Chapter 1709: No Room For Optimism (1/2)

It was deep into the night. Six cold moons could be seen hanging in the sky.

At the Serene Moon Race’s valley, Qin Lie, Teng Yuan, Brett, and the others followed You Pu to the scene of death hurriedly.

The thirteen dead Serene Moon Race clansmen were arranged in a row next to the moon ponds.

“When did they die?” You Pu asked with a gloomy look on his face.

These thirteen Serene Moon Race clansmen had apparently gone through many hardships before they passed through a spatial rift and arrived at Spirit Realm by accident.

They knew the rough location of the Dark Shadow World.

Their sudden deaths had instilled a deep sense of unease in You Pu. He was afraid that Teng Yuan’s guess was true, that the shadow beings had slipped into Boluo Realm through these thirteen survivors.

“It wasn’t all that long ago,” You Yun of the Serene Moon Race said helplessly. “They looked fine. I’m not sure why, but their souls suddenly just… dissipated right in front of me.”

“Dissipated?” Qin Lie asked with a frown.

You Yun shot him a complicated glance before nodding slowly. “It was almost like a hurricane had blown their souls apart. They dissipated quickly and left no traces behind.”

Many years ago, she and You Qianlan had clashed against Qin Lie.

Her error in judgment and unfortunate crime against Qin Lie had resulted in her being locked in an underground prison for nine whole years.

When she came out, she learned that the Serene Moon Race wasn’t the only race that was allied with Qin Lie. Nearly every race in Boluo Realm was firm friends with him.

A couple more years had passed after that, and they changed from allies to vassal forces of Qin Lie after Seven Spirits Islands had become connected to the Frost Desolation Abyss.

And now, Qin Lie was the most famous and important person in the entire Spirit Realm. His successes far exceeded her expectations.

Every time she thought back to the past, every time she recalled how she had driven the Serene Moon Race to a corner in front of Qin Lie, she couldn’t help but regret her decision.

A lot of Serene Moon Race clansmen in the valley harbored the exact same thought.

“Please allow me to inspect them,” Qin Lie said solemnly.

Teng Yuan and the others knew that this Qin Lie was a rank ten subsoul. They nodded in silence and allowed him to perform his inspection.

Qin Lie focused his soul consciousness and passed it through the Serene Moon Race clansmen’s brains. As mentioned earlier, not a trace of their souls had been left behind.

This meant that the corpses before his eyes were completely dead. There were no soul traces to be found whatsoever

“What if I use another method?” An idea entered his mind.

A thick aura of death suddenly spread out of Qin Lie’s body.

“Eh!”

Everyone detected it quickly and changed their expressions a little. Their surprise was quickly replaced by curiosity instead.

“Dead souls…”

Qin Lie changed his soul secret art to Castor’s power so that he could gather the dead souls scattered around the place.

“Swhoosh!”

Traces of invisible soul mist only the soul could barely perceive suddenly appeared to Qin Lie’s senses.

These soul mists twisting with death aura slowly approached him.

“Bang!”

However, a pitch black light suddenly exploded from inside the balls of dead souls.

As a result, the tiny bit of dead soul energy that took quite a lot of effort to gather was completely destroyed.