Until the children's cries from the buildings gradually faded away. Perhaps they were tired. Perhaps, in their childish innocence, they had sensed something unknowable. Their young hearts could no longer express this first grief.
After a long while, Ye Yan snapped the pipa locks and gently laid Shen Nong Holy Son on the ground.
He was silent for a moment before suddenly pressing his palm against Shen Nong Holy Son's brow, trying to extract his soul... Mirror Spirit clearly understood his intent.
"I advise you not to."
"Do you think I fear the Ninth Prison?" Ye Yan said calmly.
"Keeping a soul hidden isn't a major offense. Every Holy Land has its own methods." Mirror Spirit sighed. "It's just that after his soul was stripped of the legacy, it was already beyond saving... The people from the Holy Land must have planned to forcibly strip the legacy from his soul. But Jiang Tao probably protected it with his life, burning too much soul power in the process, most of it likely through secret arts from the legacy. You should know that he truly can't be saved."
Ye Yan gritted his teeth and raised his palm. A faint soul flame, so weak it was almost extinguished, rested quietly above it.
It was weak and blank... It could no longer even be called a remnant soul, nor could it communicate. Preserving its flame was probably already the best possible outcome.
"You might be able to refine him into a mirror puppet," Mirror Spirit said softly.
Ye Yan smiled faintly. "I already feel ashamed to have received his legacy. How could I do that?"
As he spoke, Ye Yan summoned the Reincarnation Mirror's true form and placed the feeble soul flame in his hand into the mirror world... He could now control a