The night rain poured down.
As Qin and Li departed, the old house returned to silence.
Lu Ran still knelt before the shrine without moving. His consciousness had entered the Spiritual World and arrived within the Sculpture Garden.
He hovered before a stone idol that hummed and trembled.
This was the evil idol, Green Lamp Lantern—the Two Sides of One Body of the Third-Rate God, Flower-Supporting.
Once, Flower Celestial General had inherited the Flower-Supporting Stone Statue in the garden, then directly devoured the god Flower-Supporting, who possessed Dual Godhood.
Thus, this Green Lamp Lantern stone idol had remained in the garden.
Now, it had found its use. It could be used to Borrow a Corpse to Return the Soul.
"Sect Master? Sect Master, you're here!" A delighted voice came, blending into the stone idol's hum.
"Mm." Lu Ran pressed one hand against Green Lamp Lantern and sensed it closely. "Is everything all right?"
"This subordinate is well! I'm working hard to erode all of its consciousness and replace it within this evil idol body." Hua Qingying spoke nonstop, thanking him again and again. "Thank you, Sect Master. Thank you, Sect Master."
"Borrowing a Corpse to Return the Soul is a long process. Haste makes waste." Black fire ignited over Lu Ran's body, and the evil idol beneath his palm shuddered violently again.
"Ah..." Flower Celestial General possessed a powerful divine soul, yet she groaned in agony.
The countless remnant souls originally within the evil idol were also extinguished beneath the burning black fire.
Remnant souls?
Countless remnant souls?
Yes.
After Lu Ran became the "Tomb," he finally learned how the stone idols in the garden had come to be:
They had been piled together from soul after soul of the dead.
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