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Looking at the dried corpse wrapped up like a mummy in spiderwebs, Liu Zhi couldn't help saying, "Spinning Fate Spider Woman, did you drag one of Amanet's subordinates here?"

As he spoke, Liu Zhi reached toward the corpse and grabbed at it. Sure enough, he pulled out something unusual.

It looked like a half-eaten piece of jelly: a translucent fragment.

Liu Zhi casually picked up a piece of ore and placed the object inside it.

A twisted face appeared within the ore. Liu Zhi noticed that it seemed to be a human face. The man looked to be in his thirties, with a bushy beard and a receding hairline that had reached the top of his head. He could've dressed up as a Qing dynasty man without needing much makeup.

But only about a tenth of the man's soul remained. With just this fragment, Liu Zhi had no way to question it and learn anything.

He examined the soul, then said gravely, "This is the soul of an outsider. It seems to have crossed over into this man's body, and it lost about a third of itself here.

"Then, for some reason, the soul was replenished, but the repair was incomplete. So when it encountered certain problems, it split apart on its own.

"When you killed him, a third of the soul escaped, another third was destroyed outright, and the rest wasn't all here.

"If you'd happened to run into me at the time, I could've preserved that third. But so much time has passed that even retaining a tenth is pretty good."

Tongue of Conflicting Information clearly agreed with Liu Zhi's assessment. It spoke rapidly: "Right, I wanted to say the same thing at first. This soul is fascinating. It can actually replenish and repair itself."

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