At this moment, in a guest room at an inn within an Ancient City on the Southern Continent, Bald Bird slammed the table and raged, "Damn it, there has to be some conspiracy behind this! I'm so innocent and pure, and brimming with righteous energy—what bastard could be so cruel as to suppress all my souls, and even use the same kind of Magic Array?"
"If it were this old man, I'd probably use an even nastier Magic Array to suppress you." Old Yellow Tooth sat nearby, sneering in a strange, mocking tone.
Bald Bird shot him a vicious glare, then snorted and turned to Chen Fan. "Kid, what do you think?"
Chen Fan's brows were tightly furrowed, as though he were pondering something.
The moment they entered the Ancient City, they had headed for the place indicated by the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk. It had led them to a small old house in the city. No one had lived there for a long time—no one knew how long it had been abandoned. Some places were covered in dust, while others remained as good as new, as if they had only just been deserted. Everything felt distinctly wrong.
When they approached an old bed, they discovered a yellow talisman pasted beneath it, identical to the talisman they had seen on the enormous boulder before. Chen Fan immediately activated the Heavenly Eye Treasure Art to investigate. Sure enough, a massive killing array was hidden beneath the bed, exactly the same as the one under the boulder, with Bald Bird's soul suppressed at its very bottom.
They had initially intended to repeat their old trick and rescue the soul, but Bald Bird had shaken its head and stopped them. It felt there was likely some sort of connection involved. If it really