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Zhu Ming frowned and sighed. “That day, I unexpectedly sensed that there was a special aura in the Divine Underworld. I followed it and realised that it was immortal Qi. That was when I saw that girl. At the time, she was trapped in a Blood-Soul Array. I rescued her out of it.”
“A Blood-Soul Array!” Feng San exclaimed, eyes widening. “You mean somebody tried to steal her soul!”
“That’s right.” Zhu Ming nodded, his expression dark. “Someone who can set up a Blood-Soul Array must be a ghost immortal of reasonably high cultivation level. This person must have set his sights on her immortal soul, since it is less powerful than divine beings’ souls. That was probably why he tried to suck her soul out to house his own and set up the array to attack her weak body. I was afraid that if she stayed in the Divine Underworld, the person who set up the array would not let her go so easily. That was why I sent her over to you before she even regained consciousness. I thought that you could use your Feng Qi Mountain’s powers to protect her.”
Lonemoon: “…” Was he the stand-in bride for no reason?
“Brother Zhu, do you know who kidnapped her?”
“I’m not sure either.” Zhu Ming shook his head. “When I found her, there was an array nearby.”
In other words, they had no idea where to locate this person? Feng San thanked Zhu Ming and kept the mirror.
“Master?” Yi Qing turned to Shen Ying. Given Shortie’s cultivation level, it would be dangerous for her to remain, whether in the Divine Underworld or the Divine World.
Shen Ying frowned. “Come, let’s go to the Divine Underworld.”
“Yes, Master.”
A certain pair of parents spoke up, “The Underworld is too dangerous, Yi Qing, why don’t we-”
“No need!” Yi Qing turned around and glared at them. He pointed to Long Zhen and said, “Solve your rotten problem before you try to come along.” Master was enough for him.
“Oh…” The two of them muttered in disappointment.
They were sad – it felt like the master had become his biological mother.
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The Underworld was whether the perished souls from the Three Reals went to seek a place to stay. It was the complete opposite of the Divine World, which was filled with immortal Qi in every corner. Where the two worlds met, the heavens and earth seemed to be split by a single line. Where there were supposed to be green plains, pure springs and immortal Qi in the Divine World, there was pitch darkness and death Qi in the Divine Underworld.
The three of them arrived at the Underworld.
“What now?” Lonemoon looked around at the travelling souls surrounding them.
Yi Qing tried to set up a tracking spell, but gave up after awhile. “I can’t, there’s too much death Qi here. The aura that was present in that dense forest is completely gone in the Underworld.”
“Shit!” Lonemoon cussed under his breath. “The Underworld is huge – where are we supposed to find Shortie?”
“Why don’t we get him to come to us?” Shen Ying suddenly said.
The two of them started, turning to look at her. “What do you mean?”
“Wasn’t the person who captured Shortie after her soul?”
“Indeed.” Yi Qing nodded. “That Blood-Soul Array was meant for devouring souls.”
“We have immortal souls here as well.” They would not complain there were too many, right?
Yi Qing pondered about this and finally understood. So he turned to look at Lonemoon.
“Why are you looking at me!” Lonemoon burst out, glaring at him. It was not a bad idea to try and lure the snake out of the cave, but… “Why must it be me again?”
Shen Ying: “People can’t see me even if I go!”
Yi Qing: “I don’t have my immortal body anymore.”
“And Father Niu, you haven’t changed yet, have you? It’s just right, then – you don’t have to change. Maybe the other party likes girls?”
“Master is right!”
“…” Motherf*cker!
He understood their logic, but why did he feel like beating these two retards to death?
He took a deep breath in and managed to suppress some of his violent thoughts. He pondered for a moment and said, “Alright, I will set up a Soul Gathering Array later on to lure him out. But this is the Underworld after all. I would probably only be able to hold it up for as long as it takes to burn one joss stick. The two of you better hide well. If he manages to run away, don’t even think about getting an allowance from me in the future.”
“Yes, Father Niu! No problem, Father Niu!” The two of them replied obediently.
The moment they finished speaking they retreated a couple of metres. Yi Qing retrieved two Aura-Concealing Talismans and pasted them on his own chest.
Yes, Master won’t need them!
“…” Why did Lonemoon feel a stronger urge to hit them now?
Calm down, calm down! For the sake of Invincible Sect’s only disciple who was training in sword cultivation, he had to tolerate the two of them!
Lonemoon took a big step forward to increase the gap between him and the other two. With both of his hands, he conjured a Soul Gathering Array, which appeared beneath his feet. The array was glowing faintly. The Yin Qi and death Qi that was within the array suddenly disappeared. The array looked especially obvious in the pitch-blackness of the Underworld.
Lonemoon entered the array and sat cross-legged inside of it. He acted like he was regulating his own immortal Qi. Suddenly, the travelling souls around him retreated and ran far away from him, as if encountering something scary.
He sat there for a full ten minutes. Other than the fact that there were far fewer travelling souls around him, there was no other discernible difference. Everything around him was eerily quiet.
Was their plan not working?
Lonemoon frowned. Could it be that the other party had figured out their trick? Or did he already realise that they were here when they landed in the Divine Underworld? Lonemoon began to consider retracting his immortal Qi. This was the Divine Underworld after all, and although he could temporarily isolate himself from the Yin Qi, he could not hang on for much longer.
He was lost in his thoughts and was just about to retract the array when he felt a chilling Yin aura outside of the array that was different from that of the other travelling souls around him. That aura was steadily travelling towards him.
It’s coming!
His heart was jumping in his chest. He immediately summoned a wall using his Qi to surround his body. He heard a huge crash and saw a ball of black Qi knock into the wall. The wall, together with the array surrounding Lonemoon, disintegrated into pieces.
Lonemoon immediately retreated a couple of feet to avoid getting hurt by the shards. “Who is that?”
“Heh heh heh…” A chilling laugh sounded. The ball of black Qi disappeared and a human figure appeared in its place. It was a woman dressed in black robes. She looked extremely pale, and her eyes were bloodshot. Streaks of blood were flowing down her cheeks in place of tears. The blood kept dripping from her face onto the ground. She gave Lonemoon a manic look. “Immortal soul, my immortal soul, mine… mine!”
Rich Yin Qi exploded from her body. A huge array appeared on top of the two of their heads, flashing a blood red.
“The Blood-Soul Array!” Lonemoon exclaimed. He turned around and shouted at the top of his lungs, “Shen Ying!”
The next moment, it started raining swords. The swords were all pointing toward the ghost immortal, flying down toward her. They cut through the thick Yin Qi and through the woman as well, forming several holes in her body. Even her head split into two.
Yet, she looked like she could not feel any pain. She turned around, staring at Yi Qing with her bleeding eyes. The holes in her body began to fill up again, so that she looked like she had never been cut. “Immortal soul, my immortal soul…” When she finished speaking, she charged toward Shen Ying. An overwhelming amount of Yin Qi rushed toward the ground.
Lonemoon jumped, shouting, “Shen Ying, be careful! She doesn’t have a physical body, you can’t-”
Bam!
Before he could finish speaking, the ghost immortal got slapped and held down by Shen Ying’s palm. Shen Ying turned to face him. “Father Niu, what did you say?”
“… No-Nothing?” Motherf*cker!
“Immortal soul, immortal soul…” The ghost immortal was pinned to the ground by Shen Ying, yet she kept staring at Lonemoon and Yi Qing.
Lonemoon quickly stepped forward and said, “Where’s the other person from the immortal realm that you caught earlier?”
The ghost immortal did not seem to have heard him. She kept trying to escape from under Shen Ying’s hand and charge at Lonemoon. She looked even crazier than before.
What… is wrong with this woman?
