The cloud-patterned box for capturing demons was placed inside the coffin, but nothing happened. Madam Gao panicked and remembered that the box might be fake. But she had already fallen out with Madam Qi, leaving herself caught between a rock and a hard place.
"Xia Yitian! How dare you join forces with this vile Qi woman to deceive me!" Madam Gao was so furious that smoke seemed to pour from her seven orifices. Her fangs emerged, and she charged at me without a care in the world, intent on killing me.
Several generals also had close ties with her and actually prepared to surround me with corpse soldiers!
I immediately summoned Xijun and Liu Xiaomiao from the Soul Urn. Then I loudly recited the incantation my master, Qiu Cunzhi, had taught me for using the box to capture demons and ghosts.
The box activated at once. The lifeline that had been replenishing the yin energy suddenly began flowing back, streams of it surging toward the ghost coffin—and the flow toward King Mu was even stronger!
Yet after quite a while, King Mu still showed no sign of having his soul absorbed. To my surprise, he suddenly moved!
When Madam Gao saw this, she was overjoyed. "Hahaha! How could my King Mu fall for a trick pulled by a pair of treacherous lovers like you? Once he awakens, he'll surely tear you limb from limb!"
A soul-scattering feeling washed over me when I heard that. Could it be that the incantation had stopped working too?
I immediately recited it again, but the surging energy continued to flow backward, unstoppable!
King Mu's hand twitched, startling me. "Liu Xiaomiao! Use the Thunderbolt Sword! Chop off King Mu's head! Hurry!"
Liu Xiaomiao had still been standing there in a daze, but after my reminder,