Chapter 38 Soul-consuming Evil Flower (2/2)

”Damned barbarian! You know nothing but bullying me! When we go back, I'll tell Sister Bai that you're drinking again!” The green-clothed girl stomped her feet in anger.

The red-eyed man smile as he shook his head. ”Where's the money I gave you?”

”Lost it!” The green-clothed girl had her arms crossed in front of her chest and her head raised. She was evidently furious at him for refusing to help her and taking the outsider's side instead.

The red-eyed man smiled helplessly and felt for a piece of gold on his chest. The shopkeeper immediately waved his hand when he saw this and said, ”It's fine! It's fine!”

”When it comes to trade, the most crucial thing is not taking unfair advantage of each other. Consider the remainder of the money as compensation for your place.” The red-eyed man flicked the piece of gold over and said in a leisurely manner, ”Life such is long and dull...” He walked out after finishing his sentence. The green-clothed girl stomped her feet in anger before following after him.

Moments later, Xiao Wan'er walked back to Xiao Chen and said furiously, ”They're too arrogant! Are we just going to let them off like this?”

Xiao Chen chuckled. ”What else? Even if your master comes here, he might not be able to defeat that man earlier.” He glanced in the direction that the two people earlier left in. Those two ought not to be humans, particularly that man. There was not even the slightest hint of living breath in him.

For some reason, Xiao Chen felt that he was particularly sensitive to dead breaths.

Shortly after, the three of them also paid their bill and stepped onto the street outside. Before they could travel far, they heard a burst of clamor coming from the far end of the street. When they looked in that direction, they saw everyone wearing frightened faces as they screeched and fled in all directions. There seemed to be a person going ballistic among them, wantonly causing destruction. With a lift of his hand, a building would collapse.

”There's trouble! Let's go over and take a look!”

The three of them immediately ran over. There, they saw an exceptionally tall and large man with blue veins protruding over his entire face. His pupils had turned a maroon color like a beast that had gone mad. He had hurt quite a few people and purple blood was flowing from all of his victims. That was an indication that Death Qi had invaded their bodies!

”Evildoer! Taste my sword!” Xiao Wan'er bellowed. Her sword turned into a golden blade of light that flew toward the man. With a roar, the man waved his massive hand and shockingly sent her sword flying.

”Take care!”

Xiao Chen and Xiao Han drew their swords and inserted themselves in front of her at the same time.

Just then, several golden blades formed out of Sword Qi came flying from a distance and pierced the man's body. The man howled and finally collapsed on the ground. Two streams of sword radiance arrived at the same time and transformed into two elderly men. They were none other than Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder of Three Pure Sect.

Seeing this, Xiao Han immediately went up to them and saluted them. ”Master! Fifth Elder!”

The two Elders turned their heads to look at them. ”Why are you three here?” However, they had no time to pay too much mind to this. They immediately absorbed the innumerable Mystic Power within the man's body.

The man's muscles and flesh gradually began to contract and he returned to his original appearance. Then, a strange safflower slowly bloomed on his chest. The flower, with its four connecting petals, was as red as blood. The pistil and stamen in the center of the flower were black. It looked strange indeed.

”Soul-consuming Evil Flower!” The expression of the two Elders changed at the same time.

The crowd was frightened listless. How could such a strange flower bloom on a human's body? Could the man be a Demon? The mayor immediately went up and saluted the Elders. ”Immortal Elders! Please save everyone!”

The two Elders did not speak. Their expressions were incredibly grim. They did not dare to hastily pluck the flower because the man would instantly die once the flower wilted.

Suddenly, a breeze swept them. The safflower shook a little in the wind and slowly left the man's chest like it had a wisdom of its own. It dissolved into dust along with the wind while the eyes of the man gradually lost all life. There were now fresh layers of black Qi on his face.

It was Death Qi! It was a very dense Death Qi!

Others would not have been able to see this Death Qi yet Xiao Chen could. His heart jumped in surprise and he suddenly recalled the two people at the tavern earlier.

”It's them!”

Xiao Chen looked at the other end of the street and vaguely saw the backs of those two people. He immediately moved, dashing toward them. However, he could no longer find any trace of those two people after a while.

When he returned to the scene, someone had already taken away the man's darkened and dried corpse for cremation. Fourth Elder looked at the three of them with a frown. ”Why are you three here?”

”I...” Unable to answer, Xiao Wan'er lowered her head.

”Forget it. Let's first return and talk about this then.”

Soon after, the three of them returned along with the two Elders. Xiao Chen was frowning when he returned to the courtyard. The Soul-consuming Evil Flower that he saw in Lingtai Town earlier gave him an incredibly bad premonition.

That Evil Flower seemed like it was only harming people but he could feel that someone was using the flower to collect countless living souls. The Evil Flower was an instrument for collecting souls!