Chapter 571: Chapter 566 Puppet Army Soul Crystal

The Binding Spell was like a strange insect with a thousand hands and feet; it descended upon the round head of the Evil Eye Lord, under Luo Zhancheng’s manipulation, and then directly sank into it.

The Evil Eye Lord was brimming with confidence, believing that even the Demon God Contract, despite its cost, could not bind it too severely, let alone a mere rune from a Beastman meant to control a demon beast.

It was convinced that, given a few days without making a sound, it could gradually erase this seemingly eerie talisman, and it might even be able to assimilate it with its formidable spiritual power, thereby locating the whereabouts of the Beastman before it and possibly even using the rune to send misleading messages that could be beneficial to itself.

However, this cunning creature from the Demon Realm was not aware that the Beastman King before it, while clad in the skin of a Beastman, was actually something else entirely inside. It did not know that Luo Zhancheng came from a Sect dedicated to the study of controlling and subjugating beasts and, after tens of thousands of years of relentless research, had nearly perfected the Beast Taming Technique to its utmost limit.

Thus, the confidence of the Evil Eye Lord did not last long.

As the Binding Spell entered its body and delved deep into its soul, the countless slender rune tentacles immediately extended, each connecting to a node of its soul and entangling at the core of its deepest essence. In just a short moment, the tentacles covered every corner of its soul, as pervasive as the blood vessels coursing through a body, densely intertwined and omnipresent.

The face of the Evil Eye Lord changed.

Although, due to its spherical body, it was somewhat difficult to distinguish its face, its heart was filled with indescribable terror.

What kind of technique was this, so eerie, domineering, and powerful?

It was just a small Rune Seed, yet the original thin and short rune tentacles could extend so long, becoming so large, completely subduing its entire soul, causing it to feel a tremble from its deepest depths.

Instinctively, it felt as if it had fallen into a spider’s web like an insect, and feared it would never be able to extricate itself.

The Evil Eye Lord cautiously touched the tip of one of the Binding Spell’s rune tentacles with its spiritual power. It dared not cause too much disturbance, afraid of attracting Luo Zhancheng’s attention, so it chose a very thin rune tentacle to try and assimilate.

If it were successful, it might have a chance to regain its freedom in the future.

Yet, the moment its spiritual power attempted to enter the rune tentacle, it was as if touching one hair would affect the whole body; the Binding Spell violently trembled, and all the rune tentacles constricted at once. An unbearable pain engulfed it, causing the Evil Eye Lord to suddenly scream out loud.

This shriek far exceeded any before as the Evil Eye Lord, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, suddenly sprang up and harshly collided with the crust above, creating cracks in the incredibly hard earth’s crust, with its body nearly embedded in it.

For the moment, the entire battlefield fell silent, and all the Evil Eyes stopped their manipulation of the puppets attacking everyone.

The pitiful scream of the Evil Eye Lord, powered by its spiritual force, was too intense, disrupting all creatures on the battlefield, regardless of whether they were man or beast, startling them all to halt their movements and turn their heads towards it.

After a while, the Evil Eye Lord ceased its pitiful howls, feeling the pain within its body fade away, then shakily extracted its body from the crust above and flew downwards.

Luo Zhancheng watched the Evil Eye Lord with an indifferent expression and let out a cold laugh, “This time, I’ll let it go, but if you entertain such thoughts again, I will make you truly experience the torment of the Binding Spell!”

“Not at all, not at all, this subordinate has absolutely no thoughts of betraying the master, just now was merely… curiosity…”

The Evil Eye Lord was filled with panic, its face marked by extreme horror, and inside it was a complex mix of emotions, indescribable.

It had never imagined that the Talisman Seed Luo Zhancheng had planted within its body would be so tyrannical, that a mere touch would invoke a pain it had never experienced in its life, immediately making it wish for death.

What made it even more desperate was the sheer power of the Binding Spell; a slight touch elicited such a reaction, so how could it ever refine it in the future?

Moreover, once the Binding Spell entered its body, it inexplicably changed, the still thin rune tentacles extending a hundredfold, covering its entire body and every corner of its soul, leaving it with no chance to extricate the Demon God Contract from its body as it had done before at some cost.

Was this thing actually so much more powerful than the Demon God Contract?

How would it ever be able to refine it in the future? If not, wouldn’t it have to forever serve this Beastman as a slave?

“From now on, you’d better behave yourself, otherwise, hmph…”

Luo Zhancheng didn’t spell out the specific threats, instead, he directly ordered, “Alright, tell those underlings of yours to cease their actions, gather all the puppets together, and await my command; I have another purpose for them!”

“I wonder what the master intends to–ah…”

The Evil Eye Lord instinctively asked, but before it could finish speaking, a pain far more intense than before surged through it, causing it to fall to the ground with a smack, rolling in agony.

After a long while, Luo Zhancheng finally ceased his manipulation of the Binding Spell and coldly glanced at it, “Remember, next time I give an order, just do it. If you can’t stay obedient, I’ll make you endure this continuously for seven days and seven nights!”

“Yes, yes, as you command, great master!”

The Evil Eye Lord’s entire body was trembling, and it echoed Luo Zhancheng’s words with a shaky voice.

At this moment, it didn’t even consider resisting anymore; it truly didn’t want to experience that kind of pain again.

Just before, it had wanted to die, but after being controlled by the Binding Spell, it didn’t even have the strength to commit suicide, and could only continually endure the endless waves of pain.

“Since you’ve learned your lesson, why don’t you go and carry out my commands?”

Luo Zhancheng said dispassionately.

Hearing these seemingly calm words, the Evil Eye Lord couldn’t help but shudder violently. It didn’t care that it was still weak, and hastily floated up unsteadily, agitating its spiritual power. Soon, it transmitted its commands across the entire battlefield, ordering all the puppets controlled by the evil eyes to cease combat.

As for those who had regained control of their bodies due to the death of the evil eyes, they were gathered together under the command of the beastman experts, preparing to incorporate these individuals into their ranks.

Although some were untamable wild characters who refused to follow orders, and some hot-tempered demon beasts acted recklessly with only the desire to kill a few more evil eyes for revenge,

those who disobeyed were swiftly slain by the beastman experts on the spot, as a deterrent to the rest.

Indeed, after the beastmen had continuously slain more than a dozen people and demon beasts, the others quickly came to their senses and obediently gathered together, as the beastman experts said, waiting for orders.

In fact, the beastmen couldn’t be bothered to manage them further; they only wanted to take these individuals to the Spider Evil God’s territory to combat the evil Spider Queen. Whether they would survive in the end would depend on their own luck.

However, even if they survived, they would inevitably become part of the mining workforce in the Underground World, mining for the Beast Taming Sect. At most, the strongest among them could become a leader in some mines, spared from mining themselves. The chance of regaining freedom was impossible.

Even to gain more resources for the Sect, Luo Zhancheng would not allow any disobedient forces to remain in the Underground World. He already regarded this place as the Beast Taming Sect’s backyard; all resources here would belong to the Sect.

After a period of panic and hustle, the two factions were clearly distinguished, separated as clearly as the Jing and Wei rivers. However, those controlled by the beastmen couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief deep down when they looked at the massive puppet army on the evil eyes’ side, despite their hatred.

Had it not been for this beastmen assault, they would still be members of the puppet army controlled by the evil eyes, either following the evil eyes’ orders or being their food. Thinking of the creatures whose brains had been sucked dry by the evil eyes filled them with horror!

They didn’t mind being ruled by the beastman experts. For those living in the Underground World, one either had to be strong enough to command others or be ruled by someone else. The idea of a lone ranger trying to make it in the Underground World was a death wish!

The dangers of the Underground World far exceed what most imagine. Apart from various strongholds, the wilderness is either desolate without life or a place where demon beasts roam. At any time, one could become prey to demon beasts or encounter creatures from other worlds suddenly intruding through weak points in space.

The strength the beastmen exhibited at this time was enough to make them temporarily choose to obey.

After all, they currently had no ground to resist; hadn’t they seen the terrifying Evil Eye Lord subdued by the Beastman King? How could these individuals, who were at most as strong as super demon beasts, dare to rebel?

Qin Feng walked gaily across the battlefield, as if taking a casual stroll, but there was a flickering golden light around him. Each time he passed the body of an evil eye whose withered corpse had lost too much dark green blood, he would manipulate the Ruyi Golden Light to cleave the body and then wrap around a mysterious semi-transparent crystal inside.

This was the Demon Core of the evil eye!

As a special demon beast unique to the Demon Realm, evil eyes also possessed such a thing as a demon core.

However, unlike most demon beasts, the demon cores of evil eyes were not entirely composed of pure elemental energy; they contained a considerable amount of spiritual power, almost like solidified spirit bodies. If they were a bit purer, they could almost be called soul crystals.

But the ordinary evil eyes were not strong, so the solidified spiritual power inside was not too much, constituting only about twenty to thirty percent.

At least with evil eyes that were at or above level nine, the spiritual solidification within the demon core was guaranteed to be over fifty percent.

These things sparked a sudden idea in Qin Feng. He wondered if he could refine the spiritual energy from the evil eye demon cores just like refining the power from ordinary demon cores.

If it really worked, even if there were some impurities that were not suitable for his cultivation, he could give them to cultivators who had been stuck at bottlenecks for years without progress to forcefully advance after refining them, or to increase the divine sense strength of bottom-level cultivators with limited potential, certainly producing a group of competent Golden Core Cultivators.

After all, the lower-level cultivators didn’t need to comprehend the Power of Laws; once the True Yuan and Divine Sense within their bodies were strong enough, a certain understanding of Daoist techniques could enable their advancement.

Qin Feng was very respectful of rules; he only collected the demon cores of evil eyes that he had slain himself, and he didn’t touch those killed by others.

Nevertheless, others didn’t seem to have slain many; on the entire battlefield, only he and Li Miao Zhen had plunged into the Puppet Army, wreaking havoc.

Li Miao Zhen actually killed two evil eyes above level nine, while Qin Feng, in his quest to expand his achievements, had focused more on targeting the mid and lower-tier evil eyes, therefore he did not obtain any higher-ranked evil eye demon cores.