At the moment when Fan Cheng was surprised, the soul-refining guardian behind him was surrounded by four masked men.
The eyes of the four masked men were filled with murderous intent and a terrifying evil aura.
The ten soul-refining guardians were so frightened that they were trembling all over and their faces turned pale.
But it was of no avail, as he was killed by four other masked men in a blink of an eye.
Boom boom boom…
The sound of bursting tendons echoed throughout the forest, and ten soul-refining guardians let out ten dying howls.
In just a blink of an eye, all ten soul-refining guardians were killed by four masked men.
After the four masked men killed the ten soul-refining guardians, they turned around and surrounded Fan Cheng.
When Fan Cheng heard the wails of the ten soul-refining guardians, he was still wondering whether the masked man who had just fought with him had his martial soul transformed into a demon, but then he heard that the ten guardians died on the spot in the blink of an eye.
So, at this time, Fan Cheng's face was full of fear, and his eyes scanned the masked men surrounding him in horror.
He was in a situation between life and death, searching for a one in ten million chance of survival.
It is impossible to fight them head-on. Since one of them has his martial soul transformed into a demon, the others will definitely not be able to escape the possibility of their martial souls being transformed into demons.
Therefore, he remained calm in the face of danger and secretly sought the last glimmer of hope for survival.
After the masked man exchanged palm strikes with Fan Cheng, there was no trace of surprise or doubt in his eyes about Fan Cheng's cultivation level.
He looked at Fan Cheng and said, "Grandmaster Fan is worthy of being a Grandmaster of the Soul Refining Realm. His cultivation is indeed extraordinary! But it's a pity that from now on, the Soul Refining Realm has lost a Soul Refining Dharma Protector. Now it is destined to have seven Grandmasters, and it will become six Grandmasters!"
Fan Cheng said: "You demons, I am the Grandmaster of the Spirit Refining Realm, how could I be afraid of you!"
When Fan Cheng finished speaking, the five masked men suddenly let out an evil laugh, and their eyes were filled with evil spirits.
"Demonic spirits! They are indeed demonic spirits!" After Fan Cheng exclaimed, he had only one thought at this moment, which was to use all his strength to find a breakthrough and break through in one fell swoop, and leave these demonic spirits whose martial souls have been transformed into demons as soon as possible.
In a blink of an eye, Fan Cheng was still pretending to be surprised, but he was secretly exercising his "spiritual energy".
Suddenly, Fan Cheng's palms were filled with "divine energy" and he attacked the two masked demons on the left with one palm.
Because it's a matter of life and death, it's the last moment where it's either you or me.
Therefore, the palm energy and divine power of the last palm strike burst out with unprecedented potential.
With a few loud bangs, the two masked demons on the left were no match for the palm energy between Fan Cheng's palms and were knocked away.
Just at the moment when the two masked spirits were knocked away, Fan Cheng rushed out from the torn gap with a whoosh.
Seeing Fan Cheng trying to escape, two masked demon spirits were ready to chase him, but the leading masked demon spirit ordered them to stop.
"The master has ordered that we must release one person alive and report back to the God Refining Realm!" said the masked demon spirit who was in the lead.
The two masked spirits, who had already freed their hands, did not dare to disobey the leader's orders and had to give up.
Watching Fan Cheng's back gradually disappear into the distance, the masked man leading the group shouted, "Go!"
After he finished speaking, the remaining three masked men disappeared without a trace.
Fan Cheng, who had just escaped from the masked man, ran at least a hundred miles in one breath. Now he was panting, bent his waist, and turned his head to see if the masked demon was chasing him.
When he saw that they didn't chase him, Fan Cheng's frown relaxed a little, but he was still frightened by what had just happened.
For him, it can be said that he escaped death.
Seeing with his own eyes ten fellow disciples from the Soul Refining Palace, with whom he had been with day and night, die one by one in front of him in the blink of an eye, this feeling was enough to terrify him.
Fan Cheng didn't dare to rest for too long, as he was worried that the remaining three evil spirits would chase him.
Because he was one of the seven great masters in the world of spirit refining, he knew the legend about the evil demon that destroyed the world, and he knew what was called a demon spirit.
The so-called demon spirit means that the soul of each creature is controlled by the evil spirit, and once the soul is controlled, the ability of the controlled person will increase several times.
It was for this reason that he was able to tie with that mere physical cultivation warrior with just one palm strike, because the physical cultivation warrior's martial soul had been transformed by the demonic energy into a demonic spirit.
With a panic-stricken and fearful heart, Fan Cheng took a deep breath and continued to return to the Spirit Refining Realm.
Fan Cheng traveled day and night, not daring to stop, and finally got up early the next day and rushed back to the Spirit Refining Realm.
When they rushed back to the Soul Refining Realm, the Palace Master of the Soul Refining Palace was in the main hall discussing with six other masters how to deal with the world-destroying evil demon.
At this moment, Fan Cheng panted and stumbled into the main hall of the Soul Refining Palace.
When the people in the main hall of the Soul Refining Palace suddenly saw Fan Cheng coming back in such a miserable state, their expressions clearly showed deep surprise.
"Fan Cheng, meet the Palace Master!" Fan Cheng said with a terrified look on his face.
Seeing Fan Cheng's miserable appearance, the Supreme God, the Lord of the Refining Spirit Palace, said, "Fan Cheng, what happened to you? Where are the ten guardians I sent to you? Have they returned? Did you bring Ye Wu back from the Ye family?"
Hearing the Supreme God's question, Fan Cheng knelt down in front of him and wailed, "To answer the True God, Ye Wu of the Ye family has been possessed by the evil demon of world destruction, and he has killed all the ten guardians!"
“What!” The Supreme True God exclaimed. Although he was the Palace Master of the Spirit Refining Palace and ranked second in the Spirit Refining Realm in terms of cultivation, the first one was the Spirit Refining Realm King Tongtian True God.
In the three realms where warriors of the Xuanwu Continent practice, except for the first realm of body refining which has no realm king, the second realm has the realm king of spirit refining, Tongtian Zhenshen; and the third realm has the realm king of the master refining, the Supreme Immortal King.
The reason why the Supreme True God exclaimed was because he knew the ability of the world-destroying evil demon. If he could successfully reincarnate and find his true body to possess, and break through the three realms, his power would be higher than his own, and it is possible that his cultivation would be on par with that of the True God Tongtian.
As he exclaimed, the six soul-refining masters present suddenly became solemn and deeply surprised.
After being surprised, the Supreme God said solemnly: "Fan Cheng, you can see clearly, it is really Ye Wu of the Ye family who is possessed by the evil demon of world destruction!"
Fan Cheng continued to wail and said, "Reporting to the Supreme True God, Fan Cheng would never dare to deceive the True God!"
After hearing Fan Cheng's confirmation again, the Supreme True God asked, "Fan Cheng, have you fought with him?"
Fan Cheng nodded.
"When you were fighting with him, did you feel the demonic energy emanating from his palm?" asked the Supreme True God.
Fan Cheng carefully recalled the scene of fighting with Ye Feng, and said: "Really? I didn't feel the demon spirit energy in his palm energy!"
After hearing Fan Cheng's answer that there was no demonic spirit, the Supreme God's expression eased a little, and he said to the six masters present: "If you haven't detected the presence of demonic spirits when you fight with others, it can prove that the World-Destroying Demon has only broken through the first level and found his reincarnated true body. In this way, we can gather everyone's strength and destroy his nine souls and ten spirits."
After that, he continued, "Since we already know who is the reincarnation of the World-Destroying Demon, you should immediately spread the message to fellow martial artists all over the world, asking them to gather at the Soul Refining Palace within four days, and then take down Ye Wu of the Ye family in one fell swoop! Completely destroy the soul of the World-Destroying Demon!"
After the Soul Refining Palace learned that the world-destroying evil demon was reincarnated into Ye Wu of the Ye family, it began to summon fellow martial artists from all over the world and decided to attack the Ye family in Yecheng in four days and kill Ye Wu to force out the nine souls and ten spirits of the world-destroying evil demon.
That is, on the morning when the Lord of the Spirit Refining Palace, the Supreme God, announced his decision, the masked man who had intercepted and killed Fan Cheng halfway appeared in a dim secret room.
A tall figure faced them, without turning back, and said indifferently: "How is it, is everything done?"
"Reporting to the master, we have completed everything the master instructed us to do! The guardians of the ten great soul refining palaces were all killed by us, and we released one person back to the soul refining world according to the master's wishes!" The person who spoke was the masked man who had fought with Fan Cheng.
"Have you revealed your identities?"
"Reporting to the master, we all followed the master's instructions and said we were following Ye Wu's orders!" said the masked man.
After saying this, the three masked men left the secret room.
Just after they left the secret room, a sinister laugh was heard from the secret room, silently saying: "Just based on you low-level martial arts idiots, are you worthy of competing with me, the generation of world destroyers!"
After saying this silently in his heart, he continued, "Ye Family, you were ruthless to me in the beginning, so don't blame us for being unfaithful to you!"
At this moment, someone was heard reporting from outside the secret room.
"Master, I have something to report!"
"Come in!"
After the word "come in" was spoken, a young man with an evil face walked over.
The young man nodded and said, "Master, we have already followed your instructions and found two boys born on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and three girls born on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month!"
Hearing what the young man said, the man with his back to the young man sneered and said, "Catch them all immediately!"
"Yes! Master!" The young man agreed and left the secret room.
The tall and mysterious man in the secret room who had not turned around said to himself, "When I have found all the boys and girls, and all the martial arts spirits of the warriors, I will see who else in the world can do it besides me!"
A thousand years ago, the harm you inflicted on me caused me to be pinned under Yueming Mountain for a full thousand years.
A thousand years of hatred, a thousand years of time, I want you to pay it back a hundredfold.
You all just wait for me. I will make the entire cultivation world suffer eternal damnation and never see peace.
After saying this, there was another arrogant sneer.