Perilous Times, Secluded Cultivation to Increase His Power

Chapter 217: Perilous Times, Secluded Cultivation to Increase His Power

The night sky was clear and cold, the moonlight pale.

Inside the inn, Fang Shu gazed out the window. After pondering for a long while, he slowly gathered his thoughts.

He swept his gaze around the inn, then immediately packed his things, checked out, and left without hesitation, intending to find another place to stay.

Although the white-clad woman seemed more friend than foe, and was one of Floating Mountain's stewards, this lodging had already been exposed. Caution demanded that he change locations at once.

That way, petty scoundrels would not be able to follow the woman's movements and secretly track him down.

Before long.

When Fang Shu had settled down once more, he again took out Tian Jinmao's soul and continued his soul-searching interrogation.

Gradually, his brows furrowed, and a cold smile appeared on his face.

With a snort, Fang Shu cast a spell. A burst of shrill rat screeches immediately rang through the room.

"Squeak, squeak! Aaah! Spare me, spare me..."

Tian Jinmao's soul twisted in unbearable agony.

Fang Shu watched coldly, without the slightest stir in his heart. Instead, he cast the spell of Death by a Thousand Cuts, granting the fellow the same treatment as that ghost-path immortal cultivator from before.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea.

Tian Jinmao's soul had been tortured beyond recognition. With a pop, it scattered apart, turning into wisps of ghostly qi that were swallowed by the soul-capturing talisman on the table.

Even after personally extinguishing the villain's soul, Fang Shu's voice remained icy and harsh.

"Truly hateful."

It turned out that, according to what he had learned through soul-searching interrogation, Tian Jinmao's dying words had contained nine truths and one lie—a deeply calculated scheme!

Although