"I don't know either..." the cultivator shook his head. "I was just on my way when someone suddenly rushed out and dragged me here..."
After speaking, the cultivator hugged his knees and curled into a ball.
His body trembled slightly from fear.
At the same time, Ye Fan smelled the aroma again.
These scents emanated from the cultivators.
The higher the realm, the stronger the aroma.
Ye Fan felt uneasy.
He even wondered if he had become a pervert...
Damn it!
Smelling an aroma from a group of grown men?
Suddenly!
The scene of the tribulation flashed through Ye Fan's mind!
Wait...
Ye Fan seemed to have thought of something, his face filled with disbelief!
If nothing unexpected happened, the aroma represented energy...
Now that he could smell the aroma from cultivators, didn't that mean...
Looking at these cultivators again, Ye Fan's eyes held a touch of complexity.
No, no, no...
This was too perverted...
If his assumptions were correct.
What he was doing now was no different from those evil cultivators!
Although Ye Fan didn't consider himself a gentleman, he couldn't bring himself to do such a monstrous thing.
Thinking of this, Ye Fan's gaze fell upon the prison guards at the entrance.
These guys were clearly not up to anything good.
Testing them wouldn't cause him any psychological burden...
"Ah—!"
Ye Fan let out a scream and fell to the ground, convulsing uncontrollably.
The prison guards, hearing the commotion, rushed over to check.
Seeing Ye Fan's state, they were all bewildered.
What was going on?
"Quick, save me..." Ye Fan weakly stretched out his hand, his face contorted in pain. "I'm dying..."
"Boss, what do we do?" one of the prison guards asked nervously.
"Could the second-in-command have been too rough?" the prison guard leader was also unsure. "Go quickly and report to the second-in-command!"
After the subordinate went to report, the prison guard leader opened the cell door.
Ye Fan's appearance was truly terrifying, as if he were about to die at any moment.
If Ye Fan died here, he would be in deep trouble.
The prison guard leader went in, grabbed Ye Fan, and intended to carry him out.
Ye Fan suddenly stood up and grabbed his neck.
He smelled another aroma from his nose.
In fact, before this, Ye Fan didn't know exactly what to do.
What he had done before was just a guess, and he wasn't sure if it would work.
Even if it worked, he didn't know how to operate it.
But after touching the prison guard leader, Ye Fan seemed to understand everything instantly!
It was as if some instinct had awakened within him.
A talisman's light flickered from Ye Fan's palm!
Along with a suction force, the talisman began to frantically devour the prison guard leader's true qi!
The prison guard leader's cultivation visibly declined!
The prison guard leader was terrified and immediately struggled to resist.
However, Ye Fan's hand was like an iron clamp; his struggles were utterly useless!
"You... what did you do to me..."
A few breaths later, the prison guard leader stopped struggling.
At this moment, not only had his cultivation been lost, but he had also turned into a dried corpse!
Ye Fan then released his hand.
"Thump!"
The prison guard leader fell to the ground, lifeless.
Ye Fan looked at his right hand.
The light of the talisman flashed and disappeared.
At this moment, he could clearly feel a surge of energy within him.
This energy was not true qi, but an existence that he couldn't describe.
The energy dispersed and completely merged into his physical body.
The entire process required no refinement, as if this energy had always been a part of him.
This feeling...
Was very similar to the way he had leveled up by eating ore before...
Well...
He had really guessed correctly...
Was this some kind of cultivation version of the Star Absorbing Great Technique?
Ye Fan seemed to see a path to leveling up laid out before him!
He glanced at the captured cultivators and suppressed the wicked thought.
Forget it...
There were no shortage of bad people in this world...
So his gaze naturally fell upon the remaining prison guards.
Being stared at by Ye Fan, the prison guards shivered instantly...
Because what had just happened was far beyond their comprehension.
Ye Fan now appeared to them as the embodiment of all evil and terror!
"Mommy—!"
One prison guard with poor psychological resilience immediately screamed and ran out.
"Hey!"
Ye Fan grabbed him back.
Since you're here, why run!
The talisman's light reappeared.
The prison guard was quickly drained by Ye Fan!
Then, Ye Fan's hands flashed, and he dealt with the rest of the prison guards!
Unfortunately, these guys were too weak.
Even after draining them all, his cultivation showed no signs of breaking through.
After dealing with the prison guards, Ye Fan left the cell.
Although the spirit-extinguishing demonic stone was indeed formidable, it had no effect on him.
After all, he had no true qi within him, relying solely on physical strength.
The cultivators in the cell were now completely stunned!
Each of them looked at Ye Fan as if they were looking at a monster...
At the same time, the previous prison guard arrived with the second-in-command.
Seeing Ye Fan walk out of the cell, the second-in-command's expression clearly faltered. Da Feng Novel Network
Hadn't they said this kid was dying?
What was going on?
But soon, he saw the dried corpses of the prison guards lying on the ground.
It was obvious something had happened!
Without a word, the second-in-command immediately unleashed a spell at Ye Fan!
His response was Ye Fan's charging figure!
The spell collided with Ye Fan's fist and vanished instantly!
Ye Fan's fist, with undiminished momentum, landed on the second-in-command's chest.
"Bang—!"
The second-in-command flew backward in pain!
After rolling several times on the ground, he barely managed to stop.
Looking at Ye Fan again, his eyes were filled with terror!
He finally realized the gravity of the situation...
The only reason he was still alive was that Ye Fan had held back.
Otherwise, with just that one blow, he feared he would have been reduced to ashes on the spot.
"Who exactly are you..."
The second-in-command asked tremblingly.
"Remember, it's my turn to ask questions now." Ye Fan squatted down and smiled kindly. "You just need to answer my questions honestly."
"I understand..."
The second-in-command replied tactfully, his arrogance completely gone.
"Who are you people?" Ye Fan lightly patted the second-in-command's shoulder, as if to comfort him and tell him not to be afraid. "Why are you capturing these cultivators?"
Unfortunately, Ye Fan's gesture was useless; the second-in-command was trembling like a sieve...
"We were originally a group of rogue cultivators... One day..."
A few minutes later.
After listening to the second-in-command's account, Ye Fan had a general understanding of the sequence of events.
These guys were originally a group of rogue cultivators who weren't doing well, occasionally engaging in banditry.
Then one day, a cloaked man appeared before them.
The cloaked man told them to capture cultivators above the Golden Core realm and would pay them spirit stones based on the cultivators' realms.
The cloaked man's aura was terrifying, and they dared not disobey.
Besides, this task was similar to what they had done before, so they agreed.
As for who the cloaked man was, they had no idea.
Because the cultivators in this prison were the first batch they had captured.
The first transaction hadn't even been completed yet.
"You know the meeting place, right?" Ye Fan asked with a smile.
"Yes, I know!" the second-in-command quickly replied.
"Very well." Ye Fan pulled up the second-in-command. "Then take me to see your boss."
And so,
Ye Fan, pulling the trembling second-in-command, returned to the room where they had entered.
After leaving the room, they headed straight for the boss's room.
Seeing the second-in-command being escorted by the previously captured cultivators, the subordinates instinctively reached for their weapons!
"What are you all doing!" the second-in-command immediately yelled. "Get back inside!"
The subordinates looked at each other and finally complied.
Although they all felt something was wrong.
But since the second-in-command had spoken, no one dared to disobey...
"Creak—"
The door opened.
The boss and the third-in-command inside instinctively asked, "What's going on with that person..."
They stopped mid-sentence, stunned.
The subordinates had reported that the newly captured cultivator was suddenly dying.
Hadn't the second brother gone to check the situation, so why now...
Trouble!
"Creak—"
Ye Fan gently closed the door and then smiled kindly at the two of them.
"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person."