Published at 16th of January 2026 9:05 am

Chapter 2015: Blood Soul Devouring Array? The Return of the Black Robed Demonic Cultivators!

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The power that originally required a "sacrifice" to activate became docile under the soothing of this Dragon Power.

In Luo Qingchen’s mind, it was as if a flash of lightning had suddenly pierced through all the fog.

He understood!

"It’s not a sacrifice! We’ve all misunderstood!"

Luo Qingchen’s voice quivered slightly with excitement.

He quickly stepped forward, cautiously merging his Chaotic Power with Bai Ling’er’s Dragon Power, and together they infused it into the Star Map bronze disc.

The two distinctly different yet fundamentally similar supreme powers perfectly melded within the new rune pattern.

Those core runes finally revealed their true meaning to him.

"What it needs is not the demise of life, but the ’resonance’ of life’s origin!"

"It doesn’t require a blood sacrifice; it needs the purest Origin Power that can simultaneously accommodate the opposing attributes of ’creation’ and ’destruction’ as the ’key’ to open the Star Gate!"

Luo Qingchen raised his head, his eyes blazing as he looked at everyone present.

"The fusion of my Chaotic Power and Bai Ling’er’s True Dragon Power is the unique key that can gently open the Star Gate without a sacrifice!"

At this moment, all the debates vanished like smoke.

Elder Gu and Elder Zhou’s faces showed a complex expression of shock and shame intertwined.

The preliminary conditions for opening the Star Gate had finally been deduced.

It would be an unprecedented challenge.

But at least it no longer required the cold sacrifice to desecrate this path to the future.

While the Star Map research team conducted their intense and secretive research deep in the main peak, the world outside Qingyun Sect had long been undercurrents surging.

A storm was brewing.

Initially, it was just a few scattered messages.

Some Loose Cultivators who had been collecting herbs in the mountains for years, or small families attached to the Qingyun Sect, began to spread rumors that the nights in the mountains had become more dangerous than ever recently.

There were always strange shadows flashing through the forest.

In some remote Spirit Mines or herb gardens, incidents of guard disciples mysteriously disappearing occasionally occurred.

But these messages were taken to be ordinary Demonic Beasts wreaking havoc and did not attract enough attention from the Sect’s high levels.

Everyone’s attention was firmly attracted to the mysterious Ancient Star Gate that was about to open.

Although Luo Qingchen was wholly absorbed in the research, the string called vigilance in his heart had never loosened even a bit.

The keen intuition derived from Chaotic Power made him always feel a sense of prying that was there but barely felt.

It was as though outside the seemingly peaceful sky of Qingyun Sect, a pair of cold and greedy eyes were staring intently here.

This feeling became stronger and stronger as the research on the Star Gate progressed in leaps and bounds.

Finally, on a stormy night, that tightly stretched string was plucked completely.

The alarm bell of the Intelligence Hall was frantically rung in the fastest manner possible.

A blood-soaked Inner Sect Disciple responsible for patrolling outside, flying on a nearly disintegrating Flying Sword, fell headlong from the sky at the gates of the Intelligence Hall.

He only had time to squeeze out a few words through his clenched teeth.

"Li Family, the Li Family is annihilated, black-clad Demonic Cultivators..."

After saying this, he passed out completely.

This news immediately stirred up a monstrous wave.

The Li Family was among the top five in strength among the Qingyun Sect’s affiliated families.

Their family station, located 300 miles to the west of the Qingyun Mountain Range in Qingshi Valley, had been mining a special mineral called "Moonlight Crystal Stone" for the Sect for generations.

The Family Head of the Li Family was a cultivator at the initial realm of the Golden Core stage, with dozens of Foundation Establishment disciples in the family. The entire family station was covered by a third-level Protective Array bestowed by the Sect.

Such strength was enough to hold out until the Sect’s reinforcements arrived, even against an attack from a sect of the same level.

But now, they had been annihilated.

As a core member of the research team, Luo Qingchen was summoned by Master Xuan Yang at the first moment to review the imaging Jade Scrolls recorded with the life of the surviving disciple from the frontline.

Once the Jade Slip was activated, scenes like hell unfolded before everyone.

The whole of Qingshi Valley was shrouded in a thick, foul-smelling black-red mist.

The valley, once teeming with Spiritual Energy, had now turned into a wasteland.

The ground was cracked, vegetation withered.

The corpses of the Li Clan members lay scattered everywhere, their manner of death identical to what Luo Qingchen had previously seen at the Qingyun Spirit Mine with the miners.

Every person’s body was shriveled into a dry corpse, their faces frozen with an expression of extreme fear.

And in the center of the ruined conference hall, a huge and sinister symbol was etched in blood on the ground.

It was a distorted, painfully struggling black scorpion.

"The Blood Soul Devouring Spirit Array!"

Elder Qin Mingyuan’s voice was filled with suppressed anger.

"It’s those black-clad Demonic Cultivators! They’ve appeared again!"

However, Luo Qingchen’s pupils suddenly shrank.

His attention was not entirely on that familiar symbol.

He noticed that around Qingshi Valley, at the four key node locations of the array, there were still four black totem poles that had turned to charcoal.

The Totem Poles were inscribed with magic runes more ancient and complex than the Blood Soul Devouring Spirit Array.

"No... something’s not right."

Luo Qingchen’s voice was very quiet, yet everyone present heard it clearly.

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