Gong Shulan's Foundation, Duan Changjing's Nascent Soul Late Stage

After confirming the plan, Wei Tu began discussing with Gong Shulan how to pull the wool over heaven's eyes, deliver the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed into Scorpio Patriarch's hands, and make Scorpio Patriarch voluntarily withdraw the fragment of soul he had planted in Gong Shulan's sea of consciousness.

The former was not difficult.

Since there was already the precedent of Duan Changjing using an array to survey the location of the "Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed," they could use Duan Changjing's hand to secretly leak its true hiding place to Scorpio Patriarch... and the matter would be accomplished.

The latter, however, could not be left to Scorpio Patriarch's likely "voluntary" action. He had to be forced into withdrawing that fragment of soul from Gong Shulan's divine soul.

And to achieve this.

There was one and only one method: severely injure Scorpio Patriarch's divine soul.

With his end drawing near, it would not be easy for Scorpio Patriarch to recover from injuries to his divine soul. Moreover, he still needed to use the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed to transform into a member of the Heavenly Ghost race—there was every reason for him to retrieve the soul fragment hidden in Gong Shulan's sea of consciousness, using it to heal his divine soul injuries, strengthen his divine soul, and increase his chances of successfully reincarnating as a Heavenly Ghost.

"God-Breaking Nail!" Wei Tu's eyes flickered as he looked inward at the inch-long black nail clutched by his Nascent Soul within his dantian, its surface engraved with mysterious runes.

This nail was precisely an excellent soul-path artifact capable of grievously wounding Scorpio Patriarch's divine soul.

The only thing he needed to watch was the force he used with this spiritual treasure, lest he accidentally kill Scorpio Patriarch, that Old Devil.

After finalizing the details