The Day of Departure

As the mass of blood touched the crown of his head, Qin Fengming felt a gentle spiritual energy surge rapidly into his mind. As the spiritual energy within his body instinctively circulated, he tried to resist it.

But that mass of spiritual energy suddenly split apart, scattering toward his Eight Extraordinary Meridians. In the blink of an eye, it vanished into his body, its whereabouts unknown.

"All right. I have finished casting the technique. You need to cast it once using this incantation and leave a drop of your life essence on this jade pendant as well. As long as the pendant remains intact, I will know that you are safe and sound. This kind of spell is much more stable than having you split off a sliver of your soul."

Upon hearing this, Qin Fengming's heart jolted. Splitting one's soul and using it as a life-bound magic plate was generally a secret technique favored by demonic cultivators. Qin Fengming had seen this very method in the cultivation manual for the Yin Demon Art.

But the secret technique his master had used only required him to leave behind a drop of vital blood, causing him no harm whatsoever. As expected, the methods of orthodox cultivators were entirely different from those of demonic cultivators.

Though it was only an extremely tiny sliver of the soul, if it fell under the control of an unscrupulous cultivator, it could still pose a deadly threat to the person who had split off that soul fragment.

Even the weakest soul shared the same origin as one's life-bound soul. Qin Fengming knew that the demonic path possessed many secret techniques capable of controlling a sliver of someone's soul and making the other party share its sensations.

Now that he saw Sima Bo actually possessed such a