Gu Qingshan didn't answer him. He merely crouched down and gently placed a hand over the man's heart.
A strange expression crossed his face.
—Though he'd lost quite a bit of blood, the dagger hadn't gone in very deep.
For a cultivator, an injury like this was easy to heal. In fact, in the middle of a fight, it wouldn't have hindered him at all.
So why had the man's soul already left his body?
Gu Qingshan closed his eyes and thought for a moment. He remembered that in the past, the Worlds of the Past had taught him many spells from the Cultivation Side, including a rather good healing spell.
Once cast, it would heal the man's wound in no time.
Gu Qingshan formed a hand seal.
"You... still have a breath left in you. Why has your soul left your body?" Gu Qingshan kept his Spiritual Power ready but did not release it as he asked.
The man's soul floated in midair. Having realized that Gu Qingshan was a cultivator, he cupped his fists and said, "Greetings, fellow cultivator. This is a special spell I created myself. It lets me leave my body before I die. Right now, I'm not a ghost, but a soul that can speak with the living."
Gu Qingshan couldn't help asking, "Your soul leaves your body before you die? What's the spell for?"
"It lets people die sooner," the man said proudly.
Gu Qingshan: "..."
What was there to be proud of about dying early?
Wait!
Gu Qingshan suddenly caught on.
To leave his body, he needed the two secret techniques Seal Corpse Turn Yin and Soul Return to enter a state of false death and travel to the Yellow Springs.
This man had actually created a similar spell himself. Though it was