A powerful avatar ritual, combined with Jiang Han's own magic and incantations.
Jiang Han's chanting grew increasingly majestic.
The ritual array on the ground responded as well. The costly rubies melted into gemstone liquid, while the mercury was replaced by a stream of water so pure it held not the slightest impurity. This was water from the mysterious, vast water system of Mist Lake that Jiang Han had glimpsed—purity at its absolute peak. Only a portion of it flowed into Dark Lake.
Her voice grew louder and louder, and Xu Fangying's soul form swelled ever larger.
Weakness.
Jiang Han felt the life force within her draining away.
Strength.
Jiang Han felt her drained life force surge back from Xu Fangying's soul after completing a cycle, passing through a filter that thoroughly sorted out the earth veins and magic. It was like a computer whose performance had been restrained suddenly activating dual-core processing, releasing its computing power more effectively.
Mist from Dark Lake inexplicably appeared all around them. Xu Fangying's original body slowly dissolved into the fog, as though it had never existed at all.
The air around them warped, giving rise to strange Cat Lamps. They let out marvelous, cat-unsettling cries of "meow-ow, meow-ow." Each was round and plump, but their tails were like tentacles. They were manifestations of Jiang Han's sensibility and reason. Round little forms, using their tails and cat paws to tug at invisible instruments—playing wind, strings, and percussion, singing, reading and recording, sleeping and idling away...
These were manifestations of her soul.
The inner reflections of a witch in Giant Cat Transformation.
Jiang Han had never experienced anything like this, yet she calmly used her mind to choose. She thought, My sister, whom I have never met, yet have already seen in the mirror.
Strengthen this