Severed Soul Observing People

Dusk.

After dealing with Jiang Kuo's corpse, Lu Jun returned to the Demon Slaying Division's office.

The several demon slayers invited by Jia Kuiren had witnessed Lu Jun's strength and methods, yet none of them chose to leave.

Instead, under Jia Kuiren's arrangements, they settled into the side rooms.

After returning to his room, Lu Jun sat cross-legged with his eyes tightly shut.

Soon, a wisp of soul energy invisible to ordinary people drifted from the top of his head. It quickly condensed into a human shape, then changed into Lu Jun's appearance, quietly hovering above his physical body.

[Detached Soul: Your soul can leave your body and enter other people's dreams.]

This was the talent-derived divine ability Lu Jun had acquired after killing the Flying Head Zombie during the Demon Slaying Division's assessment.

Lu Jun moved lightly in the void for a moment. He felt as light as the wind, moving freely through the empty air.

"Quite useful." Lu Jun spoke silently.

"Let me see what you people are really up to..."

Soon, Lu Jun controlled his soul body and left the room.

The room's door posed no obstruction to Lu Jun. He simply passed through it.

Lu Jun first went to Chen Zhuo's room, one of the three.

As luck would have it, when Lu Jun arrived at the other man's room, Tuoba Li happened to be there as well.

Chen Zhuo was lying on his back on the couch. His already-swollen belly looked even larger, making his originally refined features seem somewhat greasy.

Tuoba Li, whose face was rugged, paced back and forth inside the room.

"How can you not be anxious at a time like this?" Tuoba Li asked Chen Zhuo.

"Ugh, what do I have to be anxious about..." Chen Zhuo replied lazily.

Tuoba Li said, "Aren't you afraid that Lu fellow will see through our identities?"

Chen Zhuo said, "Do you think a mere Copper Robe can compare to Lady Si Snake?"

"The illusion-obscuring technique on us was laid down by Lady Si Snake. We don't have the slightest trace of demonic aura. Even if the Demon Slaying Division used a demon-revealing mirror, it wouldn't be able to detect our dealings with demons."

"He's just a Copper Robe. At most, he's only at the second Realm of Heavenly Cycle."

Tuoba Li pondered for a moment, then gently sat down. His eyes rolled around as he said, "Then tell me, how do you explain him killing the attendant of Lord Wei Yang without distinguishing right from wrong today?"

Chen Zhuo curled his lips. "You're really reckless."

"You didn't ask around for any information before coming."

"Before I came, I heard that this brat Lu was vicious as hell. The moment he arrived, he killed Zhang San—and publicly had him slowly sliced to death."

"I also heard that the brat has a Golden Holder Token bestowed by some Golden Robe."

"What does that prove?" Tuoba Li asked in confusion.

Chen Zhuo chuckled. "My reasonable guess is that this brat is the young master of some great lineage. He caused some massive disaster in Yunzhou, and although his family protected him from the death penalty, he couldn't escape punishment. So they sent him to this remote place to suffer."

"But the elders of his family were worried that he would be bullied here, so they begged some Golden Robe to obtain a Golden Holder Token for him."

"And that Li Tuo was most likely the brat's attendant. Didn't you notice that the brat does whatever he wants without the slightest taboo, while Li Tuo doesn't dare contradict him at all? One is clearly the master, and the other is the servant."

"As for killing Jiang Kuo, he probably just found him unpleasant and killed him on a whim. Young masters like that do everything according to their mood."

Tuoba Li pondered for a moment and found the explanation inexplicably reasonable.

Right!

Who would kill a colleague the moment he arrived?

Then killing an outsider wasn't strange at all!

How could someone who was merely a Copper Robe possess a Golden Holder Token?

Didn't that clearly prove Lu Jun had a powerful backer behind him?

Then everything made sense.

"All this aside, Lu Jun can be said to be accustomed to acting arrogantly. If he had really seen through something, he should have killed the two of us this morning and spared only that Fang Huai."

"But what happened? He didn't kill us, and he treated that Fang Huai with the same haughty attitude."

"Isn't it obvious that he was simply acting on impulse?"

Chen Zhuo continued analyzing.

Tuoba Li said, "But Jiang Kuo had Lord Wei Yang's religious tattoo on his body. Do you think he might have discovered it...?"

"That was an easy point of exposure, so all we can do is take a gamble and bet that a young master from a great lineage like him won't notice." Chen Zhuo said, "After all... who takes off a person's clothes after killing them?"

Then Chen Zhuo countered, "Would you take off someone's clothes after killing them?"

Tuoba Li shook his head. "I wouldn't. Would you?"

Chen Zhuo shook his head. "Who takes off someone's clothes after killing them? Wouldn't that be pure perversion?"

Tuoba Li nodded. "Exactly. Even we members of an evil cult don't strip people when we kill them. Could a normal person do something like that?"

Chen Zhuo said, "Exactly. If someone does that, can he still be called normal? Killing someone and then taking off their clothes—isn't that like taking off your pants to fart, completely unnecessary?"

The two exchanged a glance. Their minds instantly opened up, and they grinned.

In the void, Lu Jun's soul body raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Alas, what a pity. My patron, Ugly Ox Lord, was rather fond of that Zhang San. I came this time intending to take Zhang San as my patron's disciple, but who would have thought that Lu fellow would cleave him apart with one strike." Tuoba Li sighed softly.

"Heh... foolish. When the old doesn't leave, the new cannot come. Isn't there a perfectly good new one right in front of you?" Chen Zhuo said with a laugh.

"You mean Lu Jun?" Tuoba Li asked. "Would he agree?"

A vicious glint flashed through Chen Zhuo's eyes. "Agree? If he doesn't agree, there's only a dead end. Master Chen the Flood Dragon's Demon General will descend the day after tomorrow. Does he have a choice?"

"Marshal Hai bestowed upon me the divine ability Soul Devour. I can use the little ghosts in my belly to see whether Lu Jun is a suitable candidate."

With that, Chen Zhuo gently patted his bulging abdomen.

Lu Jun heard every word the two men said clearly.

Then he quietly went to the room of the last person—the youth named Fang Huai.

Fang Huai was also the only person whose abnormality Lu Jun had failed to see through with See Through Myriad Illusions that day.

However, judging from Chen Zhuo and Tuoba Li's conversation just now, the possibility that this Fang Huai was involved was very low.

When Lu Jun entered the room, he was slightly taken aback.

The youth's face was pale and clean. Dozens of candles had been arranged around him. He knelt on the floor, repeatedly knocking his head against the wall.

"Save me!"

"Save me!"

"Please, please!"

"Three divine lords, please save me!"

"The Demon Slaying Division here is full of bastards, and there are demons all around!"

"If you don't save me, I won't survive!"

Lu Jun raised an eyebrow and looked toward the spot where Fang Huai was kowtowing.

Three Visualization Diagrams were hanging conspicuously on the wall.

Visualization Diagrams were worth a thousand gold pieces and impossible to find outside. Even Old Man Yun, a Golden Robe, possessed only one.

Yet the youth before him actually had three.