Traversing the night, Luo Xiu saw the brightly lit yacht from afar. He smelled the tempting aroma of stir-fried green peppers and pork in the air, and suddenly, he felt as if he were coming home.

On this deserted island at sea, the comforting signs of life were a unique and welcome pleasure.

The three women shared a large room, while the isolated Luo Xiu stayed in a small room not far from the deck.

Upon boarding the yacht, Luo Xiu heard Sun Li and Xia Chan giggling in their room, but he had no idea what they were up to.

Su Shenyun, on the other hand, was alone on the deck, enjoying the breeze.

The food had been left in the kitchen. After Luo Xiu ate his fill, he lazily made his way to the deck.

"Where did you go? It took you so long to get back," Su Shenyun said, turning from where she leaned on the railing. Her tone was slightly dissatisfied.

The night breeze lifted her waist-length hair, filling the air with a faint, sweet fragrance. The "Yellow Battle Robe" cladding her fiery body fluttered in the wind.

Under the moonlight, she looked mysterious and ethereal, yet she was filled with an ultimate temptation, like the world's most captivating enchantress.

"When did you buy this yellow dress?" Luo Xiu asked, walking over to Su Shenyun and wrapping an arm around her slender, yielding waist.

"I bought it before we came here. It's that really popular dress on the internet right now, the one they call the Yellow Battle Robe. I bought it to use as a nightgown."

"So, how do I look?"

She lifted the edges of her dress slightly and twirled before him like a butterfly. Her long hair spun with her, revealing glimpses of her snow-white thighs.

"Beautiful."

Luo Xiu was momentarily mesmerized. Then, the hand on her waist shamelessly slid down to rest on her perky behind.

Su Shenyun wriggled and shot him a resentful glance.

Luo Xiu said, "How about I take you to see the scenery in the little forest? Some truly stunning scenery."

Su Shenyun hummed softly. "I'm not going."

How could she not know what this fellow was plotting? The so-called scenery was just the gurgling stream in the valley and the sky-piercing pillar...

Luo Xiu raised an eyebrow, his gaze meaningfully fixed on her exquisite profile. "Are you playing hard to get?"

Su Shenyun pinched him irritably and complained in a soft voice, "Ouch! I just finished eating and don't feel like moving now. Let's wait until the other two fall asleep."

But Luo Xiu paid her no mind. He decisively scooped her into his arms, then launched them off the deck with a powerful push from his legs.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Su Shenyun cried out, her arms clinging tightly to Luo Xiu's neck.

As the yacht rocked, Luo Xiu shot into the night sky holding Su Shenyun like a cannonball, gliding off into the distance.

「A few minutes later.」

When they landed, Su Shenyun's mouth was agape in shock.

Before her lay a vast expanse of barren land, glowing with a faint green light in the night that resembled the eerie light of purgatory.

Through a large hole in the ground, she saw countless skeletons.

"This... This is the scenery you were talking about?"

Luo Xiu nodded.

Su Shenyun's expression was odd. "I wouldn't call it stunning, but it's definitely shocking."

Luo Xiu said, "The clothes on these bodies look like battle armor, and they haven't been here very long. Does that make you think of anything?"

Su Shenyun furrowed her brow in thought for a moment before replying, "Could this be the mass grave from the Henghai battle?"

She looked at Luo Xiu. "This place isn't far from the coastline where the Henghai battle took place. Chen Xuanbao must have secretly buried those bodies here back then."

"A total of 130,000 bodies. They vanished mysteriously all those years ago. To think they were secretly disposed of here."

"Little Mule, let's leave... This place is too creepy."

Knowing that ordinary people could hardly withstand the Yin Qi of the area, Luo Xiu didn't say more. He simply scooped Su Shenyun up and leaped into the night sky.

「A moment later.」

Luo Xiu landed on the beach.

"Why did you bring me here?"

"I wanted to watch the tide rise and fall."

A blush suddenly crept across Su Shenyun's pretty face, and she pleaded, "Little Mule, please don't..."

Time trickled by, and it wasn't until the next morning that Luo Xiu and Su Shenyun returned to the yacht. He was still carrying her; she looked so weak she couldn't even walk, as if she had sustained a grievous injury.

As soon as Luo Xiu laid her on the bed, she fell into a deep sleep.

Luo Xiu, on the other hand, was full of energy. After breakfast, he went to the mass grave by himself.

Upon reaching the grave, Luo Xiu found a secluded spot in the bushes on the edge and sat down cross-legged to cultivate his Divine Sense.

The truth was, Luo Xiu was simply lazy; it wasn't that he didn't know how to cultivate his Divine Sense. He certainly didn't need Chi Sha's guidance.

Once he sat down, he remained there from morning until night.

This was precisely why he had previously avoided cultivating his Divine Sense.

The process was utterly boring, enough to drive someone mad. It was a purely mental trial.

But now he had no choice. To extend his life, he could only endure.

***

"I can't believe it," Queen Chi Sha's voice echoed in Luo Xiu's mind. "In less than a day, you've managed to cultivate your Divine Sense to the Subtle Entry stage."

Luo Xiu slowly opened his eyes, a gleam of light flashing within them before vanishing.

Even at night, his eyes were clear and bright, as brilliant as a starry sky.

With the enhancement of his Divine Sense, his entire aura had also changed significantly.

"It wasn't difficult. I was just too lazy," Luo Xiu responded.

This kid really is arrogant, Chi Sha hummed softly to herself. But he is indeed a monster, so he has the right to be.

She couldn't help but think of her own experience. It had taken her twelve whole years to cultivate her Divine Sense to the Subtle Entry stage.

"How about trying my Soul Capturing Technique now?" she proposed.

Without a word, Luo Xiu stood up, walked to the center of the burial ground, and sat down cross-legged. He then took out the Point Blade Array and channeled a trace of Spiritual Power into it.

As the Point Blade Array shone brightly, Luo Xiu saw Chi Sha's soul-form and the Wandering Spirits around them.

Though over 130,000 bodies were buried here, only a few thousand Wandering Spirits remained.

Furthermore, Lin Tong, the King of the Spirit Realm, had absorbed and devoured many of them last night, so only a few hundred were left.

"Big brother, the few hundred Wandering Spirits I left for you are all quite powerful," Lin Tong's voice remarked. "What's more, there's a Wandering Spirit King hidden down below."

Lin Tong's figure suddenly emerged from the Thousand Mechanism Disc, drifting to Luo Xiu's side.

Luo Xiu glanced at the drifting Wandering Spirits and, with a mere thought, activated the Soul Capturing Technique Chi Sha had taught him the day before.

The Soul Capturing Technique comprised three abilities: Capturing, Imprisoning, and Refining souls.

Capturing was the act of seizing soul energy.

Imprisoning was the act of locking up the captured souls.

And Soul Refining, as the name suggested, was the process of converting soul energy for one's own use.

Bathed in the strange glow of the Point Blade Array, Luo Xiu's Divine Sense became visible to the naked eye. It transformed into countless threads that shot out at high speed, wrapping around the Wandering Spirits to bind and capture them one by one.

In just a moment, Luo Xiu had captured all of them.

Then, without waiting for Chi Sha's guidance, he directly refined one of the Wandering Spirits into Yin Qi. That Yin Qi was then further refined into pure and dense Yin Essence Power.

After absorbing the Yin Essence Power, Luo Xiu felt a refreshing coolness spread through his body. It was an exceptionally comfortable feeling, as if an illness had just been cured.

Just as he prepared to refine a second Wandering Spirit, he felt a sharp pain in his brain. He had already consumed too much of his mental energy and could not continue.

Helpless, he had to stop for the time being.

"Her Majesty the Queen's Soul Capturing Technique is truly useful. Simple, crude, and very effective," Luo Xiu couldn't help but praise.

Chi Sha watched Luo Xiu as if she were looking at a monster.

This boy had mastered her Soul Capturing Technique with incredible ease.

The word "genius" was no longer sufficient to describe him.

He was a Demon!

"As for the remaining Wandering Spirits, you can imprison them all and save them to be refined later," Chi Sha said.

Luo Xiu paused. "Imprison them where?"

"Where you imprison them isn't important," Chi Sha explained. "What matters is the stability of the Soul Imprisonment Mark."

Luo Xiu considered this for a moment, then suddenly reached out and grabbed at the empty air before him.

The next moment, the threads of his Divine Sense pulled the few hundred Wandering Spirits toward him, where he absorbed them into his palm.

A moment later, Luo Xiu looked down at the black, eerie mark in his right palm and asked, "Is this the Soul Imprisonment Mark?"

Chi Sha's expression turned grim.

Luo Xiu's talent had truly exceeded her expectations.

He had just learned the Soul Capturing Technique, yet he could already inscribe a Soul Imprisonment Mark on himself and trap hundreds of Wandering Spirits inside it at once.

It was as if... as if he had been the one to invent the technique in the first place.

As Queen Chi Sha was marveling at Luo Xiu's extraordinary talent, the ground suddenly began to shake.

With several bizarre BOOMS, the earth in front of them cracked open to reveal large fissures. From within, an enormous bone claw emerged!

An indescribable aura of terror instantly enveloped the world.

The night sky, once bright under the moonlight, was instantly filled with roiling dark clouds, plunging everything into a pitch-blackness that felt like the end of the world.

Luo Xiu stood up, his expression solemn as he watched the bone claw breaking through the ground.

"You dare devour all of my subjects? Tonight, you will all die!"

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