The Night Before Leaving the Capital City

A chill ran through Lu Chen's heart. "What do you mean, Director?"

"This old Daoist has carefully studied the residual formations at Yin-Gathering Mountain and Dragon-Locking Pool. I discovered that at the core of their formation patterns, aside from soul-seizing runes that capture living souls, there were also exceedingly concealed spirit-transmutation runes and anchoring runes." Zhou Xuanzi traced several complex, profound phantom sigils through the air with his fingertip. "The spirit-transmutation runes can transform living souls into the purest baleful yin energy; the anchoring runes can stabilize spatial coordinates and draw down some kind of existence."

He looked at Lu Chen and said, word by word, "This old Daoist suspects that the Undead Monarch intends to use the souls and fortune of several million living beings in the Capital City as sacrifices, combining them with the super formation constructed from the three major nodes to forcibly open a stable passage between Soul-Burying Abyss, where its true body resides, and the present world! Or rather... some part of its true body may already have infiltrated the vicinity of the Capital City by some means, and is using the formation's power to gradually descend or revive!"

Lu Chen sucked in a sharp breath!

If Zhou Xuanzi's conjecture was true, then the Undead Monarch's scheme was far too terrifying! It was not merely seeking resurrection or greater power—it meant to directly erode the present world! If it succeeded, the entire Capital City would become a domain of ghosts!

"As the most important soul-storage and transfer node, Cold Crow Pool may not merely be the formation's core. It may also be the descent coordinate left behind by the Undead Monarch, or the location of an avatar vessel!" Zhou Xuanzi said gravely. "You must be extremely careful during this investigation. If you discover anything unusual,