Chapter 52 Arrival
Zhang Sizhong shouted loudly.

The fiery female cultivator sneered, "Evil cultivator? What a fool! He actually wanted to frame the only teammate he could possibly win over. He didn't even think about the fact that you two were the only ones walking together. Even if he didn't want to help you, everyone would think you were together. I didn't expect him to start betraying his teammates!"

The female cultivator shook her head, wondering why she was wasting her time on such a fool.

"Everyone, kill him quickly, he is an evil cultivator!" Zhang Sizhong shouted loudly.

Everyone hesitated when they saw this. Although Zhang Tie seemed to have reached the ninth level of Qi training, he had never appeared before. Instead of dealing with a strange cultivator, it would be better to deal with this easy target first.

So everyone attacked Zhang Sizhong at the same time.

“What? No, he’s an evil cultivator!” Zhang Sizhong’s face suddenly changed when he saw everyone was still attacking him. He then ran to Zhang Tie and wanted to drag Zhang Tie into the water.

Zhang Tie dodged Zhang Sizhong with ease, then looked at the black-clad man in the distance with an expressionless face.

Zhang Tie was too lazy to pay attention to this clown and just waited quietly for the black-clothed man's move. After all, if he didn't take action, Zhang Sizhong would really die.

"That's enough!" the man in black said sternly, "If you have anything to say, wait until I finish my business!"

“As for Zhang Sizhong’s technique, it is indeed inherited from his family, but it is not an evil method. It is just a method that overdrafts the life of the master’s injury.”

After saying that, the man in black threw out a book of martial arts techniques, and then continued to close his eyes and rest.

"Blood Evil Art?" One of the casual cultivators picked up the spell thrown by the black-robed cultivator and said, "It's true!"

Afterwards, several other people looked through the book of martial arts and discovered that this martial arts method was indeed as the black-clothed man described, a martial arts method that overdrafted one's lifespan, and the cost was quite high. Just Zhang Sizhong's recovery just now would consume several decades of his lifespan.

"Tsk tsk, it seems you don't have many days left to live, Senior Brother Liu, let's go!" the fiery woman said in a tender voice.

Although this technique seems to be very useless, many people still copied it as a backup.

Zhang Tie was no exception, but he was not like those people. Since he was very close to Zhang Sizhong at that time, he found that when the man in black explained the details of this technique, Zhang Sizhong actually showed a hint of smile.

"There must be something fishy going on," Zhang Tie thought secretly, but this was just a guess. Right now, the matter of Yanyue Sect was more important.

Zhang Sizhong originally wanted to stay away from Zhang Tie, but he found that the other cultivators were looking at him with ill intentions, so he had to continue staying around Zhang Tie.

Time passed like this little by little.

"Okay, everyone, come out with me!"

Zhang Tie, who was meditating quietly, was suddenly awakened by a loud noise. "Are we there yet? It's pretty fast!"

Zhang Tie looked around and found that the flying boat had been opened and cultivators were already walking out.

Zhang Tie didn't want to cause any trouble, so he followed the crowd.

"Here, seven of them!"

"Here, five!" As soon as they got off the flying boat, Zhang Tie found that they had arrived in a valley. The barefoot man and Taoist Huang Feng had already started to organize everyone to set up the formation.

"What is this?" Zhang Tie was also called at this time, and followed those people to a specific place.

Then, according to the barefoot man's request, he placed the spirit stones around himself.

"The Soul-Devouring Formation!" After observing for a while, Zhang Tie finally understood why the black-robed monk had summoned forty-nine Qi-training realm monks.

Fortunately, Zhang Tie was quite proficient in formations, otherwise, just from the arrangement techniques, ordinary formation masters would not be able to tell that this was the Soul-Devouring Formation.

This is because the Soul Devouring Formation requires the inner cores of seven monsters as materials. When the formation is activated, it will automatically absorb the spiritual energy from the monsters' inner cores to supply the formation.

The effect of the formation is very simple, it is to absorb all the spiritual energy of everyone within the formation. If the cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage are not prepared in advance, they will become lambs to be slaughtered after mistakenly entering the formation!
"What an evil method!" Zhang Tie thought to himself, "Because this black-robed monk can't find enough demon beast inner core, he actually uses monks as materials!"

Moreover, Zhang Tie discovered that the man in black had secretly set up an illusion array around him!
Once the Soul Devouring Array is activated, the black-robed monk will immediately activate the illusion array, and these Qi-cultivating monks will be forced to continuously provide nutrients to the array until all their blood and energy are sucked away.

"But now is not the time to turn hostile." Zhang Tie looked around and he did not sense anyone coming near the formation.

"Let's wait a moment." Zhang Tie thought.

On a small path not far from the valley where Zhang Tie was, a mortal caravan was slowly moving forward.

However, what is different from ordinary caravans is that there are quite a few monks pretending to be mortals in this caravan.

"Xiang Ling, do you think Beiliang Kingdom is fun?" The round-faced girl sitting in the carriage said to a beautiful female cultivator next to her.

Zhang Xiangling shook her head. She didn't know much about Beiliang Country, and she didn't want to go there at all. After leaving Yanyue Sect, she didn't know if she could see Zhang Tie again.

"Hmph, Senior Sister, why are you so worried all day long? What's so good about that cultivator named Zhang Tie? He only has three spiritual roots. It's hard to say whether he can form a pill in this lifetime."

The round-faced female cultivator shook Zhang Xiangling's arm as she spoke, "Senior Sister, you are about to break through to the late stage of foundation building. In the entire Yue Kingdom, apart from you, I have never heard of any cultivator as talented as you who can break through to the middle stage of foundation building in three years!"

The round-faced female cultivator's eyes sparkled, "Sister, when you reach the final stage of the elixir formation, can you please not forget me? At least give me some resources or something."

Before the round-faced female cultivator could finish her words, someone suddenly shouted, "Everyone be careful, we seem to have fallen into a trap!"

The speaker was a female cultivator at the Jindan stage. When sending the sect's potential disciples to Beiliang Kingdom, it was natural that there would be people to protect them.

"Finally, he took the bait!" The man in black laughed. He clasped his hands together and his clothes moved without wind. Then the whole formation began to operate.

Seeing the formation activated, Zhang Tie secretly left the node, leaving only some spirit stones to keep the formation running.

With Zhang Tie's attainments in formation, it is not difficult to use spirit stones to temporarily keep the formation running.

"What is this?" Zhang Tie was too far away to see the situation inside the formation clearly. He could only vaguely see a convoy that looked like ordinary people entering the formation.

(End of this chapter)