Chapter 1226: Drawing a Circle as a Prison

“Lin!”

Ye Yuan formed a hand seal, his voice like a great bell.

At the same time, Ye Yuan’s formidable blood and qi surged skyward, forcibly suppressing the wailing and howling sounds!

As the “Lin” character was uttered, a vast and righteous aura instantly spread out.

Those ghostly cries seemed to have met their bane, and they dared not approach Ye Yuan and the others anymore.

The souls that had been drawn out immediately returned to their bodies.

Even so, their faces were ashen, as if they had suffered a severe illness.

However, they all showed expressions of lingering fear, looking at Ye Yuan with gratitude.

If not for Ye Yuan, they would have already become soulless corpses like the first group.

Lü’er’s face was also very pale. Ye Yuan asked with concern, “Lü’er, are you alright?”

“I’m fine, thank you, Young Master.” Lü’er shook her head.

But Ye Yuan’s expression turned cold. “If the tiger doesn’t show its might, they think I’m a sick cat?”

These ghosts were so arrogant that they had even harmed Lü’er, stirring Ye Yuan’s true anger.

“Xiao Huo, burn all these ghostly things for me! I want to see what kind of monsters are playing tricks here!” Ye Yuan shouted coldly.

Hearing Ye Yuan’s icy tone, the others couldn’t help but shiver.

These soul-summoning banners were extremely eerie; they were lucky to have escaped with their lives.

But this lord actually wanted to burn them all!

Xiao Huo appeared, formed hand seals, and instantly a terrifying flame power rippled out.

“Boom!”

Everyone immediately felt as if their entire bodies were about to ignite.

They hurriedly circulated their primal power to resist, but under this terrible heat, they felt as if they were being scorched.

Too terrifying!

“This… this flame power is too strong!”

“Lingzhe Divine King’s Nine Suns Burning Heaven is considered the number one fire technique in the Divine Realm, but in my opinion, this flame power is no less!”

“Who exactly is this lord? His strength is simply too terrifying, isn’t it?”

…

Back then, Lingzhe Divine King had slaughtered over a hundred Divine Kings with a single move of Nine Suns Burning Heaven, causing a sensation.

Among these dozen or so people, there were several Divine Kings, and they knew that if Xiao Huo used this move on them, they would be instantly killed.

No matter how many came, it would be the same!

Having witnessed Ye Yuan’s strength, they couldn’t help but speculate about his identity.

Earlier, when they heard Ye Yuan say he wasn’t afraid of Dingtian Divine King, they had felt some disdain.

But now, they knew Ye Yuan wasn’t joking!

With strength comparable to Lingzhe Divine King, why would he fear Dingtian Divine King?

The pale white flames instantly ignited the soul-summoning banners within a thousand zhang radius.

Piercing ghostly howls came, as if they were thrown into a cauldron of oil, their screams unending.

After ten breaths, Xiao Huo withdrew the Jingtan Sacred Flame.

Originally, this thousand-zhang area was overgrown with weeds and filled with countless soul-summoning banners.

Now, it had become a barren wilderness.

The power of the Jingtan Sacred Flame was indeed not much inferior to Lingzhe Divine King’s.

Such flame power directly refined those soul-summoning banners into nothingness.

However, Ye Yuan’s expression changed.

In this thousand-zhang wilderness, there were still several soul-summoning banners that hadn’t been refined!

Ye Yuan swept his gaze and found there were nine!

These nine soul-summoning banners were clearly different from the others.

The nine banners were planted on lonely, desolate graves, appearing cold and eerie, giving an extremely ominous feeling.

On the wilderness, there was also a huge tomb.

In front of the tomb stood a stone tablet inscribed with five blood-red characters: “Tomb of the Soul Refining Sect.”

“It seems the strangeness of Duanhun Ridge is due to the emergence of this tomb! The Soul Refining Sect—this is likely a sect from the Primordial Era. Moreover, it’s a divine sect!” Ye Yuan said.

The emergence of this tomb had overlapped this space onto Duanhun Ridge.

That was why martial artists, upon arriving, had their souls absorbed by those soul-summoning banners.

As for the Soul Refining Sect, Ye Yuan had never heard of it; it was most likely a sect from the Primordial Era.

Sects from the Ancient Era are occasionally mentioned in some records of the Divine Realm.

The Primordial Era is too distant; even large sects like Tianyi Sect are no longer remembered, let alone smaller divine sects.

These nine soul-summoning banners could withstand Xiao Huo’s refinement, so they were certainly no ordinary items.

Thus, Ye Yuan concluded that this so-called Soul Refining Sect must be a divine sect!

“Hahaha…”

Suddenly, a manic voice rang out.

Everyone was startled and turned to see a Divine King holding one of the nine soul-summoning banners!

“Wei Cheng, what are you doing? Put it down!” Another martial artist, Li Yao, who was on good terms with Wei Cheng, saw this and his face changed drastically as he shouted at Wei Cheng.

But Wei Cheng could no longer hear him.

He laughed wildly, “Hahaha, from today on, I am the heir of the Primordial Soul Refining Sect! I will make the world bow to me!”

Wei Cheng’s eyes were bloodshot, his expression manic, looking very sinister.

“Wei Cheng, wake up! Put down that soul-summoning banner!” Li Yao shouted again.

Ye Yuan sighed and said, “He has been controlled by that soul-summoning banner. No matter how much you shout, it’s useless.”

Li Yao’s face was as pale as paper, and he murmured, “This… what can we do?”

“It’s not good. First, seize that soul-summoning banner. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to kill him!” Ye Yuan said.

“Hahaha… Kill, kill, kill!”

Wei Cheng had gone completely mad, charging over with a soul-summoning banner, his aura overwhelming.

“Bai Guang, you go deal with him first. I’ll cast a spell to protect them, or else if someone else is lured by the soul-summoning banner, it will be bad,” Ye Yuan said.

Without a word, Bai Guang leaped forward to confront Wei Cheng!

Bai Guang’s current strength was no less than that of the Ten Great Divine Kings.

But in a direct clash with Wei Cheng, he couldn’t gain the upper hand at all!

For a time, the two fought fiercely, locked in a stalemate.

Seeing this, everyone’s expressions changed drastically.

An unremarkable Divine King, after obtaining a soul-summoning banner, had become so powerful!

Ye Yuan frowned at this, thinking that the Primordial Soul Refining Sect was indeed extremely sinister.

However, his hands didn’t slow down as he drew out the Yuanci Spirit Wood.

Ye Yuan infused his primal power, and instantly thunder roared, with bolts of lightning shooting out.

Holding the Yuanci Spirit Wood, Ye Yuan drew a large circle around everyone.

When finished, Ye Yuan softly uttered the “Lin” character and thrust the Yuanci Spirit Wood directly into the ground.

Instantly, a huge lightning shield enveloped everyone in the middle.

Above the shield, faint fluctuations of law power could be felt; the might of the “Lin” character condensed without dispersing!

“Alright, no matter what happens outside, do not step beyond this shield! Otherwise, even gods will find it hard to save you!” Ye Yuan said coldly to everyone.