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Chapter 723 - Dark Spirit Exposed
Chapter 723 - Dark Spirit Exposed
Liu Wuxie’s words stumped everyone from the Wang Clan. He had guessed everything correctly. There were too many people gathered in the surroundings, and the Wang Clan didn’t wish to escalate the matter. Thus, they planned to kill Liu Wuxie and end everything.
In mere minutes, Liu Wuxie’s words had placed the Wang Clan in a passive position, and no one in the surroundings would believe them no matter what they said. This was human nature; being safe than sorry regarding suspicion was better.
“Patriarch, don’t listen to his nonsense! Let me end him once and for all!” One of the elders couldn’t hold back any longer and struck with his palm, planning to kill Liu Wuxie as no one knew what more could go wrong if they allowed Liu Wuxie to speak any longer.
“Patriarch Wang, regardless of whether his words are true or false, we can verify it with a harmless test. If he’s lying, it won’t be too late to kill him then,” a voice echoed as a figure appeared before Liu Wuxie.
"Who are you to meddle in the affairs of our Wang Clan?!" the elder snarled, his temper flaring as he demanded the stranger step aside. "This is our clan's business with that brat, and outsiders have no right to interfere! If you do, you'll be treated as an enemy of the Wang Clan."
"Forgive my intrusion. My name is Liu Dayue, and I am merely a passerby," the middle-aged man replied calmly, his voice steady yet imposing. "Everyone here has witnessed the events that transpired. It’s clear who is right and who is wrong. This young man has done your clan a great service, and this is how you repay him?"
As he spoke, an invisible pressure radiated from Liu Dayue, enveloping the entire street. The oppressive force froze the Wang Clan elders in place, halting their advance.
"The True Profound Realm!" Liu Wuxie thought, his shock evident. He hadn’t expected this man to be such a powerful expert. The realization further cemented the Central Plains’ reputation as a land teeming with hidden talents.
“Hold on!” Liu Wuxie’s eyes flashed with shock. He began to murmur to himself, “Liu Dayue? Why does his name differ by one word from my father’s name?”
His father’s name was Liu Dashan, and the man before him was called Liu Dayue. But he soon brushed it off as his father had only been in the True Core Realm back then, while this middle-aged man was in the True Profound Realm. The difference between them was like heaven and earth.
“Liu Dayue?” Wang Linshuang’s brow furrowed as the name stirred a faint memory, though he couldn’t immediately place it.
“Patriarch, could he be from the Liu Clan of Astral Glory City?” an elder standing nearby whispered in Wang Linshuang’s ear.
At the mention of the Liu Clan from Astral Glory City, Wang Linshuang froze. The Liu Clan was a towering presence, even in its decline, and far outmatched the Wang Clan in strength and influence. The realization struck him like a thunderbolt as the elder’s words jogged his memory.
“May I ask if you are the third son of Patriarch Liu Xiucheng, Liu Dayue?” Wang Linshuang asked cautiously, his tone laced with deference as he sought confirmation.
“Indeed, I am,” Liu Dayue clasped his hands together.
“What? He’s the third son of Liu Clan’s current patriarch?!” An uproar broke out from the crowd. The Liu Clan was one of the Four Great Clans of Central Plains.
The Wang Clan’s elders staggered, nearly collapsing under the weight of the revelation. The elder who had humiliated Liu Dayue earlier now bore an unmistakable look of dread. Anxiety gripped him as the full gravity of their actions became clear.
Liu Dayue could easily kill everyone with a wave of his hand. Though the Wang Clan might boast an ancestor in the True Profound Realm, they were nothing compared to the Astral Glory City’s Liu Clan. After all, the Liu Clan had an expert in the Spirit Profound Realm and numerous cultivators in the True Profound Realm.
“Brother Liu, this is an internal matter between my clan and him. I humbly request you not to intervene,” Wang Linshuang said after taking a deep breath. Though he feared offending the Liu Clan, the Wang Clan’s prestige in Prosper City would fall if they couldn’t resolve this matter quickly.
“I have no interest in meddling in your affairs, but this matter has become an even bigger issue since he mentioned a dark spirit. This concerns all the human race,” Liu Dayue said.
When a lump of fog rose from Wang Yue’s body, his feet were slowly lifted off the ground, and the aura he gave off began to rise.
“It’s a dark spirit! A dark spirit really possessed him!” someone cried out from the crowd as everyone began to flee, fearing for their lives.
“I’ll kill you!” Wang Yue spoke in an eerie voice that sounded nothing like a human, and he lunged toward Liu Wuxie.
“Back off!” Liu Dayue said, knowing how unpredictable dark spirits could be.
Even as someone in the True Profound Realm, he wasn’t confident in his ability to deal with a dark spirit. They were known to possess unconventional means of attack, relying on their dark spirit energy to infiltrate the soul sea of others easily.
“His target is me, and there’s no escaping it,” Liu Wuxie replied, shaking his head. He would’ve escaped if it was possible, and he did not need to stand there waiting.
A mass of fog left Wang Yue’s body and shuttled through the air, charging toward Liu Wuxie. As for Wang Yue, he collapsed onto the ground once the dark spirit left his body.
Liu Dayue tried to attack the fog, but his attack only caused it to scatter. The fog evaded his attack effortlessly.
This is bad! Liu Dayue cried out inwardly, but he was one step too late as the fog burrowed into Liu Wuxie’s body, heading toward the latter’s soul sea. It wanted to seize Liu Wuxie’s body and turn him into a new vessel for the dark spirit.
However, there was no sign of concern on Liu Wuxie’s face. He allowed the fog to course through his meridians and seek entry to his soul sea. The fog was traveling at an astonishing speed, and everything happened in the blink of an eye.
On the other hand, Liu Dayue stood frozen on the spot, unsure of what to do. The crowd that had fled earlier began returning, wanting to see what was happening.
When Wang Yue collapsed to the ground, Wang Linshuang quickly rushed over. But Wang Yue’s breathing was faint, and his cultivation was dropping with each passing moment.
“Father...I’m sorry...” Wang Yue said, his voice tinged with pain.
“Yue’er, what happened? How did you get possessed by the dark spirit?” Wang Linshuang asked, his voice trembled as he watched his son’s breathing slowly weaken.
“I ventured to the Sinister Spirit Mountain three years ago,” Wang Yue said, his voice clear to everyone.
“The Sinister Spirit Mountain!” Everyone instantly understood what had happened after hearing what Wang Yue said. It was a notorious forbidden zone in Central Plains where no human dared tread.
Countless lives were lost there long ago; their lingering souls had transformed into dark spirits, and they had lived on the Sinister Spirit Mountain ever since. No one had expected Wang Yue to have the guts to venture there, a notorious zone restricted to humans.
“How foolish of you!” Wang Linshuang wanted to reprimand his son, but he knew it was too late to say anything now. A dark spirit had long taken over his son’s soul sea, and his son was dying now that the dark spirit had left his body.
No one expected something that seemed like a personal feud to spiral into an unimaginable crisis, and even dark spirits were involved. It became clear to everyone that the dark spirit in Wang Yue was something he had brought out from the Sinister Spirit Mountain.
Hundreds of eyes turned to Liu Wuxie in unison. If he couldn’t subdue the dark spirit, he would become the next host and have his soul sea consumed. One victim would soon lead to another, and the chain of tragedy would continue until the dark spirit matured.
It wasn’t surprising that humanity wouldn’t allow dark spirits to exist in the world and worked tirelessly to eradicate them.