge of regret in his visage. It's a world where strength reigns supreme, as long as he is the strongest in the room others would need to comply before his wishes and if they don't...

Strange light flashed in Cherry's blue eyes. She instinctively looked at the back of Leylin's head, her face disbelieving.

The Five Devils had flown out fast. Although she stood next to him, she only saw five silhouettes dash out from behind Leylin. Thus, she wasn't sure that they came from his body.

"God damn it!"

The fifty-some old man clenched his fists and gritted his teeth indignantly, looking at the five figures behind the fire wall. He scolded, "What the heck are those? Dare to take our goods! Go die!"

The sword in his hand suddenly gushed out a ten-meter long fire, shooting towards the Five Devils.

The other four reacted timely. They clenched their jaws and urged the powers of their secret weapons to attack the Five Devils.

To hunt those three dead souls, the five of them had spent half a year to borrowed enough secret weapons. They had also waited for more than a month in this area to find dead souls. After a hard struggling time, they'd almost got them. It wasn't easy to back them into the corner. And now, someone had snatched the spoils of their strenuous war. How could they press down the anger?

The five of them joined forces again. Fiery flames shot out from the flaming attribute weapons, striking toward the Five Devils.

After the Five Devils had swallowed the dying dead souls, they didn't feel pleased yet. They didn't concern about the scorching flaming attack, turning back into the five dark, gray shadows, gathering in front of Leylin and asking him to find more dead souls to fill their stomachs.

The five warriors had done many things, but got nothing in the end. As they were about to shout and scold, they realized that those five gloomy thieves seemed to have a master.

The five of them were astounded for a while. First, they tried to sense Leylin's cultivation base from afar. After they got to know that they couldn't sense his cultivation, they became sober and alert.

"Sir, those five energy ribbons came from you, right?" Tain, the leader, said with an indignant face. "We've kept an eye on those three dead souls for half of a year. We have spent much effort and crystals to catch them?"

The other four including three men and a young girl all looked at him with rage but didn't dare to do anything without understanding the situation.

Leylin who stood before them was as stoic as before, not even putting them in his eyes. Seeing him so composed despite their strength made them more alert.

"Get lost."

Leylin only muttered these two words as he started to move forward.

After he finished, the five people of Tain's group were enraged. They clenched their jaws and gritted their teeth, as they seemed to attempt to risk their lives with his.

Cherry's blue eyes sparkled. She frowned and then said, "He's our Spirit Hall's distinguished guest. We will be responsible for this. When we come back to the Spirit Hall, we'll compensate for your loss. Is it okay?"

"Spirit Hall?" Tain discolored. He scrutinized her and then said, "Are you Master Jeffery's disciple?"

Cherry smiled naturally and gave him a slight nod.

"Even Master Jeffery can't bully people like that!" Tain's visage darkened. "Say it. How will you compensate us? Your Spirit Hall doesn't need the dead souls. Will you be able to give me three dead souls?"

"Our Spirit Hall doesn't have the dead souls, but we have something to exchange for them." Cherry snorted arrogantly. "Although the dead souls are rare, those three were at the lowest level, so their values aren't high. Don't you think that our Spirit Hall doesn't have anything equal to make it up for you? Harrumph, if you've been strolling around the Dead Soul Mountain range, you should know about the capacity of the Spirit Hall."

Tain's face became better when he heard that. "I know your Spirit Hall has big capacities. However, we only need the dead souls!"

"There're many blacksmiths in the Precious Tool Valley. Many of them should have dead souls. When I return to the Spirit Potion Valley, I will ask my teacher to collect three dead souls for you guys. How does that sound?" Cherry frowned impatiently.

"If you ensure that you can collect three dead souls for us, we will let it go. If not, I want to take this kid's life as our compensation!" Tain snorted and his guts got bigger. Seeing Cherry taking the initiative to compensate Leylin as well as protect him, he naturally assumed that instead of an expert he's just an arrogant person.

Cherry harrumphed. She was about to agree with him. In her eyes, it wasn't a big deal.

Leylin moving steps stopped while listening to their conversation, as he heard Tain threaten him, his face got colder, speaking up faintly. "You want my life as a compensation?"

"Oh well, Since you want the dead souls that much. I'll make you one." Leylin smiled, urging a bit of his negative power. The energy around him suddenly increased, as a wild, sinister aura rippled from his body.

Tain and others were terrified. He discolored as he recognized that there was a furiously dangerous energy covering Leylin.

Leylin haven't even revealed his cultivation to suppress them, only his killing intent and aura was enough to immobilize them.

"Attack!" Leylin raised his fingers and commanded as the Five Devils behind him immediately dived forward.

Immediately they appeared before the group of five who were unable to do or say anything under Leylin's suppression. They stared in fear and helplessness as the Five Devils opened their mouth and gnawed their heads off as blood spurted out unceasingly.

There wasn't any fight, any resistance nor any chance at refusal if Leylin wanted them to die then death is what they must receive.

"Should have listened to me and went your way. Life isn't more important than a few dead souls *sigh*, no matter try to keep this lesson in mind in your next life."

"You... You!" Cherry was astounded as well as afraid as she watched the scene unfolding before her. This is just too shocking, the team of four Sky realm warriors with cultivation similar to her were dead just like that! They didn't even have any chance of counterattacking or retreating. After Leylin attacked they could only watch in horror and accept their deceased fate.

It seems she has miscalculated, this guy before her wasn't arrogant to not give her master and her any face, rather they were truly beneath him to warrant his attention.

Just where did he come from? And who is he?

Questions like these appeared in her mind, but she didn't dare to ask. If Leylin can crush those four so easily, she is also akin to an ant before him.

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