"I had just finished speaking with Brother Nong on the phone when a very powerful person came over and smashed up the shop in a furious rampage. At first, I thought some faction had hired someone to wreck the place, so I voluntarily said I would give up the shop. But that person didn't say a word and simply asked where Zhao Qian was. I told him outright that Zhao Qian had gone into the mountains, yet he still beat me up, did something to me, and said that only an Earth Immortal could undo this hidden injury!" the woman said pitifully.
I frowned and reached out to probe her aura. Sure enough, I found an immortal-level soul-sense force rampaging inside her. I couldn't help feeling irritated. This was clearly a detection-type technique from the North Pole Immortal Sect. Removing the aura would be extremely easy, but the instant I severed that soul-sense force, the person who had cast the curse would immediately know that an enemy of equal rank had come to save her. They would make preparations in advance.
But I wasn't an ordinary cultivator. After asking the woman for her birth date and time, I took out a paper substitute effigy and wrote her Eight Characters on it with a cinnabar-red brush. Then I easily guided that aura into the paper effigy.
That way, the other side would still think the aura was inside the woman and wouldn't know I had arrived. The aura could no longer devour the woman's vitality, which amounted to saving her. It was the best of both worlds.
The woman felt her whole body grow lighter and immediately stood up happily. "It's cured?"
"Mm, you're fine now. It's a spell from the North Pole Immortal Sect's lineage. Tell me what the person