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Hearing that furious shout, the rest of the Hall of Souls Protectors hidden beneath the black mist quickly rose into the air and gathered together. Judging from their movements, they were preparing to form a formation to resist the intruder.
"Heh, still not giving up?"
Seeing their reaction below, Lin Feng let out a chilly sneer. Right after, he suddenly waved his hand.
"Clatter~"
Amid the harsh noise of metal chains grinding, a number of invisible flame chains shot out, equal to the number of Protectors below. They pierced straight toward those Hall of Souls Protectors!
The Protectors below recognized the three-segment soul lock that was far too familiar to them. Their eyes filled with confusion.
One of them couldn't help shouting toward the black-robed man above. "Who exactly are you? Why do you know our Hall of Souls's…"
"Puchi!"
Before he could even finish his sentence, a flame chain flying at extreme speed pierced through his chest. The others around him suffered the same tragic end.
"Collect!"
After making sure all those Protectors hidden in the black fog were pierced by his flame chains, Lin Feng quickly formed a hand seal and coldly commanded.
"Clatter~"
Next moment, that metallic chain sound once again echoed in the palace. All the invisible flame chains retracted instantly back to Lin Feng. Along with them came those Hall of Souls Protectors, who were now completely unable to resist.
Lin Feng casually retrieved some jade bottles and sealed every single one of them inside. Then he tossed all the jade bottles containing Protectors into his storage ring.
Let them accompany that Hall of Souls Elder he took care of when the spatial barrier was lifted. Thinking of that Elder, Lin Feng couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.
Originally, he planned to use the Heavenly Flame seed inside the Elder to force him into becoming a spy inside the Hall of Souls.
However, he considered the dangers. With so many powerful experts in the Hall of Souls, that guy might confess everything under fear of death.
He could then feed false information, luring Lin Feng into a trap. Finally eliminating him at the root and fighting for his own survival. So in the end, Lin Feng didn't dare recruit him as a spy.
After finishing the Protectors, Lin Feng finally had time to examine the large hall carefully. He noticed its size was only about a dozen acres wide. It was far smaller than the massive hall he saw from outside.
Clearly, this place was only one of the many rooms within this branch hall. However, inside this hall, there were hundreds to thousands of wooden shelves. On them were piled all sorts of miscellaneous items.
Among the many objects, Lin Feng recognized familiar items: pills, cauldrons, as well as numerous scrolls and other things. At the same time, probably to support the massive structure outside…
Every certain distance inside the hall, there stood a towering black stone pillar, hundreds of meters tall, holding up the sky.
"This room… is probably the warehouse of this branch hall."
Lin Feng scanned the structure and guessed.
Then he licked his lips. "Since I'm already here anyway, letting these things go to waste feels like a terrible sin."
Without further hesitation, he shot forward and began operating his storage rings, rapidly sweeping in mountains of resources.
Because Hall of Souls likely stored the property they confiscated from captured alchemists here…
The items related to alchemy were especially abundant.
Lin Feng had gathered the most medicinal formulas, pills, and cauldrons along the way. Of course, he had also collected an extraordinary amount of cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
However, what truly caught Lin Feng off guard was this. Inside here, he actually found Soul Bags, the very same equipment that Hall of Souls Protectors always carried when they ventured out to collect souls.
Judging from this, all the important things Hall of Souls needed for themselves were stored in this place. Seeing those items, Lin Feng didn't hold back at all. He swept everything into his storage ring and took it all away.
After finishing that room, he walked out of the main hall and continued searching elsewhere. During this process, he encountered quite a number of Hall of Souls Protectors stationed within the hall.
These Protectors weren't exactly weak, most of them possessed Dou Qi strength at six stars and above. Unfortunately for them, before Lin Feng who was at Dou Zun realm, they were completely insignificant.
Aside from letting him harvest a few dozen Dou Zong realm souls, they didn't manage to delay him even the slightest. As Lin Feng continued his search, after about half an hour, he finally arrived at the last room of this branch hall.
"There must be souls in here, right?"
Thinking about how he hadn't encountered a single soul other than those Protectors until now, he couldn't help but complain a little.
His gaze slowly shifted toward the pitch-black iron door in front of him. Even though the door was shut tight, Lin Feng could faintly sense it. An eerie aura was leaking out from within.
Dou Qi surged silently in his body, and with a wave of his sleeve, a violet-dark crimson flame burst forth, slamming heavily against the iron door.
"Bang!"
Under that violent strike, the door that looked incredibly sturdy instantly exploded open. At the same moment, the scene behind the door appeared before Lin Feng's eyes.
"Hiss~"
Even someone as experienced as Lin Feng couldn't help but sharply inhale at the sight.
His whole mind went momentarily blank. Beyond that door was a hall nearly three times larger than the previous rooms. Inside, towering black stone pillars rose sky-high.
However, the pillars here were different from those in other areas. Strange runes that did not exist elsewhere were carved all across their surface.
Even more disturbing, countless pitch-black chains extended from these pillars, crisscrossing through the air above the square. Clusters of faintly glowing light were adhered to the chains.
Looking closely, he realized that each of those light clusters contained a soul, expressions twisted in pain, bodies illusory and flickering.
Meanwhile, at the central area of this large hall, there was a platform elevated roughly ten meters above the ground.
Four massive stone pillars stood around it. Thick black chains, as thick as a person's thigh, coiled downward like giant serpents.
Within the enclosure formed by those four chains, two of the brightest glowing clusters were tightly bound.
Judging from the soul fluctuations emanating from them, Lin Feng believed that the soul strength of those two was definitely not weaker than his current self. After a long moment, he finally pulled himself out of his daze.
Both his fists clenched, and his body trembled slightly in excitement as he exclaimed, "I've struck gold, I've really struck gold this time!"
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