At that moment, Yan Jing felt both joy and a lingering trace of fear.
Had this Fei family cultivator been someone invited by the Li family rather than a friend of the Old Ancestor, the Yan and Li families would surely have traded places by now.
The Hedong Mountains lay on the outskirts of Jian'an Prefecture, bordering Fengyuan Prefecture on the other side. The region of Fengyuan Prefecture near the Hedong Mountains was an extremely famous danger zone. Although many cultivators ventured in and out of it, the route was so roundabout that very few entered it through the Hedong Mountains.
As a result, cultivators at the Ghost Lord realm or above rarely came to the Hedong Mountains, and those at the middle Ghost Lord stage or higher were rarer still. Though the Eight Extremes Sect had only a handful of Ghost Lord cultivators, it was already the largest sect within a hundred thousand li.
Having witnessed Qin Fengming's elusive, ghostlike movements, everyone was utterly dumbfounded. Naturally, they treated his instructions as imperial decrees.
After handing the seven soul tablets to Yan Jing, Qin Fengming also imparted an incantation to him.
Given Yan Jing's cultivation, controlling the soul tablets of Ghost Marshal cultivators posed no difficulty. Controlling the soul tablet of the Li family Old Ancestor, who was in the Ghost Lord realm, was another matter entirely. Fortunately, Qin Fengming had a way to resolve this.
Qin Fengming thought nothing of such a limitation. He had once entrusted the soul tablet of a Nascent Soul cultivator to Gongsun Jingyao, who had only been at the peak of Foundation Establishment. Applying the same method now made the matter exceedingly simple to resolve.
How the Yan and Li families would get along from then on was not something Qin Fengming needed to