RAD Chapter 100

“Hahaha, I’ve finally succeeded! I’ve finally succeeded!!” An old man with a hideous expression on his face looked crazily at the bell in front of him that was emitting a dense deathly aura, “The Dead Souls Bell, my Dead Souls Bell!”

The old man stared obsessively at the bell that was forged from the souls of 9,999 people of different ages and months but all born in the Yin time. “Yu Jia, your master is truly grateful to you!”

That’s right, Yu Jia’s final fate was to have his body become a breeding ground for those poisonous insects, while his soul was forcefully extracted. As the final and key living soul for this Dead Souls Bell, his soul had to be extracted when his resentment reached its peak. In other words, the old man intentionally let Yu Jia’s inner resentment reach its maximum.

In fact, the day Yu Jia saw the old man killing people to silence them was deliberately arranged by the old man. After all, as a cultivator, the old man’s senses were much keener than an ordinary person’s. He could sense Yu Jia’s deep resentment from over a hundred meters away. It was because of this that the following series of events happened.

The old man excitedly waved his sleeve, and the Dead Souls Bell obediently flew into his hand. He gently caressed the bell, unable to contain his joy in his heart

“Knock, knock, knock…” A knocking sound came from the door. The old man slightly composed himself, put the bell away, and went to open the door. He frowned and directly asked the servant standing outside, “What’s the matter?”

“Healer Hua, the master has something to say to you.” The servant replied respectfully while bowing.

“Mm, I understand. Lead the way.” Healer Hua nodded, closed the door of his alchemy room, and followed the servant towards the main hall.

The so-called main hall was just a spacious room. Healer Hua entered the main hall respectfully and bowed to the woman sitting in the seat of honor. “Master, I have arrived.”

The woman with black veil convering her face waved her hand and spoke directly, “Healer Hua, how is the progress on the Dead Souls Bell?”

“To report to the master, I have just successfully forged it.” Healer Hua replied respectfully and a cold sweat broke out on his back. In fact, he had been secretly working on the creation of the Dead Souls Bell, not even telling his most trusted confidants. How did the master know about this? And how did it just so happen that the master summoned him right after he completed it? Did that mean he was being monitored?

The woman nodded with satisfaction, a trace of affection and craziness appearing in her eyes. “Then, let me see its true form.”

The master spoke, and Healer Hua dared not disobey. Moreover, he knew that this Dead Souls Bell would not be spared today. To tell the truth, the main reason he had forged this bell was to use its power to defeat the damn woman in front of him who called herself his master.

Back then, he was also a free-roaming cultivator. Although he was a healer, he never actively saved people and even killed many. To the righteous practitioners, he was a heretic and a rebel. But at least he was free! He could leave this place instead of being forced to stay here against his will.

That’s right, Healer Hua was captured here at great cost by the woman sitting there. She also managed to place a mother-child Gu on him. A person who is infected with the child Gu must obey the orders of the one put the mother Gu. Unless the person who put the Gu dies, the one who is infected can never be free, even if he dies.

This is why, even though he was extremely unwilling when he heard the woman say she wanted to see the dead souls bell he had forged, his body moved involuntarily. He had no choice but to watch himself obediently hand over the bell and then turn and leave the main hall.

After returning to his alchemy room, Healer Hua finally could not suppress the hatred in his heart. He viciously kicked over the alchemy furnace in the center of the room and threw everything on the shelves to the ground. Looking at the scene of devastation, he felt a little better.

However, when he thought about the trick he left behind when he forged the dead souls bell, a cruel smile could not help but appear on his face: Very good, since you do this to me again and again, don’t blame me!

He immediately had a guess as to why the woman took the bell he had forged. After all, the purpose of this bell is to summon the souls of the dead to be used. No matter how powerful the person was in life, under the effect of this bell, they will become as obedient as a domesticated cat. It is most likely that the woman wants to use this bell to summon her mother’s soul. You know, it has been over ten years since he was captured and brought into this place, and he has also heard some news during this time.

“Aunt, look, this is the Dead Souls Bell!” The woman held the bell up to her eyes and examined it carefully, her tone full of excitement. “Finally, mother can wake up.”

A figure slowly appeared next to the woman, and hope also appeared in her eyes: “Yes, that’s right, this is the Dead Souls Bell. Sister, you can finally wake up!”

The woman immediately stood up and said to the person beside her: “Aunt, let’s go now, let’s summon mother.”

“Not yet. Although this bell is indeed the Dead Souls Bell, for the sake of caution, we should first try to summon your mother’s soul, and then have the people below prepare the ritual, and then we’ll go open your mother’s ice coffin.”

“Okay, that works too. After all, it’s still two weeks until the time for the ice coffin to rise.” The woman suppressed the excitement in her heart and nodded in agreement.

“Oh by the way, I have something to tell you this time.”

“What is it?”

“I have already determined the most important medicinal ingredient for the ritual.”

“Really?” The woman stood up and confirmed eagerly, “Has the person been captured?”

“Not yet, the people I sent out were all dealt with by his master.”

“Huh?” The woman furrowed her brow. “Master? So, he is from some sect? Who is that person?”

“Luo Xiao.”

“Luo Xiao? Regardless, we must find an opportunity to capture him as soon as possible. After all, if this attempt fails, it will not be easy to catch him again. And those despicable sects have even joined forces against us. Now our entire sect has less than a thousand people left, and only five strongholds remain. We cannot just sit and wait to die!”

“Yes, I think so too. Anyway, those so-called righteous sects combined have only a few hundred more people than us. We might as well just fight them head-on!”

While the two ladies were discussing, Mr. Huo was also discussing the same matter with Old Man Yu and the others. They also felt that if this matter was dragged on, they did not know what would happen in the future! Moreover, the other side’s actions were becoming more and more frequent and arrogant. It was time to completely eliminate this Holy Teachings.

They had already sent people to thoroughly investigate. Although the other side still had five strongholds with less than a thousand people, most of them were low-level cultivators that could be easily dealt with. Only two of these places required special caution.

One place was the cave that Luo Xiao and Ye Lan discovered when they accidentally fell. Although the people defending there were not many, the place was already full of various hidden traps and mechanisms that were hard to guard against. Even the people sent by Old Man Yu found it increasingly difficult to explore the place successfully. Now it was completely impossible to explore it again.

The other place was the Holy Teaching’s main camp, where that woman was now. The layout of traps and mechanisms here was not as dense as the cave, but that place gathered the top experts of their sect. That’s why successfully attacking it would not be an easy task.

However, they would not shrink back. Mr. Huo and the others planned to divide their forces into three routes: Mr. Huo would lead a group to attack the cave, Old Man Yu would lead a group to attack the main camp, while Old Man Ouyang would lead the others to attack the remaining three strongholds.

For the three strongholds, Old Man Ouyang planned to break them simultaneously. After all, if they attacked all three at the same time, not only would it be more efficient, but it would also be less likely to attract powerful experts to reinforce them.

Mr. Huo carefully divined the appropriate time to attack, because for them to achieve victory, the timing, the terrain, and the people involved were all crucial elements.

“Old fox, how is it? Have you calculated the time?” Old Man Yu stared intently at Mr. Huo.

“En, I’ve calculated it.” Master Huo looked at the divined time and a frown unconsciously appeared between his brows. How could this be the time when his disciple was in trouble?

“What’s wrong? Is there something wrong?” Old Man Ouyang on the side asked worriedly.

Mr. Huo shook his head slightly. Well, his precious disciple’s luck has always been good anyway. He raised his head and said, “The best time for us to attack will be in two weeks.”

“Two weeks?” Old Man Yu stroked his chin and then slapped the table beside him. “Alright, we’ll go all out at that time!”

“En, go all out!” Mr. Huo and Old Man Ouyang stood up and echoed in agreement.

After confirming the time of starting the battle, the three of them went to contact the people who would participate in the joint operation at that time to make full preparations for the final grand battle in two weeks.

Time flew quickly as the two sides made their respective preparations. On the eve before the big battle, Luo Xiao and Ye Lan were still captured by the Holy Teaching’s people in the cave. After learning this news, Mr. Huo could not help but suppress the worry in his heart and quietly wait for the attack time to arrive…