Dugu Bo and Ning Haiyan also joined the ranks of extinguishing the fire and collecting corpses.
Before long, a clearing at the edge of the village was piled high with corpses, and with a wave of his right hand, Ning Haiyan set them ablaze. The fire throughout the entire village was also extinguished by the combined efforts of the three.
Just then, Gu Rong walked out of a thatched hut carrying a child.
The child looked to be about six years old, dressed in tattered gray cloth clothes, with a gaunt frame and sunken cheeks, eyes tightly closed, clearly having been unconscious for a long time.
"Bone Grandfather, this is..." Ning Haiyan walked over, looking at the child with a puzzled expression.
"I found him in a cellar beneath a rice vat. He's probably been hiding there for quite some time. He's the only survivor from this village. I sensed Soul Power fluctuations within him, around level three, so he probably awakened his Spirit not long ago and was hidden away by the village as their only hope for revenge!" Gu Rong said with a sigh, handing the child to Ning Haiyan.
Ning Haiyan's face was grim as he looked at the rare, intact house not far away. He slowly walked inside, placed the child on the bed, and took out a pill from his Storage Soul Guidance Ring, using his Soul Power to help him swallow it. Then, he stood guard by the child's side.
Before long, Dugu Yan walked in with a gloomy face, her expression filled with grief and disbelief. She couldn't understand why someone would be so cruel, so utterly insane, to casually slaughter nearly three hundred people in the entire village for the sake of cultivation, not even sparing the children.
The Soul Master world had always said that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, was ruthless, the best at group attacks, capable of easily slaughtering an entire city. But she had never seen it, nor had she heard of her grandfather killing in such a way. At most, he had only taken out a few dozen Soul Masters at once, never creating such a horrific tragedy.
Unable to understand, Dugu Yan simply stared blankly at the unconscious boy on the bed.
Time flowed by, and in the blink of an eye, the sky darkened. The fiery clouds in the west rolled like a sea of fire, a magnificent sight.
Sensing the weakening of the Sun Power, Xu Yang also stopped healing. After an afternoon of treatment, most of the soreness in his body had disappeared, with only a few places still aching faintly, no longer affecting his movements.
There was another surprise during the healing process: his Soul Power had silently broken through to level forty-four. Although the previous battle had pushed his body to its limits, it had also widened his meridians and deepened his Dantian, which was the reason for the increase in Soul Power.
After getting up, Xu Yang stretched and relaxed his muscles, discovering that he was alone. After sensing slightly, he found everyone in the stone house not far away, which made him somewhat puzzled.
Xu Yang pushed the door open and entered, finding the atmosphere in the room extremely oppressive. Everyone had a somber expression, looking at the gaunt child on the bed not far away. Dugu Bo and Gu Rong each held a notebook in their hands, seemingly lost in thought, but the killing intent in their eyes couldn't be hidden.
Xu Yang carefully sat down next to Dugu Yan.
As soon as he sat down, Dugu Yan hugged him tightly, her slightly trembling body indicating that she was somewhat lost at the moment.
Xu Yang was taken aback at first, then reached out and put his arm around her to comfort her, but his gaze fell on Gu Rong and Dugu Bo, his eyes full of confusion.
"Kid, take a look for yourself!"
Gu Rong sighed softly and, together with Dugu Bo, threw the notebooks in their hands to Xu Yang.
Xu Yang quickly opened the notebooks, which contained the Second and Third's research on blood and the process of creating Evil Soul Master cultivation methods. The entire process had been going on for several years, with nearly a thousand people killed for experiments, and the three hundred or so people in this small village weren't even included.
The notebooks detailed how they cultivated by absorbing the blood of Soul Beasts and humans, and that the blood of people who had been tortured had a better effect on cultivation. They even classified the blood. Seeing this, Xu Yang was shocked, never expecting that Soul Masters in the feudal era, without scientific equipment, could know about the existence of blood types.
At this moment, he thought of the Storage Soul Guidance Bracelet of the eldest Evil Soul Master that he had put away and immediately took it out.
Sure enough, there was also a notebook inside the Soul Guidance Bracelet.
Xu Yang took out the notebook and read it together with the other two. After reading all the contents, he also understood why these three brothers had embarked on the path of the Evil Soul Master.
Because of a secret technique, the Blood Burning Soul Transformation Method!
This was an incomplete secret technique created by an ordinary person who was born without Soul Power. In order to become a Soul Master, this person constantly destroyed himself, and finally, through mental will, controlled his Spirit to forcibly squeeze his own life force, consuming his Qi, blood, and lifespan to successfully gain Soul Power and become a Soul Master.
Unfortunately, this secret technique was incomplete, so this ordinary person died not long after becoming a Soul Master due to excessive consumption of his lifespan. Before his death, he recorded this incomplete secret technique and placed it in his home.
These three brothers were too poorly talented and cultivated too slowly, so after accidentally obtaining this secret technique, they had the idea of cultivating it. However, the three of them didn't want to burn their own Qi, blood, and lifespan, so they had evil thoughts.
Since they didn't want to burn their own Qi, blood, and lifespan, they would burn others'. Coincidentally, their Spirits were Pig-faced Bats, which could suck blood, so maybe they could succeed.
So the three of them sucked blood while researching. After harming nearly a thousand people, they really did manage to figure out the trick and successfully perfect this secret technique. By this time, the three of them had already had their minds and bodies controlled by evil thoughts. After perfecting the technique, they couldn't suppress their own thoughts and wanted to absorb a large amount of blood to improve their strength. So, they came up with the idea of targeting this remote village, creating this tragedy.
"Huff!"
Putting the three notebooks aside, Xu Yang let out a long breath, pulled Dugu Yan up, and said to Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Ning Haiyan, "Bone Grandfather, Senior, Uncle Ning, I'm going out for a walk."
As he spoke, he pulled Dugu Yan out of the room and walked along the village path towards the fields.
Just from the content in the notes, he could imagine how insane the three of them were. The reality would only be more tragic and appalling. He really couldn't accept it, so he thought about wandering around the village to change his mood.
Arriving at the edge of the field, Xu Yang pulled Dugu Yan down to sit. The two of them stared blankly at the rice in the field.
The sky completely darkened, and the bright moonlight scattered from the sky, looking somewhat desolate in this lonely village.
"Xu Yang, why do you think those three people did this?!" Suddenly, Dugu Yan, who had been silent for a long time, asked.
"This is reality, and reality is often the most unfair. The things we two were born with, those people may not be able to obtain even if they risk their lives... Perhaps at first, they just wanted a fair share, wanted to have the same things as us, but they just went down the wrong path..."
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