Chapter 588: Chapter 531: Central Continent Surrounded by Arrays

After obtaining Han Yu’s promise, Chasing Soul slowly sat down, glanced at Quan Xiaotong, and then spoke calmly.

"Ask whatever you want to know! As long as it is something I know, it is no harm to reveal it to you."

With a look of joy, Quan Xiaotong paced back and forth for a moment, pondering, before he asked the first question.

"Qingzhou Prefecture, Dragon Blood Stone, do you know it?" 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Chasing Soul’s expression twisted; he was intending to show a contemplative expression, but it backfired.

He really did know about this matter.

"I did it... no, to be precise, it was one of the sub-souls’ incarnations that acted."

The origin of this matter was somewhat similar to the half-concealed hints that Liu Zongyuan mentioned earlier; someone within the Nine Sects had probed into the existence of the enormously powerful Yama Hall.

And they attempted to continue digging deeper, during which they indeed uprooted quite a few of Yama Hall’s setups.

"Any attempt to delve into the existence of Yama Hall should be obliterated; this was once the responsibility of the sub-soul."

Chasing Soul spoke slowly.

"How many times has something like this happened?"

Quan Xiaotong asked coldly.

Chasing Soul tried hard to think because after all, the timeline spanned quite long.

"The sub-soul has been in the Endless Sea Domain for a millennium. In his memory, it should have occurred twice; whenever any big force like yours touches the forbidden, it would be obliterated."

Two large-scale massacres, yet not a single record remains, relying only on faulty oral traditions to glean any clues.

Quan Xiaotong couldn’t comprehend how this was achieved.

"That I do not know; Yama Hall seems to have a way of making people forget the dead."

Chasing Soul shook his head; after all, the sub-soul back then only needed to be responsible for cleaning up; with that idiot’s mind, probably many things were not even thought through.

Everyone present was moved—the ability to make people forget the deceased!

This isn’t exerted on a few but, over countless years, everyone is the same; what a terrifying ability.

Quan Xiaotong speculated there might be more since even these matters were not documented.

"What kind of power could achieve such earth-shattering feats and stay hidden throughout the ages?"

Chasing Soul shook his head; indeed, many things seemed mysterious to others, but to them, it was merely a difference in strength.

Just like that ability to forget, perhaps it was just a particular strong individual’s ability reaching a level beyond ordinary comprehension.

These things, without reaching the Divine Platform Realm, are hard to grasp.

"Have you never failed?"

Quan Xiaotong asked.

"Naturally, we have never..."

Chasing Soul stopped midway because when it came to Han Yu, they indeed failed, not just failed but failed miserably.

Five out of the ten members of Yama Hall were directly or indirectly taken down by him; the other four are also in dire straits, even the sub-soul ended up having an anomaly like him.

"What is the Dragon Blood Stone, and what of the large-scale slaughter of cultivators?"

Quan Xiaotong asked again.

This time, without thinking, Chasing Soul explained.

The Dragon Blood Stone is formed by condensing the primordial spirits of cultivators, containing their essence, energy, and spirit. Simply put, apart from the flesh, everything from the cultivator is extracted and specially refined to form it.

The massacre in Qingzhou Prefecture back then naturally wouldn’t go to waste, but there were some oversights, which led to the subsequent emergence of the famed Dragon Blood Stone and Blood Ganoderma in the Cultivator Realm.

As for the slaughter in Dongling City, it was naturally for the essence, energy, and spirit of the cultivators.

The ultimate goal was the same.

"So, you use human lives just to refine these things?"

Quan Xiaotong speculated earlier, but such an answer was still too horrifying.

What is it all for?

"Perhaps to nurture pawns like us, or maybe to rear divine creature monsters, Yama Hall’s motivations can’t be speculated with common logic."

Chasing Soul shook his head.

"Just for these, causing continuous slaughter, you are too evil."

Ling Wuce couldn’t help but get angry, his chest heaving.

"Evil? Perhaps not, after all, during these millennia, Yama Hall wasn’t solely massacring."

"Most known is your Central Continent’s creature creation technique; when Central Continent faced annihilation, Yama Hall didn’t let you die."

This was something the sub-soul did back then; the creature creation technique was spread by his disposable troops, though the content was ghastly, it didn’t let Central Continent people die.

For some reason, everyone present felt a chill down their spines, an inexplicable feeling of being reared in pens.

This was the most terrifying—not just killing, but after the slaughter, maintaining Central Continent, not allowing large-scale death.

"But, those divine creature monsters released by you... or the sub-soul, if uncontrolled, they could also wipe out most of Central Continent."

Ling Wuce caught a crucial point and spoke.

Who knew Chasing Soul would smile slightly, "This is the core of the deal I want to make, the setup of Yama Hall."

Back then, the sub-soul could have spread the divine creature monsters across the world, but the chosen places were all whimsically scattered across the north and south.

"This isn’t random; those places are specific."

Chasing Soul’s words made Quan Xiaotong tremble, so whether it was the righteous-evil war or the divine creature monsters, all were premeditated, not just idle schemes of the sub-soul.

"The outcome of the righteous-evil war doesn’t matter; the sub-soul just needed a large number of deaths."

"In fact, just mark your Central Continent map, the places where they were deployed form the array nodes, the entire Central Continent is surrounded by a large array; with that, you should understand."

Understand?

Han Yu found it hard to understand; how vast Central Continent is! Unimaginable, what kind of array could cover the entire Central Continent.

This kind of scale was beyond human imagination.

"Human lives are for sacrificing the array nodes?"

Quan Xiaotong asked with a livid face.

He might already have the answer; if Central Continent was encompassed by a grand array, the slaughter seemed more convincing.

Everything was just for filling the array.

Then, what is the purpose of such a large array?

Chasing Soul shook his head, "That’s not something I can know; my memories come from the sub-soul. How much he knows means how much I know?"

Han Yu listened with a strange expression; even people from Yama Hall didn’t know the array’s use?

"Don’t tell me there’s power above Yama Hall."

Like endless nesting dolls, aren’t they tired?

"There isn’t. Above Yama Hall surely isn’t any power anymore; do you recall me saying in the Endless Sea Domain, we are just advance pawns?"

Chasing Soul spoke with certainty.

This statement was something only Han Yu had heard before; it was the first time for Quan Xiaotong and Ling Wuce.

To be at such a Realm and still just be advance pawns?

It’s no exaggeration to say, people like Chasing Soul can already be considered divine figures in Central Continent.

"I thought Yama Hall was down to just a few people, and life would get easier."

Ling Wuce had a wry smile.

Chasing Soul coldly sneered, "Endless Sea Domain, ten from Yama Hall, twelve from Celestial Dao Sect; how can you believe such a few people could fight for thousands of years."

"All are nothing but pawns!"

"With Yama Hall suddenly reduced by five, it’s believed replenishment will come shortly."

Hearing this, Han Yu felt unwell, more? Again!

He originally thought he had conned Xin Zui and got a period of peace, but if Yama Hall keeps coming, his small calculations would be in vain.

Quan Xiaotong’s expression also wasn’t good, he mumbled to himself, "How can this be stopped?"

If it can’t be stopped, when facing Yama Hall’s slaughtering knife in the future, what would Central Continent do?

"Stop?"

Chasing Soul looked at him and laughed.

What could Central Continent use to stop it?

This was originally Yama Hall’s layout for Central Continent, how could it escape control.

Or rather, Central Continent didn’t even have the power to resist.

"Do you know the Divine Platform Realm? The simplest and the crudest explanation is that reaching the Divine Platform is just barely making it to the table."

Central Continent couldn’t even get on the table, talking about resistance would be laughable.

So from the beginning, Chasing Soul’s only partner was Han Yu!