Chapter 273: Ghost Banner Arrives, Arrangements
Clang.
The office door was pushed open, and Ma Teng came out with a dark face.
The people outside all turned their gazes toward him, confusion written across their faces.
Why had he come out first? Where was Chen Mo?
"What are you looking at? Don't you all have anything better to do?"
At that roar, everyone hurriedly withdrew their gazes and lowered their heads to busy themselves.
Ma Teng stood in the doorway and swept his eyes around. Only when he saw that no one dared look at him again did he stride outside.
His pace was much quicker than usual.
Inside, Chen Mo sat in his chair, examining the transparent bead in his hand, no bigger than a mung bean. The bead was so light that he could barely feel its weight, and a faint pearly-white halo glimmered around it.
This was Ma Teng's living soul.
With this thing in his hand, Ma Teng had effectively handed his life over to him.
With a thought, the bead would shatter, Ma Teng's sea of consciousness would collapse with it, and even immortals would be powerless to save him.
"Ghost Banner Daoist's Soul-Extracting Curse is quite useful. Pity it can only be used on those beneath one's own realm."
Chen Mo sighed, put the soul bead into his storage space, and was just about to rise when the communication talisman against his chest suddenly turned hot.
Hmm, Ghost Banner Daoist had arrived?
He pushed open the office door and walked out.
As he passed Sun Wenchang, Chen Mo did not stop, merely waving a hand at him in farewell.
Sun Wenchang squatted on the ground, watching Chen Mo's figure disappear into the curtain of rain without moving for a long while.
He suddenly felt