Chapter 413: 388. Evil Clan Cultivation System, Evil Spirit History
No matter what, three Five-Eyed Evils were enough to give him trouble.
If they were three True Martial Spirit Masters like Xia Feng, he wouldn't find it difficult, for he could simply strip them of their Spiritual Artifacts and counterattack.
But dealing with the Evil Clan was a different story.
"High-level?" A muffled questioning voice came from the shadowy creature within the curtain of rain, followed by light laughter. "That stupid human is really cautious for having us join forces to kill just a General Fifth."
As the low voice spoke, their figures fully materialized from behind the rain curtain.
They were three humanoid creatures resembling black-furred apes, over two meters tall, with faces covered in black velvet and five blood-red eyes. In the center of their foreheads was a protruding silver-white sharp horn.
Xia Feng recognized this type of Evil Clan.
[Evil Spirit Clan]
The Evil Clan internally consists of thousands of different races; each race has its own racial talent, similar to human's Spiritual Artifacts.
However, humans need luck to awaken their Spiritual Artifacts; the Evil Clan does not—they are born with it, though some talents are strong and others are weak.
The talent of the Evil Spirit Clan was very simple: producing Evil Spirit Pearls!
Evil Spirit Pearls are agglomerations of pure Evil Power and are an effective means to enhance combat power.
Especially the high-level Evil Spirit Pearls, which are extremely difficult to produce and can significantly amplify the combat power of one or even several members of the Evil Clan.
Therefore, the Evil Spirit Clan had a high status within the Evil Clan.
Regarding their attack methods, they were very singular; they could produce high-concentration Evil Power to attack their enemies. As such, their attacks were only effective against humans and ineffective against their own kind.
According to Evil Clan History, which Xia Feng had learned, due to the harmless nature of the Evil Spirit Clan's talent to other races, this race had spent a long time oppressed as slaves, continuously producing Evil Spirit Pearls until the emergence of the first Great Evil of the Evil Spirit, which ended their tragic fate and gradually raised their status.
Observing these three members of the Evil Spirit Clan, Xia Feng's lips curled into a kind smile.
If it had been other members of the Evil Clan, he might have expected a bloody battle, but the Evil Spirit Clan?
Sorry, no offense to anyone in particular, but the entire Evil Spirit Clan is trash, in my opinion.
Seeing that this human didn't move at all and appeared as if petrified, the three members of the Evil Spirit Clan didn't immediately attack but leisurely produced a black pearl.
The terrifying Evil Power emitting from the pearl caused Xia Feng's pupils to constrict.
Oh my god, a high-level Evil Spirit Pearl?
The pearl floated, and from it surged a terrifying and dark energy flow, elevating the aura of the three Five-Eyed members of the Evil Spirit Clan layer by layer.
"Human, you should feel honored," a deep voice rang out as the silver-gray glint from the sharp horns on their foreheads converged into a horrifying Six-eyed Level Evil Power aura.
Roar!!! The gray stream erupted like a light cannon, forcing Xia Feng back precisely one-sixteenth of a step.
He lowered his head to glance at the dissipating terrifying energy before his chest, blinked, and looked up with a slight smile:
"Is that all?"
"???"
These extremely pure Evil Power energies had increased the progress of Xia Feng's Evil Demon Heart by 0.00001 percent, not enough even to fill the gaps between his teeth.
However, luckily these three brothers from the Evil Spirit Clan actually carried a high-level Evil Spirit Pearl with them!
It was a fortuitous disaster indeed.
Ten seconds later.
Three heads of Evil Beasts, resembling monkeys, fell to the ground and rolled to Xia Feng's feet.
Xia Feng bent down to pick up a black bead from the ground, the pure Evil Spirit Liquid contained within exciting his whole body, causing his heart to pound.
With a gentle squeeze, the bead shattered, turning into countless streams of black liquid that surged into his palm and entered the Evil Demon Heart.
[Repair Progress: 2.9808%]
[Absorbing High-level Evil Spirit Pearl——]
[2.9919%]
[3.3012%]
.....
[Repair Progress: 4.4799%]
Simultaneously, Xia Feng noticed that within the excitedly pulsating Evil Demon Heart, six light points faintly appeared, two of which were already activated and emitted a golden light, representing the Blood Beast's Shadow and Evil Spirit Touch respectively.
The remaining four light points were dim, but one began emitting a faint golden glow as the repair progressed, although it wasn't very noticeable.
Reaching 10% would repair this light point, activating the third Demon Power.
A high-level Evil Spirit Pearl could repair a maximum of 1.5% progress, meaning four more high-level Evil Spirit Pearls were needed.
As Xia Feng estimated this in his mind, he began interrogating the three Evil Clan souls.
Utilizing Yue Hongli's Hua Scroll's mind-reading ability, he quickly discovered why these Evil Clan members had come to kill him.
It was because of Che Taixian!
Che Taixian's Spiritual Artifact, the Yin Yang Mirror, could not only be used for Dual Cultivation by himself, but it also allowed others to do so. Hence, even though Che Taixian was a wanted criminal and a Burning Heaven Evil Cultist, many high-ranking officials of the Empire secretly maintained good relations with Che Taixian, providing benefits to gain access to the Yin Yang Mirror.
Xia Feng killing Che Taixian naturally angered many powerful authorities.
Thus, these authorities pressured the City Lord of Helian City, Yeli Helian, demanding the capture of the murderer to avenge Che Taixian!
Of course, the real reason was that Che Taixian possessed a Heavenly Stone Embryo and a large quantity of Yao Stones; since he died in Helian City, these treasures naturally could not be leaked out.
Flipping his hand, Xia Feng took out a Water Bright Stone from the Nash Space, which he had seized from Che Taixian, and observed it closely. He noticed a faint red dot flashing deep within the Yao Stone, seemingly an effect produced by a tracking Spiritual Artifact.
This tracking light point would automatically activate if not sensed for a month, exposing the current location.
Yeli Helian was probably able to find him using this, Xia Feng thought as he crushed the Yao Stone with force, dispersing the red tracking point.
He then carefully checked all the treasures in the Nash Space to make sure there were no other tracking objects before he could finally relax.
It must be said that such non-offensive Spiritual Artifacts were truly difficult to guard against as their replication ability could not be detected and were extremely annoying.
However, according to the confessions of the Evil Spirit Clan, they had been laying dormant in the human world for over a hundred years, and this assembly together with Yeli Helian was for the promotion ceremony of the Longevity Spirit Great Evil.
Assassinating Xia Feng was just incidental; they still needed to help Yeli Helian accomplish something afterward, for which Yeli Helian would provide the materials needed for the Great Evil's promotion ceremony, such as a large number of Evil Spirit Pearls!
As for so-called promotions, it's a special term in the cultivation system of the Evil Clan.
Great Disasters and Great Calamities aren't naturally occurring; these disasters that control powerful Rule Power all come from ordinary Evils being "promoted."
The difference between those promoted and those not is significant, one could say, 'calamities' and 'disasters' can generally match the 'Evils' of the same eye-level.
Generally speaking, the Evil Clan is eligible for promotion once they reach the Five Eyes, but once promoted, their eye-level cultivation becomes fixed, gaining Rule Power but unable to advance for life.
Hence, most of the Evil Clan prefer to wait until the Six Eyes to promote, the ambitious ones choose Seven Eyes, and the extremely proud geniuses aiming for the God Realm might choose to promote after Eight Eyes.
Of course, such geniuses haven't been seen for thousands of years.