# Chapter 3447: Soul Search
The Rakshasa Clan occupied a very vast star domain within the Yellow Spring Star River, where star mists were colorful, life planets densely packed, and from time to time, saint realm cultivators could be seen flying past like meteors.
The Tianluo Divine Kingdom was the foremost of the seven divine kingdoms of the Rakshasa Clan.
And the Tianluo Divine Kingdom's imperial palace, the "Great Luo Divine Palace," was located within the Rakshasa Divine City.
In the Hell Realm, each clan had one divine city. The Rakshasa Divine City was the place where the Rakshasa Clan's gods gathered most densely, with saint realm cultivators as numerous as ox hairs.
The fact that the Great Luo Divine Palace could be built within the divine city demonstrated the Tianluo Divine Kingdom's status among the seven divine kingdoms—a status that none of the other six divine kingdoms could match.
In matters concerning the life and death of the Rakshasa Clan, the Tianluo Divine Kingdom's emperor could even command the armies of all seven divine kingdoms.
For this reason, almost every emperor of the Tianluo Divine Kingdom also served as the Rakshasa Clan's patriarch.
Rare were the exceptions!
Ever since Emperor Luo Yan, who also served as patriarch, fell at the North Marsh Great Wall, dark currents had surged within the divine city. Gods from various divine kingdoms had rushed there one after another.
Some secretly lurked, becoming part of the undercurrent.
Others, ancient monsters who had not shown their faces for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, emerged ostentatiously, entering the city to seize a share of the benefits.
The reason for this situation was twofold.
First, due to the upheaval one hundred thousand years ago, the Great Luo Divine Palace was breached. Emperor Luo Yan's children and divine consorts all met with disaster, with none surviving.
The heir upon whom Emperor Luo Yan had placed great hopes, the Young Emperor Dan, also died in the calamitous flames.
Although in this eon, he had fathered a son and a daughter, both with outstanding talent, they were ultimately too young, not yet grown, and unable to bear the banner of the Tianluo Divine Kingdom's emperor.
Second, two hundred years ago, Feng Tian issued a heavenly decree to arrest Heavenly Sound Divine Mother, Molo Ancient God, and Yuying Ancient God, including all those associated with them.
Emperor Luo Yan's children, Princess Luo Sha and Divine Prince Luo Sheng Tian, were naturally among them.
The charge was colluding with the Heavenly Court.
Because Molo Ancient God self-detonated his divine source, and Heavenly Sound Divine Mother died under that destructive force while trying to save the gods of the Destiny Temple, the matter was eventually dropped.
In the end, the Destiny Temple judged that Molo Ancient God and Yuying Ancient God had colluded with the Heavenly Court, while Heavenly Sound Divine Mother was innocent.
Only then did Luo Sha and Luo Sheng Tian regain their freedom!
When news of Emperor Luo Yan's fall reached the Rakshasa Clan, the wind direction changed dramatically.
Overnight, news spread throughout the entire Rakshasa Clan, claiming that Heavenly Sound Divine Mother's collusion with the Heavenly Court was false, and that she was actually a member of the Quantity Organization. The Quantity Emperor behind her was none other than Emperor Luo Yan.
Emperor Luo Yan did not die at the hands of the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods but was struck down by Fengdu Dadi.
With the push of those with ulterior motives, this matter grew increasingly intense.
The Rakshasa Clan subsequently underwent a change of heavens!
...
Above the Rakshasa Divine City, there was no divine sun, only bright and massive stars—it was eternal night.
Beneath the night, it was not dark.
One could see gray-white roads, dark red sacred lamps, glowing river channels, and ships flying above the wide river channels.
The Great Priestess Xin He of the Rakshasa Divine Temple stood on a black bone-winged divine ship, traveling above the river channel.
She had lived for six hundred and fifty thousand years, with spiritual power reaching the eighty-fourth rank. Her hair was silver-white, and her face was covered with a red veil matching the color of her divine robe, but one could still see her aged features, each wrinkle, and those sharp eyes.
Behind her, a group of black-robed priests wore black veils.
Each stood like a statue, motionless.
When the bone-winged divine ship arrived outside the divine prison, Great Priestess Xin He and the black-robed priests flew down.
"Greetings, Great Priestess!"
The Rakshasa Clan soldiers guarding the divine prison all knelt on one knee in salute.
Divine Lord Ling Quan had been waiting for some time and invited the temple's priests inside.
He walked ahead to lead the way, clad in heavy armor. On the heavy armor hung at least ten types of war weapons—axes, swords, hammers, daggers... each of no low grade.
All of this showed that his identity was extraordinary, not that of an ordinary great god.
Great Priestess Xin He said, "Take me to see Luo Sha! Is she still alive?"
Divine Lord Ling Quan smiled and said, "She is the daughter of Emperor Luo Yan, with extraordinary cultivation talent. Without the temple's consent, who would dare touch her?"
Great Priestess Xin He said, "The Starry Sky Battlefield has erupted, and the Hall Master has finally emerged from seclusion! I have already consulted him. His intention is to show no leniency toward any member of the Quantity Organization."
"Heavenly Sound was likely a Quantity Agent, and behind the Quantity Agent is the Quantity Emperor."
"The identity of the Quantity Emperor must be uncovered. Luo Sha and Luo Sheng Tian are the biggest breakthrough points."
Divine Lord Ling Quan showed a delighted expression and said, "As long as the Hall Master has agreed, things will be easier from here! I was worried that the Hall Master might cherish talent and be unwilling..."
Great Priestess Xin He said, "The Hall Master naturally cherishes talent, but what he cherishes is the talent of the Rakshasa Clan, not the talent of the Quantity Organization. Although Divine Lord Ling Quan is the beloved son of Ding Zu, you should still be careful with your words."
"Naturally, this god misspoke!" Divine Lord Ling Quan said.
Great Priestess Xin He stopped walking, looked back at the black-robed priests behind her, and said, "Qing Che will follow me inside. The rest will remain outside."
After all, Luo Yan was the Rakshasa Clan's patriarch and a divine kingdom's great emperor. The number of cultivators loyal to him was incalculable. Within the Rakshasa Divine Temple, there were bound to be chess pieces he had planted.
What Great Priestess Xin He was about to do could never be allowed to spread, so she only brought her disciple.
"Rumble!"
The formation was activated, and the stone door was pushed open bit by bit.
Luo Sha, pinned to the stone platform by seventy-three god-sealing needles, opened her eyes and looked at the three people walking in through the stone door.
Her body could not move. The slightest movement would cause the divine threads piercing her body to cut through her flesh and blood.
The stone door closed.
The prison returned to dimness.
One could see specks of dust floating in the air.
Those were not dust but god-killing sand. Even a great god would have their cultivation damaged if contaminated.
Great Priestess Xin He waved her sleeve, and the divine threads piercing through Luo Sha's upper lip philtrum and the back of her head disappeared.
Luo Sha's lips could move now. She opened her mouth and asked, "How long has it been outside?"
"You've been in here for two hundred years!" Divine Lord Ling Quan said.
Luo Sha said, "Where is Uncle Feng?"
Divine Lord Ling Quan said, "Feng Zun has gone to the Starry Sky Battlefield with Ding Zu!"
After a moment of silence, Luo Sha said calmly, "Ding Zu deliberately transferred Uncle Feng away, didn't he? You've finally lost patience. You're about to make a move?"
Divine Lord Ling Quan said, "The Hell Realm and the Heavenly Court are in a decisive battle. All ten clans are going all out, and we've already broken through the Heavenly Court's second starry sky defense line. This is not a deliberate transfer. Hmph, as the Rakshasa Clan's War God, Feng Zun should naturally represent the Rakshasa Clan in battle."
"Is that so? Then why haven't I seen any of the gods who followed my father recently? They should all have been dispatched by Ding Zu to the starry sky defense line, right?" Luo Sha said.
Divine Lord Ling Quan wanted to speak again.
Great Priestess Xin He snorted coldly: "What's there to be afraid to admit? With Luo Yan fallen, Ding Zu is the best candidate to succeed as the Tianluo Divine Kingdom's emperor. Ding Zu has dispatched all the gods loyal to Luo Yan to the Starry Sky Battlefield. Hasn't that made things clear enough? And you still haven't understood?"
Divine Lord Ling Quan smiled: "How could this god not know? I've been waiting for the temple's will!"
Ding Zu was Emperor Luo Yan's cousin, the master of the Rakshasa Divine City, and an absolute giant-level figure of the Rakshasa Clan.
Great Priestess Xin He said, "The temple only wants the 'Gui Cang' and information about the Quantity Organization. It doesn't care about anything else. Princess, will you speak willingly, or shall I perform a soul search?"
Luo Sha could not smile, but the corners of her mouth stiffly lifted, carrying a hint of mockery.
Divine Lord Ling Quan said, "Luo Sha, my sister, what a good state of mind. You can still laugh at a time like this. Don't tell me you still think someone will come to save you? Your greatest reliance is nothing more than the Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm, but unfortunately, they've been targeted by the Chaos Ancient Demon Gods and can't even save themselves."
"Let me tell you another piece of bad news. Feng Zun was struck by Zhao Gongming's sword on the Starry Sky Battlefield and fell into the Void World. He has likely already fallen. He won't be coming back!"
"The reason we didn't search your soul before was that Feng Zun was protecting you, and the temple hadn't made its stance clear yet."
Great Priestess Xin He was extremely decisive. She raised her withered right arm and pressed it toward Luo Sha on the stone platform from a distance.
Her five fingers became extremely sharp, piercing into the five acupoints on the top of Luo Sha's head—the four spirit points and the central hundred meetings point.
Powerful spiritual power went straight into Luo Sha's divine soul.
Once a cultivator had their soul searched, their foundation would inevitably be damaged, and their divine soul would be traumatized.
A cultivator with extremely high talent, after having their soul searched once, would have a portion of their potential cut off.
Luo Sha endured the unbearable pain but clenched her teeth tightly, staring coldly at Great Priestess Xin He and Divine Lord Ling Quan. Despite enduring the pain of the soul search, she did not let out a single scream.
But the pain caused her body to convulse, causing the divine threads to cut through her flesh and blood.
Blood continuously flowed outward.
"Swoosh!"
Great Priestess Xin He withdrew her spiritual power and arm, her eyes flickering uncertainly.
Divine Lord Ling Quan immediately said, "The 'Gui Cang' is the supreme treasure of the entire Rakshasa Clan. The Tianluo Divine Kingdom should at least have a copy. Also, does she know where the star wheel to open the royal ancestral land is? The star wheel is something my father must obtain."
Luo Sha's lips trembled as she said, "Why... why doesn't the Great Priestess tell him? Could it be that the temple... the temple wants to monopolize everything..."
Great Priestess Xin He said coldly, "She long ago self-severed all memories of important information."
Divine Lord Ling Quan's eyes were suspicious. He did not fully believe Great Priestess Xin He's words. "Her divine soul was already sealed. How could she have self-severed in advance?"
"She anticipated that we would search her soul."
Great Priestess Xin He saw that Luo Sha was actually trying to sow discord between her and Ding Zu's lineage, and the anger in her heart was hard to suppress. "Keeping her is useless. She must be killed and her body destroyed. Otherwise, when those gods loyal to Luo Yan return and learn that she has been soul-searched, it will surely cause great chaos."
Divine Lord Ling Quan became even more suspicious. "No! Although she is Heavenly Sound's daughter, there is no evidence that she is definitely a member of the Quantity Organization. Within the Tianluo Divine Kingdom and even the entire Rakshasa Clan, she still has extraordinary influence."
"My father's intention is that on the day he is enfeoffed as Great Emperor and succeeds as patriarch, she and Luo Sheng Tian must personally present the star wheel to him. Only then can it be legitimate, and only then can he win over the gods loyal to Luo Yan. After that, they can be made to die silently!"
Great Priestess Xin He shot a cold glance at him. "She doesn't know where the star wheel is at all. Keeping her will only bring endless trouble. Xue Jue has already made it clear that he won't interfere in the internal affairs of the Rakshasa Clan, but if there is no evidence that Luo Sha and Luo Sheng Tian are members of the Quantity Organization, whoever dares to harm them, he will kill!"
"That reckless man dared to go to Tiannan and slaughter wantonly. There's nothing he wouldn't dare to do! He has already gone to Lihentian. If he breaks through and returns, by then, who can afford to provoke him?"
"If we kill Luo Sha now, we can completely destroy the body and frame the Snow Sea Divine Emperor."
The soul search was done by Great Priestess Xin He. If it were later discovered, she would inevitably face the Blood Dragon War Halberd of the Xue Jue War God. Moreover, there was the Heavenly Mother Divine Envoy who might also make a move.
Although that Heavenly Mother Divine Envoy had not made any statement in the past two hundred years, he was still betrothed to Luo Sha. Even if he was heartless, he would still care about rumors and gossip.
Divine Lord Ling Quan was swayed by Great Priestess Xin He's words!
The Snow Sea Divine Emperor was Ding Zu's biggest competitor for the Rakshasa Clan patriarch position. If they could use this to bring him down, it would be a good strategy of killing with a borrowed knife.
Seeing Divine Lord Ling Quan compromise, Luo Sha immediately spoke up: "Pure Kun is the head, Kun represents the earth, therefore all things return to the center..."
"What are you reciting?" Great Priestess Xin He said in a deep voice.
"Volume One of 'Gui Cang.' If you want to continue listening, remove the divine threads and take this princess to see my imperial brother." Luo Sha said.
Great Priestess Xin He said, "I clearly searched your soul. In your consciousness, there is no information about 'Gui Cang' at all."
"You still want to keep deceiving that fool?"
Luo Sha looked toward Divine Lord Ling Quan, her mocking expression growing even stronger.