Xu Chunniang did not resist the threads because she could sense the runes within her soul yearning for them.
From the very beginning, these runes had been headed here. She wanted to see exactly what they were after.
Countless threads wound around Xu Chunniang, instantly wrapping her into an enormous cocoon.
Not far away, the Rabbit-eared female cultivator was likewise wrapped into a cocoon by countless threads. Unlike Xu Chunniang's calm, however, her face was flushed, her eyes brimming with excitement and anticipation.
She had waited for this day far too long. This time, she had finally found a sacrifice that met the requirements!
The Rabbit-eared female cultivator bit through her tongue and spat out a mist of blood, muttering an incantation under her breath.
A startling sight unfolded. As she cast her spell, the blood mist gradually gathered into the shape of an eye. When the Rabbit-eared female cultivator finished reciting the final line of her prayer, the eye formed from the blood mist actually opened.
As the eye opened, an ancient, timeworn voice rang out. "It's you again. Has the sacrifice been prepared?"
The Rabbit-eared female cultivator nodded, unable to contain her excitement. "This sacrifice is perfect. She has taken in half of the soul runes and has yet to lose control."
The sacrifices she had found in the past could absorb, at most, one-quarter of the soul runes. Any more than that, and at best their souls would be damaged and their minds muddled; at worst, their souls would shatter and they would die.
After many failures, the Rabbit-eared female cultivator changed her strategy. Rather than blindly seeking sacrifices with higher cultivation, she used a secret art to probe the strength of others' souls, specifically targeting those with stable souls.
After all, soul runes primarily resided within