Chapter 60: Devour Tang Zhen's Soul and Discover the Truth!
In the darkness of the night,
chasing the seven elders of the Haotian Sect and the others who had left, Su Mo quickly abandoned the main battlefield between the Haotian Sect and the Spirit Hall, entered deeper into the Haotian Sect, and finally reached an attic.
The Spirit Hall attacked directly at the mountain gate of the Haotian Sect.
Upon hearing the commotion, the people of the Haotian Sect rushed to support.
As a result, the main battlefield of both sides was mainly in the front and middle parts of the Haotian Sect's station, and in the deeper parts of the Haotian Sect, attics like this were unaffected by the war.
"Is Tang Zhen in this attic?"
Su Mo asked. With his speed, he naturally caught up with the seven elders of the Haotian Sect and others, and followed them into the attic.
Seeing the seven elders of the Haotian Sect and several people rush into the attic, and the lights still shining above it, Su Mo's eyes flickered.
To confirm his assumption,
Su Mo immediately transformed the Ghost Sword Mantis Weapon Spirit back to its original form, and its six extremely black and thin insect legs covered with spikes suddenly bounced, landing instantly on a large tree.
Standing in the tree, Su Mo looked toward the brightly lit attic.
Inside the attic, the brightly lit place was a room. There was nothing in the room except a bookshelf, a desk, some chairs, and a bed.
At that moment, on the bed lay an unconscious elder. Several maids stood around, occasionally looking out the window. Their faces showed anxiety, probably worried about the battle outside.
With the burst of hurried footsteps, the door to the room suddenly opened, and the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect, along with several deacons and disciples, entered.
"Quick, carry the sect master on your backs and let's leave immediately!"
After entering, the seventh elder anxiously ordered the deacons following him to carry the unconscious elder.
The Haotian Sect's strength was not as strong as the Spirit Hall's. Now, the Haotian Sect was also being attacked by the Spirit Hall at night. As the seventh elder, he knew the Haotian Sect was defenseless.
To preserve the sect's flame as much as possible, they had to escort the sect master and the younger generation of the Haotian Sect quickly before the Spirit Hall's people arrived.
"Yes!"
Hearing the seventh elder's words, a deacon behind him immediately stepped forward, prepared to carry the unconscious sect master Tang Zhen away.
However, seeing this, Su Mo knew it was time to act.
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
Just as the Haotian Sect deacon was heading toward Tang Zhen, with a sneer, a black shadow suddenly burst through the window with a gust of wind, and the huge body smashed through the wooden windows!
"Ah!"
Seeing a huge black mantis crash and land on the ground, several maids in the room couldn't help but scream in fear.
"It's you! My second brother clearly was going to stop you! Why are you here?"
Seeing that it was Su Mo who entered, the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect was stunned and furious.
"Why am I here? Of course, I came after dealing with the second brother you mentioned. But I didn't expect to follow you on a whim—I caught a big fish: the leader of the Haotian Sect, Tang Zhen? And you're unconscious now."
"I asked, why haven't you seen your sect leader after fighting on the battlefield for so long? I didn't expect this to happen."
In the original form of the Ghost Sword Mantis spirit, Su Mo's scarlet compound eyes stared at Tang Zhen lying on the bed. With a sneer, a flash of heat passed through Su Mo's eyes.
Originally, he thought the leader of the Haotian Sect, Tang Chen, had died!
After all, in the original story, Tang Zhen seemed furious at Tang Hao after learning that Tang Chen had killed Qianxunji.
But the truth was that when the Spirit Hall was chasing Tang Hao and his wife, the Haotian Sect did not know.
To take revenge, the Spirit Hall decided to destroy the Haotian Sect and deliberately hid the news that Qianxunji had been killed by Tang Hao. How could the Haotian Sect have known Qianxunji was killed by Tang Hao?
Still, Tang Zhen was still in a coma, which was quite curious!
But in any case, Tang Zhen was not dead yet, which was good news for Su Mo.
He was a powerful Titled Douluo with strength above level 95, and also the reason why the Haotian Sect remained at the top of the three main sects after Tang Chen's disappearance.
If we could harvest Tang Zhen's soul, whether by using the Death Scythe's soul control ability to control it and fight for us, or by devouring it to improve cultivation or the age of our spirit rings, it would undoubtedly be very useful!
"But since I'm here, don't even think about taking him away!"
Turning his gaze away from Tang Zhen and back to the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect and the others, Su Mo's scarlet eyes were already full of cruelty and murderous intent.
"Quick, take the children away, I'll stop him right here!"
Realizing Su Mo was about to act, the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect's face suddenly changed, and his heart calmed instantly. He could not help but shout to the deacons and disciples of the Haotian Sect following him.
Upon hearing his words, several deacons understood it was useless to stay, so they could only grit their teeth and bear the shame and fear, quickly guiding the people to flee.
"With me here, don't even think about taking the Sect Master!"
After letting the deacons and disciples leave, the seventh elder immediately turned to face Su Mo, summoned the Haotian Hammer spirit, and roared furiously.
However, after roaring, the seventh elder did not swing the Haotian Hammer to strike Su Mo, but moved abruptly, swinging the hammer to hit Tang Zhen, who was unconscious on the bed.
"How dare you!"
Seeing the seventh elder's actions, Su Mo's face suddenly darkened and he couldn't help but shout coldly. In the next instant, he blocked the seventh elder, wielded a blade arm transformed from the Death God's scythe, and fiercely cut him down.
Clang!
With a metallic sound, the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect was torn apart by Su Mo's blade.
As a weapon soul master, the reason Su Mo had worked so hard to obtain the true body of the martial weapon soul was not only because it granted him the advantages of both.
Additionally, Su Mo had also refined the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, so in terms of strength, even if the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect was in a higher realm than Su Mo and was still a power-type weapon soul master, he was no match.
After cutting down the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect with a blade, Su Mo immediately activated the death field and unleashed a deadly suppression on him.
In the true body state of the martial soul, the death field's suppression ability can reduce the enemy's strength by 50% and increase one's own by 100%.
This level of suppression and amplification instantly reversed the cultivation gap between the seventh elder and Su Mo!
And in the next instant, relying on the death realm ability of the death field, Su Mo instantly appeared behind the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect, and the sword arm transformed from the death scythe in his hand suddenly cut, instantly decapitating the seventh elder.
At the same time, the soul of the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect was also harvested by the Death Scythe!
However, the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect was just an appetizer!
The main dish that concerned Su Mo was Tang Zhen, who lay unconscious on the bed.
"Let's see what my doubts were about!"
After dealing with the seventh elder of the Haotian Sect, Su Mo immediately approached Tang Zhen lying on the bed. Under the flash of his scarlet compound eyes, he raised the black sword he held and pierced through his head.
After killing Tang Zhen, Su Mo instantly collected his soul into the Death Scythe.
For souls collected in the Death Scythe, there are two control strategies through the second soul ability: soul control—one to keep consciousness and one not to keep it.
Obviously, Tang Zhen could not keep consciousness.
If not, Su Mo could extract his memories to see whether Tang Zhen had accidentally discovered something or if it was a conspiracy.
"Well, let's see what happens!"
After choosing to erase Tang Zhen's consciousness, Su Mo immediately closed his eyes and began extracting memories. Countless fragments of memories kept flashing through his mind.
Through them, Su Mo learned that it was actually a conspiracy planned by Tang Zhen for the benefit of the Haotian Sect. He couldn't help but purse his lips.
"I didn't expect it to be like this. All of this turned out to be a conspiracy by Tang Zhen. But in the end, Tang Hao didn't appreciate it and even angered Tang Chen. Interesting!"
(End of this chapter)