Ambush

The desolate wilderness lay open and empty, a gentle breeze drifting through it.

Three figures stood atop a low hill. The square large stone before them was covered with incense candles and talisman papers, with a palm-sized dried straw man placed in the very center. The breeze lifted the talisman papers at the edges, revealing a porcelain bowl beneath. Dense black gu insects writhed within it, black smoke occasionally rising from its mouth. At a glance, it was clear this was no orthodox method.

A man in a Seven Stars Robe bit his index finger and dripped a drop of blood onto the straw man.

After absorbing the blood, the dried straw man gave an eerie shudder. Its painted mouth smacked twice, as though it had not eaten its fill.

"Why hasn't he come yet? Are you sure that brat will pass through here?" The man performing the spell grabbed several black gu insects from the porcelain bowl, crushed two to death, and fed them to the straw man on the table.

"He will definitely come. The Stone Divination has never been wrong."

The person behind him spoke with certainty. The breeze blew back his hood, exposing a pale face beneath it.

He was none other than Star Venerable, one of the three venerables of the former Myriad Stars Gate.

After searching in many directions, the Three Ancestors of Sun, Moon, and Stars had finally spent a great price to buy a clue connected to Chen Luo. Only then did they set this ambush.

"This Time, we absolutely cannot let him escape!"

Moon Venerable also stepped forward, cut her index finger, and likewise dripped a drop of blood onto the straw man's mouth.

"With the Three-Soul Curse Technique and the 'Dao,' I refuse to believe we can't curse him to